Katharina V. Wellstein

You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).

Got a (co-authored) paper accepted for my birthday! 🌟

Thank you 🩵

So excited to announce that I will be starting as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Kings College London soon!
I will be joining a bunch of very nice, welcoming and brilliant people on an exciting project.

The beach in Newcastle was nice, London doesn't seem too bad either though. 😉

Vallor's paper really hit the students hard - it was about up-skilling cases where automation replaces a useless skill and gives us more time, vs. cases where automation replaces a crucial skill and de-skills us, makes us fall out of practice. Her core cases are about AI-based moral judgment.

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

Finally someone talking about what's going on candidly.
The US government is weakness mascerading as strength, it reflects in the tweets, the censorship, the masked men on the street...

Love that slow science is becoming bigger. Hope it will slowly become a new norm

I am on that side of the argument. I'm more wary of completely shutting other people's perspectives out. The black and white, right and wrong approach doesn't quite sit right with me.
IMO its important to know people's motivation to do and believe things that don't align with my views.

if it quacks like a duck...

I think it's curious that in many of the discussions on this subject I have seen here so far, people advocating for the use of AI do not interact at all. My personal assumption why thats the case is that they dont feel welcome in the discussion with their perspective.

The discussions on this platform rarely feature these oder perspectives. Given the age and political climate we are in I believe it would be good to foster a dialogue here where both views are accepted and we can actually exchange perspectives without trying to convince eachother.

I know people in research who do not hide the fact that they are avid ChatGPT users. The reasons range from English not being their native language, wanting to change the tone of emails, using it as an inspiration to write more smoothely, making things easier and faster etc..

There are many of these discussions here on the use of ChatGPT. As a conscious non-user of ChatGPT, most of these threads are up my ally and reflect my point of view.
It does feel a little like a bubble though.

Yeah I think that's what the argument is and I can see how that may be the case. I am not using LLMs for my writing or anything out of principle. I really dont like this monopoly of the mind type of vybe. And I don't want to be part of that culture. But I can see how seeing what it produces may help

Yeah that's an argument I hear a lot: I have a disadvantage as a non-native English speaker, ChatGPT helps me sound better

I'm looking to hire a postgraduate research associate in Computational Psychiatry for my new lab at Yale. Please see link below for details & help RT 🙏

postdocs.yale.edu/posts/2026-0...

The epitome of a “Kavanaugh Stop.”

“[CBP] sometimes makes brief investigative stops to check immigration status…. If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a US citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, they promptly let the individual go.”

History will remember Brett.

I know that nobody needs to hear this but I FINALLY FINISHED MY MANUSCRIPT!

First paper of my PhD on auricular vagus nerve stimulation 💚.

I tried the manifestation thing, doesn't work. 😂
Still typing away.

I usually don't manifest but that was me manifesting it. Let's see if this does the trick 😅

Sipping my coffee slowly because today is the day that am finally finishing this manuscript.

I am aksing the hive (birdnest/cloud?) mind again:
How long does an academic cover letter / letter of motivation need to be? Its my first time officially applying for jobs in the academic market and dont know a lot about the conventions yet.

Also: I'm looking, in case you are hosting ;)

After having my return grant rejected by my funding body and just before christmas I am feeling anxious and alone. It's difficult to organize social services or anything for that matter from Australia. I will be coming back to nothing with nothing and it is very scary.

Thank you so much for taking the time to give me advice on this!!

Would you only add first author posters or also last author ones?

Also, how much stylistic freedom do I have. I feel like it would help to properly section the HUGE poster list from the publications etc...
rn its liek 7 pages long

I'm on the market and working on my CV.
Can I get some advice: bio, no bio? Pic, no pic?
ALL the posters and talks?
Any other advice?

On here I have seen very short CVs without bio and very long CVs... No idea whats preferred.

a man in a suit and tie is smiling in an office . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is smiling in an office .

If I had not already booked my flights I would not be able to come back to Switzerland. This is so scary but maybe the right push for me to finally finish writing up all these manuscripts I have lying around?

My return grant got rejected and I only got notified now. I will have 1 month left with salary only to return to Switzerland with nothing in my pockets. I have no savings.
This research life surely isnt easy....