I've been going to Peter Luger in Brooklyn since the 90s and I've got a few things to say about it. nytimes.com/2019/10/29/din…

Extremely balanced external blog post about our Rubik’s cube results: alexirpan.com/2019/10/29/ope…

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Love this nytimes.com/2019/11/06/art…

Great read on scientific mentorship

I applied for MANY grants in the last 5 years - with no wins. The rejection, while typical, is beyond difficult when trying to maintain a positive, productive & supportive lab environment. I just heard my U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER was recommended for full funding. So many feelings right now!

1.We are getting into peak job search season & I just wanted to send support & encouragement to all of you on the academic job market, of all the many periods of ups & downs I have experienced durig my career nothing was harder mentally & emotionally than being on the job market.

What the Nobel Prize fails to mention here, and fails to mention every year, is that both Burnell and Hulse were 24 year old grad students when they made their discoveries. Hulse is a man, so he got the prize. But Burnell is a woman, so the prize was given to her supervisor.

The title/impact factor of the journal in which an article is published says virtually nothing about the quality of the science in that article. If anything, the average quality of the data in high IF journals is actually worse (see refs 1-7 at the end of this thread).

Looking back, my last decade was like a neural network. Some parts were linear. Some were nonlinear. I never seemed to get enough data, and always got stuck in local minima. There was a lot of learning. I can't explain how any of it worked, but the results came out alright.

One of the greatest privileges of my life was that I was on shift on BBC World that day - this was our show. Behind the scenes were were all screaming at our monitors, blind with tears of laughter, completely incapable of saying or doing anything for a full ten minutes.

If you succeed on your first try, you’re probably setting your sights too low. Goals spur excellence when they create a significant gap between current capabilities and future aspirations. Resolutions fuel personal growth when they're an uphill battle, not a breeze. #Happy2020

Good luck to all the faculty candidates getting ready for their on-site interviews in the coming weeks/months. Long(ish) thread on some suggestions for success. Reply with questions or clarifications. Academic Chatter™ #PhDchat #ECRchat (1/n)

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I'm often asked about academia vs industry. When I was myself considering Google vs UT Austin in 2005, I asked it of Peter Norvig, who said: "I've always looked for what is the most important, most rewarding thing I could be working on, and worried less about where it is."

[Higgsinocat Highlights!] 1/ It's been awhile, but today's result from XENONexperiment is too exciting not to share 😺.

"How did the state of Liang fall?" "Like a fish, rotting from the inside out." (GC, Nineteenth Year of Duke Xi's Reign)

First paper from our lab! Kaicheng Liang @[email protected]