Category Archives: Joke
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Your last name determines your research success
What’s in a name? Liran Einav and Leeat Yariv 2006 write
Faculty with earlier surname initials are significantly more likely to receive tenure at top ten economics departments, are significantly more likely to become fellows of the Econometric Society, and, to a lesser extent, are more likely to receive the Clark Medal and the Nobel Prize. These statistically significant differences remain the same even after we control for country of origin, ethnicity, religion or departmental fixed effects.
Somebody should have told me that earlier!
The academic superstar
Shit academics say
I found an interesting twitter account when preparing my upcoming talk in Milano next month: @AcademicsSay.
US Government To Officially Recognize GWAS As A Religious Belief
Washington DC – Barack Obama announced today that the United States of America was going to be the first country in the world to officially recognize GWAS as a religious belief.
Genome-Wide Association Studies have long been based on a belief system and the practitioners of GWAS are well-known for their loyalty and dedication to their God – the odds ratio.
Anthropologist, Dr. Amanda Lynn, told The Allium earlier today that the GWAS religion is in fact a relatively new religion, having split from its mother church – the church of latter day genetic linkages – around about the year 2005.
(from http://www.theallium.com/biology/us-government-to-officially-recognize-gwas-as-a-religious-belief/)
The explosion of data comes with implosion of understanding
to quote Ruslan Medzhitov in “Cell” today.
Mitarbeiter des Monats
Vor kurzem fiel mir ein Artikel in die Hand, bei dem ich wissen wollte was für ein Autor so etwas schreibt. Wurmerkrankungen als “old friends” zu bezeichnen, ist dumm und zynisch dazu, auch wenn es Tradition hat. Sorry an Frau I. S., “Forscherin des Monats” an einer Medizinischen Fakultät.
Die Wirtschaftswoche erklärt was es bedeutet, wenn Firmen ein
Foto in der Hall of Fame zwischen Kantine und Herrenklo an die Wand hängen. So kürt beispielsweise die Fastfood-Kette McDonald’s den Mitarbeiter des Monats oder der Autobauer Daimler den Verbesserungsvorschlag des Monats … Das sind die Möhren, die man dort dem Esel Angestellten vor die Nase hält, damit er schneller läuft.
From 3 days to less than 3 hours
Are you scammed too?
Well, I have been supporting startups even before Kickstarter and Indiego. Unfortunately Carbike never came into life, all my money was lost.
But if you think that science + arts are important, you can’t stop funding interesting projects. I even sold devices later for some unexpected problems (CloudFTP, The Nutter) or could not access the expected video projects (Bikes vs Cars).
But I see crowdfunding more like an altruistic way to support good ideas and do not feel scammed as many Zano backers.
Even right now where again two of my backed projects are in troubled water (Kraftwerk and Itraq) I see this as an experiment where I am not looking for revenues, at least not in the first instance. But maybe I would appreciate deadlines from the grant holders and any reason why they could not be met. And of course a note when the project is being dead.
Simply falling
Don’t give up on me
Stage (managed?) love
Frank Uwe Laysiepen and Marina Abramovic: Not just the famous video but also the true story.
Informed Consent
IC is a vanishing concept despite our efforts in the past. It could be so easy as explained in this tea video.