Dr. Anna LatourMore big news! My second PhD student also just started!
Big news! My first PhD student started this month!
RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@anna/116376577479559859
Okay so I'm a total amateur.
One of our full professor just cycled by me, balancing his box of exams on the back of his regular bike. Didn't take pic because I was riding a bike myself, with my student behind me, and didn't want to set a bad example by taking my phone out and breaking the law, so y'all just have to take my word for it.
I guess now I know what I have to do to become full professor.
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POV: you’re a professor in the Netherlands and you receive a notification that your exams have been printed.
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Not the most appetizing shot, but I want y'all to know that coconut rice pudding with mango, lime syrup and crushed pink peppercorns is very yummy.
(Context: we had our Easter potluck lunch at work today and I brought rice pudding with various toppings. Other toppings were lemon curd, passion fruit, banana, and powdered sugar. Had intended to also bring the caramelised bananas that I had made, but forgot.)
Me: In the interest of time, I will convince you using a Proof by Intimidation only.
Student: Sure!
Me: *shows slide*
Student, nodding approvingly: That worked :)
Thanks everyone for your well wishes!
Everybody was a sweetheart today, so even when I messed things up, things were still okay.
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POV: you need a break from your vacation so you attend a seminar about a cool new paper at your old university. 🤓
paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3776643
preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05162
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@anna I always teach my students that when they make a list in their paper or presentation, all items on the list have to be in the same category, or of the same type. Might file this one in the “bad examples” folder 🤷♀️