Every time I read about some horrible policy being implemented in higher Ed I am outraged and then realize that we’ve been forced to do that at UT Austin like forever.

Might not have been fair to ask him to sing either

Workday is a nightmare
UT has had it for maybe 5+ years now
It’s awful

I dunno what you are talking about everything works great the first time and no equipment goes down and I don’t spend so much time writing reports that I don’t have time to do science. It’s easy.

It’s cultural, you wouldn’t.

This is actually impressive. You should be proud, as a father, that your kids place the plates in planes including the z axis!
My kids have been known to place dishes in the xy plane…literally resting in the tines.
In fairness, they may be trying to induce a stroke in me

And to be clear, despite our decrepit infrastructure and obscene lack of funding for TAs we still are lucky compared to other departments at UT. The depts. that don’t teach anything ‘useful’, just writing, reading, and critical thinking, are in worse shape…325K a year could go a long way there…

That’s weird. I was given to understand that university leaders are only able to cower in fear and preemptively overcomply with the very worst interpretation of a legislature’s anticipated actions. Hook ‘em 🤘🤘🤘

Or scientific discoveries. They also don’t understand those.

It’s the phones. A world of distraction at their (our) fingertips as addictive as a drug. I can’t do anything about my students but the fight with my more distract-able child is non-stop, and absolutely soul-sucking.
I wish I could smash that thing into a million pieces.

Wanted to go, looked at getting tickets, but it would have been $500 to take the family…to watch the USMNT C team?

Exactly this. In fact, universities subsidize this vital research by paying 9 months of faculty salary and supporting the research infrastructure (which typically costs more than what comes in from federal grants!)
Universities subsidize federal research, not vice versa!

Crap what did they do now?

structures from this material with Q~100,000.
This work was a collaboration with the Demkov group at UT and includes co-authors: Divya Hungund, Dan Krueger, Zuoming Dong, Zarko Sakotic, Agham Posadas, and Alex Demkov. Funded by ONR and AFOSR.

...due to its extremely large nonlinear response, but thus far loss in this material system is much much larger than in other nonlinear optical materials such as lithium niobate.
Amogh shows losses in monolithic BTO waveguides of <0.15 dB/cm and fabricated ring and racetrack resonator...

It’s weird that a movement so fundamentally anti-intellectual, incurious, and intolerant is uncomfortable on college campuses. Must be the liberals fault.

we show that this metaplasmonic approach enables us to confine light down to a fraction of a free-space wavelength (ostensibly down to wavelength/100 or smaller).
Write-up from @cockrellschool.bsky.social : cockrell.utexas.edu/news/archive...

In fairness, our president is a lawyer from Ken Paxton’s office who has never taught a class, never written a grant, never advised a student, and is only here to serve Gov. Abbott.
It would be so amazing to have a president that believed in what we do. I’d even settle for a provost with a spine!