Thinking more and more seriously that I should create a "Tutorials in Physics" journal that doesn't publish new research, but tutorials on advanced but relatively settled topics, aimed at first year PhD students who need an introduction to the topic. #Physics#AcademicChatter
Find a job you love and you will realize you actually love only a small fraction of it, while most of your time is spent doing the parts you don't like at all.
Once upon a time (i.e. ~10 years ago) you could easily buy pocket digital cameras, with a decently large sensor and optical zoom, able to make good photos for a reasonable price (100-200€). I assume modern smartphones have eroded the market, but there is only so much you can do with the space available on a smartphone, so thought there was still some market for small and not expensive cameras. And yet a quick search only returned 500€+ options, which is the same entry level price as a reflex body. Is there anything on the market that makes decent photos and doesn't cost as much as a laptop? #Photography
Pro-tip: if you want to do interdisciplinary research you need to understand the "other" field. And the best way to do that is to get a friend doing research in that field, and listen to them complaining about all the difficult stuff that doesn't work. @academicchatter
@atomicpoet Trying a new social media is an enormous amount of effort and time spent. You can't expect people to sign in and spend a significant amount of time in it just to see what it is. The intro page to Calckey you linked is a start, but it assumes the reader already knows very well how the fediverse work, and how the different platforms there connect to each other. This might be obvious to you, but trust me, it is not obvious at all to most people (me included).
@atomicpoet To be fair, even by specifically googling it, it is not easy to find a decent explanation of what calckey&co are, and why one should bother. And this is a problem common to a lot of the fediverse: there are a lot of options out there, but for a newcomer it is almost impossible to learn about it (and I am speaking from personal experience).
@eniko I do not even need it for a living, but to be honest the more people I can reach when making science communication, the more incentivized I am to spend my free time making it.
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