@LAngelaMihai @SchulzScience_ @IOPPublishing Very interesting article.

Full time of road marking job pays twice the UK Postdoc’s salary!

Cancelled my proton subscription today after having serious issues with Mac desktop app of @ProtonDrive ! Wonder if others have been having any issues? Currently using web interface to download and move out!

Was surprised yesterday to know that Springer Editorial Manager does not support Tikz files or sub-folders in Latex. A mammoth effort to re-plot everything and put PDF files instead. Tikz looks so much nicer :(

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@ProfRausch I have 450 students in my class :)! University has a code system but I never worry who comes in!

@chenna1985 It’s a very good book. Use for my CFD class

@chenna1985 This is about money ;)! Always has been

Year-end summary: Enjoyed 365 days of interacting with students! Enjoyed doing research and teaching. PS: Rest of the metrics can take a backseat!

“He often worked 15 hours a day, complaining that each discovery cost a night’s sleep, and in 1890 alone published an astounding fourteen scientific articles on the nervous system” - this is said about Ramon y Cajal, a stalwart in neuro. 14/year was once astounding! Good times!

@SAnsumali Metaphorically, using process over outcome (at all times) is like a chakravyuha. Helps only some selected people in the middle of it. Very few people can break it!

@chenna1985 Pass rate is a bad metric unless coupled with quality. Because this could easily trigger a culture of “grade inflation”

@stellensatz @ShivAroor I don’t disagree. But that excuse will (or has already) start(ed) to become stale.

@SAnsumali I have achieved bureaucratic nirvana! Nothing bothers me anymore. Like Krishna said, my only goal is to keep punching without expectations.

@abhijit_MLab Initially I was a bit stunned about the indirect. But if you go around there are lots of resources that can be accessed for free if this is led by a PhD student (like 3d printing, imaging etc.). The indirect go into building all these central facilities that everyone can use

@DSRL_UCDMECH @UCDmechanics @UCD_Mech_Eng Congratulations