In preparation for promotion paperwork, time for some #morethanHindex plots.
I like this chronologically-sorted display more than the graph sorted by number of citations.

and I could not help not to sneak in our beloved PyNTA preprint, even though it is officially not "published" in a peer-reviewed journal.

Good news! The skies did not fall down and there was no apocalypse when the Center for Unusual Collaborations distributed 1.1 MEuro funding using, drum rolls please,
...
A LOTTERY!

Even more exciting: the less lucky proposals get a golden handshake with ~10% of their requested budget to land down with grace or to look for funding in other schemes.

A rational funding scheme with only WINNERS!

only if public-money-autocrats were paying attention!

#academia #funding

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/centre-for-unusual-collaborations_a-lottery-to-decide-on-research-funding-today-activity-7009141930198454272-CEn1?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Sinterklaas came to our institute and gave me the opportunity of presenting him a gift.
My gift to him was a copy of the front page of this astonishing report on social safety in Dutch academia.

https://www.knaw.nl/publicaties/sociale-veiligheid-de-nederlandse-wetenschap-van-papier-naar-praktijk-0

I told him this report helps him raise awareness in the house of sint for piets to feel safe and be kind to each other so that they too can be really happy and spread shared happiness.

Time to report on the highlight of the academic year: final presentations of Experiment Design. In this Mozilla-Open-Leaders-inspired course, student form teams to build setups from scratch, in just 8 weeks. #ValueExchange, #documentation and #reproducibility are the main focus of the course practiced through hardware design and peer-feedback.

Here you see the linear trap (one of the main components of mass spectrometry) connected to a electrospray.