Tija Sīle
@tija-si.bsky.social
Physicist. For work purposes, interested in academic governance and mental health in academia.
Interested in everything else in free time.
Interested in everything else in free time.
Please be happy, reading you gave me some fundamental tools or "legal-minded" ideas how to navigate the bureaucracy-happy workplace and made my job less soul-crushing. I can read legal-ish documents with less fear - good drafting should be clear, so I am not afraid to call out muddled thinking.
February 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Please be happy, reading you gave me some fundamental tools or "legal-minded" ideas how to navigate the bureaucracy-happy workplace and made my job less soul-crushing. I can read legal-ish documents with less fear - good drafting should be clear, so I am not afraid to call out muddled thinking.
English spelling is ridiculous, I do not see why I should take it seriously if it does not respect itself.
January 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
English spelling is ridiculous, I do not see why I should take it seriously if it does not respect itself.
Luckily, there is an similar "official fallacy". I sometimes use this wiki article, when I have to argue that not everything that is important, can be measured: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNamar...
McNamara fallacy - Wikipedia
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December 15, 2024 at 5:47 PM
Luckily, there is an similar "official fallacy". I sometimes use this wiki article, when I have to argue that not everything that is important, can be measured: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNamar...
As a physicist, all I want for Christmas is that physicists (ladies, gentlemen and nonbinary pals) would start to communicate better! Everyone always forgets how little their audience knows about their specialist subject, even if they themselves learned about it last evening!
December 10, 2024 at 6:42 PM
As a physicist, all I want for Christmas is that physicists (ladies, gentlemen and nonbinary pals) would start to communicate better! Everyone always forgets how little their audience knows about their specialist subject, even if they themselves learned about it last evening!
To be fair, it is easy to bond over things that you all dislike, and Connections have been giving a lot of reasons to be disliked!
December 6, 2024 at 10:49 PM
To be fair, it is easy to bond over things that you all dislike, and Connections have been giving a lot of reasons to be disliked!
One can get infected by COVID passively, just by being in a room. Therefore, in the COVID poster the equation between love and wearing is even stronger. Mask wearers love and protect everyone in the room, just by wearing a mask.
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December 2, 2024 at 8:22 AM
One can get infected by COVID passively, just by being in a room. Therefore, in the COVID poster the equation between love and wearing is even stronger. Mask wearers love and protect everyone in the room, just by wearing a mask.
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My questions were rhetorical - death is the great equalizer. Both of posters are good faith effort to reduce human suffering. I do not understand why object to one of them. I agree about people with those illnesses being failed.
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December 2, 2024 at 8:22 AM
My questions were rhetorical - death is the great equalizer. Both of posters are good faith effort to reduce human suffering. I do not understand why object to one of them. I agree about people with those illnesses being failed.
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Is being dead from COVID somehow different from being dead from AIDS? Is the decrease in quality of life from long COVID "better" than decreased lifespan of AIDS patients (historically).
December 1, 2024 at 10:59 PM
Is being dead from COVID somehow different from being dead from AIDS? Is the decrease in quality of life from long COVID "better" than decreased lifespan of AIDS patients (historically).
Baltics + Poland helping Ukraine now is the support that we would like to have received fighting Soviet occupation.
December 1, 2024 at 10:40 PM
Baltics + Poland helping Ukraine now is the support that we would like to have received fighting Soviet occupation.
That is the horrible feeling I have had since 2022 Russian invasion in Ukraine - that 20th century is back. It feels like there is again an iron curtain between Russia and Europe, and we (the Baltic States) just happen to be on the right side this time.
December 1, 2024 at 10:36 PM
That is the horrible feeling I have had since 2022 Russian invasion in Ukraine - that 20th century is back. It feels like there is again an iron curtain between Russia and Europe, and we (the Baltic States) just happen to be on the right side this time.
I follow you,
You don't follow me back,
And you want me to fight?
You're the one missing out
On my annuual skeet.
I post no bangers,
My reskeets are meek.
Go ahead, and give me a follow,
You won't even notice
That I'm in your feed.
You don't follow me back,
And you want me to fight?
You're the one missing out
On my annuual skeet.
I post no bangers,
My reskeets are meek.
Go ahead, and give me a follow,
You won't even notice
That I'm in your feed.
November 27, 2024 at 8:45 PM
I follow you,
You don't follow me back,
And you want me to fight?
You're the one missing out
On my annuual skeet.
I post no bangers,
My reskeets are meek.
Go ahead, and give me a follow,
You won't even notice
That I'm in your feed.
You don't follow me back,
And you want me to fight?
You're the one missing out
On my annuual skeet.
I post no bangers,
My reskeets are meek.
Go ahead, and give me a follow,
You won't even notice
That I'm in your feed.
Try it, and thank me later!
November 24, 2024 at 10:14 PM
Try it, and thank me later!
I was just informed on a dating app that I will not find a husband after explaining that I use Tarot cards to get the bus schedule. Bsky has lulled me into false sense of security about making offbeat with people I do not really know.
November 24, 2024 at 10:12 PM
I was just informed on a dating app that I will not find a husband after explaining that I use Tarot cards to get the bus schedule. Bsky has lulled me into false sense of security about making offbeat with people I do not really know.
We were told that bluesky is an echo chamber. Liking this just so I could see the world burn.
Unrelated: I like sour cream in my spicy ramen.
Unrelated: I like sour cream in my spicy ramen.
November 24, 2024 at 10:06 PM
We were told that bluesky is an echo chamber. Liking this just so I could see the world burn.
Unrelated: I like sour cream in my spicy ramen.
Unrelated: I like sour cream in my spicy ramen.
In her defense, the October revolution happened in November, so she is onto something there!
November 24, 2024 at 10:02 PM
In her defense, the October revolution happened in November, so she is onto something there!
Unsolicited history lesson: During Soviet Union there was a lot of jokes about the authoritarian leaders, e.g. Stalin, Brezhnev. When Latvia transitioned to democracy these jokes completely died out, because now we criticize politicians openly, there is no subversiveness in politics jokes anymore.
November 24, 2024 at 9:59 PM
Unsolicited history lesson: During Soviet Union there was a lot of jokes about the authoritarian leaders, e.g. Stalin, Brezhnev. When Latvia transitioned to democracy these jokes completely died out, because now we criticize politicians openly, there is no subversiveness in politics jokes anymore.
"Generation P", but it is less "whimsical", and more "what in the actual hell". It is a Russian independent movie, made in 2011, after a book of the same name.
November 23, 2024 at 10:51 PM
"Generation P", but it is less "whimsical", and more "what in the actual hell". It is a Russian independent movie, made in 2011, after a book of the same name.
Blocks hand-crafted with love, unplugged blocks, artisanal blocks. Locally sourced blocks, blocks from farm to table.
November 23, 2024 at 6:46 PM
Blocks hand-crafted with love, unplugged blocks, artisanal blocks. Locally sourced blocks, blocks from farm to table.
That should not stop you from getting a PhD in Physics (I am referencing this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O1Q... ).
Also, having a mathematical mind might lead to such (what is gently described here as "idiosyncratic") lifestyle: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Er...
Also, having a mathematical mind might lead to such (what is gently described here as "idiosyncratic") lifestyle: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Er...
November 22, 2024 at 10:55 PM
That should not stop you from getting a PhD in Physics (I am referencing this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O1Q... ).
Also, having a mathematical mind might lead to such (what is gently described here as "idiosyncratic") lifestyle: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Er...
Also, having a mathematical mind might lead to such (what is gently described here as "idiosyncratic") lifestyle: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Er...
No, really, have you seen the things mathematicians have been doing for the last four centuries? imgflip.com/i/8f6go8
(just playing, love maths ❤️, except differential forms).
(just playing, love maths ❤️, except differential forms).
Just stop.
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November 22, 2024 at 10:31 PM
No, really, have you seen the things mathematicians have been doing for the last four centuries? imgflip.com/i/8f6go8
(just playing, love maths ❤️, except differential forms).
(just playing, love maths ❤️, except differential forms).
I will just leave this quote here: www.goodreads.com/quotes/90270...
November 22, 2024 at 9:59 PM
I will just leave this quote here: www.goodreads.com/quotes/90270...