Mastodawn

On a more positive note, had a good meeting with my Masters student this morning as well as emails with my previous one about our ongoing project, both of which are progressing nicely 🙂 2 more meetings tomorrow, incl @[email protected], so there's plenty of cool work to do! #PostdocLife

Dr. Nick Attree 1d ago

another day, another rejection. That's two this week. At least this one, I am top of the reserve list (separated by a tie-breaker!) so there is still a chance... #PostdocLife #academia

Thorbjörn Sievert Mar 5

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

Dr. Doro (she/her)Feb 16

One week until my assistant professorship interview (2nd round) 😱 I wanted to do a great amount of test talks, but both my science presentation and mini lecture are still in a very preliminary, chaotic state...
#AcademicChatter #PostdocLife

Fabio Barteri 🇵🇸Feb 11

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

LeidenForce Jan 29

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.

#LeidenForce #Leidenfrost #PhDLife #PostdocLife #FluidMechanics

Miriam Beck Jan 28

Finaler Endspurt unseres PostDoc-Artikels.
Nachder Submission am Anfang des Jahres und der Hoffnung den Artikel nun für einen Monat während des Reviews von Tisch zu haben, hatten wir schon am nächsten Montag (genauer: am Samstag) eine positive Rückmeldung des Editors.
Offenbar wird bei 'Kommentaren' das Reviews direkt vom Editor in Rücksprache mit dem Editorial Board vorgenommen, und nicht wie bei normalen Research Artikeln von mehreren externen Reviewern.

Ihre Hinweise jedenfalls wären hilfreich: Wir haben das Frameing unseres Apells leicht erweitert, und beziehen uns nun auf die möglichen Auswirkungen eine wachsenden Domianz von For-Profit Journals auf die Sichtbarkeit von Artikeln, und dessen Widerspiegelung in Zitiermustern.

Die schnelle Rückmeldung halt jedenfalls bei einigen Kollegen für einen erneuten Motivationsschub gesorgt, sodass ich nun fast nicht mehr hinterher das Manuskript ordentlich bzw lesbar zu halten...unsere neue Deadline:
4.2. 🤞

#postdoclife #Postdocleben #research #forscherleben #forschungsalltag

Dr. Doro (she/her)Dec 12

I think my Fedi-supporters here will be delighted to read that following my online interview on Tuesday, I was invited to a final on-site round of interviews as one of three candidates!
Not sure which emoji is suitable to describe how I feel about that?!

#AcademicChatter #PostdocLife

Dr. Doro (she/her)Dec 8

My interview is tomorrow morning

I have a nice presentation and prepared notes for the discussion.. Any last advice for a first (assistant) professorship interview?
#PostDocLife #AcademicChatter #WomenInSTEM

Thorbjörn Sievert Nov 13

I recently met somebody actually working for #MDPI and before figuring that out, I was tricked by their partner into insult #MDPIgarbage.
Long story short, I consoled them that at least they weren't working for #Elsevier.

But they seemed really nice and extremely unhappy to be stuck with a terrible employer due to economic circumstances.

#AcademicChatter #PhDLife #PostDocLife