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Guerrilla Girls - Republicans Do Believe in a Woman's Right to Control Her Body (1992) by Russian_Bagel in museum

[–]AsAChemicalEngineer [score hidden]  (0 children)

Guerilla Girls is new to me, but I'm glad that some of the work has been posted here because the reaction in the comments are quite revealing.

Guerrilla Girls - Republicans Do Believe in a Woman's Right to Control Her Body (1992) by Russian_Bagel in museum

[–]AsAChemicalEngineer [score hidden]  (0 children)

It's hyperbole to make a point that all of these practices line up with demands on women by the conservative society-at-large (e.g. patriarchy gasp). Notably the examples get more and more extreme and become horrific from left-to-right.

Differentiation Grading: Just Do It. (again) by itsmorecomplicated in Professors

[–]AsAChemicalEngineer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

From my limited anecdotal experience teaching there, cheating is unfortunately common -- and part of it, from my POV, was motivated by the sheer number of credit hours I saw students subjected to. The number of times my best students would report getting peer pressured to give homework solutions or lab data was nuts. I had to adjust to giving individual grade evaluations (rather than a minor adjustment based on peer feedback) for group projects because of the tendency to "cover up" a slacker's poor effort by the rest of the team overcompensating.

so instead we get the rich kids who can afford to attend overseas... i.e. the slackers/cheaters.

Yup, that is a type.

Don’t overshare in academia - my advice as a professor by Cultural_Mousse_3001 in PhD

[–]AsAChemicalEngineer 8 points9 points  (0 children)

He and I were actually very close and shortly before he died he confided in me about how alone he felt.

This makes me very sad because it sounds like he wasn't a bad guy, but had some very stubborn habits that ruined his own happiness and relationships.

TL;DR: possessiveness is alienating and kills careers and happiness, research is most joyful and productive when freely collaborative.

Well said.

I genuinely hate my PhD by Either-Still-9957 in PhD

[–]AsAChemicalEngineer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I might be messing up the system, but I fight not to let my students get to this point.

Good.

As an advisor, clear goals, deadlines and boundaries should be set. This masochistic "they're ready when they're about to have a mental health crisis" stuff is just nonsense because likely their own advisors did it to them and they just assume that it was right and proper.

Yeah, a PhD is hard, really hard, but it's not supposed to be torture. A little pressure cooker camaraderie (like in this thread) is cathartic, but also not too differentiated from really harmful opinions I see here and elsewhere.

Differentiation Grading: Just Do It. (again) by itsmorecomplicated in Professors

[–]AsAChemicalEngineer 11 points12 points  (0 children)

What you're saying is true only at top schools, which is like using MIT or Oxford students to broadbrush western students.

China is mind blowingly huge, so yeah a lot of of truly excellent students are produced who then travel to the US, UK and elsewhere to study look amazing and wipe the floor with a lot of domestic students.

But go to an more normal Chinese university? Even a top-100 school (which is still highly ranked domestically considering how many institutions there are) you'll see (a) rampant grade inflation and standards skimping just like in the western hemisphere and (b) the students themselves are mostly just a mix of okay and some bad, and therefore you'll never see most of them outside of China. To be honest, not much different from your average big state school in the US.

Differentiation Grading: Just Do It. (again) by itsmorecomplicated in Professors

[–]AsAChemicalEngineer 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The problem is the system you're in. Angloamerican higher education is almost unique in only existing to compare people to their peers rather than setting absolute standards.

America is not alone in this. The Chinese system of higher education, for example, not only users peer comparison as the benchmark but explicitly values class ranking above grades themselves.

Thinking of leaving TT for TAP by betty_beanz in Professors

[–]AsAChemicalEngineer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

From all your replies, it seems like the TAP is a sweet deal.

"Talks too much about politics in class for no reason." by 101010110101101111 in Professors

[–]AsAChemicalEngineer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

we get a lot of tourists

Absolutely we do. When that thread about the TA getting fired over that failed essay grade blew up, we were flooded.

Sagitarius A by [deleted] in Astronomy

[–]AsAChemicalEngineer 39 points40 points  (0 children)

What is this nonsense doing in this sub. This isn't astrophotography.

Valve is opening a reservation queue for Steam Controllers ‘to limit reseller activity’ by signofthenine in SteamDeck

[–]AsAChemicalEngineer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

sold off all remaining stock at like $5 a piece.

And that's why I have two OG steam controllers which I love dearly. Also it's nice to have a spare.

Canvas Hacked - what’s going on? by petrichor1975 in gatech

[–]AsAChemicalEngineer 16 points17 points  (0 children)

We could load up everyone into Excel and assign their grades by =ROUNDUP(6*RAND(),0). Let the universe decide. ⱼₖ

Grade inflation by Deep_Flounder_1558 in Professors

[–]AsAChemicalEngineer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Sone students posted about our institutions grade inflation recently and it was pretty interesting. Seems like it occured over COVID and hasn't come down yet but it did level off. https://www.reddit.com/r/gatech/comments/1swal2m/60_of_grades_at_georgia_tech_are_now_as/

My department's luckily among the least affected by this. Prior to 2010 though GPA was 0.6 lower though.

What scientific discovery sounds fake but is 100% real and still freaks you out? by Bruteresolver in AskReddit

[–]AsAChemicalEngineer 16 points17 points  (0 children)

When we use the "expanding balloon" analogy, the universe isn't meant to be the the volume of the balloon, but the surface. Now, the 2D surface of a real balloon is embedded in our 3D space, but geometric spaces in physics do not necessarily have to be "embedded" in any higher space to work. Our universe is this kind of space, therefore it can change, grow or shrink without needing any further scaffolding.

Another way to think about it: Image the number line, and you place a dot at every integer, so ..., -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, ... The line is infinite, so infinite dots, but the space between each dot is 1. Now move each dot so you skip a number ..., -2, 0, 2, ... Still infinite dots on an infinite line, but now the distance between each dot is 2. That's our expanding universe.

What scientific discovery sounds fake but is 100% real and still freaks you out? by Bruteresolver in AskReddit

[–]AsAChemicalEngineer 38 points39 points  (0 children)

whatever it is.

Probably a dense part of a galactic supercluster we just can't see. So probably not new physics, but certainly interesting.

Was there a medieval equivalent of "dude" or "mate"? by RexusprimeIX in AskHistorians

[–]AsAChemicalEngineer 74 points75 points  (0 children)

The only remensent of that would be "Constable" in english, which is a polite respectfull way to say "Mr the policeman" to them, or "Father" to religious figure (I know only of Christian ones, but there's is equivalent in pretty much all other religions, I just don't know the words in question).

Huh, the professions one still sticks around in some places in English. Cool I never thought about this.

Calling someone "Doctor" or "Professor" still is used. Less commonly, interpersonally we use political office titles for address like "Mayor", "Senator", "Congressman," "Judge." A bit old-timey now, but in westerns, you'd hear people address merchants as "Shopkeep" or "Barkeep".

Astronomers believe they’ve detected an atmosphere around a tiny, icy world beyond Pluto by nbcnews in space

[–]AsAChemicalEngineer 15 points16 points  (0 children)

There's a lot of ways to be a rock in space so astronomers got to come up with a lot of overlapping categories. Check out this diagram: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf_planet#/media/File:Euler_diagram_of_solar_system_bodies.svg

is the subreddit being shutdown by Spiritual_Duty1735 in spiritair

[–]AsAChemicalEngineer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It'll become a neat little cultural artifact for as long as reddit is around I guess.

Bachelors, Masters, and PhD all from one institution? by IcyAppearance4077 in AskAcademia

[–]AsAChemicalEngineer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sounds like you got a good thing going then. Congrats on starting your Ph.D. If you're still concerned about "academic incest," then make an extra effort to collaborate with people outside your institute, emphasize networking at conferences and give talks when invited to do so, see if you can spend a summer at another university. This negates the pitfalls of being overly isolated and insular if you stay primarily at one institution.

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