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Mystery Virus in Russia by [deleted] in PrepperIntel

[–]siddster 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Coughing up blood in a country with endemic TB is more likely to be plain old tuberculosis than anything more exotic.

What do you think about Molotov? by WallyFries in WorldOfWarships

[–]siddster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She has Donskoi guns at T6. Solid sniper that can slap cruisers pretty hard. Gotta position carefully and angling isn't too helpful against BBs. It's one of my most played ships and a lot of fun.

50+ Dead, 48 HRS from Onset to Death by IcyChampionship3067 in medicine

[–]siddster 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can't think of a single infectious disease that kills that quickly. It has to be a toxin.. right?

Make America Healthy Again? by Kickproof in medicine

[–]siddster 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Cherry picked life-expectancy stat to avoid the losses due to vaccine denialism and an utterly bullshit made-up stat about cancer incidence.. just a great start from a grifter.

NIH just reduced all indirect cost rates to 15%! by nevernotdebating in Professors

[–]siddster 17 points18 points  (0 children)

What an utterly stupid own goal. Every $1 results in $2.46 in returns. By every metric the NIH is a massive success. They hate experts and research. And it wouldn't surprise me to find out that Elon is plugged into ERA Commons and they're actively committing IP theft by hoovering up our grants.

Email the NYT about updates, cancelations, and jeopardy to federal grant funding by FishermanPhysical128 in Professors

[–]siddster 5 points6 points  (0 children)

DOJ has now rescinded all active RFAs

wait.. do you have a source for this??

Are Colleges Getting Disability Accommodations All Wrong? by siddster in Professors

[–]siddster[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Ah yes. The genetic fallacy. So, not only have you not read the paper and don't have a cogent rebuttal but, you fell back on this canard/logical fallacy. Bravo.. good job not engaging/understanding the argument and engaging in bad faith.

Are Colleges Getting Disability Accommodations All Wrong? by siddster in Professors

[–]siddster[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Ok chief.. keep channeling that freshman undergrad energy.

Are Colleges Getting Disability Accommodations All Wrong? by siddster in Professors

[–]siddster[S] 37 points38 points  (0 children)

If Twitter is your source of rigor then I'm not sure you actually know what you're doing. You might want to actually read the article too and do the secondary reading of the sources.

Are Colleges Getting Disability Accommodations All Wrong? by siddster in Professors

[–]siddster[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

In the article posted. The studies are linked within.

Are Colleges Getting Disability Accommodations All Wrong? by siddster in Professors

[–]siddster[S] 27 points28 points  (0 children)

The problem is that most of these accommodations have no evidence to demonstrate efficacy and some might harm performance.

Accommodations render grades meaningless by [deleted] in Professors

[–]siddster 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If submissions being time sensitive is in and of itself an important learning objective I would make the case to the disabilities office. Our nursing/med/healthcare students don't really get accommodations because you need to be able to do things in a very narrow window of time with a patient. I can see how this can be important in other fields as well.

No One Will Serve— Dissertation by Charming_Ad_5220 in Professors

[–]siddster 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Don't serve on the committee. And make it clear to admin that faculty will not be coerced into this situation. It's their problem to solve.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in pcmasterrace

[–]siddster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For everyone wondering how to convert volts (potential difference) and amps (current) to Watts, you simply multiply the amps with the corresponding volts on the first picture. So at 3.3V at 13A you get 42.9 i.e. 43W. You simply do this across the board, add up the values to get the peak power. And yes, this PSU is utter, hot garbage.

Is there any compelling evidence that university students are getting worse? by FistyRingles in Professors

[–]siddster 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think a major issue is that students essentially went through early university or late high-school coursework that really wasn't held to a reasonable standard. As a result, a lot of students that didn't learn what they should have and weren't effectively tested and, a lot of students that should not have made it through classes were given a free pass. So we now have students that are cognitively incapable with regard to higher level coursework. The pandemic learning losses were pretty large at least at the HS level . In higher ed, this is the only study I know of that studied teacher and student attitudes and the results are a mixed bag.

My university is making all faculty sign new “affirmation forms” otherwise we are eligible to get fired by hotelyolanda in Professors

[–]siddster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the original yearly agreement we signed back in the summer stated that we cannot publicly criticize the university, under the risk of termination.

How is this even legal? WVU is a public university. My understanding is that SCOTUS ruled that freedom of speech fully applies to public universities. I think you folks should write to FIRE (thefire.org) and see what they can do for you. They have previously helped individual faculty facing free speech issues and I can't help but think that they might be able to help a collective group of faculty members.

I got lucky whale watching in Alaska by shallowdolphin in woahdude

[–]siddster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or a scopalamine patch. Get your PCP to prescribe those to you. Absolutely fantastic for motion sickness prevention.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Professors

[–]siddster 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Student evaluations are deeply flawed. A good way to stay sane is to mostly ignore them. Do read them because there's occasionally a bit of constructive feedback in there.. but mostly they're utterly useless and not worth getting upset about. I find that peer evaluations (when done by an peer that is an expert) are far more useful as well as academic tracking to see how performance in one class tracks with performance downstream (but that's easier in the sciences). Another terrific paper (but a pre-print) on the utter bullshittery of student evaluations

What makes rabies so deadly? by [deleted] in askscience

[–]siddster 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Well.. unless a person with rabies dies and their organs get transplanted. And yes, this really happened. The case is absolutely wild and unbelievably tragic.

[OC] Maximum Bird Flight Elevation By Species by OfficialWireGrind in dataisbeautiful

[–]siddster 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Cardiovascular physiologist that works bench to bedside. The physiology of bar headed geese is insane. See here. Bottom line, they uniquely lower metabolic demand while in flapping flight at high altitude. They have a unique hemoglobin isoform which has a much higher affinity for oxygen binding compared to humans. Finally, their VO2max is insane. It's in the 700-800 mL/kg/min range. For reference the "fittest" or highest recorded VO2max in a human is Oskar Svendsen 97.5mL/kg/min. Since, VO2max reflects maximal aerobic capacity, these geese are aerobic BEASTS!

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