Wonderful (and humble) essay on mentorship by Brandon Gaut, on occasion of Brandon receiving the inaugural Mentorship Award of @genetics-gsa.bsky.social. I hope this will be widely read!
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The Walking Dolbow
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Associate Vice President for Research & Innovation at Duke University, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science. Father to two daughters, 🏳️🌈ally. Red Sox fan, DOE CSGF alumnus.
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I appreciated this.
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I find the dildo thing pretty appalling so I wrote a bit about why
Why A Bunch Of Real Dicks Keep Throwing Fake Ones | Defector
Every misogynist joke poses a question to its female audience: Can you laugh along? Will you be chill or are you going to make a big deal out of this? Are you going to be a bitch about it? Arriving in...
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Here we teach STEM majors that while their core classes are vital, their career success will largely be limited by their ability to write, speak, and broadly communicate. So our students take nearly as many courses outside the school as they do inside.
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All very helpful. Thank you for taking the time to explain all of this clearly.
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Can you say more about this? There are many of us who genuinely care about the lives of trans people and their rights. It would be helpful to understand how we might be casually threatening the same group of people we’re trying to protect.
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Have heard nothing but good things about Claude Code.
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Likewise.
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I understand you love testing and think it’s the most fair thing going.
It’s just one part of the picture of what makes a student a student. And I write that as someone who has been teaching engineering students for over 25 years. Being able to test well does not mean you know how to think.
