Notices by Blake C. Stacey (bstacey@icosahedron.website), page 10

@djsundog @nobody I remember promos for it, on the Sci-Fi Channel probably, but I think it flashed before I was able to see it.

@Gargron I'm gonna get in with the memes while the getting's still good:

* The biggest node on Mastodon is the friends we made along the way
* jiggest node (jean biggest node)
* viral: biggest node on Mastodon / spiral: biggest oat on Mastodon

@Gargron I really want to see "The biggest node on the Mastodon network is actually my ass" quoted on, like, Gizmodo and Ars Technica. Can we make this happen?

@diabola Wow! 🎉

@RomanticAcademic @bgcarlisle One path to publication: If you work with a faculty member at your school, your summer project might become a journal article, or part of one. Such an article would be submitted to a regular journal, rather than one specialized for undergraduates. That's how I got my first publication: https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0406214 .

There's nothing wrong with journals that specialize in undergrad research, and in fact, you might get better peer review at one of those --- the reviewer(s) might be more concerned with being good mentors. A hard truth about academic life is that the quality of your peer reviewers is very much down to the luck of the draw.

@RomanticAcademic @bgcarlisle At the school where I did my undergrad, there was a strong "Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program", which placed students in labs where they could work for course credit or for pay. Your school may have a similar office.

If you can find someone who is working on a topic you think is exciting, that's the hardest part done. Many researchers have a backlog of ideas they'd like to try out but haven't the time, and those can yield good research topics for students.

@denikombucha "Our campaign will be at the Board of Elections every day and in court to make sure the outcome of this election is fair, and we welcome the Katz campaign to log off Twitter and join us." 👌

@Are0h I just got out of a movie and missed the whole context for this, except I'm not sure it needs one

*Booksmart* was a fun movie. Better than the coming-of-age stories I had to make do with. I recommend it.

OK, I'm seeing the 7:30 screening of Booksmart at the Somerville Theatre, if anyone was curious.