Despite being extremely vocal against #LLM , I strongly suspect that too many juniors (not just students) are using it for reports and manuscripts. I have no problem in dedicating my time to edit a draft so that someone with less experience will improve their #academicWriting , but editing #AiSlop is really starting to annoy me.
How are other people in #academia (including juniors) dealing with this? How to tag (or self-tag) someone's own work?
A Brief Account of Studying in North Korea | First Look at a North Korean Internet Cafe
Visited a North Korean internet cafe—pretty decent experience.
Since I went right after lunch, there weren't many locals yet. By the time I was about to leave, it started getting busier.
The machines didn't display specs, but they were all Player Nation hardware, offering a solid gaming experience. Here, Dota 2 and CS:GO are modified into standalone versions that connect via LAN. This means all players in a room are physically present in the same internet cafe, though you never know which machine your teammates are on. In CS:GO, there was even a room named “ikun”—clearly a North Korean gamer who'd been to China [laughing crying emoji].
They have 70 games total—most I've seen before. You can even change the language internally. I know you're wondering if that language is available... and yes, it is [wry smile].
It's $2 per hour. Fellow internet cafe enthusiasts, come give it a try and share your thoughts [smack lips]. #NorthKoreaStudyAbroad#MyStudyAbroadLife#NorthKoreaTravel#NorthKorea#PhDLife
👨🏻🎓 We wish Alexandre de Sousa the best of
luck as he defends his PhD thesis in History on the Congresses of the Portuguese Republican Party on Monday 23 June.
🆕 Congratulations to Pamela Peres Cabreira, whose thesis on the demands and resistance of female workers in the factories during PREC was awarded the Francisco Canais Rocha Prize for studies on the labour movement.
#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
question: those of you who went abroad on erasmus during their doctoral studies, what was the experience like? would you recommend doing it? was it worth it?
it seems like part of my doctorate will benefit from archives and mayhaps oral history interviews in northeastern mediterranean and methinks it would make sense to just spend 6-12mo at someplace nearby, instead of many visas and travel back and forth home
The Canadian first Nation architect Patrick Stewart successfully defended his #PhD with a thesis with "almost no capital letters or punctuation", as a protest against the hegemony of English and its prescriptions.
A fellow #postdoc said she'd Never publish in Elsevier or MPDI even with waived APCs. She'd rather leave her work as a #preprint in perpetuity than publish with them. It got me wondering:
Do other #academics follow similar publishing embargoes?
Can such individual actions impact these publishing giants in any meaningful way?
Writing the very first draft of an academic text takes so much more effort than improving that bad draft until I'm no longer ashamed of what I've put down on paper. What are your strategies for getting this very rough prototype down on paper?
I can relate to this SO MUCH. I even see this in my research interviews - establishing rapport with neurodivergent strangers comes extremely easy. NTs, on the other hand? They're different 😆
Screenshot of a Twitter post by Alan Jack. The post says,
"I still don't know why part of autistic/adhd diagnosis isn't putting you in a room with someone already diagnosed and seeing how quickly you bond."
#Introduction
So here I am, someone who tried and failed Twitter numerous times, now attempting to get a handle on this 😂 I don't know if I'm on the right server, I guess time will tell!
(This will be a very long list by the end of the year if I keep it up. We'll see.)
Your statements are basically done after the first few deadlines. I always thought I'd customize extensively for each school.
Nope.
On a week like this (with so many apps due Sep 15), you just don't have time. You have to trust that you already put in the work with your base template. It's a mental shift from fellowship apps.
A few weeks ago someone told me your first practice job is always trash (so don't stress and rip off the bandaid).
I gave my first practice job talk yesterday. Calling it trash might be a little too self-deprecating... but let's just say I've got a LOT of revisions to make. Whew.
Going back to the #JobTalk, I like Betty Lai's advice emphasizing the need to tell a story with your talk.
I generally enjoy presenting my research to an audience (mostly as an escape from writing), but the job talk is a completely different genre. Still learning the rules but getting better.
An offer is great, but then you have a decision to make. Fast.
And I gather that it's not uncommon to have to make that decision before you hear about other options.
Generally, I try not to post about a stage (i.e., job talk) until a few weeks after I've experienced it. Time to process and such. But this one is in real-time. And boy it's tough.
🇰🇵 Inside Pyongyang’s internet café where most people are playing games. Looks like a nice spot to hang out!! ( video.twimg.com )
Video link -> https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1983307705793294336/pu/vid/avc1/720x1088/2UZqzEoY9MJOVBmn.mp4 ...