SKCarr

How is invigilation "soul destroying"? You just walk or stand around as students write exams. Grading exams is tedious, but invigilating them is a neutral experience.

Another example: https://twitter.com/QuantumYakar/status/1765421908483538971

Seems to have come out one day before this paper was submitted, which is quite a coincidence.

Not really my experience in a science department at a top university in Canada. I've served on several hiring committees and also been involved in about 20 hirings over the years. Yes, there are typically 100+ applicants, but only about 5-10 of them are truly excellent.

In contrast to what the writer described, I had an experience where a colleague strongly opposed considering his former PhD student for a position because their research interests were significantly different from the advertised position.

One thing that has consistently surprised me during these hiring exercises is encountering candidates who appear exceptional on paper and deliver a decent public talk about their past research but completely fail when it comes to their proposed research talk.

At least in science, if you're truly exceptional, you will find a position at a top place, despite whatever politicking or EDI considerations are influencing the hiring process.

It does get by the "Please wait..." that you get in Preview or Chrome but Firefox 93.0 doesn't actually load the form properly (e.g. it's 6 pages in Acrobat but only 3 pages in Firefox and those 3 pages aren't even rendered properly).

Here's an example of a file that won't load properly in Preview and requires Acrobat: https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/ircc/migration/ircc/englis...

He was the best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNsXU2myCI8

Here's the link to the Nat. Comm. paper since I couldn't find it in the press release: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-23038-7

Working from home last fall, by far the biggest source of noise was leaf blowers. So loud and so constant. It was impossible to work without noise cancelling headphones during the day. The name "The Devil's Hair Dryer" is very appropriate.

That was also the situation in the late-90s when I was listening to the radio all day in Toronto. I would argue that it actually hurt the development of the Canadian music scene in many respects because it made everything so top heavy. You were either the Hip, BNL, or OLP or you weren't on the radio. A select few bands reaped all of the benefits. Ironically, these bands would have found success without the MAPL system, but with it they were incredibly over-exposed in Canadian markets. The scene was also quite stagnant because even a "New Rock" station like the Edge would play the same set of Canadian songs for years at a time.

Whenever I come across a typo in something I've published or in a paper I'm reading I'll do a google scholar search with quotes and see how many other people have made it. E.g. "expensively studied", https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22expensively+studied%...