Multitasking?
Of course I can multitask!
Look at me, waiting for my #rstats code to run and looking for new jobs, because my contract will end in 6 months and there hasn't been a clear commitment to prolong it, and drinking tea all at once!

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For those (such as fleeing US researchers) looking to understand the French academic system, a handy diagram:

All credit goes to @anne who made it for me when I moved to France for a postdoc a few years ago!

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Everything (well, not actually, there is so much more) wrong about German university hiring in one picture:
- PhD position advertised with 65% pay of TV-L FU (i.e. 100% are probably 4.188,38 €/month)
- PostDoc advertised with 50% of the same bracket. Yes, lower than the PhD position
- Postdoc advertised with 100% of the same bracket

To be fair, the PhD position and the 100% #PostDoc are in the same institute, and the 65% PostDoc is in a different one, but all three are in the same faculty.

And technically 50% and 65% would mean that it's also fewer working hours....but let's be real, that does not actually apply here in reality.

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Come to work
- try to login to #HPC
- down for maintenance
- try to login to second #HPC
- down due to power outage
- first HPC comes back online
- script that worked yesterday and has not been changed throws an error

I guess it's time to drink tea and browse memes then. The IT gods have decided that today is a bad day to get anything done.

#PhDlife #PostDocLife #ThisIsFine #AcademicChatter

I have obtained a 94,80/100 on my #MSCA application. First attempt. Of course, with such a low grade, I didn't get the fellowship.

I am reasoning deeply on this failure. So many lessons to be learned. I will make the most of the three sentences the reviewers returned to me as a comment, and work hard to fetch those 5.2 points I need to keep doing my job. #AcademicChatter #Science #Postdoclife

Day 4 #LeidenForce Winter School: Tomas Cerda (soon ISTA – SEML), Aymeric Allemand (postdoc, @ULBruxelles TIPS Lab), Senthil Kumar Parimalanathan (@ULBruxelles TIPS Lab) shared their latest work on droplets & interfaces.

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