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Who ever this is SPILLED! pic.twitter.com/eYDkxgEPxI — THEO ADSR (@ThatSoThe0) February 29, 2020 The video is much more hilarious than but in the same vein as the takeaway of this oldie but goodie post of mine: “Ride It Like You Stole It.”
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I don’t like snow or cold, so you’d think maybe I shouldn’t live in the Midwest, but it’s hard to beat the low cost of living and the good public schools. Luckily, we’re at the tail end of winter — nicer weather, longer days — so I’m coming out of the slump and feeling (somewhat)…
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My department and college have rules as to how much certain people can be paid. There are set salaries (with a very narrow window around each) for the different seniority levels of research scientists.There is a set salary for a full-time postdoc; you can’t pay them more and if you must pay them less, then…
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Happy 2020, everyone! Following an ancient blogosphere tradition, the first(ish) week of January is the Blog Delurking Week! Stop by to say ‘hi’ in the comments. Tell us a bit about who you are, what brings you to the blog, what grates your cheese, what you’d like to read about on xykademiqz, and what you…
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Happy holidays to everyone and may all your New Year’s resolutions come true! 2019 has been an anemic year here on the blog mostly because it’s been a somewhat anemic year in real life. In the fall 2018, the departure of Eldest to college hit me hard. Even though husband and I aren’t empty nesters…
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An interesting thing about middle age, or at least my middle age, is that, after a lifetime of holding my tongue and playing nice and putting up with $hit for the sake of peace and doing (or at least trying to do) what’s societally expected of women, some thresholds have been crossed and now my…
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I often write here about burnout and, whether that comes across or not, I admit that I usually feel it’s my own fault the fires of technical creation do not perennially warm my heart. But this week I realized — belatedly, surprisingly — that it’s probably not all my fault. There are serious structural obstacles…
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https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/professor-minerva-mcgonagalls-letter-to-the-tenure-committee https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/back-from-yet-another-globetrotting-adventure-indiana-jones-checks-his-mail-and-discovers-that-his-bid-for-tenure-has-been-denied
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I am on sabbatical this year and it is glorious. I have time to exercise every day, so I’m walking, running, and back to my biggest love — kickboxing! I’m feeling human again, and not just human, but like a grounded, rarely salty, and — dare I say? — moderately energetic human. I’m not teaching…
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From Twitter, by way of this @mnitabach tweet embedding a @hormiga tweet:
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