It’s January, meaning I am busy plowing through hundreds of application to our PhD program. The process made me think once again, how writing the recommendation letters is an act of sheer altruism, and how much our job depends on acts like these. I mean, sure, there is a lot of unpaid work we do […]
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A talk on Faculty Freedom Today (today was 5.10.22) by Matthew Finkin was revolving around conventional topics: when faculty speech is protected; what are the latest vectors of attack on it etc. It had that quintessentially American flavor of pragmatic legality: establish some semblance of law (statements by AAUP, insofar they are cited by the
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I am being sent lately pointers to a twitter thread. It’s a lot of puerile outrage, but this claim by… – let’s call the author Dr. X, – caught my eye: I will fight this person, their grandma, their descendents, and their ghost. Then I will build a time machine and fight them in the
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