Latest posts tagged with #ScienceAsAService on Bluesky
Danke. Also gibt es dann keine öffentliche Ausschreibung und man wird dann fairerweise nur auf den 30% Forschungsoutput bewertet ?
Oft ist es so, man mach t #ScienceAsAService, 20% Forschung, dann ist man weniger wettbewerbsfähig im Vgl zu Leuten mit 60-90% Zeit für Forschung.
Ein europäisches Forschungsinstitut ließ früher nur interne Bewerbungen auf Dauerstellen nur für 5-Jahres-Wissenschaftler zu. Heute ist das Funding unsicher. Es gibt fast nur noch Stellen mit maximal 5 Jahren Laufzeit. Die Prekarität steigt, während echte Karrierechancen schwinden #ScienceAsAService
Stell dir vor: #Postdoc im Drittmittelprojekt, angestellt über das #WissZeitVG als #deRSE Du lieferst vor allem #ScienceAsAService. Sichtbarkeit? Null. Publikationen? Fehlanzeige. Perspektive? Unsicher. So wird Arbeit in der Wissenschaft entwertet. Hauptsache der Prof profitiert? #IchBinHanna
Met a #scientist at a conference who spoke quite confidently about securing a permanent position at his org after seven years. That did not materialise; he has since moved on. A reminder that #ScienceAsAService in German academia rarely leads to permanence. #IchBinHanna #WissZeitVG #academicsky
Isn’t it time to make the role permanent if you are looking every 2 years for a new person? Fun fact: there are scientists around this instrument with a permanent job. So it is possible. #ScienceAsAService
„Practical and theoretical expertise in soft matter applications of scattering including sample environment preparation (cleaning and mounting solid liquid cells etc)“
#ScienceAsAService -same temp #postdoc position every 2 years. Eagerness to learn Swedish is assumed while in France 😎
#ichbinhanna
A professor on LinkedIn recommends simply doing a “standard postdoc”, yet this isn’t even defined in Germany. Many end up in #ScienceAsAService roles that hurt academic careers and don’t translate well to industry either. A clear disconnect from reality. #academicsky #WissZeitVG #Ichbinhanna
Research orgs’s video celebrates a path: childhood scientific curiosity → lab visit → PhD. Missing: precarious contracts, rent worries, and career uncertainty as #postdoc. The inspirational story is shown, but it isn’t the reality many researchers face. #AcademicSky #IchBinHanna #ScienceAsAService
Sehe ich anders. #ScienceAsAService ist keine Selbstausbeutung sondern Ausbeutung durch Profs/Manager unter WissZeitVG. Beispiele sind #RSE Arbeit, #Beamline Scientist, Local Contacting im dt System, Schreiben von Beamline Controlsoftware, Ausarbeitung von Ontologien für #NFDI usw unter #WissZeitVG
Sehe ich anders. #ScienceAsAService ist keine Selbstausbeutung sondern Ausbeutung durch Profs/Manager unter WissZeitVG. Beispiele sind #RSE Arbeit, #Beamline Scientist, Local Contacting im dt System, Schreiben von Beamline Controlsoftware, Ausarbeitung von Ontologien für #NFDI usw unter #WissZeitVG
#Beamline scientist careers in #Germany need an honest discussion. 3-year temp contracts, #ScienceAsAService for others, little time for own research. Career progression is slow, permanent posts scarce, chances for a #professorship low. Structural constraints worth careful consideration. #WissZeitVG
Zielvereinbarungen? Nein. Manche Manager ignorieren sie oder verschweigen, daß es sie gibt. Warum? Um Mitarbeitende in #ScienceAsAService - Rollen kleinzuhalten und Abhängigkeiten zu sichern. Macht durch Intransparenz, kein Zugang zu Ressourcen. #ScienceAsAService auf #WissZeitVG darf es nicht geben
Warum eigentlich nur immer an Hochschulen? Es gibt Wissenschaftler, die an AUFs arbeiten, wie z.B. #Synchrotron. Hier steht oft #ScienceAsAService im Vordergrund, leider auf #WisszeitVG. Gleiches gilt für #RSE #deRSE
Am #Synchrotron gibt es keinen Vertrags-% für eigene Forschung. Aufpassen!
Exakt. Wenn ihr #ScienceAsAService, als #deRSE für andere arbeitet, kommt Eure Karriere nicht weiter. Im schlimmsten Fall stehlen Eure Kollegen Eure Proben, Ideen, Code. PhD Kandidaten beginnen schon damit. Das ist der Mindset und Spirit in der deutschen Wissenschaft #ichbinhanna #academicSky
Local contacting=service to other scientists at a #synchrotron is also not reflected by broken metrics. People who work in such jobs lose out in the tough academic career race. My hard lesson: don’t do #ScienceAsAService jobs as long #profs claim your productivity is not good. There is no fairness.
"Their intellectual ambitions are real, but the faculty outcry over Harvard’s proposed cuts reveals how dependent [#academia] has become on exploiting precarious graduate labour." #ichbinhanna #ScienceAsAService
The opinion addresses also lack of teaching of relevant skills for jobs outside academia
Wissenschaftler mit befristeten Vertrag. Entweder man darf wirklich forschen oder man macht #ScienceAsAService für andere Wissenschaftler .
My CV states facts.
If you invite me to an interview, you accept my profile.
Rejecting me afterwards using metrics that are unfit for the role and not applied equally to all candidates constitutes a procedural failure and a waste of everyone’s time.
#AcademicSky #IchBinHanna #ScienceAsAService #RSE
Shallow science is rewarded. Speed is only possible if you are insulated from structural toxicity: #WissZeitVG, #ScienceAsAService, temp contracts. A prof this year: „Who needs reproducibility in #academia? No one is paid for it“ That‘s the trade-off: fast, dirty output vs durable knowledge.
Non-permanent #ScienceAsAService roles in #academia are structurally toxic.
You advance other people’s careers. When they become professors, survivor bias kicks in and they judge you by the same distorted metrics.
Ignore their LinkedIn narrative. #academicSky #synchrotron #beamlinepostdoc
PIs rely on #ScienceAsAService postdocs at #synchrotron Fewer are willing to hire them into roles benchmarked against classical academic trajectories. The system isn't designed to reward this kind of work, even though modern research infrastructure depends on it #academicsky #ichbinhanna #WissZeitVG
Profs value service roles rhetorically, but discount service work quantitatively. As a #ScienceAsAService postdoc you can't compete with uni #postdocs on publications and grants, yet you will still be used extensively by PIs. This is structural bias, not individual failure. #academicsky #ichbinhanna
Hi, I am missing the point about sustainability for employees. Most #NFDI contributors are employed under #WissZeitVG. Given the #ScienceAsAService role, I wonder what are the long-term career options for staff within the #NFDI consortia? There are no Mittelbau positions. #ichbinhanna
To where should they progress? A permanent beamline scientist works for 30a. There is rarely any career development. #ScienceAsAService postdocs are evaluated worse than uni postdocs due to the imbalance for research. Consequently, service jobs should only be done by permanent staff.
Is the real question not: How many people working at universities move to good positions vs. people from #ScienceAsAService roles at #synchrotrons etc? #ichbinhanna
I did jobs in #ScienceAsAService roles for research orgs and university groups. There, I was actively prevented doing research during my paid working time. I did scientific software development for them, but when it came to publication, I was conveniently left out from the author list. #synchrotron
PS: Don’t be fooled by co-author papers. Professors only value first or last authorships. In #ScienceAsAService roles you stay in the middle. Time spent there is wasted for building your own research profile, grants, promotions, and long-term career. #academicsky #ichbinhanna #synchrotron
The hard lesson: never accept a temp #ScienceAsAService role at a #synchrotron or research org without protection. Require >50 % time for independent research. Publish and document work on #GitHub. Keep records. In asymmetric systems, credit and authorship are reassigned. #ichbinhanna #academicsky
The long-term cost is real. When you later apply to those groups, you are often seen as support staff, not a peer scientist. Repayment is rare. Labels stick, despite what those professors pretend. Service to others downgrades you in the very system it sustains. #ichbinhanna #ScienceAsAService
This is the two-faced part. The same professors who define the metrics benefit from your service. You enable their experiments, data, and papers, while your own record stagnates. Credit flows outward. The labor that makes science work remains invisible. #ScienceAsAService #academicsky
