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Postdoc and lecturer in corpus linguistics and project leader in the CRC 1252 "Prominence in Language" at the University of Cologne (Germany) Personal account […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://fediscience.org/@ElenLeFoll, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 5h

A powerful and heartbreaking interactive article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/oct/08/young-lives-cut-short-on-an-unimaginable-scale-the-18457-children-on-gazas-list-of-war-dead. Thanks to the @guardian for putting it out there.

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 11h

I am marking student term papers. For most of them, it was their first time learning about #rstats and it's wonderful to see their amazing progress in just one semester + the summer break! Sometimes the way they describe what they did makes me smile. For example, one wrote that they "build their […]

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Henning Deters @detershenning.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 15h

Uni Vienna is advertising three part-time (23h) lecturer positions with 8 teaching contact hours: "Foundations of Political Science", "'Quantitative Methods and the Political System of Austria", and "Qualitative Methods and Policy Studies". The positions are fixed-term (4y) but with tenure track […]

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Hacker Memes @i0null.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 1d

running docker on a raspberry pi

Shipping container loaded on top of a small wooden stern boat which it is clearly too big for

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 15h

@tomstafford Ah true, that might be what that question is about!

Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 16h

I reviewed a paper and am now trying to fill out the publisher's reviewer form and the questions are honestly baffling:

- Does the content of the manuscript justify a review given the status of the subject area? --> You've already asked me to complete the review so I'd like to think that I […]

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Oh no, I have fallen down the rabbit hole of reading #statistics blog posts again... Might need to activate an out-of-office reply. #postdoclife #academia

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Elio Campitelli @eliocamp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Any #quartodev user had this issue? My document knits correctly and outputs the md file but then things fail with "malloc_consolidate(): unaligned fastbin chunk detected".

#rstats

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Incredible to think that this cogwheel railway was built in 1898 and was electrified from the very beginning! 🤩#trains

Poster advertising the railway in the late 19th century showing the Matterhorn, a woman walking in a field and one of the railway bridges across a valley

Video of showing train very slowly going downhill with mountains in the background

Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Best train ride ever from Zermatt to Gornergrat (3,100 metres)!!!! And the walk down was absolutely stunning, too. #trains #Alps

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Note to self: never travel to or through Bavaria during #Oktoberfest. I would really like to use this 9-hour (now 10+) journey to work, but I also don’t want my laptop ruined by half a can/bottle of beer or a puking tourist… #TrainTravel

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Lambert Heller @lambo.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Unsurprisingly, this new short statement refers to the UNESCO Open Science recommendations from 2021.

Other than in terms of length, the language here is quite a bit different: geopolitical tensions are being mentioned, erosion of trust in scientific institutions and other pressures, and […]

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Grüezi #mosstodon! 🇨🇭

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 5d

#fensterfreitag

Old wooden façade in chalet style with double window with blue shutters

Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 6d

I have a really bad cold, but life could be worse… 😎

My view on a roof terrace on a snow-topped mountain

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 7d

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/01/anti-defamation-league-removes-extremism-research

Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 7d

@tschfflr Thanks for sharing! I probably won't have anything to present myself, but I will be sure to pass the call around!

Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 7d

It was a pleasure to come to Zürich to give a guest lecture/workshop on #opendata in the context of working with #socialmedia data. Many thanks to Carlos Hartmann for the invitation! This was my first time talking to mostly B.A. students about this topic and […]

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Opening slides of a talk entitled "Challenges and opportunities in applying Open Science principles to social media research" by Dr. Elen Le Foll with the hastag #BeFAIRandCARE

Sign outdoors that reads:

Universität
Zürich UzH
Plattenstrasse 43 (PLG) und Plattenstrasse 47 (PLH)
Pestalozzistrasse 50 (PET)
Romanisches Seminar
Abteilung Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft (AVL)
Slavisches Seminar
UB Slavistik, AVL & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
Englisches Seminar
UB Anglistik

Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 8d

@rupdecat Dieser Fehler ist einfach nur lustig und wird zu keinem echten Problem führen, also stehend lassen!

Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 8d

Diese englische Übersetzung ist buchstäblich aus der Hüfte geschossen worden… #translation

Dreisprachiges Schild in einem Park: Besucherinformation Information Mülltrennstation Waist | Dechéts Insel-Bus Island bus | Bus-navette

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Mareike König @mareike2405.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 8d

Kennt jemand Studien über die "Haltbarkeit" von digitalen Projekten der Geisteswissenschaften? Also wieviel Prozent ist nach wie vielen Jahren nicht mehr online? Ich meine, mal etwas gelesen zu haben, finde aber nur Studien über das Verschwinden von OA-Journals und allgemein #linkrot […]

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 10d

#silentsunday

Grass-like plant with large church in the background

Orange wild flower and church in the background

Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 10d

@glamcode Oh no, I did not take a picture of the label and can’t remember much… something about a saint curing someone of their blindness. The cockerel being symbolic of the morning light that the person can now see.

Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 10d

Watch out: this book is watching you!

Small area of an oil painting showing an R holding book with a pair of players on it and a rooster

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WerkstattGeschichte @werkstattgeschichte.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy · 11d

NEU: #werkstattgeschichte 92 »prekäres wissenschaften«!
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Im ersten Beitrag des thematischen Schwerpunkts zur akademischen #Prekarität stellt @SebastianK erste Überlegungen vor, inwiefern #Beschäftigungsverhältnisse in der #wissenschaft in #mittelalter […]

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Artikelanfang mit abstract

#IchBinHanna avant la lettre?
Ein Essay über die Vergleichbarkeit von Prekarität und Sonderrechten in der mittelalterlichen und der zeitgenössischen Hochschule

Sebastian Kubon

Abstract
The essay examines whether the precarious working conditions for mid-level faculty at contemporary universities, which were criticized in social media as part of the #IchBinHanna campaign, had precursors at medieval universities. At first glance, the parallels are obvious. However, it has been shown that, unlike today, fixed-term contracts and pay were not markers of precariousness in the Middle Ages. The social structure of the Middle Ages was completely different, as students were clergymen and as such protected by their employer, the Church. This only changed with the Reformation, when the civil servant professor replaced the priest professor. In fact, it is the special law on temporary academic contracts (»Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz«) that is the sole privilege of the academic sector and thus breathes the spirit of the Middle Ages, as social institutions were regularly granted special privileges at that time, which is the exception in late modernity. This essay gathers preliminary working hypotheses that need to be tested in further research.

Keywords Abaelard, Fixed-term Contracts, Precarity, Professor, University

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