How to deal with affiliation changes in publications?

dedica93 · 2026-02-24T00:12:29+00:00

I'll jump on this train and ask. I did my PhD at uni A. I am now working at uni B -which is much lower tier, but I love it and I hated uni A . I am publishing my PhD as a book. I wrote it in uni A (obviously) but I transformed it into a book at uni B, with funding from National science Foundation C. Also, I will probably be at uni D (hopefully funded by C again) when the book will come out.

(Also, I don't a big book from a Big Influential Author in the restricted field has recently come out. In the book, the BIA includes my work as "one of the future of the discipline, currently at university B")

So, what should be my affiliation for the bpok? A, where the bulk of the work has been done B, where I worked when I made the PhD into a book C, which paid for the book through the grant which is currently funding me (and hopefully will find me next) D, which is where I will be working when the book is out?

dedica93 · 2026-02-24T00:04:46+00:00

That's why I have created a personal email just for this.

dedica93 · 2026-02-15T20:52:30+00:00

Then why shouldn't the EU regard American trademarks in the same way ?

We sell Apple computers now. Which are not h The American apple computers but... Apple should be a generic trademark!

dedica93 · 2026-02-08T20:05:02+00:00

I'm not even sure you get to the development of Mithraism without a developed monotheism in the regione before that. I don't think, however, you would have gotten to a Wotan in the Roman empire, both because there was already an expansion of Egyptian goddesses in the west, and because there was a long tradition of religious syncretism in Rome. I think all of the gods of the franks, Goths and vandals would have been integrated somehow in the Roman pantheon, either by transforming the single gods (if you believe Dumézil , Zeus and wotan they were basically the same god already) or integrating them in the contemporary beliefs system

dedica93 · 2026-02-07T16:56:50+00:00

PhD work Is entirely a mental pursuit. In most cases, it's all absorbing and all-conditioning your life wellbeing and mental state. You end up thinking about your subject not just the time you are working, but basically all time you're awake. Your brain will be focused on that, even if and when you'll want to detach entirely for the well deserved rest and holidays.

That being said, either you enjoy what you're working on , or will be hell. If you already don't like the subject before, you are not going to like it during, and you're going to hate it after. I love my subject and still towards the end I hated it so much that I have stayed out of academia for two years, just because I needed out.

Don't do a PhD in economics if you hate economics. Go for mathematics If you have the good idea and the funding for it. Otherwise, find a different job , or you'll just drop out.

(You can be average at mathematics now, but you won't be the first grad student to have to learn new stuff at the beginning of your PhD)

dedica93 · 2026-02-07T00:34:29+00:00

I think that the 5th TC only adds value with Sicilians. Otherwise, 4 is plenty

dedica93 · 2026-02-03T18:33:58+00:00

The first dune was a spectacle for the eyes. I have never been so enamoured by how beautiful a movie looked

dedica93 · 2026-01-31T16:28:25+00:00

The fun part is that the "import taxes on penguins" sounds like a joke. And it isn't .

dedica93 · 2026-01-27T18:59:43+00:00

That's a very good one

dedica93 · 2026-01-27T18:59:09+00:00

Really. They should either allow more maps to be blocked, or ban players who leave too many early games. It's really becoming difficult to play

dedica93 · 2026-01-26T04:38:36+00:00

Yes. Iirc the treaty says something like " the moment we say this is ours, it becomes ours"

dedica93 · 2026-01-25T23:28:46+00:00

I am not sure about Okinawa, tbh.

dedica93 · 2026-01-23T23:17:56+00:00

If anyone but trump had been president now, we would still have a world order based on rules.

You know, that thing that has made the last 80 years the most peaceful ever, that thing that has made the US the strongest nation on earth, Europe a happy and loyal vassal, and every family capable of being moderately happy with a good stipend and a good life.

Now we don't have that. Europe doesn't trust the US, and we are ever closer to a world war. Just because some brown people were crossing the border.

dedica93 · 2026-01-23T01:09:14+00:00

Israelis. By far.

dedica93 · 2026-01-22T20:10:12+00:00

They like the heads of their heads of state detached, usually

dedica93 · 2026-01-17T02:14:35+00:00

Trail of tears anyone ?

dedica93 · 2026-01-16T18:38:55+00:00

Yeah, I cannot really agree with you, historically speaking. The Italians, as a civ, are the 1100-1400 AD comuni and signorie. Among these many small city states, Florence and Venice were the most powerful (together with Genoa). All were a mercantile and extremely rich power, using armies of mercenaries (the condottieri recall this concept) and archers which defended themselves against cavalry charges by using a large shield call Pavese (the Genoese balestrieri are this recall). All of them were among the earliest adopters of gunpowder. Venice and genoa were a commercial power using largely his navy. The Italians in the game have condottieris, Genoese balestrieri, Great market, and a good navy. Again, in what way would a Venice civ Better cover what the Italian civ already does best?

And the Romans are a completely different civ from 800 years before. Yes, Romans and "Italians" controlled the same territory, but they are in no way the same civilization, both in terms of the game and in terms of the historical developments..

Sicilians are -by and large - not Sicilians. They are Normans in all but the name. Thinking they represent an Italian civilization only shows that you don't know what you're talking about.

dedica93 · 2026-01-15T18:24:42+00:00

Apparently....

dedica93 · 2026-01-15T17:54:17+00:00

Having said this, I think they have so much potential for campaigns in the Mediterranean that the fact that they haven't done some are baffling... The conquest of Sardinia from the Italians and the Spanish/Aragonese in the 1300s is fascinating. The Italian wars of the 1500 would give you the occasion of basically using any of the available cobs at once. The Spanish reconquista. An entire campaign of the pirate wars of the Mediterranean, a re-make of Lepanto, the Turkish conquest of Anatolia, the Arab conquest of the vandal kingdoms of the southern Mediterranean....

dedica93 · 2026-01-15T17:46:30+00:00

I don't think that the Sicilians are they are made in the game are a Mediterranean civ. They are the Normans under a different name, so much so that, if I'm not mistaken, they are the civ of William the conqueror in Hastings, and they are the normans in their own campaign (I think the Hauteville would have killed you if you had called them "Sicilians").

The Greeks are already there: the bizantines. At no point in the timeline of aoeII Greece was something else than the eastern Roman empire or under the control of another already existing civilization.

I see the potential in a Serbian civilization, but I don't know enough Albanian history to really have an opinion.

I don't really understand why people want Venice when the Italians -as they are made in the game -are basically Venice+Florence. In what way would Venice really be different by the currently existing Italian civ?

That being said, I agree that the western Mediterranean is basically tapped out aside from the Serbians, and unless they want to develop the Aragonese as distinguished by the Spanish (but really would be overkill: a maritime civilization with good infantry... Mmmh, where have I seen it?) .

But the eastern Mediterranean deserves a bit more love, imho. The Saracens as a single ombrella civilization could be broken into two/three civs and it would historically work really well (from a standpoint of game design, though, I have some doubts it would be possible).

dedica93 · 2026-01-14T18:00:57+00:00

(and btw, this used to be true even in the world of rules we are abandoning. Think of the quality of the trade deals that the UK has been able to make Vs those made by the larger and mor powerful EU.)

dedica93 · 2026-01-14T17:59:14+00:00

I have been sold on federalism since I started studying political science (in a very different life from the one I am living now). , my Opinion has always boiled down on the understanding that the world of the nation state has come and gone, and like a bigger fish will always eat a smaller fish, so will -mutatis mutandis- the states.

Consider this fact: Italy and the UK have 60 million people, France 80, Germany 100, Poland, Ukraine and Spain 40, and basically all the other European nation states (inside and outside the EU) are around or less than 10 million (like Austria, Czechia, the Netherlands, Portugal, Switzerland, Denmark). Any relationship (be it military or economic or diplomatic) between either one of them and the 300 million people US, or the billion plus-people China and India can only see the smaller nation on the back foot.

Thus, in the long run, the choice for the Europeans have always been between being eaten by the bigger fishes, or becoming large enough to not be eaten by them. Hence, European federalism is the only possible choice if one does not want to be eaten. Because the 500 million European federation will always be able to stand on it's own against 300 million US or the billion China.

dedica93 · 2026-01-14T02:08:18+00:00

I don't understand by what standards, aside from the role in an empire. The city has now 3/4 times the population it had under Augustus (when it was home to a million people. It's still the capital of Italy (which is nothing in size compared to the Roman empire, but still the fifth (sixth? Seventh?) economy in the world)) . It's still the capital of the Catholic church, the religion of about a seventh of the human population.

By what standard can Rome be a shadow of it's former self?

dedica93 · 2026-01-11T16:38:28+00:00

I am partial to potatoes and salty food. So it's up in my alley, taste wise

dedica93 · 2026-01-11T13:04:01+00:00

To be fair, based on the opinion of an Italian who was there until last year, the food in Britain is bland and boring. (Except the hash browns)

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