New faculty positions versus new PhDs
The ever-plummeting chances of a PhD finding a faculty job:
Since 1982, almost 800,000 PhDs were awarded in science and engineering fields, whereas only about 100,000 academic faculty positions were created in those fields within the same time frame. The number of S&E PhDs awarded annually has also increased over this time frame, from ~19,000 in 1982 to ~36,000 in 2011. The number of faculty positions created each year, however, has not changed, with roughly 3,000 new positions created annually.
(via Javier Omar Garcia)(tags: via:javier career academia phd science work study research)
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Sometimes good judgment can compel us to act illegally. Should a self-driving vehicle get to make that same decision?
(tags: ethics stories via:chris-horn the-atlantic driving cars law robots self-driving-vehicles)
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‘A Ruby gem providing “time travel” and “time freezing” capabilities, making it dead simple to test time-dependent code. It provides a unified method to mock Time.now, Date.today, and DateTime.now in a single call.’ This is about the nicest mock-time library I’ve found so far. (via Ben)
(tags: time ruby testing coding unit-tests mocking timecop via:ben)
The 29 Stages Of A Twitterstorm
this is brilliant
(tags: uk twitter media funny pricehound racism outrage pitchforks rage social-media)