Terry McGlynn

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.

Because we advisors were the ones who were updating the file. We're doing the same updating, it's just now in two different computer systems that we need to update.

I wonder though? We had this system when I came to my campus in the late aughts and still had the one staff member in the office. What has changed is the amount of detail/information that we are expected to deal with.

But correcting proofs by just writing on them instead of trying to do the impossible software markup thing?

Did I feel positive nostalgia, like if I had an advising appointment in my office, I could just go to the office and pull one file folder? Instead of logging into a minimum of three different systems and spending more time looking at a computer screen then the person I'm actually helping?

(would it be more work on the back end? I dunno. I imagine there wouldn't be anybody arguing about using a separate exchange rate for every single day when submitting an international travel reconcilation)

In the new Pitt episode they have to shift to non-internet operations from the 90s.

Makes me wonder if we did this at my university, would this make things actually simpler, easier, and be more time efficient for faculty? I believe it would.

whoah. In an adminish role I allow folks to see my calendar availability, and I have a ton of meetings nowadays because of the role, but nobody's going to pop a meeting on my calendar without checking in with me. I occasionally get invites pop up as a courtesy, not for when I'm expected.

In a statement to The Crimson, Summers wrote that the decision to leave was “difficult” and that he remained “grateful to the thousands of students and colleagues I have been privileged to teach and work with since coming to Harvard as a graduate student 50 years ago.” “Free of formal responsibility, as President Emeritus and a retired professor, I look forward in time to engaging in research, analysis, and commentary on a range of global economic issues,” he added.

When academia's stars mistreat people, they're "punished" with relief from teaching, mentoring, and service responsibilities. This frees them to spend more time on the more valued work of research. And dumps less valued responsibilities onto colleagues, making it harder for them to become stars.

Claudine Gay was punished and lost her job for incomplete citations in her PhD dissertation.

You got this. I bet you’ll hit 5k/day at least once!

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

(but since this goes beyond academic affairs, as it involves residence life, campus safety, etc, then it's more of a president-level thing than a provost thing)

entirely reasonable. (My university created a strategic workgroup to protect our students and staff from this kind of stuff, planning for all kinds of situations)

like hummingbirds have a heart rate that goes over 1000 beats per minute. Which is extremely fast even compared to other birds. It's like comparing an apple to a... something extremely different than an apple

Harvard Places Math Professor Martin Nowak on Paid Administrative Leave Over Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson Harvard placed mathematics professor Martin Nowak on paid administrative leave amid a renewed investigation into his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey E. Epstein, according to a letter obtained…

Harvard Places Math Professor Martin Nowak on Paid Administrative Leave Over Epstein Ties

a man says " it 's too much " in front of a window Alt: David from Schitts creek saying " it 's too much " in front of a window

Are administrative-burden audits a thing? I think the amount of STUFF UConn requires of our time is excessive - trainings, inspections (ok these might be fine), paperwork, surveys, approvals, etc.

It’d be interesting to quantify (in work hours & $$$) although I already know it’s TOO MUCH

Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture.

Understood instantly what it meant.

Welcome to Bro Talk, the podcast where we get guys to talk to a therapist by telling them we want them as a guest on our podcast

Autosatire is not a word yet, but it should be.

Where was I a few weeks ago when they launched Coalie?

Did this drive @theonion.com out of business? How can one satire this level of autosatire?

It's about time! Summers has been disparaging women in STEM for as long as folks have been listening to him

Damn did @bardcollege.bsky.social not get enough money from the pedophile sex trafficker?

Mackenzie Scott?

Last year, I spearheaded a survey and interview research project on the experiences of scientists at field sites. Over sixty percent of the respondents had been sexually harassed, and twenty percent had been sexually assaulted. Sexual predation was only the beginning of what I and my colleagues uncovered: study respondents reported psychological and physical abuses, like being forced to work late into the day without being told when they could head back to camp, not being allowed to urinate, verbal threats and bullying, and being denied food. The majority of perpetrators are fellow scientists senior to the target of abuse, the target themselves usually a female graduate student. Since we started analyzing these data, I haven’t been able to read a single empirical science paper without wondering on whose backs, via whose exploitation, that research was conducted.

It was them, all along.

I think if your DMs are only open to who you follow, then they probably don't provide a 'chat requests' box at the top of DM window

at least they are tucked away in 'chat requests' so they aren't getting in the way of actual DMs

screencap of chat requests in bluesky dms from deleted acounts, saying hi, hello, hello handsome interested in hookup, hello, etc

And then if you wait long enough, all those DMs turn into "deleted account" which is why I'm hopeful that bluesky is catching them so I don't have to?