Arseny Khakhalin 🇺🇦
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Arseny Khakhalin 🇺🇦
@ampanmdagaba
DataScientist at @sharenow_global former Neuro prof @BardCollege AI, GIS, modeling For art/culture see my alt: @mostaleoht migrated to: https://t.co/dCZxha4HiH
Berlin, Germany Katılım Haziran 2012
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@tyrell_turing Bluesky is the only app with a feature
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I'm tyrell_turing on the new 🧵 app.
But, I gotta say, I'm super irritated that there is no desktop version of it, as my strategy for not spending too much time on social media is to not have it on my phone. Might be a non-starter for me... 😑
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Ok there’s no more reason to tweet 😔
wukko@uwukko
twitter no longer lets you view tweets without an account. all archival tools don't work anymore. unauthenticated downloaders/clients/tools/etc also no longer work. this was probably done to stop unpaid data scraping, but ended up hurting literally everyone else.
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@AntonArkhipkin I think I exaggerated the impact of this new regulation anyways :)
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Again on Germany shooting its science in the foot (making in infinitely harder to start an academic career, by pushing the pipeline selection forward) Expect a higher brain drain, lower innovation
Matthew Betts, Ph.D.@MTJBetts
If you are a postdoc working in the sciences or arts in Germany, you should be aware of plans to reform short-term contracts. Here's what you need to know:
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Trad accounts posting pictures of Vermont towns that voted heavily one sided for Biden will never get old
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@ShriramKMurthi 20 years ago I really liked this book. Tried to re-read it ~4 years ago, and couldn't get past page 10 or so. So it is a bit idiosyncratic (because very religious)
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@ampanmdagaba Ah, love that cover and title!
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@felix_anton_s In three months, once they have an assessment of their petition, they can resubmit it to the Postdocerlaubnissamt, and resume their science.
Meanwhile the US: here's the water, let them swim 😅
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@felix_anton_s But what if they were so depressed that they couldn't find a doctor?
Then they need to collect witnesses from 3 family members, and submit them, together with an assessment of psychiatrist availability in that town for that year, to the Depressionbestätigungsamt.
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@felix_anton_s Sure. So there will be a brain drain as if your govt is kicking you in the gut, you start looking for a different govt 🤷♀️ Maybe it's ok, idk, maybe Germany is too innovative and has too many people /s :)
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@felix_anton_s It's not a big share, but just because it hurts relatively few people, and these people are not "mainstream", does not make it a better change in my eyes :) I don't like "points of no return"; I think life is cruel enough without them.
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@felix_anton_s > I don‘t think this is an extremely high barrier. If you can‘t cross it, what are your realistic prospects in science?
It will hurt some people tho; for example ppl who went to industry before rejoining academia, or those who changed field. Or those who had kids, idk.
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@felix_anton_s And yeah, I agree, it's not AS dramatic as limiting the number of PhDs. Most people leave for industry after getting a PhD, not after a postdoc. So it's proabably OK-ish. Still I'm not the biggest fan :) But that's also not the end of the foot, you are right :)
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@felix_anton_s Moving selection earlier in the pipeline (in the US it was mostly about "mint fewer PhDs" makes life less scary for those who "make it", but lowers the quality.
I'm kinda FDP-minded in this regard 😅 Imho, not imposing artificial bottlenecks will tend to optimize pain and gain.
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@felix_anton_s I don't like artificial bottlenecks. And also, the later you measure, the more chance people have to compensate for early lag. There were lively discussions on this topic in the US about 10 years ago. For efficiency, you want to measure as late as possible. But it's sad.
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@felix_anton_s And it will definitely induce brain drain at PhD to Postdoc stage. But sure, I don't have an ironclad data for that, so feel free to be optimistic 😇
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@felix_anton_s Intuitively, I guess it will worsen the outcomes, as the effects of worse selection will win. Essentially it's like moving back to the Prussian school system of "this one reference from a teacher you get in the 5th grade define your entire life", just milder ;) Doesn't feel good.
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