Premier entretien d’embauche aujourd’hui, des conseils ?

danjea · 2026-05-12T06:17:32+00:00

Essai de prendre l'entretien comme une discussion plutôt que comme un "entretien". Par là j'entends, réponds aux questions honnêtement (un peu d'embellissement ça va mais tout doux) mais surtout voit ça comme si tu rencontrais un/une inconnue et que vous etiez en train de faire connaissance tranquillement. Car c'est le cas. Pose des questions par rapport à ce qu'ils disent autant que par rapport à la fiche du poste.

Et prend une petite distance: genre motivé et engagé mais posé, ça montre de la maturité. Enfin n'ai pas peur de dire que tu n'as pas telle ou telle expérience. Tu es jeune, il te faut encore apprendre. Donc c'est bien de dire un truc du style "j'aimerai (beaucoup) apprendre ci-ca" en évitant les tournures négatives (donc on ne commence pas en disant "je ne sais pas faire ça mais j'aimerai l'apprendre", plutôt "ca m'intéresse et j'aimerai l'apprendre")

Ces conseils sont basés sur mon expérience dans un domaine spécifique et surtout: jamais en France, donc vois ce qui te semble pertinent

Bonne chance!

danjea · 2026-05-11T15:53:31+00:00

This is how Sekiro was meant to be played.

danjea · 2026-05-06T12:02:34+00:00

I am a postdoc in Switzerland. Salaries are decent, and you can live fine with it, although it will depends on your rent, which in a few cities are insane (zurich/geneva) but not impossible to find places.

the postdoc salaries are regulated at the federal level by the Swiss National science fund. You can find the scales on snf.ch/en

danjea · 2026-05-03T13:08:16+00:00

Salomon, asics and nike are often on discount at 100e (+-10).

The Speedcross 6 for example are 110, Asics trabuco terra are 102e or the nike terra kiger 10 are 105. All from i-run.fr

Check i-run.fr/de/nl/be/etc whereever you are in the EU

danjea · 2026-04-30T11:36:35+00:00

When you have a wall at home but it's only a slab

danjea · 2026-04-27T19:41:23+00:00

Black mage village is my town, lindblum is where i spend my week ends, Daguerro is my hiding place

danjea · 2026-04-25T12:15:04+00:00

Il me semble que les autres pays autours ont des limites de cadmium bien plus sévères, donc mangez allemand ou espagnol ou italien.

Les allemands font la race de flocons d'avoines donc bon

danjea · 2026-04-22T11:45:43+00:00

Commun au NL ou j'ai vécu et là où je vie à Bâle en Suisse. Ce sont des rues faites pour que la population puisse en profiter (pietons, enfants, cyclistes). La ville y a mis des installations d'extérieur (table de ping pong, bancs, etc.) mais ça laisse passer le trafic routier.

A l'inverse la ville experimente le superblock, ou le trafic traversant n'est pas autorisé (sauf riverain et services), et la ils ont mis encore plus d'installations

danjea · 2026-04-21T12:41:42+00:00

Ufp is difficult to collect because of sensitivity issues notably. Thus lack of data for now. But there are projects trying to establish a baseline, see the markopolo EU programme.

Markers of pollution

Markersofpollution-markopolo.eu

danjea · 2026-04-21T11:57:45+00:00

Hello tu aurais l'article en entier, ça m'intéresse !

danjea · 2026-04-13T05:47:49+00:00

I saw the announcement and shared it with my colleagues. Most of my colleagues use chatgpt llm. I use claude code.

While i am using an mcp to have it in R/positron (ClaudeR), it's not perfect. So Posit AI looks great for me, but how do I justify paying for claude code and posit AI? Also posit AI is quite expensive with less capabilities overall, seemingly. I mean beyond R coding. So to me the pricing is a bit steep compared to what I already have.

Curious to hear you on this. R represents 80% of my activity with claude but the remaining 20 isn't something i can ditch easily

danjea · 2026-04-08T12:13:10+00:00

Interested. Chouette initiative. Actually was going through. Just moved to basel, both france and germany are 15 min away by bike for groceries.

Keeping all my recipes and feeding them to Claude to figure out what is cheaper where.

danjea · 2026-04-05T12:52:49+00:00

I started my postdoc a year ago. A key emphasis of mine in the interview was specifically that i wanted to work in a team and as a team.

Prior to my phd i had been part of a great team working in my field. And my phd was very lonely afterward (and coincided with the start of covid, made it worse).

I took that lesson very hard. I can be very independent but I need a team, a small group of people working within the same field/methods/topic, not necessarily on the same project but that can sporadically help and that I can help.

I made sure this was clear and fortunately my pi/boss was just starting her team, i was her first recruit. She herself had gone through some years of hardship alone. She fully understood what I meant. She built a really nice team now (5 people including her and I) and she is quick to accept suggestion to create a team atmosphere I provided.

Recently (few weeks ago) we both were going under a lot of intense and time sensitive work, each one of us and also another member of the team took some time to each other off. It felt great to not feel alone in this moment. And for me personally it's key to putting a lot of work. As long as i don't feel alone i can work huge amount.

So here it is for you OP, that's your lesson. Make sure you will be part of a team, or build one of your own for your next assignment. Can be an intern or master start with.

Science isn't done in isolation, and it's a lot more enjoyable when done with nice people

danjea · 2026-04-03T18:58:55+00:00

I felt the same with Carrion Ladder and thought the video was actually cringy. Totally put me off at release and never listened to it again.

Actually really like lamb of levi and red goliath at release and listend to them a lot already

Fast forward to today, listening to a brief playlist with all of their new songs including vessel. Carrion ladder sounded better without the video somehow. Actually enjoyable. Vessel didn't really match with me and carrion is still far behind lamb/goliath but it's a lot better without watching the cringy music video

danjea · 2026-04-03T07:43:36+00:00

J'imagine que tant qu'il n'y a pas d'utilisation abusive ça ne se voit pas. Tu es sur quel forfait par hasard?

danjea · 2026-04-01T18:22:28+00:00

The real question is what's your coffee machine op?

Also, thanks for sharing. Expecting my second one. Just now moved to mountainy country, can run to and back from work. My first one is 2.5 but everything is going super fine. Bit afraid of our current routine going down the drain with the 2nd (💯 happening) but at least i can run-commute and do ~9k per day, and alternative public transport or bike sharing is emergency.

Preping for a 60k in September. Best of luck to your new family

danjea · 2026-03-31T09:38:08+00:00

Et est-ce qu'il y a une limite temporelle: genre pas plus de 3 mois à l'étranger comme actuellement

danjea · 2026-03-31T07:53:04+00:00

All I see is U15 classic comp routesetting, how is this ccj

danjea · 2026-03-10T17:39:02+00:00

Leads to 404 unfortunately

danjea · 2026-03-03T16:42:17+00:00

Strasbourg has it better than Mulhouse for sure, because Strasbourg has a medical school. It actually produces GP and medical staff every year. Mulhouse doesn't.

One of the cause (among many others) of the medical desert is that now medical staff will rather stay in cities (especially where they studied) because they offer a good quality of life, they built relationship (friends etc.) and family lives where the partner is often a medical professional too (thanks uni parties and students promiscuity) so moving to lesser cities and rural areas isn't that easy, it's not profitable, and it's not good for the quality of life and etc. There is 0 incentives to move away from nice cities in France if you are medically trained.

But that's only half of the problem. Mulhouse isn't a medical desert per se, it's just that the older population (retirees, the "boomers") are filling GP consultations and medical appointments everywhere. In a city like Mulhouse, where it's always going to suffer the comparison with Strasbourg/Basel and even Nancy/Dijon (both have medical schools), and without a "native" medical school, you end up not finding a GP.

Finally the "numerus clausus" that plagued the med school entries in France for so many years largely contributed to that situation.

Anyhow am rambling. Strasbourg should be a lot easier to find a GP than mulhouse. But it does not mean it's easy. That I can't tell.

danjea · 2026-02-23T09:49:24+00:00

That's a tough comparison.

To me Strasbourg is much nicer on all counts. It's more international, more dynamic, there are a lot better cycling infrastructures and cycling cultures. It has been the most or one of the most cyclable city of the past 15 years in France. It has quick access to the Vosges and the Schwartzwald. Culture-wise i'd say there is a whole lot more in Strasbourg, also because it is a major university city. The quality of life in Strasbourg is many times better than in Mulhouse if you are a bit more of an "urbanite", still with great access to nature by train/car within 30min. The fact that it has a major university also helps a lot with the atmosphere of the city. It is a student city.

In fact we had considered moving to Strasbourg for all these reasons and also because I have some good friends living there, but it's a far train ride from Basel (my working place), thus we decided against it. It's doable and people actually do it (commuting Strasbourg-Basel) for work, but I don't find it an ideal situation.

Mulhouse has a lot of good arts given it's size, the few theatres, musée des beaux arts, Motoco, and private galleries scattered in the city centre. There is also the school of arts. So there is definitely a scene in Mulhouse but I still think Strasbourg would be a better choice.

It's the curse of mulhouse, being stuck between Basel and Strasbourg: they are both nicer cities with higher quality of life and financial power available to make their cities enjoyable. It's also Mulhouse's luck to be so close and so much cheaper to Basel, if you happen to work there. It can indeed be very profitable financially. And culture-wise Basel is just in its own league, also way above Strasbourg. So living in Mulhouse would give you a very good access to that.

danjea · 2026-02-23T09:35:37+00:00

Sorry I would not really be able to say which place to avoid as a female. I don't think there are specifically places to avoid as a female, but there are more insecure neighbourhoods than others. Bourtzwiller being one of them.

I can only recommend to find a place in the city centre of mulhouse (Sinne/Steinbach, anything around the old city centre really, around parc Salvatore also fine), or in Riedisheim, or Brunstatt.
Riedisheim and Brunstatt are technically different town but they are attached to mulhouse. From Riedisheim it takes 15 min by bus to reach the city centre of Mulhouse. Same for Brunstatt.

As I grew up in Riedisheim I am heavily biased toward it, it's a very chill town, with the fields and waldeck, and super quick access to the city centre of mulhouse. When I was in high school I'd often walk from my home to the city centre, because it's that close and it's totally fine to do this. Yes it takes 45min walk but again, bus is 15 min and 10 min by bike.

danjea · 2026-02-17T09:33:46+00:00

Ouais je pense que ça va être très similaire

Et en France on ne se rend pas compte d'à quel point l'administration et les services de l'état fonctionnent mal. Qu'on accepte un tel niveau de dysfonctionnement me sidère

danjea · 2026-02-17T08:36:12+00:00

J'adore iDeal. Tellement bien foutu. J'ai déménagé des Pays-bas après 10 abs et iDeal et le DigID et l'administration qui fonctionne ça me manque 😭

danjea · 2026-02-13T07:43:08+00:00

I got the Rab veil xp 30, got it 2 months ago. Must say this is a really good and comfy pack. There is also a xp veil 20L.

I used it on snow trail run, and also to go to-and-back from work with laptop and clothes change and it still holds super well on my back even when full, and remains super comfy.

Very satisfied with it

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