or at least, it would wreak havoc on grad admission if there was any research funding for graduate admissions...
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or at least, it would wreak havoc on grad admission if there was any research funding for graduate admissions...
At this point, I'm pretty sure I'm just having a conversation with ChatGPT...
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The humor of this exchange aside, all of this is probably wreaking havoc on grad admissions. I wonder what the Kalshi odds are for "Graduate schools bring back GREs before 2028?"
bsky.app/profile/roma...
My former undergrad!!!
It was the winter of despair, it was the summer of despair
It was the worst of times, it was the… yeah, no, it was just the worst of times.
Nino3.4 region sea surface temperature forecast.
Wow, that's a monster signal for El Niño in today's new ECMWF seasonal forecast.
Armour 2013 and Andrews 2015 are the good OG papers on the patter effect.
PREACH!
4 year old, making a lego soccer stadium:
“The girls’ team is called the ponytails. The boys’ team is called the pockets.”
“Why?”
“Because girls have ponytails, and boys have pockets”
In all my years in academia this is the closest thing i’ve seen to a faculty lounge.
(5 people will find this funny)
Any faculty seen lounging by the dean gets automatically assigned to the accreditations committee.
I’ve never even seen a faculty lounge.
Nor have I ever seen a faculty lounge.
Oh. You want tea? Please provide an account number for a project where Tea is listed as an allowable expense.
Or is it an indication that HR sees the future of college education as consisting of staff and admin, with faculty thankfully replaced by AI?
HR is preparing a new “AI professional development” training series.
It has two separate tracks.
So now I have to figure out whether HR thinks of faculty as “staff” or “leadership”.
chat, what do you think?
My contribution to the rice discourse is that , having grown up in the balkans, i was 18 years old when i found out you can eat rice in any form other than pilaf
The best map i’ve seen all year.
And i work in a job where most of what i do is stare at maps.
The best map i’ve seen all year.
And i work in a job where most of what i do is stare at maps.
How do you count review panels? (6-9 15 page proposals to review). That burns me out for a month.
Making the answer to every question on the first homework be some version of “67” is a good way to ensure your students stop saying “6-7” for the rest of the semester.
E.g.
“Fill in the blanks: the Stefan-Boltzmann constant is
5.__x10^-8”
if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them
No matter who’s (allegedly) killing what industry, i assume it’s boomers doing the complaining.
My favorite part of doing peer reviewed research is when the response to reviewers on a "MINOR revisions" is longer than the manuscript itself....
If the model fits... 👞
RCP85 discourse is business as usual (BAU) discourse
There is always RCP discourse! Always!
Just as economists can keep Bjorn Lomborg
Do not pin him on us. Astrophysics can damn well keep him :)
