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uɐʎɹq lougheed @bclougheed.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

They should also offer login by one time code sent to email. Easy to implement. Just as secure as password reset by... email.

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uɐʎɹq lougheed @bclougheed.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

German PhDs only end up getting paid 60% of that figure though.

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uɐʎɹq lougheed @bclougheed.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Literally a coalition between authoritarian racist nationalists and authoritarian racist socialists. Maybe they could merge into one party huh

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uɐʎɹq lougheed @bclougheed.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This process leads to an ERC Scientific Council who got tenure in the 1990s and perhaps never faced employment uncertainty. The obvious solution for them is bigger grants for big stars.

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uɐʎɹq lougheed @bclougheed.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I looked into how the ERC Scientific Council is selected. There is an "Identification Committee" who selects candidates based on "academic eminence". The Identification Committee is appointed by the European Commission, in consultation with.. ERC the Scientific Council.

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uɐʎɹq lougheed @bclougheed.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Capital allocation incentives in academia: Two job candidates. First candidate produced x output, financed by x in grants. Second candidate also produced x output, financed by 2*x in grants. The second candidate is hired due to them having been extra wasteful with public money. #academicsky

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uɐʎɹq lougheed @bclougheed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

All research done on the effectiveness of funding also supports the idea of funding more people with smaller grants. It's also what the majority of scientists want. The ERC Scientific Council unfortunately operates in a political-prestige bubble and is not elected by the scientific body.

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uɐʎɹq lougheed @bclougheed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Truly understanding the sunk cost fallacy

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uɐʎɹq lougheed @bclougheed.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What is this career thing you speak of

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uɐʎɹq lougheed @bclougheed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I am a native speaker of the English spoken in Ireland. When I was an MSc student at a Dutch university, I gave a presentation in English. After my presentation, the Dutch professor told me, in front of everyone, that I needed to work on my English. Definitely a FUBAR moment.

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uɐʎɹq lougheed @bclougheed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

More power to you for writing your own stuff!! 👍 Perhaps it depends on the department and/or uni, because I know for a fact that both VU Amsterdam and Utrecht University pay thousands to grant consultants for applicants working in my field (natural sciences).

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uɐʎɹq lougheed @bclougheed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I agree that AI-polished slop should be banned. Grant-consultant-polished slop should also be banned though. For too many years rich institutions have benefited from hiring such consultants. For now, AI is leveling the slop playing field.

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uɐʎɹq lougheed @bclougheed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's always amazing when a grant call offers 2 million euros per grant and everyone's project happens to need 1.998 million euros. What a coincidence! A lot of budget maxing going on out there...

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uɐʎɹq lougheed @bclougheed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Did they clean the couch after DJT was on?

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uɐʎɹq lougheed @bclougheed.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"John Mearsheimer is een gerenommeerde professor"

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uɐʎɹq lougheed @bclougheed.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Modern academia and the chase for prestige and branding excludes certain scientists. Read all about it in our paywalled Nature-branded work.

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uɐʎɹq lougheed @bclougheed.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Also wondering what Dev would think about an FF government saying that knowledge of the English language is a proxy of integration into Irish society.

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uɐʎɹq lougheed @bclougheed.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Klopt, daarom zou ik kiezen voor een vermogensbelasting. De facto was de oude Box 3 dat ook, maar dan op een omslachtig en onwettig manier. Wat ze nu voorstellen verstoort echter de rente op rente effect zodanig dat er alleen maar verliezers zijn, zowel de rijken, de kleine investeerder én de fiscus

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uɐʎɹq lougheed @bclougheed.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Ik ben links en heb me verdiept in de vraag. De oude Box 3 was onwettelijk. De nieuwe Box 3 is ook onwettelijk. De oude belast een fictieve rendement en de nieuwe belast een fictieve verkoop. Men zal moeten kiezen of voor een werkelijke vermogensbelasting of voor een werkelijke verkoopbelasting.

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uɐʎɹq lougheed @bclougheed.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Een column zonder werkelijke inhoud hoeft inderdaad niet lang te zijn.

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uɐʎɹq lougheed @bclougheed.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Yes the current government is extra nasty in general to foreigners. However, specifically in the case of UK citizens post-Brexit, the current government and previous government have been equally harsh on UK citizens who put in their application too late.

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uɐʎɹq lougheed @bclougheed.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

This shit happened under the previous government as well though.

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uɐʎɹq lougheed @bclougheed.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

However, Migrationsverket has traditionally been the most Byzantine of all the Swedish myndigheten. If Swedes had to interact with it, they wouldn't tolerate it. But they don't have to interact with it.

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uɐʎɹq lougheed @bclougheed.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Yeah, Sweden is generally a low bureaucracy country where the citizen normally doesn't have to apply for stuff. I was automatically registered to vote in EU elections in Sweden in 2009 and was sent a voting slip. They detected my right to vote. Automatically received child benefit without applying.

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uɐʎɹq lougheed @bclougheed.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The best example of this is a Conservative American online publication finding and replacing all occurrences of "gay" with "homosexual", resulting in the headline "Homosexual eases into 100 final at Olympic trials."

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uɐʎɹq lougheed @bclougheed.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

It can be done properly and for very cheaply (we are talking about hosting PDF files on the internet), but academics are addicted to brand names.

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uɐʎɹq lougheed @bclougheed.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

What the minister said is code for "we're looking for new ways to further cut education funding."

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uɐʎɹq lougheed @bclougheed.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Ireland doesn't do streaming and ranks above the Swiss in the PISA rankings. UK also not too bad in the PISA rankings. Perhaps UK system is ok, but just lacks investment.

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uɐʎɹq lougheed @bclougheed.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Look what the BBC did to Horizon and Tomorrow's World

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uɐʎɹq lougheed @bclougheed.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It's something I have been thinking about for the past few months and I couldn't come up with anything.

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uɐʎɹq lougheed @bclougheed.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Ah, hij is weer teruggekeerd voor de fietspaden

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uɐʎɹq lougheed @bclougheed.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Believe it or not this is already the case for years for parents caring for sick children. I have had to drag my coughing and snotty two year old to a doctor's waiting room, wait there for an hour with other sick children, just to get a note so that I could stay home from work to look after him.

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uɐʎɹq lougheed @bclougheed.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

yep, currently shopping for a printer

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uɐʎɹq lougheed @bclougheed.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Precies dezelfde situatie in Malmö, oude en nieuwe stadion naast elkaar.

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uɐʎɹq lougheed @bclougheed.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Die Joel Alme lijkt wel een Håkan Hellström tribute act

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uɐʎɹq lougheed @bclougheed.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Tagliafico was probably Argentina's outfield player of the match, Guardian gives him 5/10.

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uɐʎɹq lougheed @bclougheed.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

But we just need to rig one more job opening for Alice and then another one for Bob and then we can think about hiring from outside our white bubble. Alice and Bob are really nice, are you saying they are not nice? You wouldn't want to be the one that stops them getting a job would you?

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uɐʎɹq lougheed @bclougheed.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Mooiste strand van Europa: maps.app.goo.gl/JnZQLAkshaER...

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uɐʎɹq lougheed @bclougheed.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

€27 miljoen is peanuts voor Newcastle. Zal ze een worst wezen als hij daar wel of niet lukt.

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uɐʎɹq lougheed @bclougheed.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

D66... Wir haben das nicht gewusst

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uɐʎɹq lougheed @bclougheed.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

In that way they are quite similar to palaeoclimatologists. 😜

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uɐʎɹq lougheed @bclougheed.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

óók bij de overheid... I'm shocked

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uɐʎɹq lougheed @bclougheed.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

The titles speak for themselves.

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uɐʎɹq lougheed @bclougheed.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Hi, for the benefit of your readers could you please mention in your blurb about the author at the bottom of the article that he is currently employed as a Professor at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia. Thanks.

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uɐʎɹq lougheed @bclougheed.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

A Google search was too much work for the Guardian

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uɐʎɹq lougheed @bclougheed.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

€17 million to build a journal that runs on the existing OJS software. 👀

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