Konsta Happonen

Totally, and I do respect your opinion, even if it's different from mine. And I don't deny that for a lot of academics it's hard living in a multilingual system, especially if the languages involved keep changing due to the job market often requiring several relocations before a permanent position.

I kind of like what I saw in Gothenburg, where new hires were given a transition period during which they could learn the language with support from the uni, after which they were expected to teach in Swedish.

And I do think this should not be an individual-based effort, but universities should support scholars in picking up new languages.

They will instead mostly disperse to work in the surrounding community. Thus, I think *most* teaching should happen using local languages, with perhaps some more advanced courses given in English. Of course there could be exceptions like international master's programs etc.

I do agree that university should prepare you to keep up with the literature after you graduate, and you need the ability to read books and papers in English for that. However, most students especially in publicly funded universities will not become researchers.

And I do think it's super important to give university education in the students' first languages whenever possible. It can make a huge difference for learning outcomes.

If scholars don't know how to speak and write about their work in the language of the communities they live in, how are they going to communicate their work to others?

Wow, what happened to you sucks and I very much don't think it's fair to make anyone suddenly translate their work to a language they aren't used to discussing it with. However, I do think it's important to teach and learn to describe our work in local languages as well.

Back to Krypton with him.

I have a feeling this is very common. I once met a Finnish biologist biologist who couldnt describe the work they were doing in Finnish, but had to resort to extremely awkward anglicisms. A lot of people are worried about the future of Finnish as a language of scholarship.

They probably thought they were doing us a favor.

I worked at the authority responsible for testing dead wild animals for zoonotic diseases. They rely on volunteers to send samples their way. My guess is that it just took some time for the person to get to it, and when they did, the sample was already disgusting.

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The constitution. They sliced out the parts of the constitution that they don’t like from the government website.

Yet another reminder that in an aspiring authoritarian government, you should never rely on online document as definitive sources.

I love the idea of buttermilk, but I can't stand it either.

When I did my non-military service, the most disgusting thing I encountered must have been a wolf carcass that somebody had fermented in a plastic bag for a couple of weeks before sending it to us for processing.

The limitations sections are long criticized as inconsequential lip service and placation of reviewer 2. We should stop the perfunctory practice and instead have a Population/Estimand, Context, and Assumptions section upfront which should then determine how the results are written and evaluated.

A picture of pasta being made by first flattening the dough with a wine bottle, then rolling the dough, then cutting the rolled dough into strips.

I recently learned you don't need a machine to make pasta from flour! Of course the result was not as standardized, but it was delicious nonetheless.

Not sure if these thoughts are total nonsense, but this is social media, not a journal article. And journal articles can be utter nonsense too, more often than I'd like at least.

As an individual who wants to increase average poll quality, the rational thing to do would be to refuse answering polls more often. The more one wants to answer, the more often one should refuse.

Today's random thought: if you are a person who thinks polls are important and tends to answer most polls that come your way (like me), it is likely that your opinions are overrepresented in the pool of complying respondents. 1/2

Brilliant!

I don’t know who needs this right now, but I really enjoy browsing “Paper Skygest”, a feed of posts on academic papers *from people you follow*. I think it’s what a lot of us are actually here for

Wait, WHAT?!

I'm sure we've all at some point in our lives wanted to buy exactly 10 eggs. A nice round number. Surely packing them optimally will form a beautiful geometric figure or something.

https://xkcd.com/221/ int getRandomNumber() { return 4; // chosen by fair dice roll // guaranteed to be random }

I enjoyed Casual inference S6 episodes 4 and 6, and CAusal Bandits S2 episode 5. Not sure how useful they'd be in teaching, but they touch on the topics you mentioned.

casualinfer.libsyn.com
www.buzzsprout.com/2272512/epis...

An image of 17 squares packed chaotically with the caption "this is the optimal packing of 17 squares. you have to live with this now"

All references to packing now bring to mind these horrible results. I'm sure we could do the same to eggs if we wanted.

Reasonable. Thanks for taking the time to answer!

Exciting! I wish there'd be some way to treat factors specially so that one wouldn't need to reapply a factor structure on the variables after recoding or replacing values. The forcats::recode() is great, but currently only supports a named arguments -based API.

Having lots of money is the easiest way to stop caring about money.

Back to work. Forgot my glasses at home two days in a row. It's still so warm that my fingers sweat and stick to the keyboard. Thank you to all the urgent business that has waited patiently for my return for the past six weeks.