Some typical responses to different levels of #stress in this infographic that lists criteria for different areas on the "stress continuum". I can use this to remind myself that I won't always feel as I feel now (for better and worse).

Thriving: “I got this.”
Surviving: “Something isn’t right.”
Struggling: “I can’t keep this up.”
In Crisis: “I can’t survive this.”

PDF: https://cohcwcovidsupport.org/s/StressContinuum_English.pdf

from https://cohcwcovidsupport.org/ via @kottke https://kottke.org/20/11/how-are-you-doing

#burnout #selfcare #depression

The #G7 Science and Technology Ministers just endorsed #unembargoed #OpenAccess to publicly-funded research, the #FAIR principles, #OpenData, sustainable research #infrastructure, and #assessment reforms creating new incentives for #OpenScience practices .
https://www8.cao.go.jp/cstp/kokusaiteki/g7_2023/230513_g7_communique.pdf

h/t @hjoseph

ChemRxiv is celebrating its 5th anniversary after being launched in 2017!

ChemRxiv provides researchers in chemistry and related fields a home for the immediate sharing of their latest research.

To celebrate this anniversary, we are highlighting some recent Chemical Science publications that were first uploaded as preprints on ChemRxiv, covering all topics across the chemical sciences.

Read the collection, for free, here:

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#chemistry #ChemicalScience @chemistry

Talking to a grad student today:

“I actually think it would be possible to run a grad program that didn’t leave students traumatized.

Unfortunately your department chose not to do that, so let’s talk about what you want to do now.”

#academicchatter #gradschool

In a conversation with a colleague yesterday I finally figured out how to explain something:

so I've talked before about how LLMs can be thought of as a linguistic reflection of what Husserl called the natural attitude: the patterns of how language is used, things are described, all the shorthands in meaning we use

that's why they work as "cliche" generators, able to produce text that fulfills the patterns of various kinds of text: you can produce language that has the form of a research paper, a YA dystopia, a book for kindergartners

and this isn't even a negative judgment, I do think the tech has uses, but this is just literally what it does

so again I've written about all of that in more detail elsewhere

so what's the new insight?

that it's the opposite of poetry

it specifically hit me that poetry is all about getting around the natural attitude, it's non-literal use of language in unexpected ways to convey phenomenal experience as directly as possible

I've seen a lot of crap being put about on the idea of parents' rights. I want to reject this idea outright.

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS PARENTS' RIGHTS.

Parents do not have "rights" over their children. The children have rights; the parents have responsibilities to see that those rights are upheld.

In order for the parents to have rights, then necessarily the child does not have them. The only situation in which we have allowed one human to usurp another's rights was slavery; and I would argue children are not property.

If they're not property, then they're people, and if they're people, then they have rights. If they have rights, parents can't.

This is such a crucial distinction. The parents don't have a right to have their child educated; the child has a right to a good education. The parents don't have the right to participate in sport; the child does. And so on.

Once you reframe the idea like this, that children are human beings with their own rights, you see what a disingenous line of attack this is from the right wing.

Parents have an awesome responsibility: the care and management of the human rights of beings not able to assert them for themselves. But it must be clear that the rights belong to the children, and that they are being safeguarded, not owned, by the parents.

This simple conceptual shift shows that children should have full bodily autonomy, including their right to assert consent to being touched by anyone (think touch sensitivity), and including the right to present as the gender they want. The right to religion, or freedom from it if they want. The rights are theirs, and the parents should have no power to abrogate those rights without due care and consideration.

Yes, by the way, I am a parent, as well as a grandparent. I stand by this. My kids are not my property, never were.

The Chemical Science themed collections of most popular articles published in the journal in 2022 have now been published! Read our blog post to find out more and for links to all the collections.

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#ChemSciMostPopular #ChemicalScience #Chemistry #Chemiverse @chemistry

New study: Focusing graduate education on #publishing "causes doctoral students to commodify knowledge production, devalues coursework, conference participation, and teaching assistantships, encourages students to regard their supervisors as publishing facilitators and their peers as rivals rather than collaborators, and marginalises engagement with external stakeholders."
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03075079.2022.2131764

@academicchatter