Busy New Year.

Please reconsider the deadline of the veni grant for next year. By choosing a deadline right after the Christmas break, you are contributing to an unhealthy research culture, which ultimately might even lead to young researchers leaving the field.

Felienne: Open letter to NWO (2013)

5 stars, would plot again.

Confusing IMDb with LMFDB suddenly leads to completely new forms of evening entertainment.

Fromulas.

Manchmal ist alles Käse.

Vorablenksung.

I think my students are being entirely rational when they “distract” themselves in my class with their phones. They understand the world they are being prepared to enter much better than I do. In that world, I’m the distraction, not their phones or their social-media profiles or their networking. Yet for what I’m supposed to be doing — educating and cultivating young hearts and minds — the consequences are pretty dark.

Ron Srigley: I asked my students to turn in their cell phones and write about living without them.

Journotelference.

A computing-research conference is "a journal that meets in a hotel."

Moshe Vardi: Publish and Perish