alanaunfried

Associate Professor of Statistics at California State University, Monterey Bay. All opinions my own.

[alanaunfried @alanaunfried]

I am honored to have received tenure and promotion at @CSUMB this year, along with so many wonderful colleagues! https://t.co/d9HPfaq6KQ

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The worst part of listening to @Spotify 's Peaceful Piano station while I work is that it thinks I am a student studying, so it keeps advertising Chegg. 😡 Now I'm just an angry, distracted professor instead of a peaceful, productive professor...

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@staceystats @maanow Congratulations!!

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@EmilyHGriffith1 I'm there with you! 3-year-old has been in preschool a total of 2 days this month due to exposures. He tested positive yesterday :(

[Natalie E. Dean, PhD @nataliexdean]

The situation for parents of kids under 5 is so untenable. People are spending weeks without childcare, and, for those who even can work from home, working while watching a toddler is not a thing. Sending love to everyone just trying to make it through. https://t.co/bUH9QhgwL6

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@EmilyHGriffith1 We also live in a town that has an 83% vaccination rate so I think that gave me a false sense of security...

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One week into the school year and my 7-year-old has already had her first COVID-19 exposure in her classroom😪. It's going to be an interesting year...

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@EmilyHGriffith1 So far so good... but I was not anticipating this so early on. I think I need to build some COVID days into my courses this semester just fully expecting quarantine at some point.

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I loved speaking at #USCOTS21 this year about expanding opportunities for "underprepared" statistics students. After a year of burnout due to COVID, prepping for the talk helped remind me why I love my job! Video and slides here: https://t.co/73rqc19qNH

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Here's a nice article about my @NSF IUSE grant that is underway right now (p.18). I'm having so much fun working on it! https://t.co/4ysfSEt4Nq via @issuu

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@KellyMSpoon Does it help if I say they were definitely not endorsements ;)

[alanaunfried @alanaunfried]

Two of my @CSUMB stats students are featured in this @AmstatNews article. I'm so proud of them and all the hard work our @csumbmathstat students have been putting in this semester! https://t.co/Z6e93JcXMN

[alanaunfried @alanaunfried]

I just finished recording, editing, and posting my last video lecture of the semester. I think I might cry. (I'll let you guess if those are tears of sorrow or joy...)

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@DrCanner At least you will mostly be home and won't have to hear it as often this year?? (Pandemic perk?)

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@RyneVanK I have not, thanks for the tip! I’ll check it out.

[alanaunfried @alanaunfried]

At the end of each video lesson, I have my students submit a remaining question they have. And the questions are SO GOOD. It's made me realize how many good questions students had, but were were NOT asking, when I used to teach in person (a lifetime ago?).

[alanaunfried @alanaunfried]

I’m excited to be highlighted in this @CSUMB article discussing my new NSF grant! Looking forward to improving #statistics and #datascience education through our work.

[Cal State Monterey Bay @CSUMB]

Good News Comes in Threes ✨

The pandemic has not stopped CSUMB’s mission to improve lives through education, with help from grants.

Read about the three most recent grants: https://t.co/94xWP17gkn #csumb #madeatcsumb

[alanaunfried @alanaunfried]

I have now declined 4 article reviews that in a normal semester, I would have happily said yes to. This is pandemic life with kids at home as an academic. One of the (smallest) ways tenure-track faculty are being affected on their paths to tenure.

[Andrew Ledbetter @dr_ledbetter]

Adjusting tenure expectations in light of COVID-19 isn't about lowering standards. It's about reinventing standards for the cohort of assistant professors doing the unanticipated labor of reinventing higher education.