Getting a PhD and then working outside academia is dope. My advisees who’ve done that are more or less uniformly happy and feel that they’re using the skills they trained on. (I talked to one today who just landed a great gig). Just wanted to convey that to anyone it might benefit.
Under the bus as it turns out , is another bus.
New manager bounce is important though! You are 7-0 down 1st leg in the champions league quarterfinals. Possibly let that poor sod get another 5-0 pasting then use the new manager bounce to fight for survival in the premier league (thought maybe a CL team won’t be relegation fodders but Spurs lol)
That's right. I will be teaching Quantum Field Theory with the (-,+,+,+) metric signature. The students can pound sand for all I care.
Even Mike Brown, the guy probably most responsible for Pluto downgrade is unhappy with the whole stupid “dwarf planet” classification. His point is that we classification should be informative and having Ceres (failed planet due to Jupiter) and KP objects in the same pot is stupid.
Don’t really want Man City and their lawyers to win again, but Arsenal bottling it right now got to leave generational scars. I.e exceedingly funny.
Will or should ?
Going to say I am extremely wary of “solutions” that begin “first, end our global economic model”
Yeah sorry.
I have directly supervised 12 students and interacted with many more. I am not sure a sample of seven (7) students is in any way representative. Really weird for such a small sample to be presented as some kind of insight into how graduate students think.
I think anti Americanism will linger post Trump. Maybe not in such an existential way as it feels right now, but I suspect something has fundamentally changed across the pond and in attitudes here towards it.
Indeed. I don’t think it’s a deal breaker in anyway: if the vote is today and joining the Euro is the price, even Krugman if he could vote would vote rejoin. But the Euro is a part of political project, and definitely not an unalloyed good as John Oxley pointed out.
I am persuaded by Paul Krugman that the Euro is bad economics policy.
archive.nytimes.com/krugman.blog...
We never hear from the BBC's Small Boats Correspondent when there are no or few arrivals. Strange that.
Maybe the PM felt he owed McSweeny a freebie and McSweeny felt he owed Mandelson a freebie. Favours are transitive!
Ironically English is my 2nd language and though it is now mymost proficient language, enough of my weird ESL quirks seeped through my writing (as my wife can attests) that I feel a bit more immune to imitation by LLM. They can rip emdashes out of my cold dead foreign hands though.
👇The latest from RPN on the shake-up of funding at @ukri.org that is leading to ~30% cuts in UK research funding to astrophysics, nuclear and particle physics. Other research areas are now realising that these changes are going to impact their funding too....🧪🔭⚛️
Speaking to Research Professional News, Marcus Munafò, deputy vice-chancellor and provost at the University of Bath, said: “I think there’s a risk we could end up in a situation where some technologies or certain disciplines fall off a cliff—go past a certain threshold because they don’t have a critical mass of funding to support them. “That bit seems to be missing from the debate; we need to think about the research ecosystem as national capability and infrastructure that we need to keep healthy to allow us to react to unknown scenarios in the future.”
There's definitely a reshaping of UK research going on
Some of it is intentional - govt encouraging unis to specialise, UKRI directing funds for applied R&I to industrial strategy areas
Some of it isn't - unis taking individual decisions to save costs that add up to impact on national capacity
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I have seen a lot of NIMBY selfishness in my time, but "my convenience matters more than cancer care" is a new low. Quite seriously tempted to email them and tell them as much.
Maybe a good reason for UK rejoin before 2028!
“If you were in charge of Star Trek, what would you do?”
A sitcom revolving around a space taxi service, with a Ferenggi as the dispatcher, a Klingon immigrant driver and a Vulcan owner.
A “Friends” sitcom about civilians living in the Trek world doing civvies jobs. Maybe one of the characters work with starfleet as a contractor doing boring logistics eg.
The Telegraph just gave a convicted criminal a two-page spread to explain why he's pumping £4 million into Reform UK. They tucked his criminal record away in the small print. So as a former financial crime specialist I’ll do their job for them👇
Just to be sure that’s not aimed at you Rev!
We used to be the guys laughing at Chelsea and Madrid for throwing their league winning managers under the bus in the first sight of lack of success and here we are.
Honestly i have been through Hodgson and the latter years of Brodgers, and I have never felt so disgusted by our own fans as I am now. That guy won you the fucking league less than a year ago and had to deal with a ton of shit. I am not sure he is the best manager but ffs he earned some slack.
I told my wife (non football fan who know more about LFC than she wanted to after we got married) about the liverpool fans braying to get slot fired and she said “so, plastics, you mean?”
Bloody hell. Researchers invented a disease, published two fake papers to see if LLM’s would ingest them and kick them up as fact — and then it broke containment and all the major AI’s bought in. Information pollution.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X.
This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵 (1/5)
www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
I lived in Stow for many ears. I am absolutely incensed at Labour right now, but if I can still vote there, I'd still choose Creasy over ZP (or any body else) even now. She's a phenomenal local MP.