One time a student* told me if I didn’t correct his homework and let him write the exam, I would hear from his dad’s lawyers. - But that’s not a threat, he’s just informing me
* _exmatriculated_ student, who had already failed out of the program
#academicChatter

Great. Took a 7:15 train to get to the office on time so I’d have some time to re-read my notes and set up my laptop etc before teaching a lecture at 8:45, but because of a “power failure” there are no trains between The Hague and Delft, so now I’m sardined into a delayed street, and will, in a best-case scenario, run sweatily into the lecture hall at 8:45 sharp 😩

At least there is a streetcar, I guess.

#Treinleven #ProfessorLife #AcademicChatter #AcademicMastodon #Trains #Commute #NS #Delft #TheHague

RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@anna/116039387860261479

Wah it is Monday morning for sure!

Was lucky enough to make it to Delft train station, got my bike, raced to the office. When I arrived, it turns out that all the lifts were out of order, so I had to drag myself, my backpack, my big textbooks, and my sports bag up 5 flights of stairs.

After dropping off everything I didn't need, I wanted to leave my building so I could go to the building where my lecture was, only to find that the *door* was out of order.

Arriving at the lecture hall, I discovered that my Acrobat reader had died, so I had to uninstall and reinstall. That finally done, I had my slides up on the big screen and started my lecture, only for my laptop to crash when I tried to navigate to slide 2.

While it rebooted, I improvised the first part of my lecture without slides. The lecture hall was super cold, so I wanted to get tea, but the machine wasn't working...

After all the train and laptop problems I had on Friday, I can hardly blame Monday morning for this, but still 😳

At the end of the lecture a lot of questions from students that started with "Sorry, you probably covered this, but I missed the first part of the lectures because my train wasn't running..."

Students were cool, tho, so that was nice!

#ProfessorLife #Trains #Monday #AcademicChatter #MurphysLaw

RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@anna/116039387860261479

Wah it is Monday morning for sure!

Was lucky enough to make it to Delft train station, got my bike, raced to the office. When I arrived, it turns out that all the lifts were out of order, so I had to drag myself, my backpack, my big textbooks, and my sports bag up 5 flights of stairs.

After dropping off everything I didn't need, I wanted to leave my building so I could go to the building where my lecture was, only to find that the *door* was out of order.

Arriving at the lecture hall, I discovered that my Acrobat reader had died, so I had to uninstall and reinstall. That finally done, I had my slides up on the big screen and started my lecture, only for my laptop to crash when I tried to navigate to slide 2.

While it rebooted, I improvised the first part of my lecture without slides. The lecture hall was super cold, so I wanted to get tea, but the machine wasn't working...

After all the train and laptop problems I had on Friday, I can hardly blame Monday morning for this, but still 😳

At the end of the lecture a lot of questions from students that started with "Sorry, you probably covered this, but I missed the first part of the lectures because my train wasn't running..."

Students were cool, tho, so that was nice!

#ProfessorLife #Trains #Monday #AcademicChatter #MurphysLaw

Next manuscript to review. I do what I must.

#AcademicChatter #Reviewer2 #Reviewer2isMe #reviewer2mustbestopped

Great. Took a 7:15 train to get to the office on time so I’d have some time to re-read my notes and set up my laptop etc before teaching a lecture at 8:45, but because of a “power failure” there are no trains between The Hague and Delft, so now I’m sardined into a delayed street, and will, in a best-case scenario, run sweatily into the lecture hall at 8:45 sharp 😩

At least there is a streetcar, I guess.

#Treinleven #ProfessorLife #AcademicChatter #AcademicMastodon #Trains #Commute #NS #Delft #TheHague

Next manuscript to review. I do what I must.

#AcademicChatter #Reviewer2 #Reviewer2isMe #reviewer2mustbestopped

One of the strange things our lab has run into in the last week and which I have seen zero coverage on outside of a single USDA Reddit thread:

If you're outside the US, are you able to download any research from the USDA's 'Treesearch' repository?

E.g., https://research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/29572

Every single PDF link for any file I've checked simply leads to a notification that "The request is blocked." So...is Australia blocked?

#AcademicChatter #USPol

Student of mine (CS) recently said she loves R because "you can tell the community is mostly non-CS. Everything is documented and explained so well".
#rstats #academicchatter

Student of mine (CS) recently said she loves R because "you can tell the community is mostly non-CS. Everything is documented and explained so well".
#rstats #academicchatter

My student walked into my office and stared at the open copies of Russell & Norvig and Kleinberg & Tardos on my desk, with a look of shock and horror on their face, and then went: Do you have time to read all of that‽

I mean... given the notes scribbled in the margins and the bookmarks sticking out of my books, I can hardly deny that I've read at least parts of them in quite some detail. If I admit that, however, my students are no longer going to buy the "sorry I don't have time for an extra meeting" line...

Anybody have a good comeback for me for the next time this happens? This time I just went with "er... that's kind of the idea of studying... that you read your textbooks..." 🤦‍♀️

#ProfessorLife #AI #Algorithms #Students #AcademicChatter #AcademicMastodon #ArtificialIntelligence #Studying

My student walked into my office and stared at the open copies of Russell & Norvig and Kleinberg & Tardos on my desk, with a look of shock and horror on their face, and then went: Do you have time to read all of that‽

I mean... given the notes scribbled in the margins and the bookmarks sticking out of my books, I can hardly deny that I've read at least parts of them in quite some detail. If I admit that, however, my students are no longer going to buy the "sorry I don't have time for an extra meeting" line...

Anybody have a good comeback for me for the next time this happens? This time I just went with "er... that's kind of the idea of studying... that you read your textbooks..." 🤦‍♀️

#ProfessorLife #AI #Algorithms #Students #AcademicChatter #AcademicMastodon #ArtificialIntelligence #Studying

150 responses right now to my survey of EU scientists on Mastodon. ⬆️ thats already great and thanks for boosting, but there must be more.
It still runs for 3 days
Any hashtags, networks etc I have missed to bring more scientists in ? Perhaps some country specific hashtags and networks ?
Please reply and add hashtags
Thanks
#AcademicChatter

This is a longshot, but I'm between my Masters and being accepted to any PhD programs. There's a conference that's right up my alley and I'd like to attend, but money is an issue. (EDIT: not just like to attend...could possibly network into a PhD while at the conference if I can afford to get there & attend)

Does anyone know of grants or awards that would help a non-traditional disabled woman in science get travel funds?

#AcademicChatter #Science

One of the strange things our lab has run into in the last week and which I have seen zero coverage on outside of a single USDA Reddit thread:

If you're outside the US, are you able to download any research from the USDA's 'Treesearch' repository?

E.g., https://research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/29572

Every single PDF link for any file I've checked simply leads to a notification that "The request is blocked." So...is Australia blocked?

#AcademicChatter #USPol

This is a longshot, but I'm between my Masters and being accepted to any PhD programs. There's a conference that's right up my alley and I'd like to attend, but money is an issue. (EDIT: not just like to attend...could possibly network into a PhD while at the conference if I can afford to get there & attend)

Does anyone know of grants or awards that would help a non-traditional disabled woman in science get travel funds?

#AcademicChatter #Science

Bei kleinen Inkonsistenzen bei den Literaturverzeichnissen/Referenzen, würdet ihr inzwischen direkt mit Betrugsversuch durchfallen lassen? (Titel und Journal passen nicht zusammen, Jahreszahl im Text und im Verz. ist unterschiedlich, etc.)
Oder bin ich zu empfindlich weil ich schon zuviel Slop lesen musste? #academicChatter #lehre #hausarbeiten