Alma HoffmannAnother quip from conversations with @marnakait in the office. She is hilarious! #academiclife #lifeinacademia #maureenasays #almahoffmannlettering #almahoffmannletters #almahoffmann
KusalanandaSomeone mentioned "clusters of excellence" in a meeting today. Over the years that I've been around in science, the funding buzzword pendulum has swung between "centres of excellence" and "networks of excellence" a number of times, about once every 7-10 years. "Clusters of excellence" was a new one to me, and must surely be a sign that the pendulum is somewhere around the halfway point again. #AcademicLife #ResearchCulture #BuzzWords #Excellence
fabawiResearch tools keep consolidating into corporate platforms. Proprietary infra means losing control & your unpublished work becomes training data. Science advanced through open infrastructure: arXiv, open access journals, Zotero, LaTeX, etc. Centralizing into AI platforms reverses that
TeXlyre compiles LaTeX/Typst in your browser, stores locally, uses P2P collaboration. Open source means no vendor lock-in
bookandswordblogBuying academic books in Canada in 2025 feels like before printing when you had to beg colleagues for a manuscript or send a student to Susa to copy Codex Hammurabi for you #histodons #booksBeforePrint #academicLife
Jussi T EronenCome to work with us at University of Helsinki! Still time to apply!
Dr David MillsI think I've just done my last bit of paid science for the year. I measured the pH of some gunge.
PuckerLab2025 was a special year for us.
Our move to the University of Bonn opened many new opportunities, enabled exciting collaborations, and brought fantastic new group members.
We published extensively — including some of our most exciting stories yet — and had the pleasure of hosting many wonderful visitors in Bonn over the last months.
Thanks to everyone who helped make this transition such a success!
Harald SackToday at VU Amsterdam for the PhD defense of Shuai Wang. I really liked the traditional and formal procedure in the Netherlands how they conduct a PhD defense and the subsequent investiture of the new PhD.
#PhD #academiclife #Amsterdam @vuamsterdam #AI #knowledgegraphs #semanticweb @fizise @fiz_karlsruhe
Prof Cloutman-GreenStill looking for a Christmas pick me up for your students or the university bound within your friends and family - great news!
The kindle version of It Shouldn't Happen to a PhD Student will be on sale for 7 days from the 15th December - pick up the Ebook and see what help it can offer for only 99p
#PhDstudies #PhD #postdoctoralstudy #academiclife
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Still looking for a Christmas pick me up for your students or the university bound within your friends and family - great news!
The kindle version of It Shouldn't Happen to a PhD Student will be in sale for £1.99 for 7 days from the 15th December
#PhDstudies #PhD #postdoctoralstudy #academiclife
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shouldnt-Happen-PhD-Student-survive/dp/1806050757