Bartosz Bartkowski

"We used a very common statistical procedure and applied functions from standard R packages" really is not a reason for not publishing the code.

Allerdings gleicht der Harz an vielen Stellen einer Mondlandschaft. Man erahnt nur, dass da mal (vor nicht allzu langer Zeit) ein Wald gewesen sein muss, wo man sich gerade befindet...

Danke! Es waren nur einmal 20+ km, aber es hat sehr gut getan. Und das Wetter war fabelhaft

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Even on my off days, hiking in the Harz mountains, I am haunted by my employer😁

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I will be spending a substantial part of this week interviewing more than 20 people for three different positions...

To those in the replies pointing out that 2/3 of the ag land is pasture, much of which can’t grow crops/trees: true.

That said, ~1/3 of today’s pasturelands used to be forest. Pasture expansion is #1 driver of tropical deforestation this century. And beef uses 20x the land per g protein vs plants.

Screenshot des UFZ-Dürremonitors mit sehr viel (dunkel-)roten Gebieten

Der ungewöhnlich viele Schnee (jedenfalls in Halle) täuscht:

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I guess my point was that I'm a lucky migrant, not having made any of the rather common negative experiences (either before or after the act of migration). Given how widespread those experiences are, it totally makes sense to politicize this concept. In my case, it's basically another privilege

I guess the bottom line here is: I am one of the lucky migrants. From which I derive (for myself) the responsibility to support the less lucky ones.

I'm so tired of receiving PhD position inquiries from people who have a degree in Petroleum and Drilling Engineering, with no link whatsoever to my research…

An infographic from Our World in Data titled "Global land use for food production" uses a series of stacked horizontal bar charts to visualize the distribution of Earth's surface and the disproportionate land requirements of livestock. The first bar shows Earth's surface is 71% ocean and 29% land (141 million km²); the land surface is then broken down into 76% habitable land, 10% glaciers, and 14% barren land. Of the habitable land, 45% (48 million km²) is used for agriculture, while 38% is forests and 13% is shrubland. The agricultural land bar reveals a major disparity: 80% (38 million km²) is dedicated to livestock (meat, dairy, and textiles) including grazing land and cropland for feed, while only 16% is used for crops for direct human consumption and 4% for non-food crops. Finally, two smaller bars at the bottom contrast this land use with nutritional output, showing that while livestock uses 80% of agricultural land, it only provides 17% of global calories and 38% of global protein, whereas plant-based foods provide 83% of calories and 62% of protein.

80% of agricultural land is used for livestock (and textiles), yet this huge land use provides only 17% of our calories and 38% of our protein.

16% of the land used for crops provides 83% of our calories and 62% of our protein. It's past time we rethink what we eat.

But the point about having a broader, more diverse experience in general is a fair one… But then, this overlaps with lots of other experiences and characteristics (education, family background etc.) which make one more or less "open minded" or whatnot.

I think the migration experience played a larger role in my identity when I was younger, actually. Back then, I also still identified as Polish😁 Admittedly, I grew up somewhat at odds with Polish culture, so Germany didn't feel sooo different – I was just at odds with other dimensions.

P.S. I'm wondering though whether this isn't just arrogance, or, on the contrary, based on a very stereotypical and unfair image of "being a migrant" that I impute to people who are perceived as/consider themselves migrants.

Note: by "traumatizing" I mean that many migrants feel uprooted (at first), which I never really felt, probably because my roots have never been geographical or even cultural (at least to the extent that Germany and Poland differ culturally).

... because of the circumstances that made them migrate and/or because the society they arrived at hasn't made it easy for them. I hardly have any such experiences. So I feel kind of bad being perceived as a migrant, because of my assumptions about the type of experiences that go along with this.

... I don't remember it as particularly challenging or traumatizing. I have never been directly confronted with racism. Given all this, my mind is basically telling me, Who am I to call myself a migrant? Migrants struggle – not because of their individual characteristics, but ...

... I don't identify as either German or Polish. No, the reason is, I think, what kind of experiences I associate with "being a migrant". My family hasn't fled to Germany. We were poor-ish, but everyone in Poland was in the 90's, and we had just enough. I adapted to Germany very quickly; ...

A personal reflection today:

I struggle with being perceived/categorized as a migrant (or, in academic parlance, an international). The reason is not a need to be perceived as German – it's not a meaningful category for me anyway (apart from the formal fact of one of my two citizenships); ...

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Ja, das habe ich auch mitbekommen. War wohl ein Hacker-Angriff auf die Alarmanlagen (stadtweit)…

Seit die Strecke bis Trotha verlängert wurde, bin ich erst 3–4 mal mit dem Rad zum Zoo gefahren (mit Öffis fahre ich zum Hbf), die Stichprobe ist also überschaubar… In der Zeit gab es diesen einen Ausfall heute.

2–3 Tage pro Woche

Ich habe mich gefreut, als die Strecke verlängert wurde (zum Zoo radele ich 6–7 km, zum Hbf eher 9–10), aber ja, das ist recht unzuverlässig...

Erläuterung: ich stand am Gleis in Halle Zoo, als ich das gelesen habe

Fuck

Insgesamt: klar, es gibt Umstellungskosten und „variable“ Kosten durch etwas erschwerte plattformübergreifende Zusammenarbeit, aber prohibitiv würde ich beides nicht nennen.

Wobei es bei uns am UFZ auch IT-Support für Linux gibt, das macht es einfacher.

Fair enough😁