Orwellian Emails

Since emails sometimes disappear from my inbox, I have been taking screenshots.

 

Another Letter to Big Brother

Dear Psychopaths

It was very amusing that you took my green card application so seriously even when you were unable to talk to me, contact me online, or obtain any money from me. I must admit, it would be nice to return to America for the fourth time this year, if I could, but I am rather busy at present being homeless here in New Zealand. Maybe you could take a look at a few of those serious postdoc positions, which would suit me nicely. Or you could offer me a nice permanent position somewhere, but you might want to consider first that I actually expect to be treated like a human being. Oh, the horror! 

Best wishes

Dr Marni Dee Sheppeard

Quark Memories

Remember back in 2010 when Dave Look and I calculated the quark masses for the first time, using the Koide formalism? Ah, memories. In those days, it was hard to justify the 3x3 mass circulant matrices and the use of the Fourier transform. 

Quark mass parameters

CMS record

 

More Nice Neutrinos

In his first arxiv paper since 2012, Nieuwenhuizen writes about  Dirac and Majorana neutrinos, explaining the ANITA results.

A new kind of Dirac neutrino

Amsterdam

Jobs at Cambridge

Maybe I’ll be luckier this time around!

A Postdoc in Quantum Inertia

McCulloch’s funding from DARPA has facilitated the first postdoc position in quantum inertia!

Jobs UK

Today’s Letter

Dear Corrupt New Zealand Government

 

I cannot possibly agree to all these ludicrous obligations which you are asking me to sign (regarding work) when I have a MEDICAL CERTIFICATE. I can see that I will have to come into my appointment on Friday after all, even if it means hitchhiking there, to discuss this matter further with you. And NO, despite what you might think, I have NOT read these outrageous conditions before, because you keep wasting the tax payers’ money by changing this demonic slavery agreement regularly!

 

See you in person Friday,

Dr Marni D. Sheppeard

Attention All Theorists

As much as you might hope to write down quantum gravity in the traditional language of M theorists, or in terms of Jordan pairs, or whatever, you simply cannot do it without developing a better appreciation for category theory. Quantum geometry IS written in the language of higher dimensional categories, and it is unavoidable.

Quote of the Week

Reply to a Colleague

Piero (p.s.)

I have published your email online, on the blog that I write about how I am prevented from publishing anything. And the application I was referring to has nothing at all to do with published papers, by the way.

Goodbye,
Marni