Dear colleagues, shit is getting real with #WissZeitVG in the parlament very soon. Please sign this petition started by unions and employees' initiatives to stop this madness #IchBinHanna
https://weact.campact.de/petitions/stoppt-die-dauerbefristung-in-der-wissenschaft
Eine starke Wissenschaft braucht faire Arbeitsbedingungen. Aber: Fast 9 von 10 wissenschaftlichen Angestellten an Unis sind befristet beschäftigt - oft auf kurze Zeit. Planbarkeit für Lebenswege oder anspruchsvolle Projekte - Fehlanzeige. Das muss sich ändern. Unterzeichne jetzt die Petition!
Conference season 3/3. I'm not presenting, but would be happy to meet old and new colleagues to chat about functional responses & population dynamics, both modeling & model fitting. #gfoe23 #gfoe2023
Bonus: will reveal secret microbreweries locations on demand.
We're a bit late to the party, but @idiv postdocs and phds have published a statement on the highly precarious working conditions in German academia.
Additionally, we are facing 2 problems: 1. the gouvernment's plans to even worsen these conditions, 2. the change in our institute's funding structure 2024. This currently leaves us in the dark about future contracts and employability. #IchBinHanna
My recent #preprint (https://biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.27.525839v3) has been #recommended by @PeerCommunityIn Ecology 🥳🥳🥳
https://ecology.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec?id=527
Doing a single-author study was challenging but also a very interesting experience.
Thanks a lot to the recommender and reviewers! #OpenScience #PeerReview
Here the latest news on the Journal of Biogeography editorial work stoppage and mass resignations, from Twitter/X:
I along with 95% of #AssociateEditors have now #Resigned from @jbiogeography. @WileyGlobal never responded to our invitation to discuss #BetterPublishing.
Very sad to see this outcome of a once highly respected journal. But hope we all learned a lesson from this and stop submitting to such journals.
Michael Raatz
Julian Schrader