As a corollary, CS conferences probably shouldn't be including self-reports of reviewer "confidence" in their decisions.

Also, Dunning-Kruger is a real effect. A lot of people who seem super confident, making you feel more like an imposter, often know rather less than they appear to. This is almost impossible to detect until you're a bit more senior, though.

PhD students in most theoretical parts of math usually publish without their supervisor (although there's a slow drift towards adopting other fields' practices). Still, I think the preferred practice is still that the supervisor appear in the acknowledgements rather than as a coauthor.

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(Problems like interpretability and an unsatisfactory consideration of randomness in most of the theory.) I think it's time we start taking these criticisms seriously instead of discarding them as unreasonable or uninformed.

Whatever you think about this particular story, I think this is indicative of the general attitude I've encountered towards PH outside TDA, and the criticism has some merit, due to the extremely high computational complexity of PH, in addition to other problems with PH.

None. Just like they did when visa wait times exploded in the last Trump administration.

One option is simply to decentralize it and make it better/more convenient/more interesting/easier than what's available. I think that very few people use a platform because of perceived future benefits. Granted, that solution takes a lot of work.

Neither Canada nor Mexico have the jobs to absorb that many researchers from abroad, nor working conditions that are as favorable as they are at R1 universities in the US. Nowhere else does, either.

It could also be an opportunity for some other country or region. Which one will step up?

How to you self-nominate (other than replying here)? Also bsky.app/profile/stol...

Thanks for the correction! 😊

No travel money, students are usually invited as parts of special sessions and travel on their advisor's grants, this year 50 child care reimbursements for 200 USD were given (woefully inadequate but more than 0), COVID safe parts...? No. Wear a good mask.

I also like that in the JMM there are a lot of student and postdoc presentations. In my current field (applied topology), invited speakers at conferences about 30-50% of the time just talk about one or another of their students' thesis work, and I'd really prefer to hear about this from the student.

No mathstodon? 😞

JMM is objectively very strange, but it's a nice excuse to see old friends in other fields and pop into sessions on things you want to learn more about but can't justify spending a whole week going to a conference to hear about.

JMM is objectively very strange, but it's a nice excuse to see old friends in other fields.

What are people's emotions about TeXmacs? I love it, and if someone would write a native commutative diagram package, I'd love it even more!

Also mathstodon!