Scott Alberts
gumbyprof.bsky.social
Scott Alberts
@gumbyprof.bsky.social
Data Communicator, Choir Director, Dad, Systems Thinker, Exhausted Optimist, other stuff, but I'm not sure in which order they go.
The Korean Netflix "Bon Appétit, Your Majesty" is pretty fun and not very stressful. Iron Chef meets Outlander
December 6, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Maybe you should make a list of the top 13 rage-bait lists
November 25, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Did you forget to attach a list of education leaders?
November 20, 2025 at 12:58 PM
The only good recap episode was in Avatar: The Last Airbender, where the theatre troupe told the story based on heresay and rumors.

See also "best Beach episode"
November 20, 2025 at 12:50 PM
/2 While also (as Begley's article documents), continuting to say things that fit better into the 1930s mission of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
November 9, 2025 at 12:13 PM
That's a very fair read.

Keeping the pendulum swinging:

Cold Spring Harbor was THE center for Eugenics research from 1910-1939, science's darkest blot. Watson turned it towards cancer research in the 1970s while facing its past, making this series of short videos:

dnalc.cshl.edu/view/15466-T...
The connection between American eugenics and Nazi Germany, James Watson :: CSHL DNA Learning Center
dnalc.cshl.edu
November 9, 2025 at 12:06 PM
What about the jump scare that 40 years ago only goes back to 1985. I was thinking we'd at least get back to Burt Reynolds.
November 5, 2025 at 1:46 AM
And he's 77. (I almost wrote "And he's 77!", but you know that he's not THAT old)
November 1, 2025 at 10:33 AM
There’s a reason we liked Early 80s Night at the ‘Sco
October 30, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Here's the relevant language, I guess. Not very clear to me.

"The Proclamation also does not apply to a petition ...that is requesting an amendment, change of status, or extension of stay for an alien inside the United States where the alien is granted such amendment, change, or extension."
October 22, 2025 at 9:11 AM
This is a tenure-track position, requiring a doctorate in a data-driven field like statistics and data science but also related fields like analytics, public health, education, business come to mind. If you learned and used R (and other tools) for data-driven research and teaching, check it out!
October 17, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Being a content expert was a bare minimum of my job, not what made me a professor. My job is to give context, tell stories, explain why any particular fact is useful for a student to know.

Lecture-and-test was never the way to teach. Before AI, before Wikipedia, we had ..um.. books to give facts
October 17, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Of related interest, is that a novel and cool way to use “today years old” or is it still kind of stupid?
September 26, 2025 at 2:12 AM
It's also interesting that Statistics is on the chopping block, with so many data-heavy jobs everywhere that most schools are adding.
The word "Statistics" is evolving into Data Science (with more coding and less math), so I could see restructuring or renaming, but this looks like a straight cut.
September 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM