Brandon Hall @bthall@scholar.social

"Are you sure I can sign this entry in the notes as a medical student? Don't want people to, like, rip it out and disregard this advice about antibiotics"

"Why not! You're a valued member of the team!" 😭

updating CV to apply to electives next year and... no idea what to put in or how to organise it

Haven't posted here in a while, but thought some of you might find my new little oa volume of interest. https://thedigitalpress.org/failing-gloriously/

I'm the series editor for a series of #OpenTextbooks for Introduction to Philosophy courses, and we now have two books published (out of nine planned)!

Philosophy of Mind: https://press.rebus.community/intro-to-phil-of-mind/

Ethics: https://press.rebus.community/intro-to-phil-ethics/

#OER

@bthall 🤼¹

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1. Hall, B. Scholar Social Post. <https://scholar.social/@bthall/103300844948531746> Retrieved on 2019 December 13.

*somewhat embarrassed that he was confused about basic statistics stuff*

This is what happens when I try to learn the fundamentals of things. I can barely see the forest now that I have an idea of trees. :X

@bthall You don't always get what you ask for, but you rarely get what you don't ask for.

One thing I heard in the Democrat debates last night that interested me was one candidate's proposal to provide credits to stay-at-home parents (they said mothers, but...yeah) to compensate/reward them for the labor that (presumably) they provide to the household. This is a fascinating proposal because it's been an issue in #economics that household labor isn't commonly accounted for in most economic models. One of my favorite papers ever is about this.

A Code Glitch May Have Caused Errors In More Than 100 Published Studies

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zmjwda/a-code-glitch-may-have-caused-errors-in-more-than-100-published-studies

Working & Reading Habits:

Where do you find yourself at your most productive? Do you prefer to read papers and do writing / busywork in different locations?

Libraries? Coffee Shops? Campus? Town?

I'm interested in hearing how best you all work and learn!

Plants in the city vs outside of it - what are they like and how do they make babies?

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ece3.5539

How does urbanization affect the reproductive characteristics and ecological affinities of street plant communities?

#ecology #urbanecology #plants #botany

Become the skateboard academic you want to see in the world
...or on campus

Never pass up an opportunity to learn something new about statistics