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Spencer Bagley @sbagley.bsky.social · 22m

Friends, how do you report on your CV that you've participated on an NSF grant review panel? I know you can't say what grant program, but I think you can say which directorate; also, can you say when it was or is that too much information?

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2h

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 4h

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Spencer Bagley @sbagley.bsky.social · 3h

This looks like me playing Silksong, complete with an unnecessary panic jump

LuUuUuUuke Knox 👻 @lukeknox.me · 6h

George Pickens is doing performance art every Sunday, folks. we are all witnesses.

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Drew Lewis @drew-lewis.com · 23h

Universities: We can't afford cost of living adjustments for faculty and staff, we have budget problems.

Also universities: Our football coach lost three games so we will pay him $50 million to go away

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 1d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Spencer Bagley @sbagley.bsky.social · 1d

Oops, interference, not tripping

Spencer Bagley @sbagley.bsky.social · 1d

Stamkos just got called for tripping and then was standing in the door of the box swearing at the refs in full HD, "that's a fucking joke," lol

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 2d

lying

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 3d

How OpenAI put itself at the centre of a $1tn network of deals on.ft.com/4q0tjCV

How OpenAI put itself at the centre of a $1tn network of deals

The company behind ChatGPT has signed agreements with many of the largest tech groups, adding to a growing web of financial dependencies across the AI world

on.ft.com

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Spencer Bagley @sbagley.bsky.social · 1d

Not the AT shoulder slander; not the Tasha Yar Award for Excellence in Getting Murked at the End of a Season

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Spencer Bagley @sbagley.bsky.social · 1d

One tweet in and already dying at "Becky with the good team"

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Spencer Bagley @sbagley.bsky.social · 2d

Skonging extremely hard, finally got the third melody, immediately got murked by [redacted], iykyk

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Peter Keep @mathprofpeter.bsky.social · 2d

Not for nothing but I'd be so mad if I showed somebody a cool problem/assignment I wrote and their first instinct was to drop it into ChatGPT for any reason whatsoever.

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Spencer Bagley @sbagley.bsky.social · 3d

For reasons that I cannot describe even to myself, even though I use LaTeX on the daily in every other facet of my life, the idea of moving my CV to LaTeX inspires an immediate and reflexive "I don't want to and you can't make me" lol

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Spencer Bagley @sbagley.bsky.social · 3d

No, which is both a blessing (those templates always suck) and a curse (I am just freeballing it and I can't blame anybody but myself)

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Emily Pitts Donahoe @empittsdonahoe.bsky.social · 3d

Please do not use AI to grade. If demands on your time are such that you cannot provide students with timely and substantive feedback, that is a labor issue, and you should join your union. open.substack.com/pub/marcwatk...

The Dangers of using AI to Grade

Nobody Learns, Nobody Gains

open.substack.com

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Spencer Bagley @sbagley.bsky.social · 3d

Eh I'm googleable, lol

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Spencer Bagley @sbagley.bsky.social · 3d

Oh, lol, I think I did. sbagley at westminsteru which is an edu-cational institution!

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Spencer Bagley @sbagley.bsky.social · 3d

Hmu if you ever want to chat! I've taught a couple graduate courses on qual methods and was a mentor for a friend's BCSER grant.

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Spencer Bagley @sbagley.bsky.social · 3d

Oh lol I went to look up what date I was formally promoted on last time bc I had forgotten and

Screenshot from my formal application-for-promotion letter to my dean:

This letter serves as my formal application for promotion in rank from Associate Professor to Professor. I proudly hold a Ph.D. in mathematics education from the Mathematics and Science Education Doctorate program jointly offered by San Diego State University and the University of California, San Diego. As I was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor on 13 March 2020 (I will indulge myself in a brief departure from the formal tone of this letter to say, *yikes*), I am now in my sixth year of full-time teaching at the rank of associate professor.

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Spencer Bagley @sbagley.bsky.social · 3d

Every once in a while I think about translating this fucking thing to Markdown or something, but I genuinely don't know what's worse, editing a file with complicated formatting in Microsoft Word or trying to get it to look remotely professional in any other format

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Spencer Bagley @sbagley.bsky.social · 3d

One of the things I hate most about updating my cv is that it is the one document that I absolutely have to open in (shudders) Microsoft Word

Spencer Bagley @sbagley.bsky.social · 4d

I want to go up for promotion but that means I have to update my cv

a woman wearing sunglasses and a pink fur coat is looking at the camera .

Alt: Emma Roberts in huge sunglasses and a pink fur coat doing a little "ugh I don't want to" dance

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Spencer Bagley @sbagley.bsky.social · 3d

Wait how do I work at a liberal arts college and I have never heard of this guy before

Alanis Morissette And Isnt It Ironic Dont You Think GIF

Alt: Alanis Morissette And Isnt It Ironic Dont You Think GIF

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Spencer Bagley @sbagley.bsky.social · 3d

My soapbox for today is that scientists need to be exposed to qualitative methods.

Jeremy Bassis @bassisjeremy.bsky.social · 3d

My soapbox for today is that physical climate scientists need to be exposed to qualitative methods.

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Spencer Bagley @sbagley.bsky.social · 3d

Student email: I've tried this webwork problem a bunch of times
Webwork: the student has attempted this problem 117 times
Me:

a cartoon drawing of a bear with a mask on

Alt: a weird bear thing with exclamation marks emerging from its head

media.tenor.com

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Spencer Bagley @sbagley.bsky.social · 3d

How are you so good at this

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