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🎺🎺🎺Dear collegues of swiss academia today is AGAIN an important day! 🎺🎺🎺
The postulate For equal opportunities and the support of scientists has just been accepted by a solid majority of the membres of the National Council
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Actionuni has written to the Finance Committee of the Swiss Parliament about our concerns on the slashing of the budget for the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarships and its consequences for the researchers receiving the scholarship and the Swiss research landscape. 1/6
📢 Calling all mid-level academic staff in CH (PhDs, PostDocs, …)! We already have over 1000 responses, but we need and want more! Take the short & anonymous #MentalHealth survey now - help us to improve academic working!
Link: bit.ly/SWiMS24
#IchbinHanna #academiclife
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📢 Calling all mid-level academic staff in CH (PhDs, PostDocs, …)! We already have over 1000 responses, but we need and want more! Take the short & anonymous #MentalHealth survey now - help us to improve academic working!
Link: bit.ly/SWiMS24
#IchbinHanna #academiclife
Monday morning, after the third ☕️, an excellent time to complete the @Actionuni1 survey
📢 Calling all mid-level academic staff in CH (PhD candidates, PostDocs, scientific assistants, …)! Your voice matters in the #MentalHealth survey by @actionuni. Help us to improve academic working!
Participate now: bit.ly/SWiMS24
#IchbinHanna #academiclife #Wellbeing
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📢 Calling all mid-level academic staff in CH (PhD candidates, PostDocs, scientific assistants, …)! Your voice matters in the #MentalHealth survey by @actionuni. Help us to improve academic working!
Participate now: bit.ly/SWiMS24
#IchbinHanna #academiclife #Wellbeing
Petition Academia retweeted
We launched a Swiss-wide survey on #mentalhealth and #workingconditions in academia! Please take part if you work in🇨🇭academia ➡️ bit.ly/SWiMS24
📢 Calling all mid-level academic staff in CH (PhD candidates, PostDocs, scientific assistants, …)! Your voice matters in the #MentalHealth survey by @actionuni. Help us to improve academic working!
Participate now: bit.ly/SWiMS24
#IchbinHanna #academiclife #Wellbeing
This is why you should take 15 minutes of your time to answer this questionnaire 👇
(for academics working in 🇨🇭)
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Strong evidence showing that getting a PhD is extremely bad for your mental health.
A new paper uses Swedish medical records and matches them to the full population of PhD students for which the authors could get gender and birth year data from 2006 to 2017. After some exclusion criteria, they end up with a sample size of 20,085 individuals.
The paper compares PhD students to those who have masters degrees and don't start a PhD program.
Before starting a PhD program, people who stop at a masters and those who go on to seek a PhD have similar rates of psychiatric medication use and hospitalization.
A few years into a PhD program, however, 40% more individuals are on psychiatric medications, before the number falls off as people leave or finish their studies.
You see the same pattern with psychiatric hospitalizations. PhD students are up to 150-175% more likely to be hospitalized after starting a program!
These are incredible numbers, too massive to be the result of chance or a flaw in the methodology. This is comparing the same people over time.
If you're considering a PhD program, and the terrible job prospects and waste of time aren't enough, here's yet another reason to stay away.
Just do it!
It's easy, it doesn't take long and it's a precious help in our fight for better living and working conditions in swiss academia
📢 Calling all mid-level academic staff in CH (PhD candidates, PostDocs, scientific assistants, …)! Your voice matters in the #MentalHealth survey by @actionuni. Help us to improve academic working!
Participate now: bit.ly/SWiMS24
#IchbinHanna #academiclife #Wellbeing
Petition Academia retweeted
📢 Calling all mid-level academic staff in CH (PhD candidates, PostDocs, scientific assistants, …)! Your voice matters in the #MentalHealth survey by @actionuni. Help us to improve academic working!
Participate now: bit.ly/SWiMS24
#IchbinHanna #academiclife #Wellbeing
Petition Academia retweeted
Our miniconference MC07 on Elites and Power Structures at #SASE2024 @SASE_Meeting went to a great start. Here @LAjdacic showing us the network of citations of the papers from the miniconference: Bourdieu, Mills and @shamuskhan being the most cited authors in our panel
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A l'Université de Strasbourg, des agents contractuels essentiels à la recherche en SHS et à sa valorisation, parfois en poste depuis plus de dix ans (!), sont mis à la porte sans aucune explication et à quelques semaines de la fin de leurs contrats ! (@MISHAlsace)
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A new version of the FRI Message (roadmap for federal research investment) has been published
The good news: the "Promotion of young talent in academia" is a priority for the period 2025–2028 🤩🤩🤩
The bad news: the terminology of "young talent" 😱😱😱
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Anyway it's another success for our mobilisations 🔥
Next step?
The Swiss Conference on Higher Education will decide soon whether or not financing the program "Promotion of young talent in academia"
swissuniversities.ch/themen/…
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Petition Academia retweeted
Stand with @AcademiaSpeak – we are being sued for speaking up! 🛡️ Defending our cause demands resilience and can be costly. Support us as we are facing this defamation lawsuit—every cent counts! Contribute now at gofundme.com/f/support-speak…. 💪🏽 #SupportSpeakUp #LegalDefenseFund
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Je reprends les termes de @CMarcandier Signataire, évidemment. En tant que professeure des universités, éditrice et femme.
Et merci aux 399 sœurs signataires. – at Paris, France
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As a part of the "Together for a safer university!" project, the University of Geneva published some shocking, but not surprising, figures on the harassment within the institution: unige.ch/help/en/in-numbers.
