Yeah it definitely contributed to my decision to leave, having a career dead end looming over you isn't great even if I haven't managed to get back in elsewhere yet

To say this of all countries about Israel, the one country most actively undermining its own allies in pursuit of genocide and sometimes just to say fuck you I can?

Nominally it's meant to encourage people to find a permanent role and prevent people from "hogging" postdoc positions to bring in new blood, but really there aren't nearly enough positions and most either leave academia or the country

Germany limits temporary academic contracts to 6 years pre PhD and 6 years postdoc. Unless you get a permanent one (ie, a professorship, almost everything else is temporary), you cannot get any more contracts

Even with your short summary version the FF numbering is so confusing aha

We're fine here but this week will be......windy

The worst is seeing people you fundamentally agree with making their point in the worst and most harmful way possible

It is also 6:30am, I haven't slept yet and I still have work later today, so I'll chalk this one up as a moderate win

Next @tobbinatorscw.bsky.social talking about 'Expressions of Miriwoong identity in Kununurra Kriol'. Miriwoong is a critically endangered language, and Kriol and Aboriginal English are spoken in the area. 104 people recorded speaking Miriwoong inthe 2021 census, compared to <50 claiming Kriol.