2 days ago
gleuschk : PHD Comics: How Professors spend their time - damn straight
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17 days ago
gleuschk : Sciencewomen : A reckless proposal, or "Scientists are people too, and it's time we started treating them that way." - thoughts about childcare and professional travel. I wonder if my dept would reimburse for childcare?
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1 month ago
gleuschk : Confessions of a Community College Dean: Thoughts on Service - I'm firmly in response category #1. should print this out and send it to the new dean
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1 month ago
gleuschk : The World's Fair : Hopefully, the start of a definitive list of things to avoid at all cost when speaking publicly. - unnecessary math.
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1 month ago
gleuschk : The American Scholar - The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - By William Deresiewicz - he's talking to people like me (I hope -- he certainly isn't talking in a way that the plumber in his kitchen can understand him)
philgyford : The American Scholar - The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - By William Deresiewicz - Great measured rant about what Ivy League educated kids are missing out on. (via Kottke)
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2 month ago
gleuschk : Two-Year in Hell :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, Views and Jobs - funny, and not entirely inaccurate
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3 month ago
gleuschk : Tomorrow's Professor Blog - mailing list cum blog
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3 month ago
gleuschk : The Atlantic Online | June 2008 | In the Basement of the Ivory Tower | Professor X - English adjunct tiptoes near the idea that not everyone should go to college. Duh.
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3 month ago
Linkorama : Fight for the Life Of the Mind - Like most clichés, it contains a grain of truth but greatly exaggerates the case. Above all, it fails to make the crucial distinction between actual knowledge (i.e. rationally justified true belief) and purported knowledge.
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4 month ago
gleuschk : McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Back From Yet Another Globetrotting Adventure, Indiana Jones Checks His Mail and Discovers That His Bid for Tenure Has Been Denied. - I expect a very similar note after the trustees' meeting this weekend
adamrg : Back From Yet Another Globetrotting Adventure, Indiana Jones Checks His Mail and Discovers That His Bid for Tenure Has Been Denied. - "Moreover, no one on the committee can identify who or what instilled Dr. Jones with the belief that an archaeologist's tool kit should consist solely of a bullwhip and a revolver."
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gleuschk : The cost of losing | Sidebar: From the top - The Cost of Losing - this interview with Nancy Cantor is completely unintelligible. I have the feeling I'd be outraged if I could just understand what the hell she's talking about
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5 month ago
gleuschk : If You Text in Class, This Prof Will Leave :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education's Source for News, and Views and Jobs - there are lots of issues all tangled up together here, but I'm most interested (selfishly, yes) in how my students feel about the core texting-in-class issue.
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5 month ago
gleuschk : For Scientists, a Beer Test Shows Results as a Litmus Test - New York Times - la la la la correlation not causation la la la la I can't hear you la la
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gleuschk : Academia.edu - hard to know exactly what the point is, but looks interesting
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gleuschk : Women Mathematicians in the Academic Ranks: A Call to Action (PDF) - Report of the BIRS workshop on Women in Mathematics
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7 month ago
gleuschk : The Monkey Cage: What Predicts Success in Graduate Programs? Passing Comps versus Finishing the Dissertation - two hurdles that require completely distinct skills and talents.
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8 month ago
gleuschk : Carnegie Library Centennial Celebration Speech by Philip Church - more of an annotated table of contents to the department web site (which could still use lots of tlc)
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gleuschk : Syracuse University Math Faculty Timeline (pdf) - very cool. hi mom!
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9 month ago
gleuschk : Rejecta Mathematica | Caveat Emptor - the editorial board consists of four engineers. guess they're used to their mathematics being rejected.
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9 month ago
gleuschk : Faculty Subsidy Program - Syracuse University - Information Technology and Services - hmm, not the system I thought it was, but still maybe ok
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10 month ago
Linkorama : JCMC Vol 13 Issue 1 - Journal of Computer Mediated Communications, Special Theme: Social Network Sites
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11 month ago
gleuschk : Some notes for students - Kiran Kedlaya's page for prospective grad students
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11 month ago
gleuschk : http://www.math.wisc.edu/~ellenber/gradstudents.html - JSE's page for prospective grad students
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11 month ago
gleuschk : Danny as an advisor - Danny Calegari's page for prospective grad students
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gleuschk : http://math.ucsd.edu/~allenk/advising.html - Allen K's page for prospective grad students
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