Navigating life in academia. Radfem. #womeninSTEM
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Alice retweeted
Good morning, I just had GPT 5.6 Pro solve an open math conjecture:
For every fixed j and k≥3,
FO_{j,k}(n)/FD_{j,k}(n) → 0,
so FD_{j,k}(n) > FO_{j,k}(n) eventually.
First prompt:
“Pick a real open mathematical conjecture you can solve. Do the breakthrough and finish it.”
38 minutes later, it returned a proof of Conjecture 1.2 from Gray–Payne–Swisher–Watson’s 2026 paper on fixed-perimeter partitions, and claimed a stronger result.
Then:
“Try to kill this proof. If you can’t, make it airtight.”
It found a gap in its own dominant-pole argument, repaired it, rebuilt the proof bundle, and ran 7.3M+ exact checks. Everything passed.
I have no clue if this is actually correct.
Math people: please try to break it:
chatgpt.com/share/6a61ff8e-a…
Alice retweeted
Another in my occasional reminiscences on “academics can be arseholes.”
Many years ago when I was a fresh young research fellow, I had an idea: “X might be true. If it is, then if we observe Y we should see Z.” So I excitedly wrote a telescope application to observe Y.
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Alice retweeted
I just wanted to update my resume. Instead, I accidentally proved how a multi-billion-dollar AI tool hallucinates a glass ceiling for women.
I changed a single variable: My name.
Here is what happened when "Jennifer" became "Jeff."
Alice retweeted
If you have a leadership job, then you also have a kindness job.
Yes, there is work to get done and goals to meet. But we also have a responsibility to leverage our authority and decision making capability to uphold human dignity.
Alice retweeted
Depression is more common in the suburbs than in city centers, finds new research @ConversationEDU @ScienceAdvances doi.org/dzwbm5 medicalxpress.com/news/2023-…
Alice retweeted
One of the best pieces of advice I can give to grad students is something that I learned from my time as a competitive swimmer: It's natural to want to see how fast others around you are going, but looking around slows you down and ruins your form. Focus on your own goals & time.
Generally what kind of questions are asked in a postdoc interview, especially in the area of theoretical physics?
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Looks like at least I did. Even though it's been a couple of years since I defended my PhD thesis I still get badly triggered every time I think about my PhD supervisor's evaluation of me and me work. 😢 It was the most demeaning thing I've ever read in my life!
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Alice retweeted
It's not okay to offer funding where the recipient uses their own money first and is reimbursed later. This puts serious pressure on those in less privileged positions. Many struggle (silently) or lose out completely. Reduce inequity by offering resources up front.
Alice retweeted
When you call a man who has raped someone "she" it is not a neutral act: you are adding insult to one of the worst injuries a person can endure. I'm begging you: stop it.
Alice retweeted
Having a code of conduct and diversity initiatives is meaningless if you won’t take action against bullies. It’s actively harmful to bring people from minoritised backgrounds into an environment where you will not support them. This will not be a safe environment @SVP_vertpaleo
Alice retweeted
Have you ever felt this way?
ALT Signs of an abusive advisor You aren't making good progress in your academic or professional career You limit interactions with your advisor You feel awful after interactions with your advisor You dread going to lab You often consider leaving the program @SafeFacultyProj
Too many manchildren in academic faculty positions. Just because they can do research, it doesn't mean they can manage and supervise people. The consequences of their immaturity, petulance and mismanagement are dire. They should be held accountable for their misbehaviour.
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Alice retweeted
“Rights aren’t pie - you don’t get less just cos another group is given some”.
But the trans lobby isn’t really asking for the same rights as the rest of us.
The trans lobby is demanding that the resources women have carved out for ourselves be reallocated to male “trans women”
Alice retweeted
Suffering rarely makes sense. Suffering is unreasonable; it is irrational. Still, we work very hard to make sense out of it. I often think that the ability to explain suffering is the clearest indicator of never having suffered.
Alice retweeted
The worst thing I see people in academia go through is lose their confidence and more so of when you are an immigrant as you are almost controlled with your visa situation or the fact that you came from elsewhere. There is no inclusion. #academia #AltAcChats #AcademicChatter