It's incredible that the U.S. is being ruled by the characters of Less Than Zero

Paging @dieworkwear.bsky.social What's up with that suit?

Makes me nostalgic for the days when the internet was made of tubes.

In case you were wondering, 100 mol of moles has about the same mass as the Earth.

Anecdotally, instructors feel that the loss has negatively impacted student learning. The students have requested more contact time in their course evals. But we lack hard data. So, I thought I'd ask here to see what others can share! 3/3

We lost them a few years ago by administrative fiat. Can't get into specifics here, but it boils down to a belief that recitations weren't a cost-effective use of resources. 2/

In ages past we had one hour per week marked as "recitation" with faculty running them (no grad TAs in our dept). Usage varied by instructor. Some used them as office hours, others as extra lecture time, and some as problem-solving sessions. 1/

Currently we have no discussion or recitation sections, hence the question.

Feeling this right now as I grade exams. Also see students mixing x and y components within the same step. I'm a big fan of data tables to make it clear what goes where (columns for x, y, and magnitude.), but few write the table on exams.

See for example arxiv.org/abs/1207.7214

The author list is 8+ pages

I was thinking about your comment in the top of the thread that just contributing to the non-writing part of the project should not qualify one for authorship. For these truly large collaborations we see in physics, only a few hands actually craft the paper. How do we credit everyone else?

Scale matters, too. I take your point, but in a field like high-energy physics, having hundreds of authors on a paper is seen as necessary to acknowledge all of those who contribute. Any idea of how to condense the author list without harming junior team members or technical staff?

Finally got into a CVS. Had to wait for them to restock and update their website. Thanks to everyone who passed on tips!

We couldn't schedule children, at least at the locations near us. Adults were okay.