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Exploring BlueSky as social network

I have started using Twitter on the 24th of November of 2007 and have stopped posting any content exactly 15 years after. From my perception, the network which is called “X” now has been converted into a right-wing propaganda machine and I cannot understand my colleagues who are still active there.

Redefining my writing workflow

One of the things I have started recently is a book-project. For this purpose I have been working on a new writing workflow which combines reference management, reading, highlighting and note-taking, writing and publishing.

Backup strategy for Knowledge-workers under MacOS

If your productice work is 100% happening in digital environments the secure and reliable backup of data becomes a necessity and data-loss can have serious implications for all kind of processes.

Window management for professional knowledge workers

Since many years I am using at least one external monitor for work and it has supported my productivity a lot. During an intensive time of online-meetings and online-teaching in the last 3 years I have extended my setup with another external screen so that I have three screens available.

Restarting my personal knowledge management

The break and transition into the new year is always a time for me to optimise my workflows or to explore some changes in the way I handle information, tasks or communication.

Data Analysis in the Cloud

In the last two years I have slowly deviated from using GUI-interfaces for statistical analysis towards a more open and transparent approach. Before and during the pandemic I have shiftet my data-analysis completely to R and I have offered in the last semester for the first time a course on “Data Science in Education” in which I have used R intensively with students.

Data Analysis in the Cloud

In the last two years I have slowly deviated from using GUI-interfaces for statistical analysis towards a more open and transparent approach. Before and during the pandemic I have shiftet my data-analysis completely to R and I have offered in the last semester for the first time a course on “Data Science in Education” in which I have used R intensively with students.