Konsta Happonen @koalha@scholar.social

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Science Fedi, what are your experiences finding a first position outside of academia? I'm often passed over for positions because I'm overqualified for lab jobs but don't have enough work experience for any other job (despite over 5 years of experience in research, managing a research project, supervising students, maintaining contact with collaborators etc.). How did you land an #AltAc job after your PhD? Bonus kudos to you if it's a job in food science or microbiology.

I agree with Gelman’s solution here: non-replicable research can be published, but it shouldn’t be located next to replicable research. I would go a bit further and state that if a journal doesn’t mind publishing non-replicable papers, they require all abstracts to state the replicability of the paper.

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2022/05/08/how-should-journals-handle-submissions-of-non-reproducible-research/

Hello Mastodon, I'm back again, been an inactive user for a while and still getting the hang of this platform. I'm a scientist in Denmark, studying #climate #ice and #polar topics. You can find more about my research here: https://sternaparadisaea.net/
#Introduction

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Hey math/stats Fedi: Does anyone out there know if a historical account has been written of the development of the idea of a population in #statistics in the early 20thC?

I've read that it was Fisher who first developed the distinction between a statistic calculated on a sample and the parameters we are trying to estimate in the underlying hypothetical population. But that was an aside, and not in a real work on the history of statistics...

Here is a quick thread about tools and methods I use for research, maybe some of you will find them useful. I'll try to update it as I find new things.

Let's start with a game changer: the #zettelkasten method
https://writingcooperative.com/zettelkasten-how-one-german-scholar-was-so-freakishly-productive-997e4e0ca125

If you don't know it, give it a try. It really revolutionized my way of learning and doing research. As an #emacs user, I'm using #orgRoam, but I know that #obsidian is also excellent

So now, when we in Sweden go in for an election in September we basically have no choice but parties that propagate for 100% employment while leaving it up to the market to figure out what people should be producing and selling (because jobs programs with clear goals would be too cost effective and destroy competition)

So that's how you get fidgetspinners and activism merch, because it's something that people with money are willing to buy, and that's all that matters now

@koalha I think that a decentralized university would entail some level of deconstruction. It's workers need to be treated as more than just cogs in a knowledge generating and disseminating machine! The ability to step into and out of responsibilities, that maintain an overarching structure benefiting each member's scholarship, is an important element of such an institution. https://ronininstitute.org/ is an interesting model... and makerspaces as communities of practice are also worth considering

Question for the scholars out there. I am contemplating learning a shorthand system for taking notes faster, as I still take most of my notes on (e-)paper. Does anyone have already learned or tried to learn shorthand? Which system? What's your experience? Any resource recommended?
(Boosts appreciated)
#askfediverse #noteTaking #shorthand

Ok, so it turns out I never did a propper #introduction on scholar.social. Here I go.

I'm an invited assitant professor at #University of #Lisbon, and at Institutuo Politecnico de #Setúbal .

I work in #bioinformatics focused on studying #evolution through #genomics.

I'm a strong supporter of #Opensource, #openscience, and #FAIR principles.

Looking forward to reinforcing communities around here! =-)