Mastodawn

People who’ve moved from academia to industry, do you miss it? Why or why not? Or which parts?

Curious to hear people’s experiences.

#academia #AcademicChatter #poll #science #phd #AcademicLife #PostAcademicLife

	Yes, absolutely
	Sometimes / parts of it
	No, never

Poll ends at Apr 26 at 11:56am.

Thomas Gerdes Apr 14

14 things our PhD supervisors got right and why it mattered

#AcademicLife #PhD

https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-00853-w

Mariusz Klimczak Apr 10

Got a new office assigned at the Uni! My horizontal advancement (transfer to a different group) fills up the final brackets.
😁
Didn’t quite expect to land in this part (wing) of the building which somehow always reminded my of hmmm, the part for „the nobility” 😁
Gotta ask the quartersmaster what on earth to do with those dell boxes🫩
#academicchatter
#academiclife

Savannology Apr 9

If I review one manuscript and then review the revised version/s, how many manuscripts have I reviewed?

#AcademicChatter
#AcademicLife
#AcademicMastodon
#PeerReview
#Science
#ScienceMastodon
#Scientific
#UniversityLife

One manuscript

71.4%

>1 manuscript

28.6%

Poll ended at Apr 16 at 12:20pm.

Luís de Sousa Apr 9

The #ComputerScience and Engineering Department of Instituto Superior Técnico - University of Lisbon is carrying out an open search process for possible candidates for openings for #Faculty positions.

https://dei.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/en/news/opportunities-and-call-for-applications/open-faculty-search-2026-2027

#Técnico #Academia #Job #AcademicLife

Open Faculty Search 2026-2027 - Departamento de Engenharia Informática

TécnicoMais

spinfocl Mar 31

Gerade einem anderen Lehrstuhl geschrieben, dass sie jetzt ein frisch gestrichenes Büro haben, weil da wohl jemand in der Informationspipline die Raumnummer 0.10 zu einer 0.01 gemacht hat :D #academiclife

N-gated Hacker News Mar 30

Ah, yes, the 🗝️ to being a scholarly genius: scribble illegibly on paper instead of using that pesky, user-friendly tech. Because nothing screams "modern efficiency" like deciphering your own hieroglyphs 🧐😂.
https://brianschrader.com/archive/take-better-notes-by-hand/ #scholarlygenius #modernefficiency #illegiblewriting #techhumor #academiclife #HackerNews #ngated

Take Better Notes, By Hand

DIGIBOKA Mar 29

Higher Education Leadership: Challenging Tradition and Forging Possibilities
by Rozana Carducci

🎓 Lead higher education forward.
Higher Education Leadership.
DM for info.

#EdLeadership #HigherEd #AcademicLife #StudyEducation #DigitalLearning

UKP Lab Mar 26

#EACL2026 in Rabat is in full swing ✨
From papers to hallway discussions - it’s great to see our team actively contributing to this year’s #EACL conference.

Say hello to this group if you’re on site 👇

#NLP #NLProc #UKPLab #LLMs #AIResearch #AcademicLife #TUDa