Links. Tweets. Photos (Week 47.2023)
After a long hiatus, welcome back!
I am finally settling in in Brisbane (great city so far). This week, finally the big ERC SYNERGY grant I was a part of was submitted and now it feels that I only have one job (whereas before it felt like I had two jobs: writing the grant + my regular job).
I’m going to be in Canberra on Wednesday (22nd Nov). I know this is short notice, but feel free to Email if you’re around.
Links of the Week
From Svetlana, How remote conferencing broadened my horizons and opened career paths. She seems to be in the 1% of people in remote-working and networking skills and I’m glad she wrote up some of her thinking about it.
I couldn’t move for a postdoc. Fellowship reviewers shouldn’t have penalized me for it. I have some mixed feelings about this. I see the author’s point, but it is also clear to me that there are benefits to moving. Often, I will visit an institution and talk about my work and then someone will ask me a question that will make me go “Mmmm… that’s an interesting question, nobody asked that before!” Later in the day, another person will ask me the same question; and then a third person will ask it again… There is nothing wrong or bad happening here, just the natural outcome of a group of people constantly interacting with each other: they develop ways of thinking that are unique and peculiar. As with a lot of academic dysfunction, this is all downstream of up or out policies. Otherwise, it would have been fine for this person to stay where they were, make a little less progress in their career than if they had moved, but not everyone needs to keep moving up all the time.
Australian academics apologise for false AI-generated allegations against big four consultancy firms