natalie

@natalie@hcommons.social

Research associate and #PhD student in Islamic and Arabic Studies. Based in Germany. Automatic deletion of posts after one month enabled.

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natalie, to academicchatter

I see more and more scholars offering online seminars for a fee. Sometimes for a relatively low price (e.g. here https://hcommons.social/@medievalists/112236157667793040), sometimes for 800 to 1000 Euros. This seems to be especially common in the Anglo-Saxon world. I find this highly problematical and, frankly, unethical.

Who is the target audience? Who should pay for it? Students of these academics? Who hope to get better grades by participating?

Although I understand that academics are under pressure and are looking for alternative sources of income: This cannot be the answer!

Education should be free and available to all! What do you think?

@academicchatter @academicsunite

natalie,

@SteveCooke
To me, that smacks of the commodification of education, which I believe everyone should have access to. And if not everyone, then at least those who pay the high entrance fees to study at a university, as is unfortunately the case in the US (I speak as a German and may be biased.)

Future scenario: Why should the best, well-known, smartest professors impart their knowledge "for free" at universities at all when they can sell it for large sums of money in online courses? And if they did that, who would still have access to this knowledge? This is what I find unethical.

@academicchatter @academicsunite

DrKEichhorn, to random German

Sabine Hossenfelder über ihren Ausstieg in der Wissenschaft. Grund: Es ging immer nur darum, das nächste Stipendium, die nächste Stelle und für das Institut Geld zu beschaffen, während keine Zeit für die Forschung blieb, die sie eigentlich machen wollte.
#IchBinHanna

https://www.youtube.com/embed/LKiBlGDfRU8

natalie,

@levampyre
Darf ich fragen, was du jetzt machst? Und ob das deinem Wunsch eher entspricht? Mich interessiert hier die Formulierung "nicht ganz das forschen/machen können, was man eigentlich erforschen/machen möchte".

Hintergrund meiner Frage ist, dass ich selbst mein Studium Mitte 20 abgebrochen habe (unfreiwillig, wegen Schwangerschaft und fehlenden finanziellen Mitteln zur Fortsetzung des Studiums), habe dann eine Ausbildung im öffentlichen Dienst gemacht und dort auch gearbeitet (erst Bundesministerium, dann politische Stiftung).

Da kam ICH wiederum zum Schluss, dass ich dort nie das machen werde können, was mich eigentlich interessiert und immer nur ein Facilitator sein werde. Deshalb bin ich dann (nach 10 Jahren) zurück an die Uni und habe mich entschieden zu promovieren.

Für mich ist Uni/Forschung immer noch der Ort, wo man am ehesten entscheiden kann, was man für wichtig/relevant hält und daran arbeiten kann. Trotz der ganzen Rahmenbedingungen ... :(

@DrKEichhorn

natalie, to phdlife

Anyone still around from two years ago when I occasionally posted about the start of my #PhDjourney and its progress?

Update: I now have a (real) outline for my dissertation! I used the #Canvas in #Obsidian to visualize it. Very useful (and a free alternative to #Scrintal!)

It feels a little unreal, but it seems like there's actually a book coming out of this. 🤯

Took some valuable advice on organizing the whole thing from these two books:

  1. The PhD Writing Handbook (very concise and straight to the point, great checklists) https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/phd-writing-handbook-9781137497703/
  2. Authoring a PhD (sometimes a bit paternalistic to me, but still very useful)
    https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-0-230-80208-7

Now I have to start structuring the chapters. I hope to have three chapters drafted by the end of the summer. And one chapter ready for publication in an edited volume by September ... wooo, this is exciting (and, of course, intimidating)!

@phdstudents @phdlife

tagesschau, to Israel German
@tagesschau@ard.social avatar

11KM-Podcast: Sprachnachrichten aus Israel

Sophie von der Tann berichtet als Korrespondentin aus Israel. Bei 11KM erzählt sie von dem Leben nach Beginn der Angriffe. In Sprachnachrichten schildert sie Eindrücke und Begegnungen.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/asien/israel-angriffe-hamas-podcast-vondertann-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

#Israel #Hamas #11KM

natalie,

@tagesschau @nadia_z und das vielleicht?

lukas, to opensource German
@lukas@social.lukas-schieren.de avatar

🇩🇪
Frage: Kennt sich hier wer mit dem produktiven Einsatz von CiviCRM aus und mag seine Erfahrungen hier drunter teilen? 😊

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 / 🇺🇸
Question: Does anyone here know about the productive use of CiviCRM and may share their experiences under here? 😊

natalie,

@lukas

Als ich vor ein paar Jahren in der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung in Berlin gearbeitet habe, war das gerade eingeführt worden, wenn ich mich richtig erinnere. Erfahrungen kann ich leider nicht teilen.

natalie, to phdstudents

Currently writing an article that should be 8,000 words. I am now at 17,000 and I, as a beginner in professional academic writing, need some advice. I know I am the kind of person who thinks through writing. This means that I have probably written a lot that can be cut and left out.

But how do I learn to write reasonably lengthy papers? I swear I thought my topic and questions could be addressed in 8,000 words. I had an outline ... with word counts per section. Still, it went completely off the rails.

Will this get better at some point?

@academicchatter @phdlife @phdstudents

natalie,

@ElenLeFoll @phdlife @phdstudents I also write with #Scrivener and I could not imagine going back to handwritten notes for this task (together with 💜#Obsidian). It works so well for me!

(About my problem from two weeks ago: I put the paper aside and started another one on a new topic that works much better. Now I think it was even better to write this one first. In the meantime, I now even look forward to returning to my "problematic article" later 😳 ..)

natalie, to phdlife

I have no clue how previous generations of scholars survived their PhD days without PhD memes. I can't laugh so heartily about anything else.

The feeling of released tension afterwards: priceless.

@phdlife

natalie, to random

Does anyone feel like sitting down in front of the computer and playing around with their notes a bit?

I just wrote down how I set up and try to maintain my (academic) reading list in using the plugin by @marcusolsson and . Might post it again after the holidays, but for now, here's the description of my approach for those who asked. Thus, fulfilling my promise from this thread: https://hcommons.social/@natalie/109557676423033978

https://nataliekraneiss.com/your-academic-reading-list-in-obsidian/

@obsidianmd @phdlife @phdstudents

natalie, to random

May I once again share my excitement about the plugin for from @marcusolsson?

I've finally managed to format my references from so that they show up in Projects without any problems. Now I can finally create a reading list and easily track and change the status of books from within the Projects view.

Wonderful. Can't wait to continue reading for my dissertation next year and finally track what I want to read or have read each week. But for now, it is a reading break here!

@obsidianmd @phdlife @phdstudents

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