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Sauron is having a hard time as a newcomer here in the department.
Even by offering free coffee, we don't believe him.
"Due to current Environment Agency regulations, water provided to data centers must be drinking water only. The UK government has designated data centers as critical infrastructure, as their loss would result in a “major detrimental impact…
My oldest publication, according to google scholar, is actually my PhD proposal. I forgot about it, it's from 2004.
And I was already talking about recombination in SARS-CoV.
Some twenty years ago, I was discussing with my mentor how you needed a uniquely big computer or a uniquely big data set to be published in one of the big, splashy journals. OSS and the push for reproducibility alleviated that.
I guess we'…
Internal review committees are becoming very common, and they're calling themselves "sifting" because "guillotining" doesn't have a nice ring to it.
Anyone in masonry (or baking?) will tell you that sifting should be quick, painless, and …
**Large Language Models in Academia: Boosting Productivity but Reinforcing Inequality** https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2025/gen_ai/gen_ai/2/
"difference-in-differences and generalized synthetic control analyses show that native English-speak…
When you're talking about infectious diseases to a broad audience, be careful not to be seen as "Team Pathogen". Don't express happiness or amusement when you observe the microbe evading our defences.
**Research institutions tout the value of scholarship that crosses disciplines – but academia pushes interdisciplinary researchers out**
https://theconversation.com/research-institutions-tout-the-value-of-scholarship-that-crosses-disciplin…
The conclusion is that true talent takes longer to blossom. Thus in my view, it's not that your bloom is later than it should be, as suggested by "late bloomer". It's that your talent is more complex (more interdisciplinary, as original pa…
Japanese word of the day is 大器晩成 (Tai Ki Ban Sei), inspired by https://bsky.app/profile/leomrtns.bsky.social/post/3magc4kieos22.
大器晩成 is usually translated as "late bloomer" but it's not that simple (most JP idioms don't fit into …
In the specific case it was like (I'll be creative), one of my students missed class and I asked Margie why Margie missed the class and Margie told me Margie couldn't find the room.
I guess I could replace Margie by "this student"? Anyway …
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