Pie on a plate with a fork.
Obligatory pie for breakfast on Pi Day.
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Pie on a plate with a fork.
Obligatory pie for breakfast on Pi Day.
You and me both! It also makes me sad hearing my colleagues done down on the radio.
The classroom is tough at the moment - math classes are always hard, but our instructors do an excellent job. Most first year students need these courses and need to pass them. I have no idea how just cutting half the classes will improve educational outcomes.
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
President of @munfaculty.bsky.social, Dr. Lisa Moores, will be on CBC morning show tomorrow around 7:50 talking about cuts at MUN, including the loss of first year math instructors.
It’s certainly required for a lot of programs. We’ll end up with fewer classes of much larger sizes. Unfortunately, the folks who do some of the best teaching at that level will also be gone.
This is my department. I may lose many of my colleagues, who are excellent teachers and have taught almost all of our first year courses for years and years.
Proposed cuts in Mathematics & Statistics would eliminate 7 of 8 teaching positions and reduce first-year course sections students depend on. As the provincial budget approaches, faculty are urging government to reinvest in Memorial. 1/2
This hits too close to home.
Have you learned nothing?
Then I’m in. Loved Perilous Times!
Are these the knights of Perilous Times?
There’s probably a mention of Go 8 Bit in there somewhere.
Batman!
“He’s in hell” is wonderfully undersold.
PSUP, pronounced pea soup.
I’m rereading Agatha Christie’s Poirot, so loved seeing “tisane” show up in the wild.
An office door filled with paper snowflakes and a sign that reads “Have a very symmetric Christmas.”
My office door, in preparation for the door decorating competition at work.
This was a great one.
I saw your show in Newfoundland.
Kissing the cod is a way to become an honorary Newfoundlander for those unlucky enough to have been born elsewhere.
Really enjoyed this game.
This one killed me. 29 minutes, and a mistake!
Congratulations on submitting it anyway.
Congratulations!
Makes me want to watch Watchmen again.
Start applying for jobs before you’re ready; you can get ready. Publish as much as you can. It doesn’t count as proved until it’s LaTeXed. (Math only?) You can take breaks. Think about industry. Apply for everything - make them reject you. Invite stragglers to lunch at conferences.
This might be my favourite video ever.
If you are an LMS member, consider voting for me as a member-at-large of council.
I want to continue on council @londmathsoc.bsky.social - I've enjoyed my time and contributions (e.g. ed-comm, newsletter, sustainability), and want to continue and do more. Questions welcome in person or online!
It's that time of year again. Happy Michaelmas to all who celebrate.
youtu.be/WDXLxpQdIUQ
Gray and black mottled rock surface with a light-yellow trail crossing it from the middle-left to lower right of the photo; to the right is a prone Paleontologist Barbie doll (African-American version with long black hair) wearing a proper broad-brimmed hat for field work, a pink kerchief around her neck, and a shirt with motifs of animal tracks and dinosaurs on it).
For #FossilFriday, one of the oldest known animal trace fossils interpreted from the geologic record (~565 million years old) preserved as a tiny trail on a bedding plane at Mistaken Point, NewFoundland (Canada), investigated during a 2012 visit by our hero, Paleontologist Barbie. 🧪🐾🪨⚒️