He’s right, my car gets 42 miles per carton!!

Congratulations on whatever it is you are not announcing here!!
So well deserved!!
🎉🍾🎈

At my institution the only thing our administration likes more than pushing AI hiring slots on us is affirmative action hires for conservatives.
You’re lucky you are at…checks notes…uh…. My institution?

Any self-respecting institution of higher learning would balk at inviting, much less celebrating, one of the most corrupt justices in memory, and a credibly accused sexual harasser.
But not mine!!

It’s been “0” days since my university has publicly embarrassed itself.

I wonder if he’ll talk about the part of the declaration that demands one take undisclosed bribes from oligarchs to coincidentally rule in their favor??

A+

Yea all the more reason to invest in what’s important: Mikhail Kats, Prof. QB

I think the quarterback for my university’s football team makes enough per year to fund my lab for ten years.
Have you considered becoming the starting QB at UWisc?
It has the added advantage that you’ll be doing something that the university actually cares about!

Yea this pretty much describes my mood perfectly. I lose so much time thinking about science because I’m thinking about $$

Miguel Centena taught a “western way of war” class that I TA’ed for in the early 2000’s. Enrollment was quite high, though it was sociology not history.
Dunno if that’s still offered.

Every time I read about some horrible policy being implemented in higher Ed I am outraged and then realize that we’ve been forced to do that at UT Austin like forever.

Might not have been fair to ask him to sing either

Workday is a nightmare
UT has had it for maybe 5+ years now
It’s awful

I dunno what you are talking about everything works great the first time and no equipment goes down and I don’t spend so much time writing reports that I don’t have time to do science. It’s easy.

It’s cultural, you wouldn’t.

This is actually impressive. You should be proud, as a father, that your kids place the plates in planes including the z axis!
My kids have been known to place dishes in the xy plane…literally resting in the tines.
In fairness, they may be trying to induce a stroke in me

And to be clear, despite our decrepit infrastructure and obscene lack of funding for TAs we still are lucky compared to other departments at UT. The depts. that don’t teach anything ‘useful’, just writing, reading, and critical thinking, are in worse shape…325K a year could go a long way there…

Amazing. My students do extensive repeated cleans on samples b/c the building’s HVAC system spits black dust all over the labs. Experiments are done under a tarp b/c the roof leaks. But @utaustin.bsky.social will spend >300K on a speechwriter b/c we have a pres. who knows nothing about higher ed

That’s weird. I was given to understand that university leaders are only able to cower in fear and preemptively overcomply with the very worst interpretation of a legislature’s anticipated actions. Hook ‘em 🤘🤘🤘

Or scientific discoveries. They also don’t understand those.

It’s the phones. A world of distraction at their (our) fingertips as addictive as a drug. I can’t do anything about my students but the fight with my more distract-able child is non-stop, and absolutely soul-sucking.
I wish I could smash that thing into a million pieces.

Wanted to go, looked at getting tickets, but it would have been $500 to take the family…to watch the USMNT C team?

Exactly this. In fact, universities subsidize this vital research by paying 9 months of faculty salary and supporting the research infrastructure (which typically costs more than what comes in from federal grants!)
Universities subsidize federal research, not vice versa!

Crap what did they do now?

Just checked and the paper with the clear duplications is still up. @springernature.com has done nothing despite this being a clear, open and shut, case of copying.
@retractionwatch.com

structures from this material with Q~100,000.
This work was a collaboration with the Demkov group at UT and includes co-authors: Divya Hungund, Dan Krueger, Zuoming Dong, Zarko Sakotic, Agham Posadas, and Alex Demkov. Funded by ONR and AFOSR.

...due to its extremely large nonlinear response, but thus far loss in this material system is much much larger than in other nonlinear optical materials such as lithium niobate.
Amogh shows losses in monolithic BTO waveguides of <0.15 dB/cm and fabricated ring and racetrack resonator...

High‐Q Monolithic Ring Resonators in Low‐Loss Barium Titanate on Silicon Barium Titanate (BTO) boasts one of the largest known Pockels coefficients and offers compatibility with the existing CMOS fabrication infrastructure. However, BTO photonic structures have, to date, ....

The latest from our group published in Laser and Photonics Reviews: doi.org/10.1002/lpor....
UT Mid-IR Photonics grad student Amogh Raju demonstrates record low loss in barium titanate (BTO) waveguides and resonators.
BTO is an intriguing material for integrated photonic applications...

#OPG_OMEx welcomes submissions to a Feature Issue on Epitaxial Materials for Photonics. Excited to be part of the guest editor team for this special issue!!
Submissions close 1 June:

It’s weird that a movement so fundamentally anti-intellectual, incurious, and intolerant is uncomfortable on college campuses. Must be the liberals fault.