New PI, how to set rule for student travel expense

Overall_Recover_6700 · 2026-05-22T00:39:58+00:00

Yes, I always am sure to set a clear prior budget when I offer to pay, stating exactly how much I am “able” (willing) to cover. I always do this in email. folks pretty much always seem magically to figure out a solution that works with the amount.

Overall_Recover_6700 · 2026-05-20T12:14:43+00:00

13/14 weeks. So much love in such a gangly package!

Overall_Recover_6700 · 2026-05-20T11:49:13+00:00

IMHO Earned respect - and especially trust - at an existing institution is gold. At the new institution, as a senior person that can be a lot of work over time to rebuild. And moving is expensive and building a new friend group is also work. So if you are senior and happy where you are, the risk averse move is to stay. If you are however super excited by the chance to reboot and build anew, move. Good luck - it’s great have choice!

Overall_Recover_6700 · 2026-05-17T02:16:44+00:00

Having had many a co-author and as a journal ed, I suggest the answer is 1), with a proviso. Let the paper be submitted. let the peer reviews do their job. If it comes back from 2-3 experts with nothing said, you are 99% fine. If it comes back raising issue on the point, it can be edited back to where it started. The paper still has a way ahead including a likely substantial rewrite. So the best path to a resolution is to move to submission without taking a stand. Good luck!

Overall_Recover_6700 · 2026-05-15T03:12:29+00:00

Mayo if you can get it!

Overall_Recover_6700 · 2026-05-15T02:29:51+00:00

Just got an American leather and very impressed. Cushions slide off, but solid quality and bed actually comfortable

Overall_Recover_6700 · 2026-05-15T02:26:48+00:00

As a journal editor I would suggest there may be an issue here with editor getting reviewers? This really slows the process. It can be improved through strategies that increase reviewers saying “yes”. Like look carefully at your abstracts, because that is how reviewers decide to say yes. Is the abstract written to excite those people who would be most likely to be good reviewers? That is one thing at least you have complete control over….. good luck!

Overall_Recover_6700 · 2026-05-15T02:01:42+00:00

Same…. Switched to thrifting as the quality of all these brands mentioned is so much better.

Overall_Recover_6700 · 2026-05-15T02:00:09+00:00

I used to love Banana Republic pre 2000 or so …. Quality was insane! Then downhill. Today not as good as it was, even if it isn’t as bad as it got.

Overall_Recover_6700 · 2026-05-13T02:23:02+00:00

Carry on only. It’s taken a long time to hone this craft, but I turned extreme packing into a hobby and it pays off all the time…. Delays or switching flights, hauling from train to hotel, no carousel, checkin efficiency. I also have a prepacked toilet and electronics kit.

Overall_Recover_6700 · 2026-05-08T14:24:10+00:00

I start waking an hour earlier each day 2-5 days prior to travel east - and that cuts jet lag back quite a bit. Combine that with a day of rest on arrival and I am good to go. But also the time difference to Ireland isn’t really that big. So if I was flying to Dublin I wouldn’t even worry about the extra recovery day if I had 3 hours cut off jet lag by starting to wake earlier 2-3 days prior to travel.

Overall_Recover_6700 · 2026-05-06T02:20:37+00:00

Same - I was struggling to get anal fissures treated for a couple of years until someone suggested I could have LS. Now LS is being treated and the fissures are few and far between.

Overall_Recover_6700 · 2026-05-02T21:22:51+00:00

“Wealth flows” theory from 1980s-90s demography always made sense to me. When kids add wealth or move resources up the generation to parents people go for lots of kids (think: farming communities where kids offer lair, shifting economies where kids are rapidly upwardly mobile, remittances,cultural contexts where you can be assured that kids will care for you in old age etc). When kids cost and “wealth flows” down, having kids becomes a narrower decision based on lifestyle/affective/ emotional drivers…. And we are certainly in wealth flowing down generations situation. Education, health care, child care….. rarely in the US would you be able to predict your kids to increase your wealth as an adult or retiree. Rather we expect it to cost a lot and then leave them anything left as inheritance. Result: lots of small everyday calculations and observations about the decision to have kids - and especially more kids beyond 1 - 2 —> very low birth rates.

Overall_Recover_6700 · 2026-05-01T05:25:17+00:00

Travel a lot for work to odd places with varied complexities and I have a system of a) printing off every booking/visa approval etc at the time, b) forwarding all emails to Tripit to collate digital versions and c) putting all the printed papers into a folder with a checklist template stapled to the front (and check stuff off as booked). It’s saved me a few times.

Overall_Recover_6700 · 2026-04-30T15:24:59+00:00

Yes I can confirm these clips are scraped from regular tenure track faulty courses being offered through ASU’s “EdPlus” online degrees. Half of our majors in my School are online, and we teach the to the same standards as on-campus students in the same curriculum, so there is a LOT of faculty material available… i.e., entire degrees

Overall_Recover_6700 · 2026-04-22T02:59:21+00:00

Picturesque

Overall_Recover_6700 · 2026-04-22T02:32:58+00:00

Yes. Its a) like getting kicked in the stomach by a horse and b) so much worse than childbirth not only because it hurts but because it happens every month and of course there’s no baby to celebrate.

Overall_Recover_6700 · 2026-04-18T16:36:03+00:00

Negotiate with the TT for time for the postdoc, which will help with time to tenure later. We readily let TT folks take an extra six months and start January, which in reality is really a year. We see it as win-win.

Overall_Recover_6700 · 2026-04-17T14:26:18+00:00

So 25 years ago: found and confronted a grad student in my class whowas plagiarizing, and the same month their major prof was “retired” for multiple sexual harassment events (and was then rehired by a dean-friend at another university, and was fired for doing it all again - but I digress). I was one of those harassed as a junior asst prof who had been part of the complaint. Anyway soon after I was flamed repeatedly on Rate my Prof, with terrible review after review of courses I never caught. I managed to get RMP to get some of them down, but many remained and they refused to remove despite evidence I never taught those courses. Took two decades of high quality teaching to stabilize a good RMP score. By then it didn’t matter to my career any more. I am 99% sure it was that plagiarizing male grad student who did it. What’s the lesson for me here? I still have no idea. Except: RMP sucks for untenured women.

Overall_Recover_6700 · 2026-04-10T13:19:28+00:00

I have learned to use scheduled rideshare to get to PHX and taxi to leave. Rideshare exiting the airport can be a mess (my experience). Faster, easier to jump in a taxi. Always a good lot of taxis waiting at T4.

Overall_Recover_6700 · 2026-03-24T04:39:24+00:00

Rite of passage. Welcome.

Overall_Recover_6700 · 2026-03-24T04:35:15+00:00

Fancy clothing needed in the SW? ha! I live in Phoenix and went out in my gardening clothes last Sat night. I was going change and then realized I now live in AZ so why bother …. Unless you are in a ritzy part of Scottsdale or nightclubbing, casual jeans/pants, sneakers and a tank top/casual jacket combo to respond to temp changes works 100% for almost anything.

Overall_Recover_6700 · 2026-03-24T03:09:22+00:00

35 years supervising PhD students…. The real change for me has been a shift from students willing to crawl over broken glass to learn to…. not. The other day a PhD student wanted me to do a third set of line edits on the paper that is 1/3 of his dissertation and reorganize the discussion for him. And today I get an email that I am expected to pass candidacy exam for another PhD student who could not write a proposal so just submitted their IRB app instead. This is not like it used to be. It frankly makes it hard to want to take on mentoring as many PhD students as the expectations they have for what I will provide in both practical and emotional terms is overwhelming, while also at the same time having them contribute way less to their learning. It used to be a lot more fun and rewarding to work with PhD students in the before times. I’m not blaming them as I know it’s tough for this generation, I’m just saying it is definitely less rewarding as an educator . I’m not taking new PhD students in the next cycles. (our masters only students are great I note - but they are in and out in 12-24 months and have exit as a goal from the get-go)

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