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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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I had an invited talk at a conference I don’t usually attend and there I met one of my former grad students, who’s now happily employed in industry. He said how one of his younger friends from his postdoc group had tried to talk to me at an earlier conference this summer, but couldn’t get
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Phindustry had a baby! Go say congrats!
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Hi everyone! It’s time for my hopefully not-too-frequent plug for Academaze, a book of essays and cartoons on academic life at a research institution. It’s the best of the blog — originally Academic Jungle, then xykademiqz — between 2010 and 2016. If you’ve bought and read Academaze, please go over to Amazon and leave a
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A friend of the blog, Alex, has a new and thought-provoking essay in Arc Digital on the importance of humanities to STEM. https://arcdigital.media/why-this-physics-professor-reads-old-books-dda23ab96ed8
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As Saturday is always the slowest, most boring day on the web, presumably because everyone is grocery shopping/watching kids play sports/mowing or plowing, depending on season/doing laundry, I will do my best to post something on Saturdays (at least every other Saturday) going forward. MechEngPhD asked: … I’d be particularly interested in hearing about your
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A new bane of my parental existence: People who insist on carpooling for the sake of carpooling and who, anxious about achieving perfect reciprocity, end up wasting way more of my time (and theirs) texting about it than is saved by carpooling. Stop texting me and just let me take everyone’s kids, OK? I love
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