Notices by pzmyers 🦑 (pzmyers@octodon.social), page 43

@bstacey Umm, yeah. I did not expect that at all.

I'll be discussing ethics violations at 7:30pm Central tonight.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2019/01/12/time-to-talk-more-about-boghossian-lindsay-and-pluckrose/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D64mv4gxnjk

Jim Watson, dishonored.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2019/01/12/i-hope-i-live-to-be-90-before-all-of-my-sins-catch-up-to-me/

I had no idea beards could do so much, so loudly.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2019/01/12/wake-up-now/

Good teachers support and encourage grad students, rather than appropriating their work. This shouldn't be a radical idea.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2019/01/12/goofus-and-gallant/

The only problem with AOC is that there is only one of her.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2019/01/12/i-know-how-to-fix-the-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-problem/

Our country is racist, the media are racist. Case closed.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2019/01/12/if-ever-you-doubted-the-existence-of-media-bias/

@bstacey Yeah, he's some kind of awful. He laid out the case that Boghossian had no case for a 'witch hunt', but he couldn't just simply come out and SAY that Boghossian was full of shit.

I've got to work on my slither.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2019/01/11/friday-cephalopod-its-good-to-be-squishy/

Boghossian is not being railroaded. This is a contrived crisis, & the Intellectual Dork Web is just drawing from the Trump playbook.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2019/01/11/no-a-portland-professor-is-not-being-railroaded/

@drbjork I don't know how Sweden works, but here in the US, I'd tell someone to get a post-doctoral position, get some NSF funding, & get back in the game that way.

Working in the real world wouldn't be an obstacle to readmission, but we'd want to see some skill demonstrated in navigating academia.

I spent my day looking at the experiments of 7th, 8th, and 9th graders. It was enlightening.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2019/01/10/a-day-at-the-science-fair/

It's time for me to go judge a science fair.

Did you know that algorithms are not pure, objective entities wafting through the ether? Jordan Peterson is outraged that "postmodernists" think Big Data could have societal consequences.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2019/01/10/jordan-peterson-gets-email/

"Stealing is stealing, whether you do it with a gun or a mouthful of mealy words."

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2019/01/10/startling-prescience/

@ciaby I always wonder why there isn't an epidemic of joy-riding teenagers around here. It might just be too damned cold.

It's that time of year again. -20°C, all those cars in the grocery store lot, empty, unlocked, engines idling. Every January I dream of Grand Theft Auto.

Watching the Ocean Cleanup project fail after all their arrogance is kind of satisfying. Except that I would like to clean up the ocean.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2019/01/09/how-not-to-clean-up-the-ocean/

@SallyStrange This sounds like a good idea, especially since I don't pay close attention to boosts.