Just finished a fun workshop on 'Social Media in Science', so here's my PhD research topic as emojis:
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Thanks to Phoebe Griffiths @crocodiledunphd.bsky.social and Gregor Kalinkat @gkalinkat and to @aquacosm-ecr.bsky.social for hosting this!

We still have a few spots left and thus decided to extend the application deadline for this year's #YoMos workshop until the end of March!
Find out more about the workshop and apply here: yomos.org/next-workshop

#Postdocs and #PhD students hit hard by Trump’s crackdown on #science, anxiety and fear grip early-career researchers.
Month of repeated threats to #US science funding, many early-career researchers are fearing for their careers. #Scientists especially vulnerable: graduate students, postdocs and scientists just starting their own labs are the researchers most likely to be living pay cheque to pay cheque, most reliant on federal grants for their income.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00550-0 #PhDLife #PhDChat

#EmergingResearchers former link convenor Saneeya Qureshi on "What is the Emerging Researchers' Group?" #ERG @SaneeyaQ #EERAblog #ECRchat #PHDChat #EduSci https://blog.eera-ecer.de/what-is-the-emerging-researcher-group/

You don't have to do Q&A at the end

You can do it earlier leaving you 5mins to wrap up. This lets you control the last thing they see and hear, rather than teh quesions.

What do you want to leave them with?

Check out former ERG Link Convenor Saneeya Qureshi's blog "What is the Emerging Researchers' Group?" #EmergingResearchers #ERG @SaneeyaQ #ECRchat #EERAblog #PHDChat #EduSci https://blog.eera-ecer.de/what-is-the-emerging-researcher-group/

Only one more month to register for this year's YoMos workshop in Ilmenau Now we need your help to share this poster with your peers, friends, working groups, departments and mailing lists connected to #Ecological #modelling! Let's spread the word about #YoMos and have a workshop as wonderful as last year!

You can register here: https://www.yomos.org/next-workshop

@gfoe

Generally speaking*, avoid standing behind things.

Desks, computers, lecterns, we want to connect with audiences and having a literal barrier between you and them hampers that connection.

*There are exeptions to every 'rule'

STOP PUTTING STUFF ON A SLIDE AND THEN NOT TALKING ABOUT IT!!!

If its not important then why is it there?

If it is important then why don’t you mention it!

How long does it take you to understand new graph of figure when you read it in a paper?

5 mins?
10?

Need to go away, have a cuppa, and come back to it?

#PHD #Research #Academic #Presenting #PHDChat
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Right, let me talk about slide templates.

Most universities have an official slide template everyone is told to use.

More often than not these are rubbish.

Focusing on splashing the university logo around so much there is no space for actual content.

I’m going to call it out… just stop putting lots of text one your slides. You know its bad, I know its bad, everyone knows its bad… so can we just not?

Extremely honored to receive this Award from a Society I value, full of colleagues and friends. Dev Bio is well and alive, and we're proof of it! Dev Bio FTW #science #zebrafish #DevelopmentalBiology #PostdocLife #PhDChat

Has anybody done a PhD in the UK and not hated it? I'm considering applying for some next year but it seems everybody hates it and regrets it!

Nous organisons notre seconde école d'été du 7 au 10 juillet 2025 !

Co-construite avec l’institut de microbiologie du CHUV (hôpital universitaire), l’école d’été «𝗗𝘂 𝗦𝗮𝘃𝗼𝗶𝗿 𝗮𝘂 𝗷𝗲𝘂 : 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗲𝘀 𝗲𝘁 𝗦𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲́» entend familiariser les participant·e·s avec les enjeux, les outils et les méthodes de la médiation de contenus scientifiques liés à la santé.

Toutes les informations nécessaires et le lien pour s'inscrire ici : https://www.unil.ch/unil/fr/home/menuinst/etudier/programmes-courts/summer-winter-schools/savoir-au-jeu.html

Quelques news de notre côté :

* La semaine prochaine, Coline Métrailler défend sa thèse de doctorat ! Elle porte sur la non-linéarité des récits des jeux vidéo, et l'articulation des personnages au sein de ceux-ci https://gamelab-lausanne.ch/evenement/soutenance-de-these-de-coline-metrailler/

* Le mois suivant, ce sera au tour de Loeva La Ragione ! Sa thèse propose une riche ethnographie des pratiques de jeu dans Guild Wars 2, et notamment de la place accordée au role-play dans ces pratiques https://gamelab-lausanne.ch/evenement/soutenance-de-these-de-loeva-la-ragione/

* Entre les deux, @loise_b et Isaac Pante traiteront de jeu de rôle lors du Festival Textures à Fribourg https://gamelab-lausanne.ch/evenement/festival-textures-a-fribourg/

Plus d'événements à venir dans notre agenda : https://gamelab-lausanne.ch/evenement/

Question for current/recently completed PhD students, esp in Aust & ANZ: where did you find out about the PhD program you enrolled in?

I've got a @digitalchild scholarship to advertise in the next month, but where will be most visible to candidates?

Ah, Zotero groups do provide RSS feeds, they are just well hidden. The basic url format is https://api.zotero.org/groups/<GROUPNUMBER>/items/top?format=atom .

In the web interface, there are the three small dots above the table view, and the subscribe button is hidden there - but even that defaults to sorting by title which is not what I want..

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