🛎️ 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.
👉 https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/cfa-phd-fct-2026/
#Histodons #AcademicLife #HistoryJobs #PhDScholarships #CiênciaPT #BolsasDeDoutoramento #AcademicLife #VidaAcadémica
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.
https://silencesandsounds.blogspot.com/
#AcademicLife #MedievalStudies #nuntastic #SlowScholarship #blog
🆕 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: https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/orgaos-sociais-in2past-2026/
#Histodons #AcademicLife #Heritage #History #Arts #Territory #CiênciaPT
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
Another quip from conversations with @marnakait in the office. She is hilarious! #academiclife #lifeinacademia #maureenasays #almahoffmannlettering #almahoffmannletters #almahoffmann
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
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 Proprietary infra means losing control & your unpublished work becomes training data.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
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
Come to work with us at University of Helsinki! Still time to apply!
I think I've just done my last bit of paid science for the year. I measured the pH of some gunge.
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!
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
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
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shouldnt-Happen-PhD-Student-survive/dp/1806050757
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
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shouldnt-Happen-PhD-Student-survive/dp/1806050757
@spaf Sounds about right. Ironically, I published more this year at least in part because I spent some of the year between jobs. #academiclife
🆕 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: https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/antonio-candido-franco-ue/
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
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: https://www.academia.edu/145172724/Budo_on_the_Spectrum_Self_Reported_Benefits_of_Autistic_Adults_Engaged_in_Japanese_Martial_Arts_A_Mixed_Methods_Exploration .
#karate #kendo #iaido #budo #autism #neurodiversity #academiclife
@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:
https://rebeccanordquist.edublogs.org/2025/11/23/slowing-down-as-a-role-model/
#train #rail #AcademicLife #sustainability #travel #RoleModel
