The emerging distinction between Harvard and Columbia is just so stark. Who would send their children to Columbia University? What kind of graduate student would accept an offer there? Is Columbia now mostly known for cowardly fealty? #uspol #academicchatter
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Always this struggle to find good data to interprete #XRD data.
Is there a non-#Paywalled database to get diffraction peaks for choosen crystaks?
I mean, X ray stuff is not a 'new' technology.
I assumed they did powder diffractrometry to any (solid) substance ever synthesized.
Any idea?
#followerpower #academicchatter #science
edit: Thanks Bubble.
https://rruff.info does the job.
rruff.infoDatabase of Raman spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction and chemistry of minerals
Just realised that I started teaching 29 years ago today. And I still look at each new semester with a mixture of joy and trepidation. Best job in the world, in so many ways #AcademicChatter
Just chatted to a colleague who wondered whether there was any point in submitting their manuscript to a US press. Will they preemptively self-censor? Do they still have a viable business model? #AcademicChatter
“We're supposed to have time to think, we’re supposed to be creative, we’re supposed to be the people who are coming up with new solutions…how can you do that if you spend all your day filling in forms?"
Times Higher Education (THE) · ‘Mountain of small things’ killing academia, warns Oxford scholarOverly cautious institutions pushing ‘bullshit jobs’ on their staff ‘destroying academia from within’, says neuroscientist
ooh, another paper about #decolonisation written by white English people.
The NGI adopts the open social web for all its comms. Hosting and serving its own data, and federating fully. Shows what is possible for future internet if we want it. ALL universities should do this, to me its obvious.
The NGI is an important project and forum, Id urge you to take part.
#future #internet #eu #peertube #mastodon #academia #academicchatter
Next Generation Internet · NGI projects adopt Mastodon and PeerTube as main communication channels The NGI Evangelists Programme proudly introduces its third batch of inspiring individuals, following the impactful paths set by our previous evangelists.
“When our academics fear travelling to major conferences or partnering with US institutions, the impacts ripple through the entire global knowledge ecosystem.”
The Guardian · Australian academics refuse to attend US conferences for fear of being detained
Harvard professors sue over Trump's review of $9 billion in funding - This is nothing short of an overt attack on #HigherEd in general and #Universities in particular. #Academia is under siege from the #Fascists in DC. #AcademicChatter https://www.reuters.com/legal/harvard-professors-sue-over-trumps-review-9-billion-funding-2025-04-12/
Last year at the Open Science Retreat (#OSR24NL) I have been introduced to nanopubs by @egonw and created my first nanopub declaring citations for a paper using CiTOs (citation ontologies).
Now, travelling to #OSR25CH, due to issues with the train network foreseen with plenty of time, I use the opportunity and created a new one ( https://w3id.org/np/RAicq7k9QHX8EG8ho7Baib9GxHsU18O0tyFCZ4tbbGGPA ) for my latest publication on teaching #Snakemake on #HPC systems.
The teaching material is — again — in desperate need of additions and overhaul, but that is for another day.
w3id.orgRAicq7k9QH (explore) | nanodash
Caused by two recent examples I've seen, where anouncements for PhD positions had some funny "desired requirements" (experience in teaching, high skills in writing scientific publications) I would enjoy further examples like this.
The latest Alternative Social Media blog post is about a couple new items we have in our bibliography. There's a new special issue of the Internet Policy Review, and two of the articles focus on governance on the fediverse.
https://socialmediaalternatives.org/2025/04/11/new-items.html
The Network of Alternative Social Media Researchers · New Bibliography Items: Governance and the FediverseThese days it seems like new work focusing on alternative social media appears every week. This week is no exception. Here are the latest two items we’ve added to the bibliography.
BREAKING: TU Delft Strike programme was just released! 
Date: 24 April 2025
Main location: The field between Pulse and the Library
From 12:00: Free fries, speakers, music, and collective action!
Here’s what the day will look like:
08:30–12:00: Picket lines, banner making & walkouts
11:30: Coordinated walkout from all faculties
12:30: Stage programme with speeches and live music
13:15: March to Delft city centre
15:00–16:00+: Science fair & public mini-lectures
More info: https://linktr.ee/tudelft_strikes
Striking is your legal right.
No lectures. No meetings. No business as usual.
See you on April 24!
LinktreeTU Delft Strikes | LinktreeTU Delft strikes on April 24 against the destructive budget cuts. Get involved!
Is it #caturday yet? Reviewer 2 is taking a close look at my work.
Time management is my very secret super power #AcademicWriting #AcademicChatter
I spent the day rectifying segmentation and tracking for bacteria in microfluidic devices. 1000 frames, 5 chambers, ~8 cells per chamber, so 40000 pictures of cells to look at, and check that they match frame to frame. I think I'm done with screens for the day. Fortunately automation helps, and drawing the lineages as graphs allows to spot errors more easily.
Now I have a clean dataset that I can analyse and also use as a training dataset for the next iteration!
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I’m currently looking for a post-doc in the UK, particularly to work on projects that employ in-vitro reconstitution and quantitative #microscopy approaches to study #cellbiology processes (esspecially #membranetraffic) + would be grateful for sign-posting towards openings! 
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