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Chemical physics, climate change, blogger, deep into open teaching resources. Former bunny (pronouns Thou/Thee)

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TL:DR Data without a model is numerical drivel

07.03.2026 16:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Without a .model data is numerical drivel

06.03.2026 22:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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oeweek.oeglobal.org Call to Action: Co-designing and Enhancing Pharmacology for Nurses

#OEWeek26 πŸ”₯ "Call to Action: Co-designing and Enhancing Pharmacology for Nurses"
πŸ”œ17:00 (UTC) Hosts: Ontario Tech U Teaching and Learning Center
Join the Event πŸ”Ž https://twp.ai/4ive0a
#English #OnlinePublic

06.03.2026 15:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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oeweek.oeglobal.org Intro to Open Book Publishing through TAMU Libraries Open Digital Publishing platform

#OEWeek26 #Today #Soon πŸ”₯ "Intro to Open Book Publishing through TAMU Libraries Open Digital Publishing platform"
πŸ”œ17:30 (UTC) Hosts: Texas A&M University
Join the Event πŸ”Ž https://twp.ai/4ive0f
#English #InPerson #oeweek #oeglobal #openeducation

06.03.2026 15:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

LibreTexts w. its homework system.

06.03.2026 14:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A maroon logo for the OEGlobal Conference 2026 with the text Oct 7-9, 2026, Cambridge, MA, and Online, against the background of an illustrated map of Cambridge, Massachusetts. in pink and cyan colors, created by Mario Badilla at OEGlobal. https://conference.oeglobal.org/

A maroon logo for the OEGlobal Conference 2026 with the text Oct 7-9, 2026, Cambridge, MA, and Online, against the background of an illustrated map of Cambridge, Massachusetts. in pink and cyan colors, created by Mario Badilla at OEGlobal. https://conference.oeglobal.org/

Get ready for OEGlobal 2026β€”our website is now live!

Open Education Global (OEGlobal) is teaming up with MIT Open Learning and the Massachusetts Open & Low-Cost Educational Resources Advisory Council (OLERAC) to bring you a dynamic hybrid conference in Cambridge, MA and online!

06.03.2026 14:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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An Article I’d Love to Read Cutting the budgetβ€”painlessly.

Crowdsourcing a quest for budget cuts that don't hurt (such as energy efficiency or early retirement incentives). www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

06.03.2026 11:18 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

1930s. Bout right

06.03.2026 03:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
record of methane atmospheric concentrations, very constant from 8000BCE to about 1900 where it goes vertical

record of methane atmospheric concentrations, very constant from 8000BCE to about 1900 where it goes vertical

To concentrate minds there is always the scythe

06.03.2026 02:38 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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[Ilya Somin] US Court of International Trade Orders Refund of All Illegally Collected IEEPA Tariffs Importantly, the Court ordered payment of refunds even to those businesses who have not filed a lawsuit to claim them.
05.03.2026 02:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Where are the cats?

05.03.2026 03:52 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

In smaller place the business office wants you to qualify the Weird Stuff Inc place so they can buy from them. You learn about Dunn & Broadstreet

04.03.2026 18:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Speak to one of the GA senators

04.03.2026 17:06 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It's a very thin bench over there

04.03.2026 03:41 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm constantly trying (/failing) to get this point across.

If you're a trained expert in a field, then it may be worthwhile to question the scientific consensus of your peers.

If you're not, the scientific consensus is absolutely the best you can do and it's arbitrary foolishness to disregard it.

24.02.2026 16:04 πŸ‘ 3757 πŸ” 853 πŸ’¬ 54 πŸ“Œ 50
Professor in history of science - Uppsala University Professor in history of science, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University

My department is hiring a professor in the history of science! www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

02.03.2026 12:27 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You will get a read on that tomorrow

03.03.2026 05:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Tastier than luke warm scrambled eggs

03.03.2026 03:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

One of the nicest things about social media is you see a name you used to know and then can follow up and see what became of them.

03.03.2026 01:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just what is needed.

dokumen.pub/the-college-...

03.03.2026 01:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

CK Gunsalus The College Administrators Survival Guide 2nd Ed

"The central factor of an academic environment is that it contains what was trendy some years back to call β€œknowledge workers” These are people with highly specialized expertise, who are not usually susceptible to being managed"

03.03.2026 01:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Doing your homework by yourself cements your bad takes on the material. You bring your first takes to the study group and discuss the hard problems works

02.03.2026 07:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What is interesting is that the Gulf States can't sell their oil into the rising market bcs they can't get it thru the Straits of Hormuz

02.03.2026 07:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If TACO is coming, the obvious line for Trump to take is β€œIranians, you said you wanted freedom, so I got rid of Khameini for you. If you don’t overthrow the regime, that’s your problem not mine”. It’s a standard US exit strategy - Libya, Gulf War I etc.

02.03.2026 06:42 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
The Treisman Model | Merit

That's the lesson of the Treisman model showing the benefit of forming academic communities. He had seen how Black students studied alone, while Asian students studied together and were more successful

merit.illinois.edu/for-educator...

01.03.2026 00:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Something you learn by reading Orwell's "Down & out in London & Paris"

28.02.2026 23:33 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

To call this a cluster duck would be kind From the link Hitachi bid low bcs it wanted follow on workWhen that was cancelled the Bahn & Hitachi downsized leaving S21 without engineers to do the work on schedule Having underbid to get their foot in the door Hitachi has no interest in losing more money

26.02.2026 13:42 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Not the army of shovelers

26.02.2026 02:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks

25.02.2026 19:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Structured methods for parameter inference and uncertainty quantification for mechanistic models in the life sciences Abstract. Parameter inference and uncertainty quantification are important steps when relating mathematical models to real-world observations and when esti

You can still relate the calculated outcomes to the parameters using methods described/discussed here and if the outcomed are unrealistic you can use the results to bound the parameters
royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

25.02.2026 17:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0