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Original post here. This was a busy weekend, with student paperwork emergencies, grading the midterm, helping out kids with some schoolwork, and also DH’s birthday, for which I did some extra special cooking (no guests, just us, but it’s nice to mark the occasion). I’m feeling a bit π©π©π©π©π© and there’s still grading to do,
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Recently, I attended a workshop that discussed faculty transitioning into administrative roles. It was very well run, with engaging and, honestly, very impressive panelists. I did not think I’d ever be able to appreciate one of these event, but it was probably the double whammy of me being amenable and the workshop being well run
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Original post here.Β A couple of weeks ago, I took an older colleague to lunch. He’s in a different area so we’d never interacted too much, but to the extent we had, I’d always thought he was pretty cool. Anyway, he’s 70, retiring, and moving cross-country to take up a research-only position elsewhere. I’d missed
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https://twitter.com/scalzi/status/1588133006916653056?s=20&t=W7AlFtrJikd9eM22hzbHtg We succeeded in recreating a Neolithic flatbread! This is about as close as I can figure out how to make bread as it would have been baked in one of the first daily bread-making cultures, ca. 9,000 years ago. Iβll let you judge the authenticityβ¦but the taste is fantastic. pic.twitter.com/z3cWIyVXbf — πππ π»πππ ππππππ
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>>NOVEMBER 2022: If you have a question youβd like me to answer during Nov 2022 daily blogging, please leave a comment to this post.<<Β Another question by Profdirector, originally posted here: What not obvious thing do you wish the old fully promoted men in your department knew? I’m going to assume this question ends with
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Welcome to daily blogging in November! In the spirit of NaNoWriMo, there’s an old blogging tradition known as NaBloPoMo, national blog posting month. I will start with a question from Profdirector, originally posted here: Navel-gazing subject: what amount of yearly money could your research survive on? I.e. what annual budget would allow you to stop
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The other day, I came across this tweet (screenshot below): I started fuming, but that’s neither here nor there, since I fume a lot, on account of being a perimenopausal woman and the world generally being a steaming cauldron of irritating shit. Still, upon closer inspection, I realized this was a very specific kind of
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NOVEMBER 2022: If you have a question you’d like me to answer during Nov 2022 daily blogging, please leave a comment to this post.Β I have a new pen name/email/web domain for the new (to me) genre in which I am writing a novel. This brings the number of different email accounts to seventeen gajillion.
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This book chapter, a gift that keeps on giving. And by giving, I mean taking. Mostly the will to live. The book has been in the making for literally years, and there’s constantly some additional shit that needs to be done by us, the authors, rather than by the typesetters and copyeditors that the publisher
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In recent years, our enrollments have been increasing, which I suppose is good for the department and the college. However — and I don’t know if this is a pandemic effect, or the effect of us enrolling students who aren’t as prepared as we need them to be — the skills of students in basic
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