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Stephan Hacker<p>Exciting opportunity to join the group of Sylvestre Bonnet in the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.science/@LED3hub" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>LED3hub</span></a></span> for a <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/PhD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PhD</span></a>!</p>
LED3hub<p>Passionate about <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/MedicinalChemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MedicinalChemistry</span></a>, <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Photochemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Photochemistry</span></a>, and <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/CancerResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CancerResearch</span></a>?</p><p>Join the Sylvestre Bonnet group at the LED3 hub of Leiden University for a <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/PhD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PhD</span></a> in <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Photoactivated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Photoactivated</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Chemotherapy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chemotherapy</span></a>!</p><p>This is your chance to contribute to the future of targeted <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/CancerTherapy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CancerTherapy</span></a>.</p><p>Find all the details and apply here:<br><a href="https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/2025-nl/q3/15882-phd-candidate-in-photoactivated-chemotherapy" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">universiteitleiden.nl/vacature</span><span class="invisible">s/2025-nl/q3/15882-phd-candidate-in-photoactivated-chemotherapy</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/PhDposition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PhDposition</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/PhD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PhD</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Vacancy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vacancy</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/ScienceJobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceJobs</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chemistry</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/ChemBio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChemBio</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/BioinorganicChemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BioinorganicChemistry</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/DrugDiscovery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DrugDiscovery</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Academia</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Hiring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hiring</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Leiden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Leiden</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Netherlands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Netherlands</span></a></p>
Pedro Lopes<p>Want to work with one of the best thinkers out there, with endless creativity and super supportive environment in futuristic Taipei? 😎 <br>My former PhD student, (now Prof.) Shan-Yuan Teng just started the Dexterous Interaction Lab @ NTU <a href="https://lab.tengshanyuan.info/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">lab.tengshanyuan.info/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://hci.social/tags/hci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hci</span></a> <a href="https://hci.social/tags/VR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VR</span></a> <a href="https://hci.social/tags/AR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AR</span></a> <a href="https://hci.social/tags/haptics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>haptics</span></a> <a href="https://hci.social/tags/phd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>phd</span></a> <a href="https://hci.social/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicChatter</span></a> 😍</p>
José A. Alonso<p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/MULCIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MULCIA</span></a>: Research associate in formalization of mathematics at ICL. <a href="https://tinyurl.com/22cmbns5" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">tinyurl.com/22cmbns5</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/PhD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PhD</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/PostDoc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PostDoc</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/CompSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CompSci</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Math</span></a></p>
Duncan Yellowlees 🎓💬<p>Little reminder that a lightning talk of 3 or 5 mins is not the same as your 20 min talk you did last month. </p><p>Don't think of it as cutting down a longer set, think of it as its own thing build it from the ground up around the 1 point you want to make. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/PHD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PHD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AcademicTalks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicTalks</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Conferences" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Conferences</span></a></p>
Bernhard Schermer<p>Please share …. 🙏<br>📣 Very soon, we’ll have an open PhD position starting in fall 2025 — this time not on cilia, but on YAP &amp; TAZ in podocytes and their regulation via LLPS. Interested candidates are welcome to contact us directly. </p><p>Supervision by Inês Cabrita and me, embedded within PodoSigN! <br>Within this project, close collab. with Beate Vollenbröker‘s team. </p><p><a href="https://social.cologne/tags/Podocyte" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Podocyte</span></a> <a href="https://social.cologne/tags/Trr422" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trr422</span></a> <a href="https://social.cologne/tags/Fsgs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fsgs</span></a> <a href="https://social.cologne/tags/Nephrolab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nephrolab</span></a> <a href="https://social.cologne/tags/PhdPosition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PhdPosition</span></a> <a href="https://social.cologne/tags/Biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Biology</span></a> <a href="https://social.cologne/tags/Genetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Genetics</span></a> <a href="https://social.cologne/tags/LLPS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLPS</span></a> <a href="https://social.cologne/tags/HippoSignaling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HippoSignaling</span></a> <a href="https://social.cologne/tags/phd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>phd</span></a> </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wisskomm.social/@CECAD" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>CECAD</span></a></span><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/cilia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>cilia</span></a></span></p>
Christopher Pollin<p>A huge thank you to everyone who supported this PhD thesis! :)</p><p>It got a bit lengthy - but I wasn't allowed to do a cumulative dissertation! 😉<br>(The reason: ‘That doesn't exist in the humanities faculty.’)</p><p>"Modelling, Operationalising and Exploring Historical Information: Using Historical Financial Sources as an Example". Pollin C. Dissertation. University of Graz. 2025. <a href="https://unipub.uni-graz.at/obvugrhs/12127700" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">unipub.uni-graz.at/obvugrhs/12</span><span class="invisible">127700</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/PhD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PhD</span></a> <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/DigitalHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalHistory</span></a> <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/ComputationalHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputationalHistory</span></a> <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/DigitalHumanities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalHumanities</span></a></p>
Anna Loffing<p>"Why It Matters": The 2025 PhD Video Challenge is now accepting submissions of two-minute videos discussing the importance of PhD research in the built environment.</p><p>Contributions are welcome from fields such as sociology, geography, engineering, architecture, planning, urban studies, environmental design, and more.</p><p><a href="https://www.buildingsandcities.org/video-challenge/2025.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">buildingsandcities.org/video-c</span><span class="invisible">hallenge/2025.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.ridetrans.it/tags/PhD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PhD</span></a> <a href="https://social.ridetrans.it/tags/PhDLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PhDLife</span></a> <a href="https://social.ridetrans.it/tags/SciComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SciComm</span></a> <a href="https://social.ridetrans.it/tags/UrbanPlanning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UrbanPlanning</span></a> <a href="https://social.ridetrans.it/tags/Architecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Architecture</span></a></p>

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Are you interested in doing a PhD in Machine Learning or Natural Language Processing? A fully-funded PhD position is now open in our group!

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PhD Opportunities in Climate and Groundwater at UNSW Sydney 2025-2027

Last updated: 21st July 2025 The Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship ‘Caves and their stalagmites: linking climate to groundwater recharge’ awarded to Andy Baker (UNSW Sydney, Australia) has opportunities for PhD projects in the following areas. PhD positions are for start in 2025 to 2027 and will remain open until filled. PhD 1: Using long-term hydrology records from caves to explore the amount of rainfall needed to replenish groundwater and the climate and weather needed....

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