I put together a rough presentation on how US science funding works, for my & neighboring research groups, mainly aimed at grad students. Lots of neat graphs! (Each could be a story of its own...) Quiz questions! I pasted it into a blog post: eighteenthelephant.com/2025/06/11/a...
"Are we missing 400 students?" -- A new post, probably only of interest, if to anyone, to Oregonians or maybe others at state universities. Do we have fewer out-of-state students than expected? eighteenthelephant.com/2025/05/06/a...
The most important, and the most pointless, course I've taught -- thoughts on my first time teaching intro physics. eighteenthelephant.com/2025/04/11/t...
Why Don't Academics Care About Artificial Intelligence? -- A new blog post. (Probably more general than academics...) eighteenthelephant.com/2025/02/03/w...
Thoughts on last term's image analysis course, including the question of why, in 2024, should one learn about image analysis methods. eighteenthelephant.com/2025/01/10/i...
The Year in Books, 2024 My annual post of highlights of the past year's reading, "...featuring the end (for now) of my education in twentieth-century semi-organized crime, a book on semi-organized twentieth-century chimpanzees, and more." eighteenthelephant.com/2024/12/31/t...
