Well, OK, they’re mostly not new, just new to me. I’m vaguely ashamed at having to rely on Sean Carroll to point out new blogs to me, especially since one of the authors comments here moderately regularly, but my defense is that unlike faculty at semester schools, who are winding things down, I’m right in the middle of the most hectic part of the academic term. I barely have time to post original stuff, let alone read other people’s blogs.
Nevertheless, Sean points out some good new blogs, that have gone into the RSS aggregator, and will make it onto the sidebar when I finally get around to updating that. I particularly want to highlight two posts:
- Backreaction on questions asked at talks, a useful addition to my post yesterday. I particularly like the “Dangerous Question”– my old boss used to start those with “Don’t you really mean to say that…” and the answer was almost always “Yes.”
- Rob Knop on the tenure process. It’s always useful to be reminded that other people have even bigger problems than I do… He’s also got a nice post on getting telescope time, one of those features of astronomy that make me grateful all my data comes from apparatus in the basement of my own building. When it works.
All the blogs Sean plugs look like they’re worth reading, though, so go check ’em out, and help hasten the hegemony of physics in the blogosphere…
Ha, no excuse! Chicago is also on a quarter system. You should instead rely on the old “we experimentalists actually have work to do, unlike theorists who get to spend all day chatting in cafes and surfing the web.”
Ha, no excuse! Chicago is also on a quarter system. You should instead rely on the old “we experimentalists actually have work to do, unlike theorists who get to spend all day chatting in cafes and surfing the web.”
My next play was going to be “We liberal arts college faculty are actually expected to teach classes and grade papers, instead of foisting the work off on grad students.” The experimentalist thing is pretty good, too.
Anyway, from what I can tell, theorists spend most of their time riding the bus and buying vegetables, not surfing the web…
re questions: I’m always charmed at medical-ish conferences, where the questions all begin with “Dr. Marcus Welby, Miskatonic University — good talk, good talk!” It’s a nice break from genomics meetings where questions are more likely to begin with “You’re completely wrong, and here’s why…”
BTW, I *love* the tornado ad. It’s the only interstitial I’ve ever enjoyed.