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2026-02-27

🛎️ We've opened our call for candidates for the 2026 FCT’s PhD Studentships with the Institute of Contemporary History as scientific host institution. 🛎️

📆 Proposals should be submitted by 15 March.

👉 ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/cfa-phd-fct

#Histodons #AcademicLife #HistoryJobs #PhDScholarships #CiênciaPT #BolsasDeDoutoramento #AcademicLife #VidaAcadémica

Image that illustrates the Institute of Contemporary History’s “Call for Applicants” for FCT’s PhD Studentships (Academic / Non Academic Settings). It states “15 March” as the deadline for pre-application with the IHC. Logos for Intopast, Nova FCSH, and Universidade de Évora appear at the bottom. On the right, a photo shows a wall with several posters of meetings and conferences organised by the IHC above a desk with a lamp and computer equipment.
2026-02-21

History is sometimes an act of accumulation: 397 folios. Hundreds of candles. Countless tiny details.

Today’s blog post discusses reading for details that earlier editors thought didn’t matter.

silencesandsounds.blogspot.com/

#AcademicLife #MedievalStudies #nuntastic #SlowScholarship #blog

Post title: "Sooner or Later it All Gets Done: How History Emerges from Small Details"; image of a 16th c prayerbook manuscript page with a tab in the margin, VLB HS 17 fol. 216
2026-02-19

🆕 Após eleições realizadas em Dezembro, tomaram posse os novos órgão sociais do Laboratório Associado #IN2PAST para o mandato 2026-2028. Sofia Salema, do CHAIA, é a nova Presidente da Direcção.

👉 Conheça todas as pessoas eleitas aqui: ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/orgaos-sociais

#Histodons #AcademicLife #Heritage #History #Arts #Territory #CiênciaPT

Foto-composição com as fotografias de todas as pessoas eleitas para os órgãos sociais do Intopast: Sofia Salema, Alexandra Esteves, Rita Luís, António Candeias, Maria de Fátima Nunes, Joana Sequeira, Inês Lourenço, Milene Gil, Elisabete Pereira, Alberto Medina de Seiça, Cristina Pratas Cruzeiro e Francisca Alves Cardoso.
2026-02-15

One of my slides for my upcoming presentation at @caavisual this coming Thursday. Quote from Daniel Kantor from @kantorgroup. I am combining my lettering with type because I love it. Hehe!! #caaconference2026 #almahoffmannlettering #almahoffmannletters #almahoffmann #academiclife

2026-02-04

Another quip from conversations with @marnakait in the office. She is hilarious! #academiclife #lifeinacademia #maureenasays #almahoffmannlettering #almahoffmannletters #almahoffmann

2026-01-29

Someone mentioned "clusters of excellence" in a meeting today. Over the years that I've been around in science, the funding buzzword pendulum has swung between "centres of excellence" and "networks of excellence" a number of times, about once every 7-10 years. "Clusters of excellence" was a new one to me, and must surely be a sign that the pendulum is somewhere around the halfway point again. #AcademicLife #ResearchCulture #BuzzWords #Excellence

2026-01-28

Research tools keep consolidating into corporate platforms. Proprietary infra means losing control & your unpublished work becomes training data. Science advanced through open infrastructure: arXiv, open access journals, Zotero, LaTeX, etc. Centralizing into AI platforms reverses that

TeXlyre compiles LaTeX/Typst in your browser, stores locally, uses P2P collaboration. Open source means no vendor lock-in

texlyre.org

#OpenScience #LocalFirst #OpenSource #LaTeX #AcademicLife

2026-01-15

Buying academic books in Canada in 2025 feels like before printing when you had to beg colleagues for a manuscript or send a student to Susa to copy Codex Hammurabi for you #histodons #booksBeforePrint #academicLife

Dr David Millsdtl@8bitorbust.info
2025-12-22

I think I've just done my last bit of paid science for the year. I measured the pH of some gunge.

#AcademicLife

2025-12-21

2025 was a special year for us.

Our move to the University of Bonn opened many new opportunities, enabled exciting collaborations, and brought fantastic new group members.

We published extensively — including some of our most exciting stories yet — and had the pleasure of hosting many wonderful visitors in Bonn over the last months.

Thanks to everyone who helped make this transition such a success!

izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news#t

#AcademicLife #Research #Science #PlantSci
@boas_pucker

Poppelsdorf Palace and Botanical Gardens at UniBonn. Details: https://www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news#tree2025
2025-12-17

Today at VU Amsterdam for the PhD defense of Shuai Wang. I really liked the traditional and formal procedure in the Netherlands how they conduct a PhD defense and the subsequent investiture of the new PhD.

#PhD #academiclife #Amsterdam @vuamsterdam #AI #knowledgegraphs #semanticweb @fizise @fiz_karlsruhe

PhD defense of Shuai Wang at VU Amsterdam. They really have a rather "traditional" procedure :wink: The picture was taken after the investiture of the newly promoted PhD in front of the bust of the founder of VU. FYI: the head of the committee is the professor with the chain around his neck. Only full professors are allowed to wear gown and hat. The candidate chose to wear traditional formal Mongolian clothing (traditional local clothing from your home country - besides wearing a black formal attire -  is recommended in the official dresscode for the candidate). Probably you will recognize Frank van Harmelen (the official supervisor), Aidan Hogan (besides me the other external reviewer), Jacco van Ossenbruggen (the forth professor), Wouter Beek and Illaria Tidi (external reviewers but not full professors), and Peter Bloem (the direct day-to-day supervisor, being an assistant professor). There are two guys in white tie cutaways in the back, who are the "paranymphs" (aka assistants) of the PhD candidate (in old times, they were allowed to wear a sword, and to defend the candidate against (sword) attacks of the opponent professors, which might occur in heavy academic dispute :wink: )
Prof Cloutman-GreenGirlymicro@mindly.social
2025-12-15

Still looking for a Christmas pick me up for your students or the university bound within your friends and family - great news!

The kindle version of It Shouldn't Happen to a PhD Student will be on sale for 7 days from the 15th December - pick up the Ebook and see what help it can offer for only 99p

#PhDstudies #PhD #postdoctoralstudy #academiclife

amazon.co.uk/Shouldnt-Happen-P

Prof Cloutman-GreenGirlymicro@mindly.social
2025-12-13

Still looking for a Christmas pick me up for your students or the university bound within your friends and family - great news!

The kindle version of It Shouldn't Happen to a PhD Student will be in sale for £1.99 for 7 days from the 15th December

#PhDstudies #PhD #postdoctoralstudy #academiclife

amazon.co.uk/Shouldnt-Happen-P

2025-12-10

@spaf Sounds about right. Ironically, I published more this year at least in part because I spent some of the year between jobs. #academiclife

2025-12-09

🆕 Assinalando a sua aposentação, a Universidade de Évora organizou uma sessão de homenagem a António Cândida Franco, celebrando a sua extensa carreira e legado.

O investigador do IHC e docente no Departamento de Linguística e Literatura da universidade alentejana, tem-se dedicado ao estudo da #LiteraturaPortuguesa, com especial enfoque nas intersecções entre #literatura, #história e #cultura.

👉 Contamos mais aqui: ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/antonio-candid

#Histodons #AcademicLife #PortugueseLiterature

Fotografia do António Cândido Franco na cerimónia
2025-12-04

Got the chalkboard adorned by my students for every hour of our problem solving class today. Love it.
I will see how the red flower would be doing as my header image for some time.
#academiclife #academicchatter

A red flower on a green stem hand-drawn using color chalks on a chalkboard.A whimsical bee hand-drawn using color chalks on a chalkboard.Two flowers hand-drawn using color chalks on a chalkboard.
Martine Mussies :verified:martinemussies@socel.net
2025-11-27

I’m very happy to share that my latest research "Budo on the Spectrum: Self-Reported Benefits of Autistic Adults Engaged in Japanese Martial Arts" is now published in the Journal of Martial Arts Research (DOI: 10.25847/jomar.2025.62).

Many thanks to all the practitioners who contributed. ^_^

Full-text available from: academia.edu/145172724/Budo_on .

#karate #kendo #iaido #budo #autism #neurodiversity #academiclife

Journal of Martial Arts Research DOI: 10.25847/jomar.2025.62 Budo on the Spectrum Self-Reported Benefits of Autistic Adults Engaged in Japanese Martial Arts: A Mixed-Methods Exploration Martine Mussies
2025-11-23

@academicchatter And all of this led to a blogpost on Slowing down as a (role) model.

About train travel and sustainability, slow academia, and being an imperfect role model. Post here:

rebeccanordquist.edublogs.org/

#train #rail #AcademicLife #sustainability #travel #RoleModel

Photo of a train door, blue greenish, with in the window buildings reflected. In the window cards with the car number 437 and destination (Budapest to Cluj-Napoca)

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