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Stefano Volpe

@foxy@blahaj.zone

sharkey 2025.4.7

Yet another deluwu~ pick me boy
No don't call me a himbo plz (,,>﹏<,,)

PhD student (PL foundations) @ SDU's @acp@mastodon.acm.org@blahaj.zone

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Banner: "'I know what you want' said the sea witch", from Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale of "The Little Mermaid". Engraving by Harry Clarke. From The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen from 1916.

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https://foxy.codeberg.page

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https://codeberg.org/foxy

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https://orcid.org/0009-0003-5277-1958

Stefano Volpe

@foxy@blahaj.zone

· 6mo ago

If any PhD students are following your account, boosting would be appreciated.

Fellow PhD student: hello! :blobcat_waverev: I hope you had a good Monday.

0) In which country are you pursuing your PhD?
1) What is the official duration of your PhD programme? Does it assume you already have a Master's?
2) How many academic credits (e.g., ECTS) are you required to get in order to complete your PhD?
3) If you are paid for TAing, can you estimate the number of teaching contact hours you need in order to supplement other sources of funding?

My union and Ph.D. committee have been asking for feedback, and I have a theory I'd like to test. Feel free to use private mentions if you want.

Edit: I am now using "academic credits" to make myself more understandable to non-EU people.

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Stefano Volpe

@foxy@blahaj.zone

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@adrian@discuss.systems neat! I love alternative front-ends. I added this to my redirects on Redirector. Include pattern: https://dl.acm.org/doi/* Redirect to: https://al.radbox.org/doi/$1

dl.acm.org

Stefano Volpe

@foxy@blahaj.zone

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@liamoc@types.pl @phil444@mastodon.org.uk @liamoc@types.pl I feel your pain. Was an academic for a long time.... My feeling over time became "I'll help, teach and encourage the students who turn up... the ones who don't, too bad".I wpuld immediately adopt this mindset with a turnout of, say, 80%. When attendance is 10%, though, isn't there a possibility that somewhere along the way the system had students believe that showing up to class does not really matter? If so, I am happy not to waste time on students who clearly choose not to try of their own volition, but I would feel guilty not helping students who might have been tricked into not trying.

Stefano Volpe

@foxy@blahaj.zone

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@amy@types.pl Best of luck! Will you be needing/accepting donations, e.g. LiberaPay? I haven't found this documented in the Codeberg repo. Should one use the individual maintainers' ko-fis?

Stefano Volpe

@foxy@blahaj.zone

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@typst@mastodon.social P.S. If you are reading this, you might be interested in https://mastodon.social/@typst/116211629201295367 by @thezoq2@mastodon.social

mastodon.social

Stefano Volpe

@foxy@blahaj.zone

· 5mo ago

I just karened the two co-chairs of the Publication Board about this :)

RE: @bodzioney@mathstodon.xyz

acm.org

Stefano Volpe

@foxy@blahaj.zone

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@gallais@mamot.fr FoSSaCS and ESOP are untainted, luckily! The official account mainly posts about keynotes (participants to all main conferences are invited to those), hence why all the slop. Not sure who in the steering committee is to be blamed for this.

Stefano Volpe

@foxy@blahaj.zone

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@bool@mathstodon.xyz Thank you! 3) 0So if I understand this right, your funding situation is such that you can live by without teaching/TAing? I hope this question is not too personal.

Stefano Volpe

@foxy@blahaj.zone

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@hannah@hai.z0ne.social Thank you so much! If you exclude publications, how many hours would you say are left from said 600 hours?

Stefano Volpe

@foxy@blahaj.zone

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@bodzioney@mathstodon.xyz @GUIpsp@types.pl Bothering people is the only thing that keeps me from ending it all RE: https://blahaj.zone/notes/albtelciwvl2045d

Blåhaj Zone

Stefano Volpe :spinny_fox: (@foxy)

**If any of your followers have tried @typst@mastodon.social before, but have to deal with ACM when publishing, boosting would be appreciated.** From ACM

Stefano Volpe

@foxy@blahaj.zone

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@jfdm@discuss.systems Neat! I know Denmark is doing the same :)

Stefano Volpe

@foxy@blahaj.zone

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@danielgratzer@mathstodon.xyz first ETAPS vs MGS fighting over the same weekend and now ESSLLI vs this cool school😳

Stefano Volpe

@foxy@blahaj.zone

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@g_collain@datasci.social thanks! 2) 180 ects (mostly for the defense)Do you know how many of these are not covered by your PhD thesis/defence?3) We can teach max 64 hrs/year the first 3 years.Would you say that, if you hadn't taught at all during your first three years, your income would still have been enough to allow you to live by (for those three years alone)?

Stefano Volpe

@foxy@blahaj.zone

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@etzel@mas.to ty! Does your PhD programme have an official duration?

Stefano Volpe

@foxy@blahaj.zone

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@NullTheFool@mastodon.gamedev.place Agda and Idris pls🩵

Stefano Volpe

@foxy@blahaj.zone

· 7mo ago

Replying to on mastodon.gamedev.place

@delegatevoid@mastodon.gamedev.place sign me up!

Stefano Volpe

@foxy@blahaj.zone

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@OrvarLog@mathstodon.xyz In my case I have chosen to teachSo teaching is not mandatory at all in your specific programme? If you hadn't chosen to teach, would your income have been enough to live by in the city in which you got your PhD?

Stefano Volpe

@foxy@blahaj.zone

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@moritz_negwer@mstdn.science ty! Do you have an estimate for the number of hours actually spent with the students?

Stefano Volpe

@foxy@blahaj.zone

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@ozzelot@mstdn.social @computer@facts.computer omg sameee it kept trying to open the play store on startup at some point

Stefano Volpe

@foxy@blahaj.zone

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@Sobex@social.sciences.re Yes, please! Unless the PhD system in the country in question got a complete makeover right after your defence.

Stefano Volpe

@foxy@blahaj.zone

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@Sobex@social.sciences.re would you say that your funding de facto required you to take on some teaching just to make ends meet? If so, could you estimate the number of contact hours (not sure if "TDs" only cover the time spent in class for the tutorial, or also the time spent to prepare for it)?

Stefano Volpe

@foxy@blahaj.zone

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@godoot@toot.kif.rocks 3) NASo if I understand, you don't need any teaching to get by, since your external funding is enough to live by?

Stefano Volpe

@foxy@blahaj.zone

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@liamoc@types.pl My class of over 100 students gets lecture attendance of around 10.I am struggling with low attendance, too. As a teaching assistant, I moved to a different academic system recently, where I was told turnouts have been in the toilet for the past few years. I know that mandatory attendance is more of a thing in soft sciences and humanities, so I have never heard CS/Maths professors express an opinion on the matter. How do we feel about it? I would like to form an opinion. Out of curiosity, does your system also pressure you to pass almost everybody taking the course? As in, learning is not really a necessary condition to get a passing grade?