Given your current salary/wage, which would you prefer:
1. ๐ฐ-๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ '๐ฐ๐ผ๐บ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฑ" ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ธ๐๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ธ๐, with 32-hour weeks and the same workload you have now.
2. ๐ด-๐๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ธ ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ฑ ๐๐ฎ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐น ๐ฎ๐ณ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐ฑ ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ธ (sabbatical must be taken in 8-consecutive weeks โ in addition to your usual PTO โ 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 Trumpโs 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 childrenโs show, groping and getting groped by her date.
Iโve had it with their hypocritical moralizing. They have no standing to judge or constrain ANYONE elseโs private life.
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
@amchagas Paul French’s group at Imperial College London, should fit that description.
@moritz_negwer @amchagas Tagging @3Dneuro
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/
"Donโt believe HRโs endless blather about โputting people firstโ or โbreaking the silence about bullyingโ. 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 Luฤiฤ shows our students how to label CaMKII with fluorescent dye for #singleMolecule TIRF #microscopy #biophysics
@andrewplested The only true way to look at electrophysiology data :-)
Thomas Korte shows the students how to use TIRF microscopy to visualise single molecules, and what a dirty coverslip looks like. #biophysics
๐ฌFirst method-focused work from our lab is just out in Cell Reports Methods ๐
Interested in multicolor SMLM? Check the open-access final version of Karoline Friedl's PhD work, with Sandrine Lรฉvรชque-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 โfreedom of speech!!โ 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 โyourโ platform.
Weโd 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.
Learning skiff sailor, former cell watcher, endless dinghy builder, dabbling woodworker, budding star gazer.