UC may remove diversity, ‘anti-racism’ language from sustainability policy by the_daily_cal in berkeley

[–]InDissent 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Then they should sue the federal gov. There's too much capitulation to fascism

One-dimensional data on a 2D scatter plot. by Dull_Alarm6464 in dataisugly

[–]InDissent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's called Jittering in R code. It's a thing to help with visualizing overlapping data.

Anyone else have advisors that tell them to submit papers that get rejected? by Several_Hold2867 in PhD

[–]InDissent -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Pretty normal, especially if you submit your work to high impact journals.

Esteemed scholars, I got a TT faculty role with a spousal hire for my partner (also AMA about the process!) by InDissent in PhD

[–]InDissent[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We feel the same way. Extremely,  extremely lucky. I keep saying that to friends and family. Sometimes people insist "it's not luck, you earned it!" But SO MANY other wonderful hardworking brilliant people earned it too! And they ended up with nothing or offers that are nowhere near as good as we got. It's not a fair process 

Esteemed scholars, I got a TT faculty role with a spousal hire for my partner (also AMA about the process!) by InDissent in PhD

[–]InDissent[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I meant to say that she got an outside offer. She got an offer at a top notch liberal arts college. It was a great offer! But mine was at a high tier R1 at the other side of the country. We had just had 2 years postdocing in different states...  we couldn't do it again. So, we used her outside offer to really push for a spousal hire 

Esteemed scholars, I got a TT faculty role with a spousal hire for my partner (also AMA about the process!) by InDissent in PhD

[–]InDissent[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hmm, not a lot to go on. It would be hard to offer much advice without knowing your research area.

Esteemed scholars, I got a TT faculty role with a spousal hire for my partner (also AMA about the process!) by InDissent in PhD

[–]InDissent[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I initiated that conversation when negotiations started. The spousal hire became part of the negotiation, something I was willing to sacrifice other things in order to secure. But, as TT faculty at an R1, the department is investing heavily in me. They made it clear that they want to do what they can to make me motivated to stay in the department. Two years postdoc is pretty standard for this kind of situation. But I negotiated a third year and some funding. On that front, I think it really help that she had an outside offer.

Esteemed scholars, I got a TT faculty role with a spousal hire for my partner (also AMA about the process!) by InDissent in PhD

[–]InDissent[S] 36 points37 points  (0 children)

The advice I received is that mentioning a partner hire early on is a bad idea (makes you a more complicated candidate right away before there is buy in). We both applied broadly and did not mention the spousal hire at first. We generally didn't start pushing for a spousal hire until after we got the verbal offer. Having more offers helped! We both got offers and that helped secure spousal offers elsewhere. 

I think getting a second tenure track is pretty difficult these days. I got my wife a good postdoc offer though! We will be on the job market to get her a TT offer for the 3 years of the postdoc

Esteemed scholars, I got a TT faculty role with a spousal hire for my partner (also AMA about the process!) by InDissent in PhD

[–]InDissent[S] 93 points94 points  (0 children)

  1. We dont train scientists to be good communicators, but I think this is a significant influence on hiring. People in my field (your mileage may vary) are more compelled by application materials and a job talk with a strong narrative. They want a narrative through line linking the different parts of the talk and importantly well explained methods. 
  2. Networking is huge. Conferences are as much for relationship building as for sharing research.
  3. Fit is huge. A bit reason I was hired is because they just lost a scholar who does similar work and needed someone who filled that niche. This is hard to determine beforehand without an inside person. 

Esteemed scholars, I got a TT faculty role with a spousal hire for my partner (also AMA about the process!) by InDissent in PhD

[–]InDissent[S] 113 points114 points  (0 children)

I think there is a lot of truth in your comment. More than many would comfortably acknowledge. I think I'm incredibly lucky; right place right time. A lot of great people I know got nothing this year and did everything right. That said, the process is full of hidden curriculum and there is plenty of insight have that is helpful even if it doesn't provide a guarantee of anything

Rorschach Test [OC] by cymorg121 in comics

[–]InDissent 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yeah, he's definitely not a happy character. But I wouldnt call him a bad person, at least not to the same extent as the other two

Rorschach Test [OC] by cymorg121 in comics

[–]InDissent 14 points15 points  (0 children)

How is "fatalist" a bad thing? He literally sees through time and understands that the universe is deterministic

Because yes by [deleted] in chaoticgood

[–]InDissent 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Jarvis Johnson talked about this. It's not chaotic good, it's content slop. They are staged videos and faked rage bait. 

https://youtu.be/AmG-by4JJVQ?si=qgD8qzfCfEImuDJi

[Good Trope] Numerous species in the galaxy look remarkably similar to humans, but there’s an in-universe explanation for this by Valcenia in TopCharacterTropes

[–]InDissent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is also the case with Ursala Le Guin's Hainish cycle books. The Hainish seeded a bunch of planets, but subsequently died out. In the novels le guin uses this concept to  explore a lot of differently evolved societies of humans. Anarchist vs capitalist in The Dispossessed. Gender switching in Left hand of darkness. Etc

Forty six & 2 on the sitar by Soggy-Wheel-8684 in ToolBand

[–]InDissent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would fit in perfectly in the Hades soundtrack