It's starting to feel a bit like fieldwork! Next week, a third try to access the caves of the Upper Macleay. Flooding rains stopped our last trips. Thanks to the Kempsey Speleo. Soc., we have over a decade of climate and hydrology monitoring here.
#academia #fieldwork
Generation of four sequences decomposed into weight × level + jump (log(weight), log(level), log(jump)) - three.js animation:
1: The natural numbers (A000027) 
https://decompwlj.com/3DgraphGen/Natural_numbers.html
For anyone with an interest in academic technicalities: what I submitted in '92 was my 4th semester "D" thesis that could have been part of a four-year Magister degree. But instead of staying on another year and doing low-level coursework to complete the Magister, I just took out a three-year BA that included both a BA thesis and a Magister thesis, and left uni to start working.
A re-enactor buddy of mine likes to call me a maverick and seems to believe that I prefer having no formal academic affiliation. No my friend, I'm someone who has been really badly fucked over by Scandy universities for a quarter century but has managed to get *a lot* of stuff done anyway.
I would much have preferred to work within a clearly defined system of meritocratic advancement. Not this locally corrupt, ridiculously informal feudalism. No kings!
Generation of four sequences decomposed into weight × level + jump (log(weight), log(level), log(jump)) - three.js animation:
1: The natural numbers (A000027) https://decompwlj.com/3DgraphGen/Natural_numbers.html
#Thriller of the morning: opening the end-of-the-year school report for the 10yr son - end of elementary school.
100% of "Ottimo" - excellent in all subjects, which is not usual here.
we were partially surprised, because he likes to pretend he only cares about football, brawlstars, stupid brainrots , and that school sucks.
So we were ready to take maybe some corrective actions for next school years, but he gave us a sort of "Obama out" moment.
Wow!
"In her resignation letter, Kimberly Terrell accused the university of sacrificing academic freedom to appease Louisiana’s Republican Gov. Jeff Landry. Terrell, the director of community engagement at Tulane’s Environmental Law Clinic claimed the clinic had been 'placed under a complete gag order' that barred her from making public statements about her research."
Well, Oxford University Press is officially the worst.
They want the complete copyright bundle. In return, they graciously will allow me to post 25% of the pre-publication version my chapter on an institutional repository following a 12-month embargo period.
(I am waiting to hear whether they'll want me to translate into Etruscan first to ensure it doesn't get pirated.)
They will send me no pdf version, just ONE book.
'Intellectual giant' Sir Geoff Palmer dies aged 85.
Sir Geoff Palmer became Scotland's first black professor in 1989
1989!!!
Just so we are all clear and to reiterate a position I've held for decades - this is a hill I will die on:
Doctoral candidates are not students.
If this is the case for you, what are you failing people at in undergrad and honours/masters levels - the prerequisites to doctoral candidature?
Now this animation is available for the 1000 sequences decomposed on my website.
Accessible from the 3Dgraph, 2Dgraph500terms and 2dgraphs pages https://decompwlj.com
A little more work on axis sizing and controls.
4: The palindromes in base 10 (A002113) https://decompwlj.com/3DgraphGen/Palindromes.html
3: The triangular numbers (A000217) https://decompwlj.com/3DgraphGen/Triangular_numbers.html
2: The prime numbers (A000040) https://decompwlj.com/3DgraphGen/Prime_numbers.html
Generation of four sequences decomposed into weight × level + jump (log(weight), log(level), log(jump)) - three.js animation:
1: The natural numbers (A000027) https://decompwlj.com/3DgraphGen/Natural_numbers.html
Any feedback on Frontiers in Computer Science. Is it legit or a commercial thing?
> AI chatbots need more books to learn from. These libraries are opening their stacks
https://apnews.com/article/ai-chatbot-training-data-libraries-idi-e096a81a4fceb2951f232a33ac767f53
The small detail: "Supported by “unrestricted gifts” from Microsoft and ChatGPT maker OpenAI, the Harvard-based Institutional Data Initiative is working with libraries and museums around the world on how to make their historic collections AI-ready in a way that also benefits the communities they serve."
#Universities carrying water for the #Trump admin without apparently receiving any direct demands from the Trump admin. Obeying in advance:
"A #Tulane University researcher resigned Wednesday, citing #censorship from university leaders who had warned that her advocacy and research exposing the Louisiana petrochemical industry’s health impacts and racial disparities in hiring had triggered blowback from donors and elected officials."
https://apnews.com/article/cancer-alley-tulane-university-researcher-resigns-0bca439d1c93049e24f7ed3708a7f81d
#Academia #Censorship #DefendResearch #Takedowns #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
@academicchatter
I've seen suggestions that the scientific crisis in the US is an issue of "trust in science" and that improving scientific rigor could improve trust. Improving scientific rigor is generally a good idea but it is not going to help under the current political conditions. That's because the culture war is not about HOW research is done. The scientific process is not high in the agenda. But it is fundamentally about WHAT research is being done. And by extension of course, what is allowed on campuses. #academicchatter #academia #science
A wonderful 'kind of report' on the death, or something, of the academic discipline of #theology, by @beamarovich.bsky.social. #academia theotherjournal.com/2025/06/is-t...
Is Theology Dying? - The Other...
