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Matthew Wright
@mcmwright.bsky.social
Acoustics, Folk Music, Disability, not necessarily at the same time
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I try to use descriptive names when possible (inviscid momentum equation rather than Euler's equation) but there are some my subconscious won't let me do, like frequency-domain wave equation for Helmholtz equation

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Oh, thanks

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So the managers having become more business-oriented doesn't mean that the academic staff necessarily have. This is also why Universities UK is dishonestly named. They don't represent universities, they represent their bosses, and the two should not be mistaken for one another. 2/w

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There's certainly a 'business' case for giving those talks (I can't get out as easily these days but I used to do loads). But also, universities are 'bodies corporate' rather than businesses, and thus consist of their membership. 1/

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Coo, nowt like that round our way. Does your place still have inaugural lectures?

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Are the 'ghost notes' showing through from another page, or corrections of earlier versions, or...?

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Reading up on Engineering Ethics brings me to a discussion of what distinguishes a profession from an occupation, and the suggestion that "professions must aim at some moral good. There cannot be a profession of thievery...". Hmmm

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Matthew Wright
@mcmwright.bsky.social
Acoustics, Folk Music, Disability, not necessarily at the same time
58 followers111 following509 posts