I am so sorry, Michele. Thank you for sharing this lovely photo of him. He looks happy and loved.
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I am so sorry, Michele. Thank you for sharing this lovely photo of him. He looks happy and loved.
Reposting this as it seems especially relevant to UK physics and astro right now. A thread with documentation of why curiosity-driven research should be supported by governments. 🔭🧪
Thank you for making the case for us. 🌌
STFC featured the project in a report on “World-Class Innovation” in 2018, which is part of why this seems so self-defeating a move on their part. They know perfectly well that basic research is their best investment, don’t they?
Sure! I wrote an article on our Caribbean deployments to date from a citizen science perspective - theoryandpractice.citizenscienceassociation.org/articles/10....
And the projects themselves are part of a Zooniverse organisation, planetaryresponsenetwork.org; our Sudan project is currently active.
What doesn’t add up for me is that basic research has the highest long-term ROI of any research, so by slashing it now the government is torching much *more* future economic gain than had they decided to make any other cuts in this sector. It’s the quickest way to give up our future leadership.
A small thing, but the disaster relief/crisis mapping I’m leading as part of my FLF wouldn’t exist if basic research on galaxies hadn’t been funded, and if Galaxy Zoo hadn’t been created. Pretty sure the co-creator had an STFC PhD studentship. Now the tools they created are used to help save lives.
Thank you! Looking forward to it ☺️
I don’t suppose you’d mind sharing the details? I’ll be visiting (not just passing through New Street) relatively soon and would absolutely make the trip out to wherever in search of good Mexican food.
I remember May 2020 course feedback from my students thanking me for doing my best. I was so grateful to them for giving me grace to be a fellow human going through COVID *with* them.
I don’t know the details of this claim, but I suspect only the lawyers are likely to see meaningful compensation.
I once had the advice to “bring everything that you are even slightly unsure about, pay for a full pack/unpack moving service, and then decide as you put things away what to do with the rest.” Basically, decline to compound the stress of moving with the stress of decluttering on a deadline.
I like that the article writer specified devices were ok as long as the student wrote with a stylus - just something to keep them from focusing on typing verbatim. Feels like you could modify this pretty easily for people who need accommodations, even just by not making a strict rule.
Ah, I hadn’t seen this when I replied before. People can be very behind on their email, but no reply for a while to a direct inquiry is informative, sadly.
Then again I once got a rejection for a fellowship something like 2 years after I applied, so I guess sometimes it just means the system people assume will notify unsuccessful candidates, hasn’t.
IME that can mean you ranked highly enough to make a longlist, which means you’re on “stand by” and won’t get notified by the application system until you either get an interview or someone else formally accepts the offer (and maybe not until they actually start).
I’d email and ask for an update.
That’s fantastic- congratulations! 🥳
What a great example to show students though, when discussing what LLMs are and are *not*
Congratulations! Hope the move goes well 😊
Sure here u go
Those are gorgeous! 💅🌌
Oh wow I had no idea these had gotten this good
I have a dot-grid notebook for my work notes/tracking and I have stencils and nice pens and metallic star stickers and such but … this. This is the one thing I need and after this I will be stationery satiated. Yes.
We have a Zooniverse project to find roads at high flood risk in Sudan (partnering with the World Food Programme). It’s ~65% done with the mapping phase. We have feedback from WFP’s Logistics Cluster that it’s actively helping. 😊 Just 1 of ~70 active projects rn www.zooniverse.org/projects/ali...
(This works because our exams are 80% of the course score)
All that said, while I do think the quizzes benefit learning, I completely understand my colleagues who just give the standard caveats about LLMs and say “you’re adults so if you want to risk failing the exam and possibly getting caught plagiarising, that’s on you” and give worksheets as usual.
Oh, I also give answer keys (but not fully worked solutions) to the worksheets, so they can self-correct before the quiz. Part of our in-class time (which the grad TAs could def do on their own) is a working session where we are on hand to help with their understanding of the worksheet.
I give 4 but I drop the lowest one, so each of their top 3 is worth 5%. They aren’t open book, but only because our exams aren’t either and I frame these as low-stakes practice for the exam. I do give them a formula sheet.
It is more logistical hassle than worksheets, but even considering all that, it still takes me less time than marking the full worksheet. I’ve done it for classes up to ~70, but my own undergrad phys101 did it for 200, broken into smaller groups for quizzes.
After everyone has handed in, I give instant feedback and we go over how I might ask a similar Q on an exam. Student feedback post-course tends to say things like “quizzes were scary at first but actually they weren’t that bad, and they made me study”
I give quizzes but make them as low-stakes as I can without making the course 100% exam (we don’t have midterms). The worksheet is “self-guided” & the quiz draws pretty closely from it. It’s untimed, but scoped to take 10 minutes if it were an exam Q. In practice the slowest student takes ~25 mins.
Congratulations! 🥳 and also well done for picking a (probably) balmy venue 😂😊