The Librarian 🌷 @thelibrarian@scholar.social

Re-posting & pinning my #introduction for any new folks:

Hi, I am an academic #librarian, #geospatial information scientist, computer scientist, #linguist (theoretically) and amateur #mathematician into:

#higherEd / #education,
#visualLearning & #infoViz
#publicPolicy,
legal studies,
political theory & economics (MMT, etc),
#computationalSocialScience, and
#systemsScience (#SD and #ABM, etc).

I like #synthWave music and #garmentEngineering (#fashionDesign).

An #omnipologist if you will.

Use CWs as subject lines to give others more freedom of choice in what they read.

Help our vision-impaired friends know what we are talking about when we post images by adding a description.

Use #hashtags to make posts discoverable, if desirable.

Mastodon is about community, not celebrity.

It is perfectly fine to have more than one account, especially on different instances. Federation allows one to lessen context collapse this way.

I am planning on more frequently tooting passages from sources I'm reading and I am going to do so thus:

The *public* post will be reference information, comments, content notes, tags;

Interesting pull quotes/passages will be posted as comments in reply with a brief citation, so they are boostable. These will be reflective of things that can be considered in an edifying way, even if my personal opinion differs (a note may or may not indicate this).

Pinning this post for followers new & old.

Saw this book in a local bookstore:

Botanticum, by Katie Scott & Kathy Willis.

It has newly done botanical illustrations that are gorgeous. It's also a children's book.

That said, the technocrats are hard at work trying to just that, with extremely limit gains. Anyone who has interacted with an automated grading system very much will be familiar with the need for subjective human intervention to correct mistakes and biases.

The best evidence that grading is subjective: the fact that it hasn't been commodified and outsourced by capitalism.

This is to record that on this day in history I got hit in the head by a pigeon. Oops. 🕊️

Thinking there is a secret connection between Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom, Philip Josè Farmer's Riverworld, and Philip K. Dick's Adjustment Team....

Just signed up for Write.as

It supports MathJax!

Now if there was a way to support D3.js and function plot https://mauriciopoppe.github.io/function-plot/, we could have some amazing capabilities and a really neat platform for developing (interactive) manuscripts.

@write_as

🎧 Current soundtrack:

Endless Echoes / Lucy in Disguise

🎶

Trying to find a good long-form video to explain #MMT on YouTube and part way (1:01:30ish) through

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KRi9nF8BiA

I decided to fact check US federal budget as percentage of GDP. I've made the following charts in Excel using data from the OMB:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/hist01z2-fy2019.xlsx.

@jboy @dsrudmann @mplouffe

Thank you for your responses. Thus far (with n=3) I draw the already known conclusion that faculty hiring in academia is dysfunctional. But is seems there is a slight trend towards merits of work over pedigree, which is hopeful. :)

et al.: Additional responses are welcome.

I am curious about people's experiences with academic hiring and what matters more:

a candidate's PhD-granting institution

OR

a candidate's work (dissertation, papers, creative output).

I have heard all the received wisdom: Research 1's prefer only graduates from other Research 1s, etc. (I suspect these are myths).

Of course the practical reality is that it boils down to who you know to some degree, but this aside...

If you are interested in #sewing or #garmentEngineering, but aren't sure where to start:

I recommend "Sew many dresses, sew little time" by Tanya Whelan (978-0-7704-3494-6).

Good for beginners thru early intermediate garment makers. Even if you don't wear dresses, you can learn a lot of valuable skills — and bestow lovely little experiments on your friends who do!

It's like having your best friend teach you.

(Ignore or embrace the bad pun, SVP)

🎧 Current Soundtrack: Dark All Day / Gunship.

Working on a textile project. I love synthwave and friends for doing work...