u/Conscious_Dentist_94

I was laid off from my previous company while I was already interviewing for another position. In the meantime, I found a new job and started working in Human Factors at another company.

The new company is also in the healthcare/medical device sector, and the role is closely related to the position I’m interviewing for. The interview process had already started before I accepted the new job.

Should I proactively tell the company I’m interviewing with that I’ve since started a new position?

I’m wondering whether it could look bad if they find out later, especially since both companies operate in the same sector. At the same time, I don’t want to unnecessarily complicate the situation or make it seem like I was hiding anything.

Would you disclose the new job at this stage, or just continue with the interview process as normal?

I was laid off from my previous company while I was already interviewing for another position. In the meantime, I found a new job and started working in Human Factors at another company.

The new company is also in the healthcare/medical device sector, and the role is closely related to the position I’m interviewing for. The interview process had already started before I accepted the new job.

Should I proactively tell the company I’m interviewing with that I’ve since started a new position?

I’m wondering whether it could look bad if they find out later, especially since both companies operate in the same sector. At the same time, I don’t want to unnecessarily complicate the situation or make it seem like I was hiding anything.

Would you disclose the new job at this stage, or just continue with the interview process as normal?

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Ciao a tutti,

Vorrei un consiglio su come gestire gli investimenti di mio padre.

Lui vive in Italia, ha un conto BPER e circa 100.000 € che al momento sono fermi sul conto. Io invece vivo e sono residente fiscale in Spagna. Ho esperienza negli investimenti (principalmente ETF, con qualche azione singola) e vorrei aiutarlo a costruire un portafoglio di lungo termine.

L'idea iniziale era farmi trasferire i 100.000 € e investirli dal mio conto, ma mi sembra che questo crei parecchi problemi dal punto di vista fiscale e della proprietà del patrimonio.

Mi chiedevo quindi:

Qual è il modo migliore per gestire gli investimenti mantenendo i soldi intestati a lui?

BPER permette una delega operativa anche sul dossier titoli?

Conviene aprire un conto titoli presso un altro intermediario (ad esempio Fineco, Directa o altro) intestato a lui e poi gestirlo con delega?

Qualcuno ha esperienza con una situazione simile (genitore in Italia, figlio residente all'estero che gestisce gli investimenti)?

L'obiettivo non è ottimizzare le tasse o fare pianificazione successoria: semplicemente mio padre non ha interesse né competenze per investire e vorrei aiutarlo a costruire un portafoglio passivo di lungo periodo, con prevalenza di ETF e magari una piccola quota di azioni.

Grazie!

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for advice on the best way to handle my father's investments.

He lives in Italy, has around €100k in cash, and currently doesn't invest at all. I live in Spain and I'm a Spanish tax resident. I have experience investing in ETFs (and a small allocation to individual stocks), so I'd like to help him build a long-term portfolio.

My first thought was to have him transfer the money to me so I could invest it, but after reading more about it, it seems this would create unnecessary tax and ownership issues since the assets would legally become mine.

So I'm wondering:

What's the best way to manage a parent's portfolio when you live in another EU country?

Is it better to keep everything in his name and obtain some form of trading authorization or power of attorney?

Would you recommend moving from his Italian bank to a low-cost broker instead?

Has anyone here been in a similar cross-border situation?

The goal is simply to build a long-term buy-and-hold portfolio (mostly global ETFs with perhaps a small allocation to individual stocks). I'm not trying to optimize inheritance or taxes—just looking for the cleanest and most practical solution.

Thanks!

Ciao a tutti,

Vorrei un consiglio su come gestire gli investimenti di mio padre.

Lui vive in Italia, ha un conto BPER e circa 100.000 € che al momento sono fermi sul conto. Io invece vivo e sono residente fiscale in Spagna. Ho esperienza negli investimenti (principalmente ETF, con qualche azione singola) e vorrei aiutarlo a costruire un portafoglio di lungo termine.

L'idea iniziale era farmi trasferire i 100.000 € e investirli dal mio conto, ma mi sembra che questo crei parecchi problemi dal punto di vista fiscale e della proprietà del patrimonio.

Mi chiedevo quindi:

Qual è il modo migliore per gestire gli investimenti mantenendo i soldi intestati a lui?

BPER permette una delega operativa anche sul dossier titoli?

Conviene aprire un conto titoli presso un altro intermediario (ad esempio Fineco, Directa o altro) intestato a lui e poi gestirlo con delega?

Qualcuno ha esperienza con una situazione simile (genitore in Italia, figlio residente all'estero che gestisce gli investimenti)?

L'obiettivo non è ottimizzare le tasse o fare pianificazione successoria: semplicemente mio padre non ha interesse né competenze per investire e vorrei aiutarlo a costruire un portafoglio passivo di lungo periodo, con prevalenza di ETF e magari una piccola quota di azioni.

Grazie!

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So I'm leading a field study, observing people use a self-service machine in busy transit settings. I built a structured way to collect the data, split by role, and even made a little tutorial for the team to watch before we went out.

Two issues in the field:

One teammate kept not following the format. I reminded her a couple times, she kept doing her own thing. When I finally asked her directly, turns out people are rushing and she's trying to grab something rather than lose them entirely. Honestly… fair point? Felt like an idiot for being annoyed.

Other teammate keeps restructuring our moderated sessions on the fly, including one whose guide was locked weeks ago. Order of questions matters, that's the whole point of prepping it. He does this in interviews too.

Coming from past jobs with clear lanes and people trusting each other's roles, this feels off. But I also don't want to be The Methodology Cop who can't let anyone breathe.

Do they not get how my role supports the project, or do they just not rate research? And how do I raise it without sounding territorial?

TL;DR: built a research method, team keeps improvising, one had a legit reason and one didn't, and now I'm questioning whether I'm rigorous or just rigid.

TL;DR: AI is supercharging publish-or-perish without a matching upgrade in review or supervision. The risk isn't obvious copy-paste, supervisors (should) catch that. It's quieter: methodological thinking being delegated to LLMs and the work still passing review at the level that I wonder what will happen to a discipline that risks to have so much research out that nobody can keep up with, and become academics talking to a wall and not able to process what will happen next.

Curious how others in HCI are handling this.

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Coming at this from the academic side, some reviewing and service work, soon in industry, and the view has been making me uneasy. Wanted to see how others are processing it.

Publish-or-perish has been the dominant incentive in HCI for years, and we've all tolerated a layer of mediocre papers because the human bottleneck kept volume manageable. That bottleneck is being lifted. AI is a real productivity multiplier, and the review system doesn't seem set up for what's coming through.

What worries me isn't the obvious failure mode, for example PhD students copy-pasting generated text, supervisors usually catch that. It's the subtler delegation of thinking: using LLMs to pick baselines, generate hypotheses, choose theoretical frameworks, design pilots. The output reads well, the stats are clean, the writing is fluent, but no one (not the student, not the advisor) has actually defended the methodological choices. And it often makes it through review.

The supervision side worries me too, and not just because of workload. There's a generational asymmetry I keep noticing: many PIs don't use these tools much, or use them superficially, and PhD students are often more AI-fluent than their advisors. The traditional "I know more than you because I've been here longer" mentorship model gets strained when the student can produce competent-looking output in areas the supervisor doesn't deeply master. So it isn't only the PI with 10+ students drowning in workload, it's that many advisors may not be well-positioned to spot where the LLM hallucinated a reference, suggested a confounded design, or stitched together a methodologically thin narrative.

One rough prediction: bifurcation. Top venues push toward formats AI struggles with, in-the-wild deployments, longitudinal studies, working artifacts, replications, and tighten methodological requirements (pre-registration as default, maybe). Smaller venues get flooded and lose signal. Industry pulls further ahead of academia on anything requiring data and infrastructure. A replication crisis 2.0 within 3–5 years wouldn't surprise me and would be actually good to avoid death.

I want to leave room for a counterpoint, though: the gap between researchers who use AI rigorously and those who don't is widening, and that's actually a good thing for people who care about quality. If you read the literature properly, defend your methodology, and catch the LLM when it confabulates, you have a real accelerator that doesn't degrade quality. Publish-or-perish with AI punishes weaker thinking more visibly and rewards rigorous thinking more visibly. It doesn't fix the systemic problem, but at the individual level it feels more like an opportunity than a threat.

Curious what others are seeing. How is your lab actually handling AI in PhD work, any explicit policies, or is it mostly informal? Supervisors, are you keeping up, and how? PhD students, where do you personally draw the line between using a tool and delegating thinking? And as reviewers, are you flagging anything different yet?

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Gràcies!

Went to the German CHI party and found a community that pushes people that are only friends of friends, getting drunk is a value and even conflict of interest, like professors dating PhD students.

Do you have the same experience?

Cheers, a tired master student looking for a PhD position