Meet the winners of the 2025 #DanceYourPhD contest
It's time again to honor the winners of the annual Dance Your PhD contest, where eager young scientists attempt to convey the concepts of their doctoral theses through dance.
There are four broad categories—physics, chemistry, biology, and social science—liberally defined. https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/05/meet-the-winners-of-the-2025-dance-your-phd-contest/
#PhD #PhDLife #PhDChat

How fit all your research into a short talk...

Don't.

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
1/3

“I just let the data speak for itself”

Risky!

Different audiences will take away different meanings from the same data. The audience hasn’t got the time to consider all the nuances - cut to the chase and tell them the meaning they should take away.

“It’s more of a comment than a question.”

We’ve all been there – and you don’t have to put up with it. If you’re the speaker, you own the space. Tactfully suggest that you’re prioritising people with questions? Roll your eyes? Throw things at them? The choice is yours!

“But that’s the way talks have always been done!” – academia has a huge status quo bias, change is slow.

Embrace your rebellious side and go do your talks differently! Audiences get bored, so novelty is a big asset. And by doing it YOUR WAY, it’ll be more honest, authentic, and genuine.

#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
1/3

Has anybody done a PhD in the UK and not hated it? I'm considering applying for some next year but it seems everybody hates it and regrets it!

Nous organisons notre seconde école d'été du 7 au 10 juillet 2025 !

Co-construite avec l’institut de microbiologie du CHUV (hôpital universitaire), l’école d’été «𝗗𝘂 𝗦𝗮𝘃𝗼𝗶𝗿 𝗮𝘂 𝗷𝗲𝘂 : 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗲𝘀 𝗲𝘁 𝗦𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲́» entend familiariser les participant·e·s avec les enjeux, les outils et les méthodes de la médiation de contenus scientifiques liés à la santé.

Toutes les informations nécessaires et le lien pour s'inscrire ici : https://www.unil.ch/unil/fr/home/menuinst/etudier/programmes-courts/summer-winter-schools/savoir-au-jeu.html

Quelques news de notre côté :

* La semaine prochaine, Coline Métrailler défend sa thèse de doctorat ! Elle porte sur la non-linéarité des récits des jeux vidéo, et l'articulation des personnages au sein de ceux-ci https://gamelab-lausanne.ch/evenement/soutenance-de-these-de-coline-metrailler/

* Le mois suivant, ce sera au tour de Loeva La Ragione ! Sa thèse propose une riche ethnographie des pratiques de jeu dans Guild Wars 2, et notamment de la place accordée au role-play dans ces pratiques https://gamelab-lausanne.ch/evenement/soutenance-de-these-de-loeva-la-ragione/

* Entre les deux, @loise_b et Isaac Pante traiteront de jeu de rôle lors du Festival Textures à Fribourg https://gamelab-lausanne.ch/evenement/festival-textures-a-fribourg/

Plus d'événements à venir dans notre agenda : https://gamelab-lausanne.ch/evenement/

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..

Good first papers

What about tagging some ideas as "good first papers" following the "good first issue" concept common in open source? https://jordicabot.com/good-first-papers/

#research #opensource #phd #phdlife #researchlife
#phdchat #researchers #researchpaper

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

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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 hiring! PhD studentship available through the SWbio DTP. The interested student will investigate the evolution of innate immune signalling in a model species group. Infection biology &
#Drosophila
genetics and #Immunity combined!

More info:
https://mahansonresearch.weebly.com/blog/phd-studentship-deadline-dec-11th-2024

After mentor surveys, Calling #Drosophila
early career scientists - including #grad
students, #postdoc
and #pretenure
#faculty
. It's time for you to fill the mentee survey !!

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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

The @bunniklab has job openings for a technician or postdoc. #malaria #science #postdoc #research #science #academia #antibodies #PhDlife #PhDchat #jobs Please share!

https://bunniklab.org/research
If interested, please send an email with your CV to bols@uthscsa.edu.