Welcome to c/PhD, a Lemmy community dedicated to everything related to PhDs!

As many of you here, I migrated from Reddit some time ago, and just before leaving I had discovered r/PhD. Seeing that there was no PhD-centric community on Lemmy, I decided to create it.

The general idea is to construct an open, inclusive, and supportive space, where topics related to PhD degrees, research, and academic activities can be discussed, shared, and reflected upon. Recommendations, personal experiences, as well as questions regarding pursuing a PhD are welcome, but please be sure to remain civil, adhere to the Lemm.ee server rules, and the community rules posted in the sidebar!

I encourage everyone who joins this community to:

• foster an open attitude towards other users,
• proactively seek to acquire and share new knowledge,
• respect your own and other's work,
• nurture and profess integrity in your research, and
• be willing to learn from others, and to help others learn.

These are not commandments, just my personal perspective on what I would like to see this community uphold and value.

I understand that in order to get traction and jump-start a community, quality posts have to be published, and meaningful interactions have to be encouraged. Let's all work together on this, and hopefully in time we'll be able to grow this nascent community.

This is the first time I moderate any kind of community, and I will likely mess things up. Please be tolerant and patient with me and others, and let's try to build a community we can all be proud of.

Best,

u/babetoduarte

Hello everybody!

I wanted to share with you a small project I started recently.

TootNotify is a command line utility written in Python, which let's you send private toots (direct messages) to a given user, with the possibility of attaching media, flagging it as sensitive, and including content warnings.

This project was born out of a small program I had written some time ago, to notify me when long-running processes and tasks finished. It originally worked with Twitter, and worked for text-based messages only. Sadly, Twitter killed the DM functionality shortly after I originally coded this tool, and it got abandoned a few years ago.

Since then, I have moved away from Twitter, and with the prospect of having some long-running tasks in the horizon for my PhD dissertation, I figured I should implement this same functionality for Mastodon. I ended leveling-up my effort: deciding to make TootNotify into a full python package, and challenging myself to include broader functionality regarding attaching media to the notifications.

I hope some of you may find this tool interesting and/or useful, and please do drop comments or Issues on github if you find any problems/bugs.

Thanks!