@albertcardona I know, I know. In my defence this is a slightly "corporate" thing and I suspect they will value the presentation of the aforementioned wishful thinking :-)
@albertcardona I agree with you. Although in this case, I feel it is helping me to plan. The person needs to work at another lab for part of the project. That would be best to tie in with the academic year for housing reasons. That affects when one aim is completed by, which means another aim needs starting later etc etc.
So oral exam at end of PhD. Good idea or just a tradition that doesn't make any sense any more? What are the good things about them? If we didn't do them, how else could we get those good things? #academia#academicchatter
@neuralreckoning it’s a good idea but the variability in examiners (and their expectations) mean that it's not exactly fair for every student.
In the UK (as you know) it’s a deep dive for the student and examiners, in other countries they are theatre with a large jury and simple questioning in public. So at least in the UK it has a purpose as an exam.
@kofanchen@neuralreckoning@nicolaromano good point. The folks in my lab know that to get the real experimental details, the thesis is a better bet than the paper! Also, I have a look at the ones I get alerts for on Google Scholar because they've cited our work.
Okay, so autosave saved the day. I stayed home to work on a new section of a grant and have not saved any aspect of it, not once all day. My computer completely crashed—this never ever happens to me.
I know that self hosting shit is not for everyone, but if you use github private repos and dont want them to get swooped like The Stack, using yunohost to set up a personal forgejo instance is simpler than you think - once you get yunohost running, its all point and click. Ive been using gitea->forgejo like this for about 2 years (I think?) for all my personal stuff, notes, one-offs, writing, etc. And zero problems.
Not yet ready for larger scale public collaboration imo (getting there!) But definitely very usable for personal shit.
aaaand just received an invite to “Prioritising Your Workload and Knowing When to Say No”, a workshop which runs from 1000-1600. #LifeOfPI#JustSayNo#ZammoWasRight