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After a mad dash to the deadline, I recouped (read: did weekend chores) and am now heading out of town. For your viewing pleasure, here’s a great segment from John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight show. The whole segment is longish, but if you only have a few minutes, at 17:15 starts a hilarious trailer for a…
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Reader E has a question for the blogosphere. I am retelling the original email to better anonymize the case (as per E’s request). I think I managed to capture the gist of the experience; E, if something is incorrect, please let me know. ******* E completed their PhD in a physical science field at a tippity-top university (ranked…
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I think I might explode with anger and frustration. I have a proposal due next week and I cannot get to work on it because I have to finish two nominations (including writing letters) for colleagues (no, they could not have been done sooner because everyone, including the nominees, waits till the very last fuckin’…
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It’s proposal writing time, which means it’s time for rock blasting through my headphones to help me focus. (Don’t judge.) For your listening pleasure, I recommend two of The Black Keys’ old albums. The 2006 “Magic Potion”… … and the 2004 “Rubber Factory” Again, if you get a chance, see these guys live. They are phenomenal!
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I am in a physical science field, addressing problems by means of theory and computation. I also work a lot with experimentalists. When I write paper or proposals with experimental colleagues, since they all use MS Word, I use it too. I also use MS Word for a lot of small documents (writing homework assignments and tests,…
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I am very tired, it’s been a hellish week; but, something that happened last week remains with me, so I might as well try to purge it through writing, as I have been itching to do. I am sure I wrote about similar experiences before, but here it goes again. I am very impatient and the people who speak…
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I am on my way back from a conference. Yet again I wonder why we spend so much time and money on this stupid conference travel. I got up at 3:40 and I am quite grumpy, so be forewarned. I had an invited talk at this meeting that’s very large and fairly prestigious to be…
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Tomorrow — February 5th — is the 9th World Nutella Day! Nom, slurp, and lick accordingly!
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I recently spent some time with a very junior faculty member at my institution. Young, from a prestigious institution, male. Thinks he has everything figured out. When I tell him what some very explicit requirements for tenure at the university are, he pouts and objects that they are unreasonable (they are not) and that if he…
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I have submitted a paper to a journal that prides itself in rapid turnaround. It’s been a week and no action; it’s sitting on the editorial desk (well, metaphorically; rather in an inbox or a folder of some sort). I am getting really antsy, because they often send out for review within a couple of days…
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