It’s February 2025 and this, like some of my other recent posts (here, here), could be a snapshot of a landscape being transformed by the roaring river of artificial intelligence. But it isn’t. Rather, I’ll describe my puzzlement that some parts of the landscape that I’m close to aren’t changing much, and speculate about the … Continue reading Why Don’t Academics Care About Artificial Intelligence?
Many days are a blur of activity, but the Thursday before last (October 10, 2024) my pinball-like bouncing from one task to another, often with little connecting them other than being part of my job, seemed slightly more ridiculous (or interesting) than usual, so I wrote things down. Events Start the morning (breakfast, coffee) revising … Continue reading What I did on Thursday
There’s a lot of advice out there for prospective applicants for academic faculty positions [1], so you don’t really need mine. However, some advice is outdated and some is incomplete, so I thought it would be worthwhile to add a small bit of information based on experiences from my department’s search last year (Physics, University … Continue reading Zoom Interview Questions and Other STEM Faculty Hiring Tidbits
The Eighteenth Elephant 