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A new post, on reading a bunch of books from 1937! Some were great, some were awful, some were bizarre. eighteenthelephant.com/2025/10/17/r...
Reading Like It’s 1937
About two years ago, I read a string of books that were all published in 1965. It was a fun exercise and I found some wonderful books I might not have otherwise read (described in this post). Why n…
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October 17, 2025 at 6:48 PM
A new post, on reading a bunch of books from 1937! Some were great, some were awful, some were bizarre. eighteenthelephant.com/2025/10/17/r...
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...
An Informal Overview of US Science Funding
How does public funding for science work in the United States? How much money is there? Who gets it, and how? How much does a graduate student cost? Even normally, science funding is a rich topic w…
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June 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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...
Are we missing 400 students?
How many out-of-state (non-Oregon-resident) students are there at the University of Oregon (UO)? This is an easy question to answer: about 9000, or about 45% of the total undergraduate student popu…
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May 6, 2025 at 2:47 AM
"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...
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April 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Get 50% off books (including ebooks and audio) sitewide, with code BLOOM50 at checkout: press.princeton.edu
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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...
The most important, and the most pointless, course I’ve taught
Last quarter, I taught for the first time the first term of the introductory undergraduate physics sequence, the standard “physics with calculus”:” class that exists in some form …
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April 11, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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...
Why Don’t Academics Care About Artificial Intelligence?
It’s February 2025 and this, like some of my other recent posts (here, here), could be a snapshot of a landscape being transformed by the roaring river of artificial intelligence. But it isn&…
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February 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Why Don't Academics Care About Artificial Intelligence? -- A new blog post. (Probably more general than academics...) eighteenthelephant.com/2025/02/03/w...
A very cold bike ride this morning (27 F), but even better than usual scenery crossing the Willamette.
January 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
A very cold bike ride this morning (27 F), but even better than usual scenery crossing the Willamette.
Thoughts on last term's image analysis course, including the question of why, in 2024, should one learn about image analysis methods.
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Image Analysis Course Recap, Fall 2024
Last term (Fall 2024) I again taught the computational image analysis course I developed a few years ago (see 2021, 2022). It was again a mixed graduate and undergraduate course, this time with an …
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January 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Thoughts on last term's image analysis course, including the question of why, in 2024, should one learn about image analysis methods.
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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...
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...
The Year in Books, 2024
Once again, highlights of the books I read in the past year, featuring the end (for now) of my education in twentieth-century semi-organized crime, a book on semi-organized twentieth-cent…
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December 31, 2024 at 5:31 AM
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...
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...
Once again, the lesson is "don’t trust Scientific American". It used to be a great magazine... @sciam.bsky.social statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/12/19/h...
How did the press do on that “black spatula” story? Not so great. | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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December 19, 2024 at 6:37 PM
Once again, the lesson is "don’t trust Scientific American". It used to be a great magazine... @sciam.bsky.social statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/12/19/h...
A gut-wrenching tale of bacteria and immune cells -- a blog post about a recent paper from my research group. eighteenthelephant.com/2024/11/30/a...
A gut-wrenching tale of bacteria and immune cells
About a recent paper from my lab: Julia S Ngo, Piyush Amitabh, Jonah G Sokoloff, Calvin Trinh, Travis J Wiles, Karen Guillemin, and Raghuveer Parthasarathy, “The Vibrio Type VI Secretion Syst…
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December 4, 2024 at 7:15 AM
A gut-wrenching tale of bacteria and immune cells -- a blog post about a recent paper from my research group. eighteenthelephant.com/2024/11/30/a...