Might as well do an #introduction post as it has been a while...
Hello there Fediverse! I am an environmental archaeologist interested in how past communities interacted with and shaped their environments (and vice versa). Just finished my #PhD (Physical #Geography at #Plymouth) focusing on the #Humberhead Levels. For my thesis, I combined #pollen analysis, #GIS, and #geoarchaeology to understand relationships between people and #wetland#landscapes. I recently passed my viva, so I am currently looking for work.
My published work thus far includes contributions on land cover reconstruction in complex wetland systems and chapters on #anarchist approaches to #archaeology and #heritage practice. I have a few more pieces in the works, and little time to do them all.
As far as research goes, I have been mostly interested in challenging the 'pristine #nature vs human impact' binary, the politics of how we interpret past landscapes, and unpicking what we actually mean when we talk about 'natural' environments and the messy reality of human-environment coevolution.
Hey there, I am Prathamesh Deshmukh, a PhD scholar at UGC-DAE CSR, Mumbai, working in condensed matter physics. My research focuses on magnetoelectric coupling in multiferroic composites and their dielectric, magnetic, and neutron diffraction studies.
Beyond synthesis, I specialise in scientific instrumentation. I designed the Advanced Transport Measurement System (ATMS), a low-cost cryogenic setup for precision transport measurements, and developed PICA, an open-source Python suite for lab automation.
I will be completing my PhD this year and am seeking postdoctoral research opportunities that would leverage my expertise in experimental physics, scientific instrumentation, and software development.
We are particularly interested in hiring creative and highly motivated candidates who are at ease working both collaboratively and independently in a vibrant, interdisciplinary, and synergistic group.
Was eine gute Gesellschaft ausmacht, gehört zu den ältesten Fragen der Menschheit – und sie stellt sich heute mit neuer Dringlichkeit. In Zeiten globaler Krisen, gesellschaftlicher Spannungen und tiefgreifender Veränderungen sind neue Antworten dringend gefragt.
Zehn promovierte Wissenschaftler*innen auf Postdoc-Level aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen und Ländern werden dieser Frage ab Oktober 2025 im Rahmen der neu gegründeten Young Academy for Cultures and Societies Research (YAC) nachgehen.
Vom 8. bis 10. Oktober 2025 trafen sich die Mitglieder der Akademie erstmals in den Räumen des
@FRIAS_UFreiburg das die Koordination der Akademie übernimmt.
Die erste umfassende Befragung unter Promovierenden und Postdocs zeigt: Die Mehrheit ist an der #UniFreiburg zufrieden. Die Ergebnisse der Befragung fließen in die strategische Weiterentwicklung der wissenschaftlichen #Personalentwicklung und das #Diversity-Audit der Universität ein.
Hier eine interessante noch offene Ausschreibung für eine Post-Doc-Position am Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Science Outreach and Pandemic Preparedness (SOAP). Es geht u.a. um den Aufbau von Citizen Science Projekten zur Virusüberwachung im Urbanen Raum.
Aus wirklich zuverlässiger Quelle weiß ich, dass die Projektleitung sehr empfehlenswert ist :)
Affected by #NIH and #NFS funding cuts and considering a move abroad? I haven't advertised this yet, but I have fresh funding for 2 senior #postdoc positions in #oxford. If you're into #Cancer#genomics and #epigenetics then get in touch.
The ERCIM #postdoctoral Fellowship Program for 2025 is now open for applications! 🚀 A unique opportunity to work with leading European research institutes, collaborate on cutting-edge projects, and expand your network.
Bundesbericht Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler in einer frühen Karrierephase (BuWiK) - BMBF
"Es gibt aber weiter Verbesserungspotenzial:
Die Befristungsquote beim hauptberuflichen wissenschaftlichen Personal (ohne Professorinnen und Professoren unter 45 Jahren) ist dagegen nur leicht gesunken und liegt 2022 insgesamt bei 90%; Personen unter 35 Jahren sind dabei zu 98% und zwischen 35 und 45 Jahren zu 75% befristet beschäftigt.
Der Anteil an Frauen sinkt weiter mit zunehmender Karrierestufe („Leaky Pipeline“), gleichzeitig wächst ihr Anteil bei Bewerbungen, Listenplätzen und Berufungen auf Professuren über die Zeit insgesamt jedoch an."
CFA: 1-3 fully funded 3-year #postdoc positions in #European research, affiliated with the multidisciplinary Centre for European Research at the University of Gothenburg (CERGU). Applicants should relate their research to one of CERGU's themes:
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?
So I've been getting onto One Piece ("One Pace" actually) and then I was attacked as a researcher. They nailed the unwavering optimism in the face of repeated failures and deadlines 😅
Im almost 2 years into a project where I have almost finished rearchitecting the de facto standard for my field from the ground up, in doing so making heavy contribution to surrounding projects rather than wandering off on my own - which would have certainly yielded a paper in a high impact journal sooner, but been worse for open source and the tooling landscape. If I have to be out in 5 years then that would be how I had to work if I wanted to still be in academic research.
That project is about shifting the backbone of the tooling ecosystem for research from start to finish, not just for my field and this format, but very generalizably. Im in a lab and collaborating with ppl who make a big chunk of the open source hardware in our field, and we're also rebuilding the acquisition software system to plug directly into extensible vernacular schemas that can be massively interoperable. Rearchitecting data standards is also an ethical project, to enable a new kind of p2p system that stands a plausible chance of being an alternative to the inevitable future of the NIH giving 1/3 of its budget to Amazon and google for cloud hosting. That work is continuous with what we're doing over here on neuromatchstodon, bc my work is putting these data formats directly into linked data standards - in a way that actually works - so we can build distributed systems of communication to be able to share work and assign credit across the lifespan of an experiment, a protocol-based alternative to the journal system.
None of that work fits into a system of support where in 5 years I need to have enough prestige pubs to land a faculty position. That work really can only be done by postdocs and staff scientists. So that kind of integrative work addressing foundational problems in research would simply become impossible, rather than heavily disincentivized. hit up the rfi
⌛️2 weeks 2 go! Submit your topic proposals for "It's a match" - your chance for mentoring & peer networking at this year's #DVPW Convention on September 24!
Deutsche Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft. DVPW Convention 2024, September 24, 2024, Göttingen. Call for Topics until May 17, 2024: It's a Match! Discussing practical, conceptional and political challenges for early-career researchers. www.dvpw.de/kongress #dvpw2024 Einreichungen via:<meineDVPW-Logo>