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Julien Senn

@sennjulien.bsky.social

Econ Prof @sorbonneparis1. Previously @econ_uzh and @heclausanne 🇨🇭 site: https://sites.google.com/site/juliensenn

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Julien Senn@sennjulien.bsky.social · 11mo ago

First week of teaching in Paris Sorbonne. Of course, my first lecture is postponed because today is strike day and getting to the Uni might be nearly impossible for staff & students. The experience wouldn't be french otherwise. 😅

M.J. Crockett@mjcrockett.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨PSA for anyone using GPT in human subjects research🚨 A judge has ruled that OpenAI must retain ChatGPT and API data indefinitely, with few exceptions. This might have implications for your IRB compliance and the security of your participants' data. 1/

Paul Hünermund@p-hunermund.com · last yr.

I noticed this too that universities and PIs are increasingly trying to exploit their market power, and no one seems to stop them. In other countries non-fulltime PhD and postdoctoral positions are very uncommon, as far as I know.

Caleb Ward@calebw.bsky.social · last yr.

Keeping one eye on academic jobs in Germany, I'm seeing more 50–75% positions, where salary & work hrs are both reduced. I'm even seeing 50%-time, 3-year doctoral jobs, where you're expected to write a dissertation in <20hrs/week in 3 years (while supporting a research team). 👎 1/2

Julien Senn@sennjulien.bsky.social · last yr.

I don't think this is only a german problem. The fact that juniors have to so extremely rely on advisor(s) for all the important steps in their career is in my view one of the biggest issues in academia.

Virginia Gewin@virginiagewin.bsky.social · last yr.

“There is far too much power in the hands of professors in the German system,” says @leising.bsky.social. My latest @nature.com story digs into efforts to tackle the entrenched structural heirarchy that enables academic bullies.

Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com · last yr.

The fear among academics and lawyers now talking on the record on just about any topic that involves the federal government or the White House is really extraordinary and worrisome, and getting worse, it seems to me, every week. Dissent by an establishment figures becoming verboten in the US

Jaakko Meriläinen@jmerilainen.bsky.social · last yr.

🧵 Who enters politics? Are politicians different from the general population? In our @jeeanews.bsky.social paper (M. Jokela, @jannetukiainen.bsky.social, Å. von Schoultz), we study Finnish politicians’ cognitive and personality traits using military conscription test data. 📊

Personality Traits and Cognitive Ability in Political Selection

Abstract. A vast scholarship questions whether voters are sufficiently informed to act in their best interest at the polling booth, which may also have imp

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Julien Senn@sennjulien.bsky.social · last yr.

As other places, @ethzurich.bsky.social now also focuses on net academic age (years +PhD) when evaluating candidates. This trend penalizes people who graduated from places with short PhDs. Some places make you graduate in 3-4years, while others give you 6-7. Huge difference! ethz.ch/staffnet/en/...

New guidelines for assistant professorships

These guidelines came into force on 1 January 2025. Following a complete overhaul, they are now consistent with the current framework conditions once again. Assistant professors can choose whether the...

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Auschwitz Memorial@auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 2y ago

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
Julien Senn@sennjulien.bsky.social · 2y ago

Using years after PhD as academic age becomes useless: Some people now do longer undergrad, predocs and stretch their PhDs to 6+ years, but others don't. E.g., why should someone with a 2014 MSc + 2019 PhD be considered “3 years older" than a 2014 MSc who does 2 years predoc & 6 years Phd?

Julien Senn@sennjulien.bsky.social · 2y ago

The jackpot of a lottery is 2.6 milions. Probability of winning is 1 in a million. Lottery costs 2. Should you play? Maybe not.. unless you can buy enough tickets! This is exactly what happened this week in 🇨🇭 www.bluewin.ch/en/news/swit...

Gang tries to hit lottery jackpot with combination trick

A group of players have tried to manipulate Loterie Romande's Joker game by playing all possible number combinations. Loterie Romande temporarily blocked the game.

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