Christian Wilms @ChrisWilms23@qoto.org

Given your current salary/wage, which would you prefer:

1. 𝟰-𝗱𝗮𝘆 '𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗱" 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝘀, with 32-hour weeks and the same workload you have now.

2. 𝟴-𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗱 𝘀𝗮𝗯𝗯𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝟱 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 (sabbatical must be taken in 8-consecutive weeks — in addition to your usual PTO — to do whatever you want, but ideally with some goal related to personal or prof'l development).

[Boosts greatly appreciated! I don't have a lot of followers but would love to get at least 100 votes.]

Today was ... interesting. If you followed me for the past months over on the shitbird site, you might have seen a bunch of angry German words, lots of graphs, and the occassional news paper, radio, or TV snippet with yours truely. Let me explain.

In Austria, inflation is way above the EU average. There's no end in sight. This is especially true for basic needs like energy and food.

Our government stated in May that they'd build a food price database together with the big grocery chains. But..

Gov. Kristi Noem, the candidate of Christian family values, has been carrying on a secret extramarital affair with Trump’s ex campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski.

Rep. Lauren Boebert, who urged parents to take their kids to CHURCH not DRAG SHOWS, was caught in a public performance of Beetlejuice, a children’s show, groping and getting groped by her date.

I’ve had it with their hypocritical moralizing. They have no standing to judge or constrain ANYONE else’s private life.

This is Mastodon and this is why it rocks!

I'm giving up eating chocolate for a month.

Sorry, bad punctuation.
Should be:
I'm giving up. Eating chocolate for a month.

quiesco: I rest
Minimus has had a dies negotiosa (busy day) and he's fessus (tired) - he needs a little intermissio (pause) with a potio calida (hot drink)!
#LatinVerbs

Cheeky Scientist is a bad company that should be stopped.

Academic friends, please contact your department/school's career services and ask them to stop booking Isaiah Hankel or his company.

Read this important article by Catherine Offord, and pass it on

https://www.science.org/content/article/criticism-builds-against-ph-d-careers-firm-cheeky-scientist

The Swiss Government has officially launched their Mastodon server at https://social.admin.ch/

In their official press release the Government confirms it is a trial for one year. They state that "Mastodon has several characteristics that make it fundamentally attractive for government communications", such as being beyond the control of others, as well as it being privacy friendly.

Official press release: https://www.admin.ch/gov/de/start/dokumentation/medienmitteilungen.msg-id-97696.html

Speaker of the Swiss Government: @gov

#DarkSky International (formally #IDA) has announced the winners of it's 2023 Capture the Dark photography contest. For some beautiful dark sky photography, check out the finalists:
https://darksky.org/news/2023-capture-the-dark-winners/

My fav.
https://darksky.org/app/uploads/2023/08/1st-place_-1584_Creatures_of_the_Night_Petr_Horalek.jpg

"Don’t believe HR’s endless blather about “putting people first” or “breaking the silence about bullying”. It is just spin to enable your university to look good and get its Athena SWAN badge."
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/bullying-feature-uk-research-universities-not-bug

Iva Lučić shows our students how to label CaMKII with fluorescent dye for #singleMolecule TIRF #microscopy #biophysics

Thomas Korte shows the students how to use TIRF microscopy to visualise single molecules, and what a dirty coverslip looks like. #biophysics

🔬First method-focused work from our lab is just out in Cell Reports Methods 🎉
Interested in multicolor SMLM? Check the open-access final version of Karoline Friedl's PhD work, with Sandrine Lévêque-Fort's lab and the Abbelight gang
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-methods/fulltext/S2667-2375(23)00215-1

Have you read "The B Lane Swimmer?". If not, you're in for a treat: https://holly.witteman.ca/the-b-lane-swimmer/

A man in Saudi Arabia has been sentenced to death for his tweets, and surprise: Elon Musk is NOT funding his legal bill as promised because there's a good chance that the necessary data to identify this man came from the second largest shareholder of Twitter: the Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal.

Musk has been awfully silent about this as you can't really make your “freedom of speech!!” argument when you assist with killing a retired teacher for the regime critic posts they made on your platform, only possible because that regime owns a huge chunk of “your” platform.

We’d love to hear your thoughts about this probe: would you use it for your scientific question? What do you like/dislike, and what would you change? A final production decision has not been made so your input here is critical.

Survey: https://forms.gle/xerfVKMcWjbGuwPk8