Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪<p>This afternoon I tried a new format: I called it "PhD Plätzchen" – an informal forum to ask questions and chat about things to consider when thinking of doing a <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/PhD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PhD</span></a> in <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linguistics</span></a> or <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/LanguageTeaching" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LanguageTeaching</span></a>. A dozen of my current and former M.A. students turned up and we chatted over a lovely selection of Christmas biscuits (that the students brought along and, in some cases, baked themselves!) and tea. No silly questions, no taboo subjects. We talked about salaries, toxic supervisors, <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/WissZeitVG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WissZeitVG</span></a>, <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/IchBinHanna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IchBinHanna</span></a>, projects, scholarships, pensions, publish or perish, etc.</p><p>Perfect timing as, just today, the job ads for 12 new <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/PhD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PhD</span></a> positions at the CRC 1252 "Prominence in Language" went online: <a href="https://sfb1252.uni-koeln.de/en/about-the-crc/vacancies" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sfb1252.uni-koeln.de/en/about-</span><span class="invisible">the-crc/vacancies</span></a>. If anyone is interested in applying for my project (B10 on gender), do get in touch!</p>