#academicchatter #ukpol I usually avoid talking about politics on this handle, but the news of the proposal of scrapping nonEU #ILR (indefinite leave to remain) frightens me, and got me wondering how many in #UK universities would be affected if this really happens. I wouldn't be surprised that most Uni employees are either citizens or on temporary visa?
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I still need to finish a majority of this research proposal in the next week (which sucks, and I procrastinated too much), but today I received the confirmation that I can spend 3 months with one of the (literally) coolest* researchers of my field if the proposal gets through!! So I guess I really need to make an effort now :D
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* We can say that in our field because we cool atoms to nearly absolute zero. Very cool.
1. Submitted the damn article (co-authored) that's been torturing me for months.
2. Submitted 5 short stories in September.
3. Managed to rally to do chair Pilates today despite exhaustion. I ache all over now, though. 
tfw profs are in charge of a dozen accounts but don't actually have any financial training 
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I needed to contact Zenodo support, because some idiot from US wanted to upload their files to my community meant for University of Eastern Finland users. Their response
"I don't care, I admitted it so I can get a DOI link which I have. P.S Add Finland's high donestic violence rates to your research work."
WTF people?!
Academia[dot]edu recently updated its Terms of Service, leading researchers to reconsider their presence on the platform. From the beginning, "its business model consisted in 'harvesting free labor from academics'", writes Peter Tarras.
On leaving academia[dot]edu 
I recorded a welcome message for our new doctoral candidates last week. I said something about challenges to rigour and expertise and how they were the future…. I think I might have been pulling my punches somewhat…
Please join us for the next Open #NeuroFedora meeting: 22 September 2025 1300 UTC (today)
neuroblog.fedoraproject.orgNext Open NeuroFedora meeting: 22 September 2025 1300 UTC | NeuroFedora: BlogThe next open NeuroFedora meeting is on 22 September 2025 at 1300 UTC. Please read the post for the agenda and information on how to attend the meeting.
Opportunity for an AI expert @ University of Namur, Belgium. 
blending AI with cultural heritage, studying coins and parchments
Details & application: arc-projects.unamur.be/phoenix/index
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PHOENIX | Can Physics and Arti...
The UNamur ARC projects websitePHOENIX | Can Physics and Artificial Intelligence Induce New Paradigms in History?
I am redesigning my course and want to do an overhaul with linking assessments, resources etc. to appropriate course learning outcomes.
The templates I come across are Word documents with tables. Seems like a better format/program for this would exist by now?
I imagine a program with color text blocks that I can easily move around and match to the outcomes rather than copy/paste text in a table.
Suggestions? 
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Earlids are back! A post on attentional earlids, engaging with the work of Ananya Mandal and her teams on noise and its impact on attention and focus
People should keep their eye on the recent US federal executive orders on H1B visas. It's not clear exactly what is happening, who it will apply to, or whether it is even legal for them to do it, but there is a new executive order to start charging $100,000 annually for someone to be on an H1B visa. Presumably paid for by the employer. This is a developing story and will likely change as you read this, but... FYI.
Hey academics - if you have colleagues in the USA on a H1-B (or a J1 where the next step would be a H1-B): reach out! These are scary times, not just for people's work but also for their whole life (imagine suddenly having to leave the country you built a life in - or not being able to leave to see family).
1. Closer to being done with edits of this academic article that has been torturing me for weeks.
2. Made a yummy asam pedas with not so usual ingredients (end of the month fridge cleaning): Fucuk (not a typoed cussword! fish paste in-between thin fried tofu sheets), shrimp, and the usual of torch ginger, terung pipit (a tiny type of eggplant that looks like peas), purple eggplant, okra, tomato. Delicious and I'm all set for the week. There's also stirfried green beans with egg.
3. Everything kept and cleaned before 8pm is something of an accomplishment!
Un peu de méta-travail, je note mon temps de travail de façon assez précise, pour, d'une part, me déculpabiliser, et d'autre part, voir ce qui me prend du temps et rééquilibrer en fonction.
Sur la semaine dernière, à titre d'exemple, j'ai passé :
- 52% de mon temps de travail à enseigner, préparer des cours, moodles, etc.
- 22% à faire de la recherche (relectures, réunions en l'occurrence)
- 23% à faire de l'admin (comité de suivi de thèse) et des mails
German post docs cannot afford the US anymore (those are H1-B IIRC) unless unis are paying. Which they probably won't. Which means we probably have to change tenure eval criteria. Which was overdue.
My scholarly reading (on leadership giving) has been disconcerting tonight. Thorup 2013 (p264) calls out the “growing confidence in the ‘over-confident individual’—a leader who has proven his or her financial competence and is now assumed to also be capable of providing ‘solutions’ to social problems.”
Ouch.
Thorup “Pro Bono? On Philanthrocapitalism”… Ephemera 13.3 (2013) 555-576
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I always forget and am reminded - how long uploading and submitting (especially the revised) manuscripts can be...
Guess that's why I tend to do it on weekends. Oof - anyways - finally done! Even used this pic of clouds I took yesterday - in the ToC fig.