I would argue that you absolutely are. I have a large vocabulary and a degree from a fancy SLAC, and even when I have been flat broke I have not been working class. As my mom puts it, "you were broke, not poor."
November 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I would argue that you absolutely are. I have a large vocabulary and a degree from a fancy SLAC, and even when I have been flat broke I have not been working class. As my mom puts it, "you were broke, not poor."
I deleted the one here by mistake
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November 6, 2025 at 1:09 PM
I deleted the one here by mistake
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like i think it would probably be helpful parents who are very involved in their kids' education to try their hand at teaching in a setting like a SLAC. but those insights don't seem as generally relevant as folks who were once inside might like to think, even if the trend is towards more relevance
November 8, 2025 at 5:07 PM
like i think it would probably be helpful parents who are very involved in their kids' education to try their hand at teaching in a setting like a SLAC. but those insights don't seem as generally relevant as folks who were once inside might like to think, even if the trend is towards more relevance
"..a protest against Isr defence contractors exhibiting at an expo at Sydney International Convention Centre [or ICC 🙃]
The Indo Pacific International Maritime Exposition began Tue featuring a range of maritime & naval orgs"
#FreePalestine
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The Indo Pacific International Maritime Exposition began Tue featuring a range of maritime & naval orgs"
#FreePalestine
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November 4, 2025 at 3:18 AM
"..a protest against Isr defence contractors exhibiting at an expo at Sydney International Convention Centre [or ICC 🙃]
The Indo Pacific International Maritime Exposition began Tue featuring a range of maritime & naval orgs"
#FreePalestine
* www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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The Indo Pacific International Maritime Exposition began Tue featuring a range of maritime & naval orgs"
#FreePalestine
* www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
bsky.app/profile/slac...
Just yesterday, my employer (a fancy urban SLAC) formally announced that it would be developing a formal AI policy and training program to get 50% of faculty and 75% of staff using it. Why or for what? Who the fuck knows.
October 31, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Just yesterday, my employer (a fancy urban SLAC) formally announced that it would be developing a formal AI policy and training program to get 50% of faculty and 75% of staff using it. Why or for what? Who the fuck knows.
Trawling through SLAC pubs to find 1994 ep elastic scattering, taking ages especially because I thought the paper was from 1974 but *that* was a beautiful trawl - found this wild thing: "STAPP’S QUANTUM DUALISM: the James/Heisenberg Model of Consciousness" www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpub...
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October 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Trawling through SLAC pubs to find 1994 ep elastic scattering, taking ages especially because I thought the paper was from 1974 but *that* was a beautiful trawl - found this wild thing: "STAPP’S QUANTUM DUALISM: the James/Heisenberg Model of Consciousness" www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpub...
it’s obviously a luxury my institution type (SLAC) affords me—it is a seminar of 11 juniors and seniors; so many of us don’t get to teach like that now.
But also my institution fought pretty hard in various ways to make doing this here difficult
But also my institution fought pretty hard in various ways to make doing this here difficult
October 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM
it’s obviously a luxury my institution type (SLAC) affords me—it is a seminar of 11 juniors and seniors; so many of us don’t get to teach like that now.
But also my institution fought pretty hard in various ways to make doing this here difficult
But also my institution fought pretty hard in various ways to make doing this here difficult
As an English major who graduated from a selective SLAC twenty-five years ago, it's moderately terrifying that this undergraduate experience is now some kind of outlier.
Important update from two months into my “experiment” (lol) assigning college juniors and seniors to read whole physical books and then having a seminar where they use the physical book and physical notebooks and their ideas and questions to fill three hours of class time:
It rules
It rules
October 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
As an English major who graduated from a selective SLAC twenty-five years ago, it's moderately terrifying that this undergraduate experience is now some kind of outlier.
I might lose sleep over the list of institutional barriers to assigning physical books to college students detailed in this thread (at a SLAC, no less!). Remarkable to think about how much has changed in the 5-6 years since I taught. Though there were harbingers of this before the pandemic.
Important update from two months into my “experiment” (lol) assigning college juniors and seniors to read whole physical books and then having a seminar where they use the physical book and physical notebooks and their ideas and questions to fill three hours of class time:
It rules
It rules
October 25, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I might lose sleep over the list of institutional barriers to assigning physical books to college students detailed in this thread (at a SLAC, no less!). Remarkable to think about how much has changed in the 5-6 years since I taught. Though there were harbingers of this before the pandemic.
Higher ed is struggling, and in that struggle I am reminded that those of us who work in HE often have no clue about the differences between types of institutions, their cultures, challenges, and resources (R1, SLAC, Comm. Coll, Regional Pub, etc.). HE is not a monolithic sector.
October 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Higher ed is struggling, and in that struggle I am reminded that those of us who work in HE often have no clue about the differences between types of institutions, their cultures, challenges, and resources (R1, SLAC, Comm. Coll, Regional Pub, etc.). HE is not a monolithic sector.
This is them. Just them. Two people out of millions of Chicagoans.
October 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Spectacular: A ''Cosmic Treasure Chest''
Almost every light you see here is an entire galaxy of its own!
(Video by Universal-Sci - Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA)
Almost every light you see here is an entire galaxy of its own!
(Video by Universal-Sci - Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA)
October 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Spectacular: A ''Cosmic Treasure Chest''
Almost every light you see here is an entire galaxy of its own!
(Video by Universal-Sci - Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA)
Almost every light you see here is an entire galaxy of its own!
(Video by Universal-Sci - Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA)
Um? Waves in went to an excellent SLAC with a renouned English faculty.
Though did do my MA and PhD in large public universities, where teaching was the best part.
Though did do my MA and PhD in large public universities, where teaching was the best part.
October 21, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Um? Waves in went to an excellent SLAC with a renouned English faculty.
Though did do my MA and PhD in large public universities, where teaching was the best part.
Though did do my MA and PhD in large public universities, where teaching was the best part.
Tom Sewell's EAM/NSN -- key organisers/promoters of the March for (White) Australia -- is BASED on the so-called 'Active Club' model.
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Active Clubs & Accelerationists - Neo-Nazi tactics and strategies in Australia
Excerpt from our submission to the Senate inquiry Right wing extremist movements in Australia. On July 24, 2024, at the Senate Committee...
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October 21, 2025 at 5:09 AM
^"War and slavery and Asian imports helped drive industrialism...militarism, is what connects the latter two, the flow of firearms enabling the flow of groceries and textiles"
#TIL
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#TIL
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* www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
October 21, 2025 at 1:37 AM
^"War and slavery and Asian imports helped drive industrialism...militarism, is what connects the latter two, the flow of firearms enabling the flow of groceries and textiles"
#TIL
* www.jstor.org/stable/24442...
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* archive.org/details/brit...
* www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
#TIL
* www.jstor.org/stable/24442...
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* archive.org/details/brit...
* www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
今年4月にファーストライトを迎えたベラ・C・ルービン天文台の頭上に、大マゼラン銀河や天の川などが輝いています。ルービン天文台は南米チリ、セロ・パチョンにあります。
NOIRLab（アメリカ光学・赤外天文学研究所）から10月15日に公開された「Images of the Week」
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Image Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA/P. Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava)
NOIRLab（アメリカ光学・赤外天文学研究所）から10月15日に公開された「Images of the Week」
astropics.bookbright.co.jp/rubins-giant...
Image Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA/P. Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava)
October 20, 2025 at 9:01 AM
今年4月にファーストライトを迎えたベラ・C・ルービン天文台の頭上に、大マゼラン銀河や天の川などが輝いています。ルービン天文台は南米チリ、セロ・パチョンにあります。
NOIRLab（アメリカ光学・赤外天文学研究所）から10月15日に公開された「Images of the Week」
astropics.bookbright.co.jp/rubins-giant...
Image Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA/P. Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava)
NOIRLab（アメリカ光学・赤外天文学研究所）から10月15日に公開された「Images of the Week」
astropics.bookbright.co.jp/rubins-giant...
Image Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA/P. Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava)
La Voie lactée et notre galaxie voisine du grand nuage de Magellan au Chili au-dessus du télescope Vera Rubin, qui sonde l'Univers pour nous en rapporter les secrets.
©RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA/P. Horálek
©RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA/P. Horálek
October 17, 2025 at 9:18 AM
La Voie lactée et notre galaxie voisine du grand nuage de Magellan au Chili au-dessus du télescope Vera Rubin, qui sonde l'Univers pour nous en rapporter les secrets.
©RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA/P. Horálek
©RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA/P. Horálek
Researchers at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory use Explainable AI to decode human expertise in tasks like tuning particle accelerators, revealing how operators break down challenges systematically. https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.13814
Reversing the Lens: Using Explainable AI to Understand Human Expertise
ArXiv link for Reversing the Lens: Using Explainable AI to Understand Human Expertise
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October 17, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Researchers at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory use Explainable AI to decode human expertise in tasks like tuning particle accelerators, revealing how operators break down challenges systematically. https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.13814
NOIRLab image of the week
Rubin’s Giant Eye on the Southern Sky
Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA/P. Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava) 🧪🔭
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Rubin’s Giant Eye on the Southern Sky
Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA/P. Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava) 🧪🔭
noirlab.edu/public/image...
October 16, 2025 at 1:07 PM
NOIRLab image of the week
Rubin’s Giant Eye on the Southern Sky
Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA/P. Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava) 🧪🔭
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Rubin’s Giant Eye on the Southern Sky
Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA/P. Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava) 🧪🔭
noirlab.edu/public/image...
I am going to live and die by my intellectual elitism.
You are not a real faculty member if you cannot write without a machine.
And which ever SLAC becomes the new college of “we do real human intellectual development and capacity building” as motto is where I’ll work until I die!
You are not a real faculty member if you cannot write without a machine.
And which ever SLAC becomes the new college of “we do real human intellectual development and capacity building” as motto is where I’ll work until I die!
October 16, 2025 at 1:39 AM
I am going to live and die by my intellectual elitism.
You are not a real faculty member if you cannot write without a machine.
And which ever SLAC becomes the new college of “we do real human intellectual development and capacity building” as motto is where I’ll work until I die!
You are not a real faculty member if you cannot write without a machine.
And which ever SLAC becomes the new college of “we do real human intellectual development and capacity building” as motto is where I’ll work until I die!
This is them. Just them. Two people out of millions of Chicagoans.
October 15, 2025 at 8:48 PM
A spectacular view of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory standing proudly on Cerro Pachón in Chile.
Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA/P. Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava)
Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA/P. Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava)
October 14, 2025 at 5:40 PM
A spectacular view of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory standing proudly on Cerro Pachón in Chile.
Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA/P. Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava)
Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA/P. Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava)
Two jobs in history at Ohio Wesleyan, a four-year SLAC. One in Modern World and one in Modern US. (I'm chair there, let me know if you have any questions!)
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Ohio Wesleyan University - Assistant Professor History - Modern World History | H-Net
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October 11, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Two jobs in history at Ohio Wesleyan, a four-year SLAC. One in Modern World and one in Modern US. (I'm chair there, let me know if you have any questions!)
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Spectacular! A trail of celestial objects spans this view of the Virgo Cluster.
Dominating the scene is NGC 4261, a massive elliptical galaxy in the upper half of the image. In the lower left sits the lenticular galaxy NGC 4281.
(Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA)
Dominating the scene is NGC 4261, a massive elliptical galaxy in the upper half of the image. In the lower left sits the lenticular galaxy NGC 4281.
(Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA)
October 10, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Spectacular! A trail of celestial objects spans this view of the Virgo Cluster.
Dominating the scene is NGC 4261, a massive elliptical galaxy in the upper half of the image. In the lower left sits the lenticular galaxy NGC 4281.
(Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA)
Dominating the scene is NGC 4261, a massive elliptical galaxy in the upper half of the image. In the lower left sits the lenticular galaxy NGC 4281.
(Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA)