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24 days agoPoppies. They’d love for you to have a fe poppies on hand. They earned those the hardest way possible.
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Reduced quality of life? Greater danger of being shot in a school? Shorter life expectancy? Lower quality food? And imperial president instead of a democratic one?
I’m not seeing the upsides for Canada.
2·29 days agoMy university in Germany operates entirely in English. The academic world is very international so it often falls back to English to support the faculty and students. Issues in the community will also be run through the university news routes, so while I’ve been learning German, I’ll also have a big resource with my work community.
There’s a few places to check for positions. I interviewed in Ireland and Scotland as well (didn’t get the jobs). There’s also Australia and new Zealand hiding out there. Or Canada. Hell, Mexico has a great university system you could look into.
Your PhD does open new doors. It’s by no means a guarantee of a faculty spot, but it’s valued so you can leverage it.
The position is in Germany. It might be out of the frying pan and into the fire given Germany’s right wing rise, but that’s happening across the western nations and we’re all in trouble.
I don’t have a ton of advice for you. I defended over 10 years ago, so I’m moving straight into a tenured/permanent position as senior faculty. For an ABD, I’m not sure what the landscape looks like these days.
If you want to make the move, start talking to people. Reach out to people publishing in your field and talk shop. Collaborate with them, talk about the future, and be willing to take a postdoc (or german system W1) position. It’s more ramen and a small bedroom, but it’s one where there’s healthcare and civil rights.
Academia (and most professions) are all about networks. Talk with people, collaborate, and grow that network. Something will come along.
Good thing I’ve just accepted a faculty position outside the US.
I’ll get to move to a country that doesn’t persecute academics and I think I’m just beating the crowds on the way out.
I bought a 386 motherboard that needed a patch. Not software, but by soldering a wire between two pads. You just basically figure it out and went from there with a soldering iron.
Build the computer from parts? Sure. Soldered it like it came as discrete components? Also sure.
Tech savvy is often in context of when you were learning in your teens to early twenties and then what of that skill set is still applicable today.
The rate we can be building electricy-based transit infrastructure and biking infrastructure should be turned up big time alongside any other research projects. A well paced metro line takes many thousands of cars off the road and we know it works.
My city is getting a $500 million freeway interchange, but we’re also barely able to setup a single fast bus route. Our civilizations priorities are completely out of whack.
… For now. It won’t be long, though. I have friends who will have their marriages annulled by these fascists all too soon.Derp. The firehouse of shit coming down my US feed got me not catching this one is in India.
I’d just read a prior one about cases moving the US to strike our marriage equality rulings. That’ll be coming by for us very soon.
The US has fucked up Central America for a century now. They know what it means to let us do what we like to enrich our corporations at their expense.
Canada and Europe are still in denial at just how evil the US can be when we’re led by a corporate stooge and populist “fuck the world” attitudes.
He started doing this in his first term. What has changed since then? He’s still Putin’s stooge so leaving NATO is on the docket to help undermine Europe so Russia can invade.