Berna Devezer

Cannot not respond to demand!!

Absolutely! I will be sending this around for sure.

Feta makes it extra creamy and tangy. And my Aegean palate prefers tangy over not-tangy every time.

Luckily we have a definition! 😬

🤩 Told'ya! (Seriously though, thanks for sharing the original recipe 🙏🏼)

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Research excellence: We don't know how to measure research quality and we sure won't be reading any papers. So please make our jobs easier by providing some metrics that look good and a lot of publications, just to be on the safe side, and have demonstrable impact (by some terrible metric) and...

Maybe if they're measuring it on a social excellence scale...

LOL if he did it then...

😭 I haven't checked the COI on those papers but I guess I wouldn't be surprised.

LMAO that makes it much easier to achieve. Oh, you know, my research currently sucks but I always aspire to make it better. That makes me a pretty excellent researcher, thank you.

Exactly!

Operational excellence: TBD (Form does not work.)

Teaching excellence: Surprisingly, we don't know how to measure this either so you better get good student evaluations regardless of your topic, class sizes, difficulty of material, and biases directed at your identity. If you need to entertain the students for that, yup that works for us too.

Research excellence: We don't know how to measure research quality and we sure won't be reading any papers. So please make our jobs easier by providing some metrics that look good and a lot of publications, just to be on the safe side, and have demonstrable impact (by some terrible metric) and...

Which, you might be surprised, is still not there after 7 weeks of bickering on my part.

www.nature.com/articles/pal...

As an aside, "Excellence" must be the single-most overused, empty, boilerplate word used in academic bureaucracy and it's typically a stand-in for "We don't know what we want so you should do everything".

They're committed to the bit.

Admin email from university: "Share your ideas: Help shape operational excellence at U of I"

Soliciting ideas for how to improve operational processes.

Except...

The form doesn't work—the form created by the Operational Excellence team.

Yeah.

“'It’s really on all of us to try to do our part in reducing emissions,' Feldman said."

Sounds very much like: People should stop their life-saving medications and sacrifice themselves so the rest of us can keep flying in planes, driving our cars, and use ChatGPT to create memes and write email.

It is definitely a huge mistake to tout individual results as the last word on something instead of what it is, a possible, promising new venue for exploration, we're setting ourselves up for failure, and even, for many made-up crises.

I think that is a problem but it's not a problem of "replication". It is a problem of ignoring uncertainty in each study and treating their results as facts. No one study can make a scientific discovery singlehandedly. We need serious exploratory work, triangulation, and a programmatic approach.

It's because we don't have a standardized way of assessing how to measure whether a finding is replicable and any estimate of replicability will involve uncertainty, and because by any given metric, we do not have any idea what proportion of and which findings in a given field should be replicable.

Solution to what specifically? We first gotta diagnose the problem right.

Greek-ified this recipe by swapping basil with parsley, parmesan with feta, adding chopped black olives and preserved lemons as well as fresh lemon slices and cooked with pre-seared spiced chicken thighs. Oh. My. God. I'm not drooling, you're drooling.

I finally made this recipe, well a version of it, and wow 🥰🥰 Thank you!

Gosh, I suddenly remembered that I still had a Mastodon account that I hadn't logged in to in over a year, and decided it's time to delete it. Looking for a couple of old posts I wanted to save before nuking the account, I came across disturbing amounts of 'splaining I had to endure there. Sheesh!

Thanks for the introduction! Followed (back) right away.

My Garmin watch keeps celebrating that my fitness age reduced to X where X is always the same exact number. So color me suspicious!