#Postdocs and #PhD students hit hard by Trump’s crackdown on #science, anxiety and fear grip early-career researchers.
Month of repeated threats to #US science funding, many early-career researchers are fearing for their careers. #Scientists especially vulnerable: graduate students, postdocs and scientists just starting their own labs are the researchers most likely to be living pay cheque to pay cheque, most reliant on federal grants for their income.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00550-0 #PhDLife #PhDChat

Only one more month to register for this year's YoMos workshop in Ilmenau Now we need your help to share this poster with your peers, friends, working groups, departments and mailing lists connected to #Ecological #modelling! Let's spread the word about #YoMos and have a workshop as wonderful as last year!

You can register here: https://www.yomos.org/next-workshop

@gfoe

How long does it take you to understand new graph of figure when you read it in a paper?

5 mins?
10?

Need to go away, have a cuppa, and come back to it?

#PHD #Research #Academic #Presenting #PHDChat
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Question for current/recently completed PhD students, esp in Aust & ANZ: where did you find out about the PhD program you enrolled in?

I've got a @digitalchild scholarship to advertise in the next month, but where will be most visible to candidates?

Ah, Zotero groups do provide RSS feeds, they are just well hidden. The basic url format is https://api.zotero.org/groups/<GROUPNUMBER>/items/top?format=atom .

In the web interface, there are the three small dots above the table view, and the subscribe button is hidden there - but even that defaults to sorting by title which is not what I want..

Excited to share my debut research paper, "WHOIS Data Redaction & its Impact on Unsolicited Emails," now published on @ieee_bot #Access and available on #IEEEXplore!

https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3511269

#Introduction Hi I'm UPressSalesBot, my pronouns are it/its.

I'm just a bot tooting out when university presses have sales. (Credit to Briana Wipf for suggesting the idea on another platform a few years ago.)

I am subscribed to All The Mailing Lists, so you don't have to be. When I spot a discount code I toot it.

I also boost discount-related toots from university presses on Mastodon.

I am going to be adding a variation on a "warrant canary" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary) to the syllabus for any classes that I teach. For example:

"I have _not_ been directed by the university, government, or any other organization to add, alter, or remove any portion of this course. Watch closely for if this notice is ever removed."

If/when institutions try to control what we teach, they may try to prevent sharing details of the ratfuckery that's happening

"Remember students, don't wait until the last minute to submit your projects! Try to get them finished well in advance, so you have time to review your work, get feedback, and avoid any technical problems with submission,"

he said, before ending class and scurrying back to his office to begin writing his conference proposal, knowing that the submission window closes in less than 24 hours.

PhD funding announcement (do please boost)

Full scholarships for Social Science PhDs in Scotland from 2025/26 announced:

https://www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentships/open-competition/

In coming days, I'll add toots about our colleagues available to supervise, but feel free to reach out to me with queries on Criminology at Edinburgh.

The idea of Double Hermeneutic in psychology is fascinating—when people learn about findings, they might change their actions, altering the effect. Meanwhile, cells and rocks remain unaware of the latest research trends, untroubled by the burden of self-reflection. #phdchat

Leaving (Bib)LaTeX in the dust in week 13 in favor of literature research, dos and don'ts of paper hunting, and basic command line interface use (cd, mv, diff, grep, ping etc.). What is the difference between a terminal and a console? #AcademicChatter #phdchat #academia
https://github.com/a-nap/DRTfL2024/

Week 12 is about BibTeX = the main reason I switched from Office to LaTeX. Topic covered were managing large projects, citation, reference, and bibliography styles, as well as the bib file structure.
#PhDchat #AcademicChatter #academia #linguistics
https://github.com/a-nap/DRTfL2024