Notices by chiasm (chiasm@mastodon.online), page 3

@clacke

good, I am glad to hear you made it through ok!! It sounded dramatic!

@clacke hope it passes quickly and the damage can be fixed soon?

@feld It looks a lot like ways of picking a department chair--search committee, appointment, faculty vote, or rotation (pretty sure popular election doesn't come in, but some department might use it!). In the departments I've been in or connected to, rotation by far works the best. It sucks for the person whose turn it is, but it's a limited term appointment, and they are surrounded by other people who have been or will be chair. There is more of a team spirit!

@clacke "After the Tang everything was a bit fractured..." That made me chuckle--that's my memory of Chinese history too, it gets really messy after the Tang dynasty. 😁 Funny to see someone else say it too, though.

@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon You had me at "highly qualified", assuming that entails "agrees with me on core values and policies", and even more so if it includes "Not at an age where dementia is a going concern."

@silverwizard @vantablack Any idea how Louis learned this? I tracked down the original conversation on his timeline and someone else asked him the same question--he hadn't answered yet. He seems like a decent guy but I think he's inferring/guessing rather than knowing per se.

@clacke what is mgtow?

#science heh--i do Skype a Scientist a few times a year(strongly recommended!! Do check it out!). I just got a ping from a high school teacher, and I had to say look my next few weeks are booked, I can't present to your class before the school year ends. She wrote back saying she didn't want a class presentation, she had one student who had to interview a scientist for 20 min for some career class.

Oh heck, 👍 yeah, I can do that in my sleep! 🤣 And I may have to, to fit it in...

@feld So I'm told... I think I throw away plenty of food already. I'd rather find a way to get that food to someone who actually needs it.

@feld Excellent, thanks. Though I need to lose weight... 😂

#japanese #anime I got to series 3 episode 6 or so of Kingdom before figuring out why the English subtitles for the names didn't match the sounds... Turns out they were transliterating the Chinese kanji for English, but the Japanese voices were saying the Japanese sounds for the characters. (D'oh!!)

But it is really cool to recognize the kanji in Chinese--I knew theoretically that Japanese and Chinese had a lot of the same characters pronounced differently, but it's wild to see it in action.

@feld Imagine it? It happened in the 80s near where I was living at the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Seegrist

That's not to say this isn't horrible-- and the fact that 40 years later it's still happening and in fact is escalating, makes it even more outrageous.

@freemo @post @feld yes that's a very non-conclusive systematic review. The authors conclude that the variability in the studies and the low adherence with the masking interventions means they can't say with any confidence whether the effect size estimate is at all accurate. That's a great paper to cite to show we don't actually know if masks work!

@clacke (Oh, it's you again!) I thought I could find it but didn't. However, this is a fascinating overview of the evolution of the eye that I found instead (it should be open access?)... it might give you a lead!

https://www.nature.com/articles/eye2017226

@clacke I was hoping it would be informative for your kidlet, since they had the creativity to come up with the question! ??

#dyslexia @clacke Apparently questions about dyslexia in other writing systems was in the air, recently--this piece is much more up to date than the 2008 article I posted before, but it's the same ideas!

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230302-can-dyslexia-change-in-other-languages

#science #womensday Have I mentioned how much I love this? ? Even to the poses of the models!

https://manwhohasitallshop.com/product/his-hers-engineer-bundle/

@clacke Right, it's easier to get an actual study than the Nature commentary on it! This one is more complicated because it is the original article, but it is open access: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8497057/

(oh though come to think of it I don't know how that works outside the US--hopefully it's open to you!)

@clacke oh you are kidding me--they said that was a shareable link. :-( Unfortunately mastodon doesn't allow pdf uploads or I'd upload it.

@clacke Try this and let me know?
https://rdcu.be/c6VeO