Clemens Pilgram

Why is this horrible for Universities?

Just about everyone who isn't a citizen or green card holder already who's hired for a tenure track faculty position is hired through an H1B and then, after 3-5 years, applies for a green card.

This is literally "No more foreign professors can be hired"

(preaching to the choir here, I know)

I'm on an H-1B visa. I'm a professor. Perhaps it's worth mentioning that my employer hired me after spending months trying identifying all relevant job candidates and determined that I was the best fit for the role, despite all the extra costs and bureaucracy involved in hiring a foreigner.

Successfully relocated to Kansas, on to exploring my new surroundings.

John Conzelmann presents his research on the diversification of higher education

Sierra Arnold presents her research on public transit infrastructure and urban heat

Clemens Pilgram presents his work on the text used in real estate listings

Lauren Schechter presents her work on subsidized work experiences for TANF recipients

Thank you @johnconz.bsky.social, Sierra Arnold, @capilgram.bsky.social, and Lauren Schechter for visiting us @miamiecon.bsky.social this summer! ☀️

I love that our department supports this series & would encourage more departments to bring folks in over the summer. Here’s why 👇

Do it

Fun with healthcare in 2025: Come back to the US, test positive for Covid, use my insurer's telehealth in hopes of securing some paxlovid - only to be connected with an antivax doctor who calls the vax & antivirals "that Pfizer scam" and blames the vax for my symptoms.

Am I tripping? Am I screwed?

all great cuisines have a double carb moment. in italy, thinly-sliced potato with rosemary and garlic on pizza. in japan, cubed potato in a curry served with rice. in england, chip butty.

Got a new phone, forgot to install Twitter/X on it, and almost a week later I'm not even sure I'm missing out on anything?

Oooooh I will gladly take some introductions!

Turns out, this was a little premature!

Happy to announce that starting in August, I will be an Assistant Professor at Kansas State University's Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional & Community Planning in the College of Architecture, Planning & Design. Little Apple, here I come!

The real beauty of Skype was how it was lightweight enough to run in the background and tell me whether my parents also happened to be available at any given time - an IM-like feature that appears to have been forgotten by newer servives?

Really is. Still looking for an "elderly parent friendly" Skype alternative that isn't an ordeal for them to operate

Call me a dinosaur, but I just held what is probably my last ever Skype call.

It's an ancient platform, but it's what allowed this international student to video chat with his parents for 14 years - and I'm not sure its replacements are better?

I'll miss hearing that Skype ringtone. Farewell :')

Gans made so many contributions to how we understand cities, and was an early voice of how suburban life was interesting and worthy of study and respect.

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

If anything, the sweet spot is a chill but lucrative email job + some fulfilling hobbies! If people want physical work, there's so many good activities to do off the clock - there should be no shame in being a weekend warrior and forming communities around it.

In tomorrow's session of my real estate finance class, I am supposed to go over risks and how to account for them in financial planning - such as business risks (e.g. unanticipated vacancies/changes in demand), inflation risk, or legislative risk.

I did not anticipate my syllabus being this timely.

Am I imagining things, or did Trader Joe's (and, presumably, a bunch of other stores) just substantially hike a whole lot of prices to account for tariffs?

So much "winning" for the consumer...

In practice, not being able to use my repairable laptop for my daily work almost has me running toward the nearest Apple Store to buy a computer that may be disposable tech, but for which parts and repair services are de facto more available.

@frame.work - I really like your mission of making consumer electronics repairable, but this really only works if parts are actually available.

Do you have any indication how much longer batteries for the FW13 will be out of stock?

I love my @frame.work 13 AMD laptop dearly after a year and a half of daily driving it, but ... why oh why do batteries (of all kinds!) have to be out of stock right as its stock battery is turning into a spicy pillow?

Any ways to procure a battery (even a 55Wh!) in the US, quickly?

(Background: as dated as Skype may be, I've used it for almost 1.5 decades for my weekly call with my parents, who aren't exactly the most tech-savvy and are very much creatures of habit...)

Polling the wisdom of the crowd: what's a good Skype alternative, now that it's shutting down?

Features I'm looking for are 1) reliable video calling, 2) a reliable indicator of whether somebody is online, 3) a simple UI that won't scare the elderly, and 4) is light enough to run in the background.

Normal people when they see "kidney donor needed" signs: "I hope they find someone compatible!"

Road cyclists: "By how much would donating a kidney increase my Watts/kg?"

As a European in the US I can tell so many stories of White Americans trying way too hard to assert that they are as German as I am (despite not speaking the language etc). Feels kind of insulting ... but this here just helps push the idea that "merely" being White American is insufficient?

I Used to Teach Students. Now I Catch ChatGPT Cheats | The Walrus I once believed university was a shared intellectual pursuit. That faith has been obliterated

The worst thing about LLM's is that they've made the teaching part of my job so tedious. An LLM can generate an essay that technically fulfills any set of criteria so why doesn't that essay deserve a perfect score? They create a world where smart kids feel like suckers for caring.

Welp - good luck, hope they find a pocket of money with which to fund you!

Next year's market is still a long way out, but if any planning department, policy school, or real estate-y business school is looking for people ... do holler in my direction.

To be clear: UC Lindner has been nothing but fantastic, Cincinnati is growing on me as a place, and I only applied to a small handful of places this year.