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Today, I received 156 non-junk, directed, relevant-to-me work emails. I composed and sent out 102 distinct emails. I booked three trips for myself (panel, invited talk, program review), made itineraries for two visitors coming in the next couple of weeks (which included herding faculty cats to meet, as well as booking restaurants for meals and rooms…
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Annorlunda Books has a new release — the novella Caresaway! Go check it out! From Rebecca Schuman, the contemporary American university in seven emails (here, also here). I have been reading “The Professor Is In: The Essential Guide to Turning Your PhD Into a Job” by Karen Kelsky. It’s interesting and very engaging, and I believe…
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Welcome to 2017! Sadly, this year WordPress won’t be producing the lovely annual report we have come to expect from them (see last year’s and the one before), as it is apparently too demanding of their resources. They promised to come back in 2017 with an equivalent that requires less manpower. So I have assembled my own…
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Happy holidays! Here are some bits of (mostly) pop culture that I enjoyed or that made me think over the past few weeks. Movies Arrival is wonderful. It moves slowly and Amy Adams is luminous. The movie explores the importance of language in how we view the world. I highly recommend it. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story —…
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I have been on a cross-departmental search committee, and it’s been a ton of work. Over the last few weeks, I have taken part in a number of Skype interviews, and it blows my mind how poorly the people who look really good on paper perform on these interviews. While my department alone hasn’t done Skype…
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Hi all, it’s been a few months since “Academaze” came out. As I am quite proud of it, I would like to spread the word and get more people to read it. If you enjoy this blog and are active on social media, I would like to ask for your help in spreading the word about…
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Two of my students graduated in the span of a week. Essentially everyone but me who was on their committees was an experimentalist, with the exception of one pen-and-paper theorist. Let me tell you this: developing computer simulations of the physical world which have real predictive power is very complicated. It requires understanding experiments, being…
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I have been asked to submit a list of my N most important papers for a certain nomination. In this case, N is five. In the past, for various reasons, N was often three, including for my tenure package years ago. It’s always hard to chose; what does it even mean — “most important papers”? There are…
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This is soooo my husband.
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One of my favorites… Originally appeared here.
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