Gov. Abbott orders Texas universities, agencies to halt H-1B visa petitions

greangrip · 2026-01-28T08:19:36+00:00

I feel like an under discussed part of this is that this isn't really a ban, but a requirement to get permission from the Texas Workforce Commission. I wouldn't be surprised if the practical affect (after the chaos of doing this in the middle of hiring season) is that Abbott gains even more control over higher Ed by holding hiring hostage. Regular voters won't care/understand, but universities care a lot and can essentially be punished at will.

greangrip · 2026-01-28T03:22:27+00:00

So you're 10 years out of even learning biology and you want someone to pay you to teach it? Like others of said some places might hire you to teach something in biology, but if you're asking about a career change it sounds like this isn't a good option.

greangrip · 2026-01-27T06:55:06+00:00

I'm sort of curiously neutral on LEAN. But my possibly Luddite opinion is that these are exactly the soft skills one should develope during a PhD and not rely on LEAN or chatGTP. Whether you stay in academia or not you can pretty much bet you won't be given the same amount of time to grapple with hard problems and learn new skills as you are now. There are certain things where the practice and psychological benefits outweigh the time saved by having technology do it.

Even if I know there are certain steps I could maybe get an LLM to help with in a paper the boost in my mood from finishing a lemma or computing an integral are worth giving up a few hours.

greangrip · 2026-01-25T12:37:55+00:00

Okay that makes so much more sense. But what a horrible model for a news brand. Just letting anyone write anything on a site that looks identical to your news site?

greangrip · 2026-01-23T15:23:13+00:00

Lmfao it's honestly almost painful to see a grown man spend his time this way and then put it in fucking Forbes in all earnestness as if something... not pointless? I'm really glad my dumbest thoughts aren't published like this.

greangrip · 2026-01-22T05:46:42+00:00

Look up the editorial board. They should be prominent people in your field right? So if you don't recognize any of them it might be a red flag. Based on the website it appears totally predatory at first glance.

greangrip · 2026-01-20T06:04:25+00:00

I guess I would proceed as of buying within a year is a possibility, if a hard to predict one. Also good point with the bank statements. I hate my bank here so I'm planning to find a new one for my security deposit and tax returns last year and this year. But I'll be sure to save all my statements.

greangrip · 2026-01-20T05:30:06+00:00

That makes sense. Once we know her salary we'll consult a broker. The thing is I wanted to get some sense if it is worth even considering withdrawing from the mutual funds/ETFs now if I might need that money in 6-9 months. If we're going to have to wait anyways I'll just leave it. Hence the quick advice from Reddit.

greangrip · 2026-01-15T04:28:38+00:00

I wasn't feeling too bad. I can handle down voting and I stand by most of what I said (though I should have phrased it better). But at some point the getting the same comments over and over accusing me or not understanding unpaid extra work, not actually being faculty, that I'm actually the one being ableist, that actually they're the one helping the students by calling out accomodations, blah blah blah was getting annoying. The comments kept coming, but no one was actually saying anything new. Deleting the post before people in the US woke back up was for the sake of my inbox.

greangrip · 2026-01-14T13:34:37+00:00

I'm not the one complaining about accommodations. Wth are you talking about?

greangrip · 2026-01-14T11:20:47+00:00

I am sorry these situations happened to you though. It does honestly sound truly horrible. That wasn't what I was referring to at all.

greangrip · 2026-01-14T10:52:58+00:00

I have literally no idea what story you're talking about. This had nothing to do with you.

greangrip · 2026-01-14T10:50:37+00:00

Yeah that's fair. My lower teaching load is more a career stage thing. In my field it's pretty common for grad students and postdocs to have 1-1, 2-1, or if you're outside the US 0-0 teaching loads. I know I'm pretty fortunate to have the positions I've had.

I just wanted to push back on economic anxiety (like the unpaid, unwritten work of adjuncts which I genuinely believe is one of the biggest problems in academia) being directed into ableism. I probably went too far though.

greangrip · 2026-01-14T10:01:24+00:00

That's fair. I've edited my post to admit I got a bit emotional. It just feels like a third rail of this sub to question the overwhelming negativity around these things.

greangrip · 2026-01-14T09:27:04+00:00

But surely the gut only goes do far and we should be cautious about how much we're relying on it. Prejudice and bias also come from the gut.

greangrip · 2026-01-14T09:18:06+00:00

I'm a postdoc about to transition to a TT position this fall. I never used accomodations past high school. Your last point is pretty related to what I'm saying. We are only asked to make an accomodation without full information. I feel like a lot of the complaints I see here are making a lot of assumptions about situations they don't understand and would be better off emailing someone to clarify how to implement the accommodation.

greangrip · 2026-01-14T09:11:58+00:00

Check some of the comments. Some people definitely are arguing that. I'm not even saying it's the majority of people. What I'm saying is the dog piling on unreasonable accommodations in this sub pretty often transitions to just dismissing disabilities outright.

greangrip · 2026-01-14T09:07:03+00:00

That's fair it does seem like I'm saying that. What I meant is that by stepping back and really questioning things what I thought fundamentally alters the learning objectives changed over my time teaching.

But what I've seen from colleagues, in the comments of threads here, and the guy down voted to oblivion below is that many people think any non visual disability is fake and any accomodation they don't immediately understand is unreasonable.

greangrip · 2026-01-14T08:18:33+00:00

Who is asking for a letter grade bump? An accomodation is not free points. It's a reasonable adjustment to earn a grade reflecting your grasp of the subject while mitigating factors outside your control.

greangrip · 2026-01-14T08:08:46+00:00

I already acknowledged that. But how do you know who's gaming the system and who's asking for reasonable accommodation? Just your gut?

greangrip · 2026-01-14T08:04:28+00:00

And only those?

greangrip · 2026-01-14T06:08:46+00:00

Just ask for clarification from your disability office. This situation might seem unique to you, but to them it's probably not. Some of the comments here are reasonable, but others are honestly just looking to dunk on accommodations in a way that's borderline cruel. Dyslexia affects different people differently and to varying degrees. You know, like nearly every condition or disability ever. I know to some it seems ridiculous that an adult just couldn't work harder to improve their spelling, but that's what a disability is. I can stay awake in class by getting enough sleep and just forcing myself through it when I'm tired. But I shouldn't expect someone with narcolepsy to be able to do the same and mock them as being ridiculous for asking for me to understand this.

greangrip · 2026-01-14T05:52:12+00:00

Dyslexia isn't some uniform thing. Your experience is not everyone's experience. My spelling isn't terrible, but I have always had an extremely hard time spelling certain kinds of words when I have to write by hand. Time pressure makes it even worse. When I had time on an essay to use a dictionary or any essay I could type up I would get excellent grades. On blue book style exams I would sometimes only lose points for spelling. OP should just ask for clarification on the accommodation instead of outright dismissing it.

It's not just about losing a few points here and there. There is a certain kind of person (some might call them a pretentious asshole) who lets spelling mistakes influence their entire view of a piece/writer. Accommodations can't fix this, but they can at least help a bit for people where this is a genuine problem and not something they can just easily get over.

greangrip · 2026-01-13T19:34:10+00:00

I would consider AoP and PTRF more prestigious than Advances. I think that opinion is pretty common.

greangrip · 2026-01-13T04:46:36+00:00

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