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John Goodrick @skolemizer.bsky.social · 16d

☝️...but applicants in all areas are encouraged to apply.

Not necessary to speak Spanish, you can teach classes in English for the first 2 years and pick up the language on the job, as I did.

Any Q's about living & working in Colombia, feel free to ask me!

John Goodrick @skolemizer.bsky.social · 16d

JOB ALERT

The math dept. at Universidad de los Andes (Colombia) is looking to hire 2 new TT profs. Researchers in areas of geometry & topology or stats & data science given priority.
Apply by Nov. 30

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MathJobs from the the American Mathematical Society

Mathjobs is an automated job application system sponsored by the AMS.

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John Goodrick @skolemizer.bsky.social · Jun 18

I'd also like more granular data on this! I understand the building industry uses a lot of energy (and emits a lot of greenhouse gases) -- is that "other" or "industrial" here?
Also curious when China's construction boom might ebb and if that will help, CO2-wise.

John Goodrick @skolemizer.bsky.social · Jun 14

Anyway, thanks for sharing your article! This is a good discussion to be having, and it's nice to see a probability-theoretic analysis of the issue (even if I'm not convinced of all your underlying assumptions).

John Goodrick @skolemizer.bsky.social · Jun 14

...it comes down to how we scholars allocate our finite time and attention, and I worry that the kind of public crowdsourcing you advocate would tend to make this allocation more unequal to the benefit of superstars and ppl who make splashy claims.

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John Goodrick @skolemizer.bsky.social · Jun 14

...with the benefit that I (and many other mathematicians) have benefited from having a journal editor say "you (as an anonymous reviewer) must spend a few hours reading this article by a student that you otherwise would not have paid attention to"....

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John Goodrick @skolemizer.bsky.social · Jun 14

This ☝️(unmerited concentration of public reviews around articles published by big names in prestigious institutions) is the biggest concern about crowdsourcing I have. At least current system has brought a lot of interesting new work by less-established colleagues to my attention....

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John Goodrick @skolemizer.bsky.social · Jun 12

Thanks for sharing this! I'd mainly known White as the co-author of a silly grammar guide and I didn't realize he had this in him.
You can still see his tendency towards pedantry and relentless attention to detail that made him sometimes be a style nitpick, but in this case he found a worthy target.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · Jun 8

How Europeans react when you try to speak their language.

Wow I mean congrats but why would you put yourself through this - Eastern Europe
OMG you just said one word in my language we're now officially
BFFs - Mediterraneans
Oh that's so cute, let's speak in English though - Scandi/Germany
Please don't do that. -France
(no reaction)

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John Goodrick @skolemizer.bsky.social · May 19

Great explanation of the sound changes, but to be clear: the diacritical mark ~ ("tilde" in English) was used by medieval scribes for many kinds of abbreviations, not just omitted nasal consonants.
E.g. in the Domesday Book (1086) you can see <p~ter> for "p(a)ter," <Eps~> for "Ep(iscopu)s", etc.

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John Goodrick @skolemizer.bsky.social · May 18

How I feel when I'm walking around DC and I turn onto one of the diagonal avenues:

Screenshot from the original Super Mario Brothers video game showing Mario entering a warp zone

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John Goodrick @skolemizer.bsky.social · May 2

"Always only do illegal things challenge"

(E.g. just continuously burning $1 bills, in utter silence to avoid speech acts protected by 1st Amendment)

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John Goodrick @skolemizer.bsky.social · Apr 15

Side side note: English has two different words derived from the same root via French, "chief" and "chef." The different pronunciation of <ch> is because the first is an older borrowing from Anglo Norman French, which had a [t͡ʃ] affricate where Mod Fr. has the sibilant [ʃ].

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John Goodrick @skolemizer.bsky.social · Mar 28

"unlock hundreds of thousands in new profit per doctor"! 👊🇺🇸💰

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John Goodrick @skolemizer.bsky.social · Mar 28

Seriously, it's not even clear to me who is the intended audience for the sales pitch on their website (which is all very off-putting from the perspective of a loved one of a potential patient). Is this meant to be addressed to healthcare providers? Insurance companies? Venture capitalists?

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · Feb 7

Interpretation for the non-scientists: When faculty get NIH grants, the University gets some extra cash to make sure the research is supported. NIH just cut that $$ by a LOT. That means Unis are less likely to support research. Most research in the US is done at Unis, so... it's bad 🧪

Tim Mosca (he/him) @drosophilosophy.bsky.social · Feb 7

Oh. My. God.

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD

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John Goodrick @skolemizer.bsky.social · Jan 13

Any textbook suggestions for a 1st-semester course in mathematical logic, covering (at least) completeness and compactness for first-order logic plus a little model theory?

Considering Enderton but want to see if there are better options. This is for a required course for 3rd-year math undergrads.

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John Goodrick @skolemizer.bsky.social · Jan 9

This is fun! Let me try constructing the other tenses:
Future tense *voldré "I will want" (from volere + he > voldré with epenthetic -d-, cf. valer, valdré)
Simple past *volió "s/he wanted"
Past participle *volido or *vuelto (???)
2nd person sing. imperative *vol

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John Goodrick @skolemizer.bsky.social · Jan 8

Thanks, now I see! I was comparing with Sp. huelga "strike," but now I see this word has a different history, coming from the verb holgar < Latin follicāre acc. to my dictionary. I guess something like *foligare > folgar > holgar w/ short 'o', and without the yod at any stage (?).

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John Goodrick @skolemizer.bsky.social · Jan 8

Thanks! It shares a lot of inflected forms with the common verb volar (to fly) so this would be a little confusing.

I like the detail of the irregular added <g> in the 1st person sing. present, but can you explain why it wouldn't be *vuelgo with the usual outcome for short o in stressed syllables?

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John Goodrick @skolemizer.bsky.social · Dec 3

Is there any evidence for a PGmc. form *þrilifa 'thirteen'? Why don't we have thrileven, fourven, fivven, ...?

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Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.bsky.social · Dec 1

For the end of November, shortly before the eleventh month became the twelfth, I wrote a piece all about those two numbers.

Why does English have the words 'eleven' and 'twelve'? How do they relate to 'one' and 'two'?

And what does Lithuanian have to do with all this?
dannybate.com/2024/11/30/o...

Oneteen, twoteen? The origins of ‘eleven’ and ‘twelve’

Reading time: 5 minutes November, at time of writing, is ticking out its final few hours, and with them, the eleventh month of 2024 is giving way to the twelfth. Aside from the awkward mismatch in …

dannybate.com

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Timothy Gowers @wtgowers.bsky.social · Nov 30

A few days ago Lawrence Hollom posted a preprint that solves a problem about posets, informally known as the fishbone conjecture, which I am told was extremely central in the area. 🧵

arxiv.org/abs/2411.16844

A resolution of the Aharoni-Korman conjecture

A poset $P$ is said to satisfy the finite antichain condition, or FAC for short, if it has no infinite antichain. It was conjectured by Aharoni and Korman in 1992 that any FAC poset $P$ possesses a ch...

arxiv.org

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John Goodrick @skolemizer.bsky.social · Nov 30

In theory you could use "set-theoretic sleight of hand" to produce something countable (forcing extensions add new real numbers, which are countable objects; or using a weak version of AC). But Hollman's counterexample has a simple explicit definition, so should work in any model of ZF you like!

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John Goodrick @skolemizer.bsky.social · Nov 28

Personally, I complain about the hypocrisy of all those (and only those) who do not complain about their own hypocrisy.