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Dear xykademiqz, I’m reaching out as I’m not sure where to turn and the anonymity of the blogosphere may be helpful here. I’m an assistant professor who was trained in a field with pretty equal gender representation up until the postdoctoral level and studied in a pretty racially diverse city. I’ve moved to a field
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Seems like there’s never any time for a full post, but such is pandemic/academic (pandcademic? with a silent d?) life. This year started well with respect to research papers; one out, one accepted, two likely to be accepted by the end of the month. This after a slow 2020 where my grad students (and, let’s
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♦ Teaching in person this coming semester. Looking forward to interacting with students, feeling bad for them, and let’s face it, myself, too, in the light of incessant saliva-based testing that is now required in order to access any building. In the fall we didn’t have anyone get sick in class, all positive cases were
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https://twitter.com/JoaquimCampa/status/1294522730021367808?s=20 https://twitter.com/JoaquimCampa/status/1350843546471952387?s=20 Babe you’re not an “empath” you have ptsd from an unstable household and are sensitive to emotional change as a defense mechanism — F.F. 🇵🇸 (@takisiski) January 14, 2021 For anyone that needs to hear this today: pic.twitter.com/7qOrlrH0AS — Jayme Bean (they/she) (@JaymeBeanAuthor) December 30, 2020 https://twitter.com/mariskreizman/status/1349717963306377217?s=20 https://twitter.com/mdbell79/status/1335967193607983104?s=20 https://twitter.com/PressCardigan/status/1349043474243444737?s=20 https://twitter.com/ArtsOfExistence/status/1343905718362120192?s=20 https://twitter.com/MackayIM/status/1319901144836026368?s=20 “I used
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I chatted with DH today about our childhoods. Mine often feels like another life, or like it happened to someone else. Perhaps that’s how everyone feels. As I wrote here and there on the blog, I had primary school (equivalent of elementary plus middle, 8 years total), the placement into which was solely based on
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The week started off well, with two papers coming back with minor revisions. Not a moment too soon, as I’ve got major grants expiring and needing to be renewed later this year. My group does theory and simulation, and we’ve done better than experimental groups amid the pandemic, but it hasn’t been completely without a
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The first full week of January is traditionally International Blog Delurking Week. Readers old and new, please delurk (even if you’re not actually lurking) and say hi, tell us something about yourself, how you found the blog, and/or how you’re doing in these strange times. Don’t be shy!
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Happy 2021, everyone! 2020 has been something, hasn’t it? On xykademiqz, I’ve had periods of intense blogging and periods of, ahem, no blogging at all. But I’m not going anywhere and plan to blog, as I have in the past, when I have something to say. December has been a bit dry, but I hope
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omdg asks: “Can you discuss at some point what people do with a PhD in Physics, and how much it matters to your job prospects whether you go to Big Name Coast school versus one in flyover country. In my field, for instance, if you trained “in Boston” you get what seems to be unlimited
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The comments to my previous post, which addressed the statement of purpose for grad school and miscellaneous admissions criteria in several disciplines, are detailed and very interesting, and I recommend that you go read them all. Here, I want to answer (in my trademark meandering way; sorry folks!) lyra211’s question from her comment: “Xyk, I’m
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