ProfTimTait

Theoretical Particle Physicist. Department Chair.

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Article about practices in writing recommendation letters for academic jobs, published in Physics Today.

https://t.co/qJNervuE3d

[Lucien Heurtier @LucienHeurtier]

It's paper day!

Stasis, stasis, triple stasis!
https://t.co/0YkmDZ4nX1

Thanks to my great collaborators Keith Dienes, Fei Huang, Tim Tait @ProfTimTait , and Brooks Thomas, this was an amazing collaboration!

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@N_Tomassetti It’s very field and institution-dependent. For particle theory at R1 public universities, it is close to 100%.

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@MldDistractions @Andrew_Akbashev It’s not really built on that. Those problems certainly exist, but it’s a stretch to connect their existence to faculty having tenure.

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@tdwiser @IBJIYONGI ✅ (5) All of the above.

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Introducing PRyMordial:
The First Three Minutes, Within and Beyond the Standard Model

For all of your Big Bang Nucleosynthesis needs!

(with gratitude to my collaborators Anne-Katherine Burns and Mauro Valli, the star of this particular show...)

https://t.co/gAnHNWpAR6

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@CIOEquitile @Cosmo_Stephan @martinmbauer We do indeed see ranges of galaxies in this way!

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@juanrga @martinmbauer Actually, they aren’t. But since you can’t back up your statement other than just repeating the assertions, there doesn’t seem to be a reasonable discussion to be had here.

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@juanrga @martinmbauer None of those are actually predictions of string theory…

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@juanrga @martinmbauer Name one?

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@nkurinsky @Fermilab This is nuts...

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@martinmbauer Meh, Chat-GPT solves this problem.

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@seanmcarroll It's a big problem when your strategy is rewriting old plot lines from before 2000 or so...

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@Quasilocal @ErickRoura Renornalization off-shell is in many QFT texts, provided they go beyond QED.

[Nirmalya Kajuri @Kaju_Nut]

Physicist Suvrat Raju shared this letter he sent to an editor of Nature Communications, declining to referee for them.

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@Quasilocal The fact remains that if the students can’t or didn’t bother to assess the information they found, regardless of source, they probably got an accurate grade in the course.

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@Quasilocal I don’t think it’s fair to penalize the students for finding information on the internet, but it is fair to grade them down for giving incorrect responses.

As I said : the Prof is a jerk. But there is a ton of wrong information out there. How much damage does adding more do?

[Lucien Heurtier @LucienHeurtier]

A new python code for BBN coming soon! #PRyMordial Great talk from @ProfTimTait this morning and possibly some asymmetry hiding in the neutrino sector...

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@Quasilocal I think you’re missing the point. The point of grades is to establish if someone has understood the material. It doesn’t matter how they got incorrect answers or what their intentions were.

Yeah, the Professor here is a bit of a jerk. But so what?

[Martin Bauer @martinmbauer]

Many of you aren’t aware of what is going on at UK universities

A spiral of low pay, pension cuts and casual contracts have plunged the nation into strike

Students won’t graduate. Some of the most talented people will leave. Universities will lose accreditation

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@Quasilocal It's not entrapment. If they understand the material, they would be able to tell that the answers were wrong.

Imagine a situation where someone else posts wrong answers online (for whatever reason). The students need to recognize errors in information on the internet.