We are attending @sheffielduni.bsky.social Spring Careers Fair today from 12-3pm in the Octagon!
We are advertising our funded PhD studentship available in AI-assisted materials discovery:
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There is so much truth in this article: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We are looking at a painting of St Liphardus - a 6th-century lawyer, hermit and abbot in Meung-sur-Loire near Orléans, France. He is wearing bishops clothing including a surplus and mitre and is holding a crook. On a lead is a small knee high green and blue dragon.
We’re very sorry sir but you cannot bring your emotional support dragon in here.
That should be semiconductor sector not centre!
Absolutely! We are looking for people with experience of EDI research ideally rather than engineers!!
If you can off this kind of work on a consultancy basis, please do have a look! If you know people who would be keen to engage with us on this - please forward the details! We hope this might be the start of a bigger and concerted effort to improve equity in the sector!
Folks! The REWIRE Innovation and Knowledge Centre and other associated EPSRC projects are running a call for proposals looking for someone to investigate barriers to the recruitment and retention of minoritised people in the semiconductor centre:
rewire-ikc.org/engage-with-...
I spent too much time in my PhD listening for the turbo pump going wrong to enjoy that one!
What is your favourite lab sound? Mine is probably a non-sound: walking into the electron microscopy suite and feeling the heavy hush descend.
(From the First Epistle of Granny Weatherwax to the Omnians)
[Terry Pratchett, "Carpe Jugulum"]
"you people don't burn folk and sacrifice people anymore, but that's what true faith would mean, y'see? Sacrificin' your own life, one day at a time, to the flame, declarin' the truth of it, working' for it, breathin' the soul of it. That's religion. Anything else is just ... is just bein' nice."
University of Birmingham have a live feed for the nesting Peregrines on the Old Joe clock tower.
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Delay repay kind of assumes a vaguely working rail system...
I think you are right. Meaningful reward for high quality peer review could potentially be more rapidly integrated into the current system than the "bug bonus" and would be less risky in terms of potentially punishing ambition and big picture thinking. But it might require journals to make less 💰💰💰💰
I reckon the getting stranded overnight in Newcastle incident might suggest that?
Made it home fairly smoothly after this, and was only actually delayed about 30 minutes. The continual need to readjust plans does become tiring though.
Found a different connection. Which then came to a grinding halt just outside the first station...
Really interesting concept here: including in grants a "bounty" to be paid to readers finding errors in publications arising from that grant. Kinda feel this would be unnecessary if we just supported and scrutinised peer review properly...
Tbh if I were stuck there I'd just go see my in laws. But I'm actually nearly home, so it's all good. Relatively short journey today - but the number of train problems per mile is particularly high.
Alternative train is (of course) delayed, so I have missed my next connection.
Wave function collapsed. Train was indeed cancelled but I have found an alternative.
True!
Is this Schrödinger's train? If so, I really need to collapse the wave function so I can figure out how to get home.
I am once again on a train that is simultaneously bowling along happily through the British countryside and also apparently cancelled. Or possibly not cancelled depending on where you look.
What did the teapot say to the chalk?
Nothing, silly, teapots can't talk.
(With thanks to Shel Silverstein en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shel_Si...)
Ah - that makes sense. Thanks!
Oh dear. This sounds like an "Oh God what now?" situation... What has he done this time?
I haven't heard anything to suggest any movement on this situation.