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Where do we go from here? The planet is a gunboat in a sea of fear
There is, however, such a thing as society
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Reflective of how little appreciation there is out there of how much of all research funding, even the big ticket items, goes to supporting students and ECRs.
We really are an ecosystem and I think it’s worth stressing that in discussing funding mechanisms…
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OTOH sometimes you need to treat government policy with the seriousness it deserves
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Or it’s just stretching the definition of ECRs to include all students, not just research students? 🤷♀️
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Seems to be tertiary education funding? It isn’t clear but I wonder if it’s the applied doctorates?
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(btw, shout-out to all the mushy centrists and white moderates who responded to the summer of 2020 with some version of "have the kids gone too far?" and fell for the bad-faith "intellectual diversity" and "free speech" hucksters on the Right. You let the Nazis in, and now it's a Nazi bar. Good job)
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Pavlov’s cat: any form of failed scientific experiment
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Would like some commentary around this to clarify that the FSU is basically ACT, so this is essentially a bunfight between the two deputy PMs (and their parties) as they prepare to transition in 11 days (but not like THAT! 😱 though they might be better for it tbqh)
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The only takeaway is that none of it is enough. No matter how the boundaries are shifted
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Ah but this is exactly the practical distinction between a family home and an investment property. Investments *should* fluctuate; as a consequence family homes should be exempted from wealth taxes. I think that makes sense 🤷♀️
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Are you really saying you’re in the top 3%? Or are you calling that number a lie?
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Ugh. Hope you are holding on ok through the next stage of this rocky wee boat 😬🤞
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Always possible. But my suspicion would be that when times get tough the decision to cut people out through criteria is deliberate: it limits the political damage from the eventual success rates 😭
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Oooh. Possibly a pragmatic realisation that with funding cuts there is so little left for early stage ECRs… but you are right that changing the boundary has a really unfair impact on specific people 💔
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Dunning Kruger’s cat: still insisting it is starving despite the overflowing bowl behind it
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There are many ways for men to dress and many expressions of masculinity. Just as there are many spoke languages, there are many different aesthetic languages, each legitimate in their own right.
A post about this here for those who want to read more:
dieworkwear.com/2022/08/26/h...
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When people ask me how transmasc people should dress, I feel the process is not that different from other men. First, you have to figure out what kind of aesthetic language resonates with you. Then identify the history and contours of that language.
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Oh EVERYONE gets confused with fulcrums and levers, Jo 🙄
(Serious comment is that complex examples get taught far too early before the basics are understood, far far too often 😡)
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(I’ve been a sucker for this shit since Ghostbusters)
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So long items (jumpsuits/dresses) I might lay out horizontally, as I do woollens for example. But it’s about their weight/stretchiness rather than distance from the ground
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Nope, I can say as a physicist that gravity has the same strength.
BUT, I can say as someone who also hangs up my own washing <ahem> longer items of clothing will contain more water and be heavier and thus are affected (stretch) more
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Ahhhhh. Ok. The weaves are intertwining correctly. Whew 😅
As you were (& please, keep it up with the pies 🥰)
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I keep thinking you are a kiwi on account of the pies. But you aren’t right? I just have my weaves crossed here?
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Actually I might steal this for a scientific presentation tomorrow 😅
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As a condensed matter physicist I find this a perfect characterisation 🥰🙏
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Lol, I am preparing a riff on Nickel-Gallium, and welcome suggestions (I may have a paper coming out, ahem) but honestly: it’s science all the way down, Jo!
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It is honestly interesting that Seymour is reframing the point of submissions as being the ideas they throw up.
It’s a direct undermining of the idea that this *is* democracy.
It’s quite a direct statement that our ideas are for them to judge as worthy or no; they then decide.
This feels new 🤔
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🏳️⚧️❤️🩹
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YES!!!
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Every UC faculty member should be aware of this incident, especially now that we're facing changes to our faculty disciplinary processes for the second time in as many years.
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But he is right about that 🤷♀️
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They are playing with us I’m sure 😅
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Not the lead please Jo even though it is sweet 🙏
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All my empathy Jim. It’s not the scientists who have politicised this conversation, for goodness sake!! 🙄