there's many things that I can complain about re Tampere, but I'm so grateful we still have a Zoom subscription in addition to the Teams nightmare

trying to join another university's Teams meeting or space: 🤯📛

Is that for professorships or also for more junior positions?

First-round?.. how many rounds ARE there?!

I meant the conversation, but I also have no idea what a job market paper is

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My relatively new samsung washing machine has a 10 year warranty, and you bet im using that warranty until the very day it expires

I send you love and peace. It's so hard.

Also, as an editor, I spend a lot of time telling people to shorten their papers to fit the word limit, and it's always a problem. So I guess it's almost like the paper is already as short as is reasonably possible in order to convey all the relevant information... But no one told Adobe

"We want humans to grind
We want machines to sing"

This keyboard doesn't seem very ergonomic for the user, if i may say so. Where are claw accommodations

exactly, this and sciencedirect. I really wonder if on balance this is not doing far more harm than good even if (big if) the provided summaries etc are accurate. The share of people who open academic books and articles and need actual help reading them is probably quite small

the only thing I can say in sciencedirect's defense is that their reading assistant stopped popping up.
But it is still there, lurking, with its uninvited "Questions you could ask" which actively disrupt my class activity (students coming up with questions you could ask)

to me thumbs up sounds passive-aggressive in private convos, so I wouldn't use it in professional comms either

Something tells me that the academics taking the said high horse and the course instructors generating slides with AI are two very different groups of people...

to say nothing of this abomination of ProQuest Ebook Central that has been an absolute bane of my existence recently and keeps popping up instead of the Table of Contents

to say nothing of this abomination of ProQuest Ebook Central that has been an absolute bane of my existence recently and keeps popping up instead of the Table of Contents