Devin Berg @drb@scholar.social

I've somehow managed to end my first 10 years as a professor with my best students evals to date.

Anybody know of a way to use an OAI-PMH feed as a trigger for IFTTT or Zapier?

So my institution changed us from monthly to biweekly pay checks this year. Sounds great, right? Apparently this also changed the calculation for our Summer salary day rate from base/180 to base/195.

So our day rate is lower but we can now be paid for 45 Summer days instead of 40. Effectively, I'd have to work an extra week to earn the same Summer pay. Gee, thanks.

#grants #compensation #salary #academics

Attending a 1 hr and 15 min meeting that has an agenda optimistically broken down into 30 sec increments.

So cool that Blender has got a new parametric sketching addon!

https://yewtu.be/92QmjS-xDaI

#engineering #CAD #design

My students really struggle to understand files and directory structures, but wow does Microsoft not help. They can open the same files in Teams, Office in the browser, or one of the Office apps and they all provide different editing capabilities and different limitations.

I've found myself on one of the more challenging committees I've ever been on. We're tasked with redefining the "instructional workload" policy for all of campus.

Has anybody used Slayte.com for submitting or reviewing conference proceedings before? Not sure if it is new, but I’m using it for the first time and in a space that is full of terrible software, it is somehow the worst.