Brandon Hall @bthall@scholar.social

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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*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

As the #PinePhone ($150 Linux smartphone) development is moving fast, a series of articles might be redundant and confusing for most people. This article, to be dynamically updated as development proceeds, gathers what is known at this stage, and will hopefully be an answer to some of your questions.

You can read our latest article on TuxPhones.com: https://tuxphones.com/pinephone-pictures-specs-release-date-software-support/

#pine64 #linux #privacy

RT @GarethSoye@twitter.com

Now I know what owl legs look like and life can never be the same again.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/GarethSoye/status/1162748129973821445