Daniele Iudicone

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Academic ironies

📢Communicate your science! Whether you're a student, researcher, or early-career scientist, this webinar by @Lady_leilz is your chance to sharpen your skills and learn how to share your science with clarity, confidence, and impact. Watch recording here: youtube.com/watch?v=tLulkM…

Sebastião #Salgado ha dipinto affreschi del mondo, della sua bellezza e dei suoi orrori. Il suo lavoro sull’inferno della miniera della Serra Pelada è uno dei momenti più alti della fotografia mondiale.

This is a fantastic master program. Students of the international track spend 1 semester in Trieste ( at @ictpnews and @Sissaschool ), 1 in Turin ( @PoliTOnews ), and 1 in Paris (Sorbonne / Saclay / Paris-Cité ) + final proj. Apply! Deadline May 25 polito.it/en/education/m…

We have two types of Dangers in world.

🎉🎉We’re on the cover of @NaturePhysics!! Here is the original paper nature.com/articles/s4156…

Here a new point of view on the response od fhe global ocean to climate change. In short: we cannot separate temperature from the rest when we look at trends in the dynamics. It is just a starting point. With the great Bruno Buongiorno Nardelli. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Here's the thing. We have **NO IDEA** how to pick good graduate students. I served on admission committees for 10+ years, and chaired a few, and what I learned is that all the spreadsheets of grades and test scores and recommendations and essays and publications and interview rubrics are just an elaborate ruse to pretend we know what we're doing when we simply don't. Many of the most highly ranked applicants to our "top" program flamed out quickly, and tons of the students we summarily rejected have turned into amazing scientists. But in the name of creating meritocratic seeming rankings that are more about creating a workforce than great scientists (a system that anyone paying attention knows is bullshit), we've created a homogenous process adopted by nearly all institutions that has stamped out the one thing we should be striving for - given our lack of any clear understanding of what leads to success - a wide range of difference talents and experiences.

Researcher: "We let the data speak for itself." Earlier that day:

Good papers lead to more questions than they answer. That's because (as Blaise Pascal wrote) knowledge is like a sphere: the larger it gets the larger also its surface, which is its interface with the unknown.

🌍🍷 Denmark 🇩🇰 as a wine producer? #Climatechange is reshaping traditional winemaking boundaries, with northern Europe emerging as a serious contender in the industry. ft.com/content/1c94c2…

@Nicola_Bressi Eh, capisco bene. Molti che fanno ricerca si sono spostati lì e ci si sta organizzando con starterpacks e feeds tematici molto utili. Da considerare. 😀

@DIudicone Non riesco a gestire pure un altro social, Daniele 🤷🏼‍♂️

Da sobrio non sarebbe caduto, o da sobrio non avrebbe fatto la proposta? 🤔

Diatom phytochromes integrate the underwater light spectrum to sense depth nature.com/articles/s4158…

At the invitation of @EleanorFrajka, I'll be teaching this two-week graduate course in person: Ocean/Atmosphere Time Series Analysis Univ. of Hamburg 17-28 March 2025 If you are based elsewhere, you can still come, at no cost. Details and application: conferences.uni-hamburg.de/event/560

@DIudicone @andcapocci @ilmanifesto Corretto. Qual he elemento fattuale nel nostro paper "strain on scientific publishing" qui direct.mit.edu/qss/article/do…

@andcapocci @ilmanifesto Di fatto la comunità scientifica sta boicottando il sistema delle riviste facendo resistenza passiva... Ma è un incubo per i giovani che hanno bisogno di pubblicare. Pagare i reviewers è una delle soluzioni proposte. Ma andrebbe rivisto tutto.

@andcapocci @ilmanifesto La crisi è seria. Mesi di attesa per trovare reviewers da parte di riviste come Science Advances. Poi ne trovano uno (al secondo round di suggerimenti da parte degli autori) e fa un pessimo lavoro. E si fa appello. E l'editor accetta perché in effetti non era valido il tizio/a.

Forse è il momento di mettere mano alla peer review. @ilmanifesto ilmanifesto.it/scienziati-che…

Fascinating paper on where 6000 global elites went to college. Billionaires, CEOs, heads of state, central bankers, etc. In a word: Harvard. Fully 10% of global elites went to Harvard. Elite US schools are over-represented (23% IvyPlus), but nobody comes close to Harvard. 🧵