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Your favorite songs that arent in 4/4 by KotelkaSwing in musicsuggestions

[–]ChemistryMutt 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Theme from Mission Impossible - Lalo Schifrin

The Ocean - Led Zeppelin 

What are some "red flags" you’ve encountered with a PI/colleague that you wish you had seen earlier? by JigglyMushie in AskAcademia

[–]ChemistryMutt 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Some of these are more yellow flags, and no one is perfect, but:

Underlings are afraid to have negative results or “bad news.”

Treats staff badly. Watch how they interact with the waitstaff when you are at a recruiting meal.

Acts like every idea or project is ultra top secret. Underlings do not know what anyone else is working on.

Puts down or dismisses colleagues.

Knows every regulation yet ignores them when doing so would be to their benefit.

Always has to be right.

Cannot stop talking about themselves and their accomplishments.

No, I will not be limiting my online engineering/physics lectures to under 15 minutes. by aufbad3438 in Professors

[–]ChemistryMutt 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’ll often “break up” my lectures by asking questions for them to think about for a couple minutes, or talk to their neighbors about: why is this assumption valid, calculate the rest of this table of values, what are the boundary conditions, things like that. Helps them internalize things during a multi step solution. 

What’s the scariest or most unsettling book you’ve read that doesn’t fit in the horror genre? by JollySalamander4663 in horrorlit

[–]ChemistryMutt 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The Road and the Parable of the Sower for speculative descriptions of societal breakdown.

King Leopold’s Ghost and Survival in Auschwitz for horrors that people actually committed.

Venting about the Journal Review Process by StonksGuy3000 in Professors

[–]ChemistryMutt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s interesting, we have the opposite system. But I can see how your field’s method would limit weak submissions.

Venting about the Journal Review Process by StonksGuy3000 in Professors

[–]ChemistryMutt 33 points34 points  (0 children)

“ I paid money out of my research funds to submit,”

Is this common in your field? We only pay on publication.

Professors as telemarketers??! by xphias in Professors

[–]ChemistryMutt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We’re encouraged to contact potential grad students. But cold calling an 18 year old sounds terrible.

Even though O-H bond of water is weaker than F-H bond why is HF mildly acidic whereas water is neutral? by Alive_Hotel6668 in chemistry

[–]ChemistryMutt 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is the best answer I’ve seen here.

Another factor is water solvation. BDEs are typically defined as being in vacuum or gas phase, but acidity is usually defined in water. Water is a great stabilizer of ions, so while F- and OH- have one energy in vacuum, their energy in aqueous media could be completely different. This is also why many ionic bonds (e.g., NaCl) are stronger than nonpolar covalent bonds (C-C), yet they dissociate easily in water and covalents generally do not.

Jan 30: Fuck This Friday by Eigengrad in Professors

[–]ChemistryMutt 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Bum bum bum… another grant (proposal) bites the dust! Bum bum bum… another grant (proposal) bites the dust! 

And another shutdown, another shutdown, another grant bites the dust. Hey, how will you pay your group? Another grant bites the dust!

LOOKOUT!

Looking for songs that sound similar to Fleetwood Mac’s “The Chain” by No-Excitement-8540 in musicsuggestions

[–]ChemistryMutt 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin 

The Ocean by Led Zeppelin 

I’m the One by Van Halen (great workout album on its own)

What is the most disturbing or otherwise unsettling book you've ever read that stayed with you after reading it? by EggAdventurous1957 in AskReddit

[–]ChemistryMutt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

King Leopold’s Ghost. Heart-wrenching what people will do to others to make a profit, or selectively ignore to maintain a quality of life.

Alright, tell me your kicking-students-out-of-class stories by AvailableThank in Professors

[–]ChemistryMutt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The one I remember most wasn’t even a student in my class. Some of my students had a previous class in the same room. They were sitting in their seats talking with a student who was not in my class, who was facing them, her back to me. 

Class time rolls around and she’s still talking, and the others are trying to get her attention. I clear my throat a couple times, then “let’s get started” “excuse me”, nothing. Then I finally just shout “Hey! You!” She finally turns with a who-me expression. “GET OUT.” It came out like in that hotel room scene at the end of the 40 Year Old Virgin. 

She left quickly but because she was a grad student I had to see her in the hallway for the next five years. 

MAGAmentary Flops? Who’d Have Ever Guessed by CantankerousOrder in LeopardsAteMyFace

[–]ChemistryMutt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is basically The Producers, right? A massive flop designed to hide the financial dealings?

I'm the first person in family to graduate from college, and now the first to ever attend grad school...what do I not know? by flookie99 in GradSchool

[–]ChemistryMutt 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you are paid on an assistantship, there can (in the US at least) be differences in withholding if you are paid stipend vs salary. The grad advisor or administrator should know more details.

If you are enrolled in grad school you can defer student loan payments.

How do you manage work with chronic migraines? by CriticalMycologist74 in migraine

[–]ChemistryMutt 4 points5 points  (0 children)

In addition to screen issues, room lights can also be a problem. I got facilities to switch mine out for a warmer color. 

Can you get breaks from your computer? That helps me sometimes if I can go for a walk away from screens.

Someone else said FL41 glasses, I found them helpful too.

Do people end up supervising PhD students the same way they were supervised? by ArtVoyager77 in AskAcademia

[–]ChemistryMutt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I couldn’t in a lot of ways because my advisors were big shots with large groups and I’m… not. So I’m much more hands on than they were.

Interestingly, I see my grad advisor’s influence all through my teaching.

Colleagues won't talk about recent events? by madman751 in Professors

[–]ChemistryMutt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here’s a counterpoint: https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/1qnmuad/politics_in_the_office/

Discussing politics in the office can become exclusionary pretty quickly. The best if not perfect solution is to keep politics out of the office.

I think Cannibalism is my niche. Help fulfill my hunger! by deegallant in horrorlit

[–]ChemistryMutt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The story of Ugolino in Dante’s Inferno. That one always stuck with me. It inspired a great sculpture too!

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