Cerstin Mahlow @CerstinMahlow@qoto.org

🎉Coming in 2023: The Hodcroft Lab!!🎉
I'm so so excited to announce that my @snsf_ch@twitter.com Starting Grant was funded!
I'll be focusing on the amazing world of #Enteroviruses at the fantastic @SwissTPH@twitter.com as an Assistant Prof!
💰👩🏻‍🎓🦠🧬

Schweiz, ich bleibe! 🇨🇭❤️

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Today we bade farewell to a claim and a banner image that we’ve been using for two years on Twitter¹ and for two days here: le-tex total tagscaping.
We thought that few of you are old enough to understand the allusion², and those who remember probably think it’s trite and there needs to be a new meme.
In the absence of such, we are now presenting an aerial view of our premises with the company’s IL-18 turboprop plane.³
¹ https://twitter.com/letexml/status/1325940894915293184
² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Seasons_Total_Landscaping_press_conference
³ https://twitter.com/letexml/status/1272585823519719428

Are you a #linguist (or in a field adjacent to #linguistics)? Add yourself to the list at https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/mastodonlinguists and make it easier for colleagues to find you!

(Is the hashtag #linguodon? #linguistodon? #linguistidon? Nothing much seems to be going on under any of those)

Ohne Ankündigung: Twitter entlässt offenbar Tausende Leiharbeiter | golem https://www.golem.de/news/ohne-ankuendigung-twitter-entlaesst-offenbar-tausende-leiharbeiter-2211-169735.html

President of @snsf_ch sounds alarm over Horizon Europe exclusion.

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/sci-tech/horizon-europe-egger/48052392

Artists 4 Action Interviews Pete Seeger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-DlDO9uYSg

Mastodon is is the 5th or 6th social media platform I've engaged with in a serious fashion, but it's been awhile since I had to start a profile from scratch. In the process I have relearned the one constant truth of all social media -- until you have accumulated at least 300-400 connections, the flow of information is going to seem skewed and limited, and you are going to wonder whether it is worth your time and effort.

Thus, echoing what others have said, you need to do more than just set up a profile and lurk, thinking an algorithm will direct information your way. You need to peruse the "Following" and "Follower" lists of people whose contributions you find interesting, then connect. Start with your local server and its Group and Profile directories (much easier to do from the web instance). Look for people you have followed on other platforms, and then look through their connections. The distributed nature of the fediverse (the so-called siloes that seem to cause a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth from people still clinging to twitter) can make it a bit more difficult to find and connect to people quickly, but patience will be rewarded. Take the time to dip into other people's timelines, and connect to those that maintain interesting and active feeds. You will quickly notice a perception of increased 'quality' in your newsfeed once you have a few hundred links.

Being a professor is being told u can read all day but actually ur just in meetings

To this extent I'm really interested to know how the age breakdown of people on the #Fediverse. On one hand it would seem to make sense to me that most people here remember the "old internet" before the centralization and they're here to rekindle that flame of independence. On the other hand the youths are generally pretty up on this whole technology thing. I grew up on the internet and since then smartphones have become even more ubiquitous.

(Please boost for reach)

Internet Archive has many contributing Citizen Archivists, and one of them is Marcin Wichary (who is fascinating in his own right) who has uploaded hundreds of Typewriter-based knowledge and documents. They're in a collection here:

https://archive.org/details/wicharytypewriter

The building started to be restored at the end of the 19th century leading to one of the first usages of archaeology and history in order to rebuild a castle in a historically accurate way.

The castle's most famous prisoner was François de Bonivard, a Genevois monk and politician, who was imprisoned here between 1530 and 1536. He inspired Lord Byron to write the poem "The Prisoner of Chillon" in 1816

Château de Chillon is built on a small island in Lake Geneva guarding the passage between the Rhone Valley and the Vaud Riviera. Its history goes back to the 12th century and these days it is among the most visited medieval castles in Europe. #switzerland

#art

A key sign of how broken CS/AI/ML #PhD programs is when there is an *unspoken* requirement that if you want to be competitive, you need to published already.

I mentor at least 5-10 PhD applicants every year, esp from the Global South/Majority World.

One super talented applicant asked me: "Isn't the PhD supposed to be the training to learn how to publish & be a good scientist?"

I wish I had a better answer than the one I gave her.

#academia #academicChatter

In many ways I'm still very much a man of the 20th C. When I refer to the 'turn of the century' I still mean the turn from the 19th to the 20th. A romantic part of me is still waiting for the (by now broken) promises of the 20th C to be fulfilled. We once so keenly believed in the idea of a utopian future. When I was a child, I'd try to imagine the technological/ social advancements we might make by the year 2000. Where are they? Where did the future go, and why did we abandon it?
#hauntology

Oh man... just found that the "MASTO 95" theme is the correct way to use this site.