I thought we all abandoned X back when it was Twitter?

...I'll see myself out.

A major physiological constraint is that the extreme plasticity of our brains means that we change rapidly over our early years; we have extroardinarily limited capacity to remember anything before the ages of 3-5 for example: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childho...

I am somewhat sympathetic to many of these ideas in theory. A good friend of mine subscribes to a version of this, and is currently raising their children as independently as possible. However...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childre...

There are a few related movements related to anarchist principles of making children as agentic/independent as possible. These variously go by "childism" or "child liberation" though there are lots of differences between various instances of these ideas. See also opposing "adult supremacy."

I think the Joint Maths Meeting is ~6,000 mathematicians, and the APS meeting is around ~15,000 physicists just to give some context.

Yeah. I've never been involved in it, but they have whole cultures around preparing for them etc.

Part of the reason is that flying someone is expensive and necessary for most in-person interviews, and these meetings are often large enough that there is high probability of people being co-located.

Job papers AFAIK do not exist in these fields at least!

I think many US fields do this. Mathematics and Physics both have huge annual meetings where many job interviews occur. Hiring is more temporally-synchronized than in the UK.

Partly the conferences are just a venue, and alternative arrangements do usually exist. But the conferences are huge.

What's the difference between a poaster and a philosopher?

And like... this is the shit that never gets accounted for in tenure applications for women. How many times you were trying to have men treat you as colleagues with ideas and they were not serious about anything except trying to fuck your body.

We have a 3-species version of this on @visualpde.com that you can play with interactively. I just need to convince @bjwalker.bsky.social that we need to implement 7 species to cover more Pokémon types... 😉

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One of the most crucial aspects of a teacher, or *any* form of leader, is carefully listening and helping others make contributions. If the student has leadership aspirations, this is a crucial lesson, and sometimes enough to motivate listening.

Any moron can stand at the front and talk.

The town I grew up in (below) became a town when I was a kid. I think the population was around 1,800 people over an area of ~150km^2. So I think that the composition of many of these smaller places is different from at least the villages I've visited in the UK.

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Unsure of the the history, but it may be to do with large local variations in size. I grew up in New Mexico, which is about 4/3 the size of the UK but fewer than 1/30th the people. Sort the table here by population to get a sense of variation of city/town village:

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Almost 100% of the time, I ask for a week (or more) extension, independent of when I get that email.

Does Leverhulme retract prizes for defamation by association? 😉

So why do I let AI in my house? Don’t I care about the environmental consequences? What about the theft of intellectual property? Don’t I understand that these are bullshit machines?

Yes, yes, yes, and yes.

It’s what I do all day long.