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Thorbjörn Sievert

@volephd.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy

Postdoc @ Aarhus University, Denmark. Working on applied animal behavior. Dabbling with ML to analyze large amounts of videos. |Passionate about mammalian chemical […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ fediscience.org/@volephd, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Thorbjörn Sievert @volephd.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

Whenever I learn about a new statistical method: Do I know what I'm doing? - Highly debatable Do I hope for the best? - 100% It's not helping that I need to run things on an #HPC, so my failing forward is hogging resources. I sincerely hope #Reviewer2 is […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

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Thorbjörn Sievert @volephd.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

The amount of swearing during baking seems to be proportional to the quality of bread in the end 🤔 #Sourdough #SourdoughBread

Picture of a good looking (in my opinion) loaf of sourdough bread.

Picture of a loaf of sourdough bread. Bread is cut in half, and big bubbles are visible in the bread.

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Thorbjörn Sievert @volephd.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2026

Decided to spontaneously go to the city center to get something, saw the king of Denmark. #Aarhus #FrederikX #Danmark

Picture of the king of Denmark, Frederik X. He is waving

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Thorbjörn Sievert @volephd.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2026

Quick tech question. Does the battery below qualify as a #SpicyPillow? Just opened up my #Framework16 for something unrelated and noticed this. Touchpad module used to show the ballooning. #FrameworkLaptop

Side view of a laptop battery. Swelling is visible

Another side view of a laptop battery. Swelling is visible

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Thorbjörn Sievert @volephd.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026

Everything (well, not actually, there is so much more) wrong about German university hiring in one picture: - PhD position advertised with 65% pay of TV-L FU (i.e. 100% are probably 4.188,38 €/month) - PostDoc advertised with 50% of the same bracket. Yes […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Image of job postings at a German university. The gist of the content is explained in the toot.

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Thorbjörn Sievert @volephd.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/12/2025

Fascinating! Not even #Google's own product #GoogleScholar is setup correctly to show up properly in the search results. #SEO #AcademicChatter #PhDLife

Screen capture of Google search results for "Google Scholar".
The deep link section is mangled, showing page titles without description, a page in Spanish, and a completely mangled title with spaces in the URL.

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