hahahaha I know, J. told me to ask you but I was too annoyed to wait. Hahaha. Maybe next month Although, checking who has negged me in the past is upsetting. Apparently my own bf negged me. Ah well. He is getting a neg tomorrow
Sorry, I have no idea what that actually means. Something surveying-related?
Yeah, GIS is a mapping software which enables you to track data across things. For my PhD I used it to overlay different series of O/S maps to follow the development of land for sporting purposes but it has a wide variety of applications in the fields such as those I mentioned. You can look at distribution patterns of medicine, illness, economic aid and so on but in a mapped-format. Fascinating stuff and really powerful. In many ways it's the future of history. You can take a tithe map and input its data onto the mapping and pull out all sorts of attributes. Say you want to find out those in a county called Smith, you could. Those called Smith who were teachers, and so on. But unlike the census, which does similar, this shows distribution patterns as well.
Yeah, GIS is a mapping software which enables you to track data across things. For my PhD I used it to overlay different series of O/S maps to follow the development of land for sporting purposes but it has a wide variety of applications in the fields such as those I mentioned. You can look at distribution patterns of medicine, illness, economic aid and so on but in a mapped-format. Fascinating stuff and really powerful. In many ways it's the future of history. You can take a tithe map and input its data onto the mapping and pull out all sorts of attributes. Say you want to find out those in a county called Smith, you could. Those called Smith who were teachers, and so on. But unlike the census, which does similar, this shows distribution patterns as well.
OK, so the software basically visualises things to make it easier to recognise patterns in large datasets?
Yeah, GIS is a mapping software which enables you to track data across things. For my PhD I used it to overlay different series of O/S maps to follow the development of land for sporting purposes but it has a wide variety of applications in the fields such as those I mentioned. You can look at distribution patterns of medicine, illness, economic aid and so on but in a mapped-format. Fascinating stuff and really powerful. In many ways it's the future of history. You can take a tithe map and input its data onto the mapping and pull out all sorts of attributes. Say you want to find out those in a county called Smith, you could. Those called Smith who were teachers, and so on. But unlike the census, which does similar, this shows distribution patterns as well.
OK, so the software basically visualises things to make it easier to recognise patterns in large datasets?
Essentially and in my example, you could plot it onto an old O/S map and see how townscapes have developed over time and see all sorts of fun patterns in the data.
Back home on the Duck after a fun, somewhat drunken evening with ice_cube and Ilex.
Glad your trip back was OK yes, in retrospect the second bottle might have been best avoided. I had a lovely time though, it was great to meet you (and thank you for hanging out with me in McDonald's and sharing cat pictures, that was awesome!).
I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss your PhD as useless. Yesterday at my class on publication I found out that post doc recruitment is quite affected by the REF (nee RAE) cycle. Since we're nearing the end of one of them, as I understand it, that makes hiring more conservative because departments want to focus on getting as much good research out ASAP, and don't want to take risks. Whereas at the beginning of a cycle, they're more likely to take people who have potential, because over a five year span there's a good chance they'll be putting out good things with a bit of time. So this would imply that this is the wrong time for you, the_alba, hobnob, but things will be more favourable for me, apotoftea, scarlet ibis, etc. (not that SB wants to go into academia necessarily, but yeh). Have you thought of going for teaching only posts instead? And if you don't mind my asking, what is your publication record?
I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss your PhD as useless. Yesterday at my class on publication I found out that post doc recruitment is quite affected by the REF (nee RAE) cycle. Since we're nearing the end of one of them, as I understand it, that makes hiring more conservative because departments want to focus on getting as much good research out ASAP, and don't want to take risks. Whereas at the beginning of a cycle, they're more likely to take people who have potential, because over a five year span there's a good chance they'll be putting out good things with a bit of time. So this would imply that this is the wrong time for you, the_alba, hobnob, but things will be more favourable for me, apotoftea, scarlet ibis, etc. (not that SB wants to go into academia necessarily, but yeh). Have you thought of going for teaching only posts instead? And if you don't mind my asking, what is your publication record?
Glad your trip back was OK yes, in retrospect the second bottle might have been best avoided. I had a lovely time though, it was great to meet you (and thank you for hanging out with me in McDonald's and sharing cat pictures, that was awesome!).
No problem, it was lovely to meet you too, your cats are very cute, as is your little Japanese dog! Any news on the mysterious phonecall?
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I am in the University Library, trying to get some work done. I come here to get peace and quiet but so far I've been disturbed by a very loud drumming band practising/performing in Clare and also by people choosing to come and sit near me when they have a whole empty floor to choose from. And then proceeding to chortle at the book they're reading. Gah!
No problem, it was lovely to meet you too, your cats are very cute, as is your little Japanese dog! Any news on the mysterious phonecall?
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I am in the University Library, trying to get some work done. I come here to get peace and quiet but so far I've been disturbed by a very loud drumming band practising/performing in Clare and also by people choosing to come and sit near me when they have a whole empty floor to choose from. And then proceeding to chortle at the book they're reading. Gah!
Perhaps they wanted your autograph ('omg, it's scarlet ibis! The scarlet ibis! The one who lives on a duck!!') but were too shy to ask?
Have you thought of going for teaching only posts instead? And if you don't mind my asking, what is your publication record?
Teaching only posts require more experience than I was able to gain. My publication record stands (or will by the time everything comes out this year) at 1 book, 4 articles in my name, 2 chapters in edited collections, 1 co-written chapter, and about a dozen book reviews in various places.
Perhaps they wanted your autograph ('omg, it's scarlet ibis! The scarlet ibis! The one who lives on a duck!!') but were too shy to ask?
I moved to the top floor, up lots and lots of stairs, hoping that most people who made it up this far are only here because they want a book up here, and those who just want a desk give up and sit down before they get to the top. Seems to have worked so far!
that awkward moment when you get rejected by your safety school ...
Seriously, fml.
UNLESS THEY WERE JUST INTIMIDATED BY ALL MY AWESOME
No, that's not likely. This really doesn't bode well for my other applications, and has got me thinking - there is literally nothing more I could have done. I guess there's just something fundamentally wrong with me.
that awkward moment when you get rejected by your safety school ...
Seriously, fml.
UNLESS THEY WERE JUST INTIMIDATED BY ALL MY AWESOME
No, that's not likely. This really doesn't bode well for my other applications, and has got me thinking - there is literally nothing more I could have done. I guess there's just something fundamentally wrong with me.
Not at all! Try not to take it personally! American universities can get pretty competitive even at the safety level, especially if there's funding and/or healthcare involved. It doesn't mean you're not interesting enough or clever enough: just (sadly) there are people out there currently more suited
Besides, it might not necessarily be completely the end. I was rejected by NYU for their PhD course but months later got told I was to be put forward for an interdisciplinary Masters much more suited to me and could I email them if I wanted to be considered? Wasn't funded though and I was very ill by that stage So maybe something like that could happen to you?
Either way, try not to think that you're not good enough
that awkward moment when you get rejected by your safety school ...
Seriously, fml.
UNLESS THEY WERE JUST INTIMIDATED BY ALL MY AWESOME
No, that's not likely. This really doesn't bode well for my other applications, and has got me thinking - there is literally nothing more I could have done. I guess there's just something fundamentally wrong with me.
No, no, no, you know that's not true. Even in the UK there are numerous accounts of people being rejected by Oxford and accepted by Cambridge or vice versa (and similar at other top unis). It just means you didn't fit at one place.