This. I try to remember to explicitly name my •experience• for my students, in contrast to any seeming brilliance, as the source of anything I do or say that impresses them.

“Brilliance” says “Are you good enough?” “Experience” says “Keep showing up, and stick with it through all the struggles.”

https://scholar.social/@pence/116204098936436353

Reviewing should be like jury service. You have a chance of being randomly selected, then the funder or journal calls up your institution and they have to give you two weeks off, or whatever, and you bash out as many reviews as you can in that time

#AcademicChatter

Call to action to cis people: be assholes anytime you get asked for your sex assigned at birth. Write letters, complain to staff, refuse to answer. Make it impossible to collect sex assigned at birth. Be really offended that anyone would ask you. Make enough noise that if trans people want to quietly not answer or give whatever answer feels correct to them, no one will notice.

#Boost #CallToAction

If you're on Mathstodon, you probably feel some kinda way about #excel

I personally love it, but wish people were better informed of its risk and weaknesses. I've been a serial attender of @EuSpRIG - the annual academic conference on spreadsheet risk and governance.

Very proud to say I'm now on the management committee for it as well! If you have some spreadsheet risk & error stories to share or just want to come see others' horror stories, more details at https://eusprig.org/

Taper #15 is out. Each issue contains tiny computational poems centered around a theme—in this case, the numerology of 15, the idea of midpoints and intersections, and other associations with the number 15. The complete code of the poem must be under 2Kb, with no dependencies. Tiny, indeed!

One of my pieces in the issue is an interactive erasure of Shakespeare's Sonnet 15, in which only half the poem can ever be visible at once. Every word you click to reveal erases a word somewhere else. Likewise, every word you click to hide reveals another word. At any given time, exactly half of the original sonnet is visible.

https://taper.badquar.to/15/sonnet15.html