As an (ex) university professor, there is nothing, NOTHING better than getting an email out of the blue from a student from ten years ago who found some article he thought you’d be interested in, and then goes on to tell you how “you probably don’t remember me, but your class totally changed my life and now I live in Japan and am really into astrophotography”.
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I think EVERY student, graduate students included, should register with the disability office, and here's why.
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Supervising someone's thesis is a huge responsibility. You don't have to be perfect, but you should be aware that someone is trusting you. Someone might look up to you. You can hurt them and this can take years to heal. It's a responsibility and a privilege.
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This situation isn't that much different from what most post-docs experience in academic R&D IMO.
- highly trained individuals
- neither staff nor student
- pay under industry level
- fixed term contracts
- little growth prospect but lottery tickets and politics
- requirement to move without support
- department shenanigans
Insult to injury here is the fact that many get suckered into sub-contracting as self-employed.
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Hey, Glasgow-local people, want to do an experiment? Come into my lab and have your eyes tracked while I study how you process sound and syntax, predict meaning, and encode memory!
One hour, and I pay £15 cash in hand.
Boosts welcome (especially people on Glasgow/Scotland-related servers!)
Edited to add link: Sign up here: https://forms.office.com/e/46AtS0ikaj
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Edited 78d ago
I talked to @404mediaco about generative AI's impact on teaching. Apparently I wasn't alone... not by a long shot. @jasonkoebler got a ton of responses about this topic and ran many of them here:
https://www.404media.co/teachers-are-not-ok-ai-chatgpt/
While it's distressing to read all of them, it's good to see I'm not alone.
I am hiring!
I have a fully funded PhD position available for someone with an interest in logic and statistics, at Delft University of Technology (Netherlands).
Application deadline: 31 August 2025
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Pleased to announce that my book, Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle for Democratic Social Media, is now available online, and will be out in print in a couple weeks!
https://moveslowlybuildbridges.com
That site has more stuff, too -- links to related articles, some notes about how I researched it, and a contact form in case you want to talk about the fediverse with me! (I'd be happy to chat with journalists about it!)
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