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#PhD job in the Dept. of Language and Information Sciences at the University of Lausanne: my colleague Davide Picca has an open PhD position starting on October 1, 2025 in an SNSF-funded project focused on the computational analysis of Charles S. #Peirce’s manuscripts.

Deadline for application: May 19, 2025

career5.successfactors.eu/care

career5.successfactors.euCareer Opportunities: Doctoral Student SNSF in Digital Humanities and Computational Semiotic Studies (22226)

1/5 Life update: the final version of my #PhD thesis has been accepted onto the #UBC thesis repository - ending my academic program!

All that's left is to wear the nice maroon and blue gown and silly hat in late May (see pic from UBC G+PS).

*Last Call*

I have a #PhD position for UK students, available with myself and @bentnib

This project will be looking at developing new methods for asserting the resilience of existing communicating systems by developing new static analysis methods derived from advanced programming language research.

*Hard Deadline*: Wednesday 16th April 2025

You will belong to @StrathCyber and @mspstrath, as well as gaining access to @spli

strath.ac.uk/studywithus/postg

(Ignore the deadline on the advert)

Please spread the words.

www.strath.ac.ukTowards Type-Driven Assurance of Communicating Systems | University of Strathclyde

Inspired by @Iris 's recent poll, I suppose... I’m writing up my #psych #phd thesis, and am currently looking at the methods chapter. I’m describing all the samples, procedures, measures, statistical tools and procedures I’ve used in my articles, and ethical considerations. However, although I haven’t seen this in other theses, and although nobody has told me I need to do it, I feel like including a section on «the use of #AI technologies» (read: chatGPT and other LLMs). The thing is, I’m getting the sense that this has become extremely prevalent in a very short amount of time. If nothing else, than to use it «as a brainstorming partner», or help to paraphrase sentences for clarity or fix punctuation. And the reason I want to make a statement out of this in my thesis is that I haven’t. Not one bit, in the least sense. I never wanted to, and I’m very happy I haven’t. Is this worth making a statement of in the methods chapter? How would you go about writing it? What info would you include? Do you know good examples of this kinds of disclaimers/statements, in academic writing? #AIhype

I'm hiring a PhD student in Copenhagen, Denmark to do #HCI research on #privacy and #interoperability in messaging apps!

This is a fully funded 3-year position in the Copenhagen campus of Aalborg University. The student will join my project "mInt" (for "messaging interoperability" ;)) and will be co-supervised by me and @nielsvanberkel .

More info and application form here: stillinger.aau.dk/phd-stilling. Deadline is May 18.

Aalborg UniversitetPhD Stipend in Human-Computer Interaction Principles for Messaging InteroperabilityThe PhD position is supported by the project mInt:  Human-centered design principles for effective management of social boundaries in interoperable t...
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@paninid fast forward to the present and scientists who barely study #philosophy label #metaphysics as #pseudoscience (forgetting what #PhD means), torment #logic for the benefit of "elegant" #math equations (e.g. antimatter, dark #matter), and design #AI #systems that weaponize #ethics as justification for #information #censorship (#ChatGPT "knows" but refuses to answer how to a hot wire a car or commit murder while claiming no #opinion, ignorant that words and actions are different)

#AcademicJob | #PhDStudentship

PhD Scholarships – The Amplification Project

📍 University of Huddersfield

3 full scholarships (UK home applicants) for PhD research on amplification & music cultures. Topics include #ecology, #history, #disability, & #SonicArchitecture. Part of a Leverhulme Trust-funded project.

📅 Deadline: 12/05/2025

hud.ac.uk/postgraduate/researc

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University of HuddersfieldLeverhulme Amplification Project PhD Scholarships - University of HuddersfieldPage Description

I haven’t had a journal article accepted for publication in six years. Until today, by Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education…

Celbis, O.; van de Laar, M.; Windsor, W. L.; Papatsiba, V.; Ofosu-Ampong, K.; Kurawa, G.; Sadat Bole, A.; Ani-Ampsonah, Mary; Xu, Linlin

Towards an ecological systems approach to doctoral student resilience: qualitative evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic.

I’ll share the open access version when it’s ready, but here’s the abstract:

Purpose
This study contributes to the growing body of literature documenting responses to short- and long-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on doctoral students. We examine support practices at different levels of the system in which doctoral students are embedded, drawing on Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems model to better understand how these contribute to doctoral students’ degree of resilience under stress.

Design
Using paired online interviews, we explore the experiences of 21 doctoral students from 7 universities across Europe, Africa and Asia.

Findings
We find that support of supervisors at the microsystem level was a pivotal mediating factor in explaining to what extent the negative impacts of the pandemic were experienced by the doctoral students in our sample. At the same time, factors at the systemic level, such as weak infrastructure for online education, and limited incentives for supervisors to engage in additional mentoring beyond supervision, affected the repertoire of actions available to students at lower levels of the support system. In less resourced settings where systemic constraints were felt particularly strongly, students had to self-facilitate sources of resilience, resorting to peer and external mentors’ support at the mesosystem level of their environment.

#covid19 #pandemic #research #HigherEducation #PhD #postgraduate #resilience #Bronfenbrenner