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Academia is nice because I get paid decent money to work about 30 hours a week, and what little work I do is mostly fun. On sabbatical, I can work even less (and don't have to deal…

Most professors do not have >>1 postdoc in their careers, because most of us teach at less research-intensive (or entirely teaching-focused) schools that have no postdocs at all. T…

Another tip: the vast majority of ArXiv papers have the LaTeX source available under "other formats". I used to download those instead of the pdfs for better searching. Now I don't…

I'm another academic mathematician. I'm not really convinced that all this would be a time-saver for me as far as research productivity; maybe I'm just old-fashioned but I just hav…

The UIC grad student union is pretty effective at keeping their teaching hours to under 20 hours per week (so, you complain to them when there's too much grading). But the stipends…

I vouch for the Sunbeam F1. It reminds me of the dumbphones of yore and is totally functional. Also check out r/dumbphones, lots of reviews there.

This was a problem, but in the last year or two there are some good ones again. Check out the Sunbeam F1, which is actually reasonably snappy. I have used a dumbphone all along and…

I have never seen the appeal of this "smartphone" fad and have had a dumbphone all along. I think the article misses another reason for recent resurgence, which is that the most re…

I think you are all missing the context here. The "Association for Mathematical Research" is a new organization created by various people who got in trouble on woke math twitter. N…