Buxton_Vienna

@Buxton_Vienna@mas.to

#University researcher, Doctor in veterinary public health (Vetmeduni #Vienna). #British farm #veterinarian in #Austria, animal scientist (Uni of Nottingham), mum of 2, Peak District born. Working on antibiotics, animal health, veterinary sustainability and climate change. All views my own etc

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Buxton_Vienna, to climate

Ridiculously hot in Vienna already this year, 28°C yesterday 😳
This screenshot from an ORF weatherman on the birdsite shows it was even hotter in Innsbruck 😕 🗻🌡
I'll be teaching students about animal health and change again in June and we have new negative examples to discuss every time 😢

Buxton_Vienna, to Vienna

I know mastodon isn't really the self promoting place that the birdsite was......but I am very proud of this achievement! Last week our university ( ) held an international conference on use and for almost 100 researchers from all over Europe, USA, Canada, Argentina etc. and I virtually organised it singlehandedly! I had never organised anything like it before, but I did it, everybody loved it and told me how great it was 😁🐮🐷🐴🐶🐱

Buxton_Vienna,

@purplepadma Thank you Charlotte! I was so exhausted afterwards that I couldn't/didn't want speak to anyone for hours 😉

Buxton_Vienna, to Vienna

We had a really warm November here in (average temperature 8°C), our apple tree still hasn't lost its leaves....and then December arrived and out of nowhere we got about 20cm of snow in one day! That's not a lot for Austria, but it certainly caused chaos in the city, where few people are used to real snow!

skinnylatte, to zerowaste
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Every time I am forced to put something in recycling, I think of how that actually means dumping it in my home region, SE Asia

https://youtu.be/kXpzWWv0b0U

The only reliable way to recycle is to eliminate plastic as far as possible.

Plastic recycling is a failed idea, and a pollutant of the developing world.

Buxton_Vienna,

@skinnylatte as Europeans we were totally shocked on our visit to the USA this year how impossible it was to avoid disposable items or to find a recycling bin! A huge NYC hotel (50 floors) provided plastic plates and cutlery for breakfast and the staff were just throwing them away instead of washing up! Apples were wrapped in plastic! Same thing in a breakfast cafe in Washington, eat in....but still everything was disposable. Europe isnt perfect, but Austria is recycling >60% of household waste

Buxton_Vienna, to animals

Perfect for

Buxton_Vienna, to mentalhealth

CW: suicide
The first for seminar at the Vetmeduni in Vienna. Vets die by suicide more frequently than any other profession ☹️ ALL of us know someone who made this tragic decision and all of us have personally experienced the pressure and emotional blackmail that veterinarians are exposed to on a daily basis

Buxton_Vienna, to discworld

Always worth sharing......in light of global politics today and every day it seems

alx, (edited ) to random
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Remember when in 2020 we realised that the zombie, nuclear apocalypse was, well, just a fantasy, and that our death will be silent and slow, carried on by microorganisms that sometimes are not even fully alive (until they meet us) who will take us one by one?
Yep, that's true for every living thing.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/01/mystery-elephant-deaths-botswana-zimbabwe-pasteurella-bisgaard-taxon-45-aoe

As lots of biologists says, what doesn't kill you, mutates and tries again!
Good morning,

Buxton_Vienna,

@alx Definitely recommend this book: Spillover by David Quammen, if you're interested in zoonotic diseases. We have known this for many years in and I recommend this book to my 2nd year vet students for a little light reading! And, yes, is definitely having an effect globally!

purplepadma, to random
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A good meeting with both my supervisors. Next one is in two weeks and I’ve got plenty to get on with in between, including training called “Dealing With Reviewer Comments”. My supervisors laughed and said they think they need that training themselves, they’ve been publishing for years but still find the critical feedback from reviewers crushing

Buxton_Vienna,

@purplepadma this is the best way to deal with reviewer comments I find 😉

Buxton_Vienna, to Vienna

It's 23°C this afternoon in ......blue skies, clouds of insects everywhere, dog panting....The perfect summer day, if only it wasn't October and supposed to be autumn 🍂🍂 More crazy weather in Austria....I'll be surprised if there's any snow at all this year 😕

ingorohlfing, to academicchatter German
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I am looking a journal submission website of a SAGE journal run with Manuscript Central. The login option via ORCID is gone, instead one can log in with "Web of Science (TM)". What fresh hell is this? This was running perfectly (almost) with ORCID, why does one now need an account with Clarivate (which I don't want to)? Is MC owned by Clarivate? @academicchatter

Buxton_Vienna,

@ingorohlfing @academicchatter Totally agree! There is nothing worse than having to remember a different password for every single ridiculous journal......orcid log in was/is great. Although recently I experienced one (Elsevier?) journal which seemed to offer orcid login, but then stated that you first had to create an account with them, including bl**dy password before you could link it to orcid 😱 ?

MnemosyneSinger, to random

Gonna cheer this timeline up if I have to post every cute pic in my meme collection

Buxton_Vienna,

@MnemosyneSinger I think these pictures sum up global politics perfectly 🤪

Buxton_Vienna, to berlin

Finally back in Vienna after another amazing trip: , , , , , , and finally . Night train to Berlin, night ferries to Oslo and Gdansk. Not enough time (we were taking our eldest to Norway for ) but I still love on trains 🚂
There is nothing better than listening to a audio book and watching the landscape pass by the window 🥰

Sunset over the Danube in Vienna

Buxton_Vienna, to TwitterMigration

Seen on the
Very clever marketing by WWF Germany "Protect our wildlife...before it's too late"

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Buxton_Vienna,

@ktoddbrown @danai @academicchatter As an academic working with students on animal health & , and also doing research projects on with and , I feel your pain, but am really fascinated by the idea of your project because I love working with multiple stakeholders and getting practical ideas into the real world 😄

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Buxton_Vienna,

@jnyrose @Caseyj @PamJarvis @academicchatter it depends. if you're an invited keynote speaker at a scientific conference, then you shouldn't have to pay, conference should pay your travel costs and, dare I say it, sometimes even pay you a speaking fee!
If you are just a regular who submitted an abstract and was chosen to speak for 10-15mins as a short communication or poster, then you (or ideally your institution) pays.
Either way, make sure it's a proper

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Buxton_Vienna,

@ninokadic @academicchatter Obviously I use mine in my name 😉 As a female academic, and the daughter of a postman, granddaughter of a mechanic, I fought hard to get my doctorate and I am going to use it!
(I am a veterinarian, but it is not an automatic DVM, it is a separate postgraduate research doctorate, like a PhD).
There was a birdsite pile-on on female academics daring to use their titles, which led to the hashtag & I have used mine since then.

Buxton_Vienna,

@JoanneKlein @ninokadic @academicchatter Oh yes, definitely. I can totally relate to this, it happens all the time 🙄 Plus the nice part about being a Dr is that you can answer the stupid "Is it Miss or Mrs?" question, with "it's Doctor" 🤣 (and give no information at all about your marital status!)

TatianaIlyina, to random
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Interesting paper on decarbonizing the academic sector:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652622027627

Buxton_Vienna,

@TatianaIlyina One of the biggest problems for project-related travel is that long distance journeys are usually more expensive than flying. I live in Vienna, we have direct night trains to so many places (Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris) so the connections are great, but very expensive and so far I've only been able to use them when invited as a keynote speaker! I.e. someone else is paying! Hopefully things will continue to improve though, as I love travelling by train 🙂

gubi, to random Italian
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Why I'm moving from Elsevier's to for the management of my references.

https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/mendeley_import

Buxton_Vienna,

@gubi How did this move from to work for you? I've been using Mendeley since 2012 (so long before it was bought by !) but the cloud version and this new Mendeley Cite thing in Word are driving me nuts today. I don't have time to wait for it to constantly think about every reference 😳

Buxton_Vienna,

@gubi Thanks for the info. I've just imported from and it looks like everything is there and the citing plug-in works too, thanks for helping me escape from 😉

sundogplanets, to random
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Meet our new farm guardian animal, who came pre-named, with probably the best name ever for a llama.

Introducing...

Barack O-llama.

(I have an amazing story about him arriving here, I will share later when I have more time)

Buxton_Vienna,

@sundogplanets As a farm veterinarian, none of this is surprising but all highly amusing. I have had cows with milk fever go from virtually comatose, unable to stand, to running off across a field in the dark.....but goats and llamas are another level of silly 😜

vlrny, to random
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For those of you grieving the communities you've lost on other platforms...

You're not starting from scratch, you're starting from experience.

You know who you are, and you know what you need. You already have a vision of what a healthy supportive community looks like, now you just have to cast about and draw those people together.

And you are doing that on a platform of people so excited to reach out and find YOU too.

It's rough right now, but it's gonna be ok.

Buxton_Vienna,

@JulieB @vlrny Yes, I definitely feel like I am still foraging for my people! But TBH had been hiding my people from me for so long, that I was just used to the toxic rantings as you so rightly put it!
In the meantime, I'm searching for and people.....but many other things too, like 🤔

tishkova, to books
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i didn't mind children's books being updated due to outdated language, 'cause, you know, some children may not understand the "it was different time then" spiel or have a responsible adult to explain it. but adding some warnings to books?! for adults, full of satire and mockery of our society? i'd like to know what exactly in the early books deserves a warning of "eighties attitudes". what kind of attitudes? how are they expressed?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/30/terry-pratchett-discworld-content-warning-outdated-attitude/

Buxton_Vienna,

@tishkova I agree, I can't understand this at all......every time there was anything even vaguely sexist or racist (or even classist) in any books, then was actually showing how ridiculous or petty the bigots were being. The slavery of goblins, Cherry the Dwarf wanting to dress in a feminine way, the criticism of royalty and kings becoming leaders by birth, rather than ability.....what is problematic about the way he wrote any of that?

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