Many thanks to the @pdfarranger@pdfarranger people!
I recently had to deal with hundreds of pages being inserted as appendixes on my PhD thesis and it was a breeze (the PDF manipulation was a breeze not the thesis, mind you :blob_clown:)

#PDF #FLOSS

Everything went fine, contrary to what my brain has been warning me to expect for ages. #PhD

So 429: Too Many Requests on my GitHub hosted images, breaking my tutorials etc… Not good!

July will be gone and my escape to Codeberg.org has not even started (I have to finish my PhD…)

@prologic@twtxt.net a couple of days?!?! and to learn that omg are you studying for a phd at nasa

‘The universities are the enemy’: why the right detests the American campus
Lauren Lassabe Shepherd, PhD,  Historian and Contrbuting Writer  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: The Republican fascist coup does not like facts. Therefore, they don’t like universities, they don’t like museums, they don’t like public education, they don’t like science, they don’t like a fact-based media, and they actively weaponize and spread misinformation. Here is the lates … ⌘ Read more

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The manosphere and networked misogyny
Zhen Troy Chen, PhD, FHEA , Dr. Calogero Giametta, PhD , Dr. Jacob Johanssen, PhD & Dr. Irida Ntalla, PhD,    -  Nature

_Stephan: One of the many negative effects of social media is the rise of the manosphere. I had no idea until I began to research this the weaponization of misinformation how many American men, particularly young men, are weak, psychologically disturbed, insecure about their manhood, and threatened by women. In the United States ri … ⌘ Read more

Republicans, Men Push Trump Approval Higher in Second Term
Jeffrey M. Jones, PhD and Megan Brenan,   Senior Editor | Senior Editor  -  The Gallup Organization

_Stephan: What amazes me is how the percentage of MAGAt monarch Trump’s approval rating remains so high. I see this not only as a political issue but, even more, as a cultural issue. It reflects the weakness, resentment, and insecurity of American men of all ages. It is such a powerful trend in America that it … ⌘ Read more

NASA Engineer Discusses the Future of Flying Vehicles with Neil deGrasse Tyson & Wendy Okolo, PhD. ⌘ Read more

Cosmic Queries – Volcanoes & Life in the Universe with Neil deGrasse Tyson & Natalie Starkey, PhD ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net this description is applicable. As with PH.D so with this hyper focus.

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https://www.openculture.com/2017/06/the-illustrated-guide-to-a-phd-12-simple-pictures-that-will-put-the-daunting-degree-into-perspective.html

@prologic@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net this description is applicable. As with PH.D so with this hyper focus.

Image

https://www.openculture.com/2017/06/the-illustrated-guide-to-a-phd-12-simple-pictures-that-will-put-the-daunting-degree-into-perspective.html

Cosmic Queries – Predicting Earth’s Climate Future with Neil deGrasse Tyson & Kate Marvel, PhD ⌘ Read more

found spicy khmer waltz vexed quagga jacob (Mr. Jock, TV quiz PhD, bags few lynx)

okay. I didn’t get the PhD position. oh well. #updates

StarTalk Podcast: Hacking the Head & the Heart with Leah Lagos, PhD ⌘ Read more…

Niplav Yushtun, PhD in Memetodynamics

How many news articles could be retitled ‘Dude with PhD has Weird Opinion His Colleagues Openly Mock Him For’? (Not that weird opinions aren’t inherently interesting & all)

Young women on tumblr tagging their selfies ‘cursed image’ is probably a thread with some deep & interesting sociological research on the end if somebody with a PhD tugs on it.

Leah’s PhD: Working with Word Clouds – Leah Henrickson https://bhilluminated.wordpress.com/2017/07/18/word-clouds/

PhD thesis: A Reference Architecture for Distributed Software Deployment
Today Sander van\
 der Burg successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled A\
 Reference Architecture for Distributed Software\
 Deployment! It describes (among other things) [Disnix](https://github.com/s … ⌘ Read more

Jacquard grant proposal accepted!
The Jacquard\
program of
NWO and EZ has granted funding for the Nix-related project “Pull
Deployment of Services” (PDS), which is about improving the
deployment of software and services in complex heterogenous
environments. The grant consists of 368 K€ for a PhD student (4
years) and a postdoc (3 years). If you’re interested in these
positions, please h … ⌘ Read more

PhD thesis defended
Eelco Dolstra
defended his PhD\
 thesis on the purely functional deployment model. ⌘ Read more