Daniel Martínez PhD

I'm getting very close on my table top game. I still need to build a website and design a new box but I think I'll be able to do a soft release by Oct/Nov which I would be thrilled about. 🙏

I went down that rabbit hole for a year or two when I got hustled into a cubesat project (I contributed to the high project failure rate in case you were wondering). I really liked The Hobbyist's Guide to the RTL-SDR. Sorry and you're welcome.

Radio Locator. I used to use this in grad school to find fm stations around the world. Pretty sure this was an MIT site back in the early 2000s. Oldie and a goodie.

radio-locator.com

Depends on if you like them chewy haha. I’m guilty of a 15-20 minute cook to get it like how mami would make it.

Air quality cause and effect. Seems like the purple air project is alive and well.

Orange moon
scattering smoke particles
Cough
#BadAQPoetry

168 Hours a Week A visualization tool to see where the 168 hours in your week goes (and how to change it)

168 hours per week, 1/3 supposedly sleeping 2/3 for everything else - quizás quizás quizás

168hourweek.com

HP 48G

When I break out the 48G I know things are getting serious. #calculators

Hot honey hummus is a supreme use case btw

Not a good summer for my citrus obsession.

Collaborator seeking collaboration to unify a theory.

When I decide it’s time to exercise I know I’ve hit procrastination level 10

The second cup is where it’s at.

El tiempo no vuela, simplemente pasa, al ritmo de tus pensamientos.

YouTube video by PacManCherries723 Jungle Brothers "Because I Got It Like That" (album version) 1988

Me: Because I got it like that
She: Nobody says that anymore, that sounds like that's from the 90s
Me: 1988, actually...

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Availability of cookies during an academic course session affects evaluation of teaching Hessler et al. question the validity of Student Evaluations of Teaching after demonstrating that provision of chocolate cookies had a significant effect on course evaluation.

Posts on course evaluations remind me of this excellent "study" that provided participants w/ free access to 500 g of chocolate cookies during an emergency medicine course session vs a control group. I always vote for peer course observations.
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I’ve been on an ancestry kick of late. I’m roadblocked once I reach about 1800. Much of what I can find is (ahem) thanks to US census reporting after gaining occupancy of Puerto Rico. Mostly generations of island ancestry w/ Canary Islands and Galicia sprinkled in. Also some spicy intrigue haha.

just got rid of a stack of notes because I accept it is not something worth my time and energy to pursue. this is progress.

Sound advice for a career transition into a very different field from where you start. The skills are mostly all there once you finish that doctoral work, it's about mindset and filling in gaps. I actually read the whole post so it must have been good! #AcademicSky #HigherEd

In other news: Shoo Fly

Reading about the history of sugar cane plantations in Brasil and in the "sugar islands" and uff that's a story.

My word for the day: sugar (en) or much more pleasant sounding azúcar (es) from sukkar (arabic) from shakar (persian) from sakkarā (sanskrit) referring to the juice from the sugar cane (qasab al-sukkar). The 1st sugar cane planted in the NW was a gift from the gov of the Canary Islands to Colón.

Benny Boone

benny flippin boone gave a mad cool show

I just checked my royalties statement! vs. Why did I just check my royalties statement? #booksky

Teaching your first course? Follow these steps Just landed your first adjunct teaching role and don’t know where to start? Here’s how to make the most of your strengths, design a clear syllabus and deliver engaging, manageable sessions

It's hard to believe 3 months have past since The Contingent Professor: Advice for Adjuncts came out. Rob and I wrote up something for people about to teach their 1st course. Grateful to Times Higher Ed's The Campus for the digital soapbox. #AcademicSky

www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/teach...

Bills throw

Drought era crafts. #GoBills #BillsMafia

A nearly fully illuminated Enceladus with a limb of Saturn in the background. Because the rings are made up of many smaller ringlets, the shadows on Saturn appear as dark and light bands. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill

A nearly fully illuminated Dione with a limb of Saturn in the background. Because the rings are made up of many smaller ringlets, the shadows on Saturn appear as dark and light bands. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill

Icy moons Enceladus and Dione, respectively, out in front of Saturn. Imaged by Cassini in 2007 and 2005.

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Yup, I'm not likely to hold another academic position. Took me some time to grapple with going from "mid career academic" to "that was my academic career."

Always appreciate DGM book recommendations. Picked up Napoleon's Buttons on a recommend and was very happy I did. #booksky

my entropy, your entropy, or THE entropy in that (order)