iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Dr. Lane Carasik @lanecarasik.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

I loathe the narrative that engineering faculty (both R&D focused and education focused) aren’t doing real engineering.

Dr. Lane Carasik @lanecarasik.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

If your save the date isn’t a calendar notice, if your big event you want your staff to attend didn’t include a calendar notice, if your regular but randomly scheduled meetings don’t have a calendar notice, they don’t exist.

000

Dr. Lane Carasik @lanecarasik.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

My researchers keep asking for a forklift when we have pallet jacks at home.

000

Dr. Lane Carasik @lanecarasik.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Does anyone know of a citable source for US power demand projections over the next 3-4 years or ideally longer?

100

Dr. Lane Carasik @lanecarasik.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

A good trait of a leader is one who listens to concerns and criticisms without being dismissive or attacking the person who spoke up.

010

Dr. Lane Carasik @lanecarasik.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Headhunters are the most nonsensical people I’ve had to deal with. Completely unprepared to recruit or fulfill their contracts if they’re reaching out to TT faculty for entry level jobs expecting a serious response.

000

Dr. Lane Carasik @lanecarasik.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

For those of you in the nuclear engineering & fusion energy communities, VCU Mech and Nuclear department has opened a search for a tenure track assistant professor focused on AI & Robotics for any mechanical/nuclear engineering applications. Please apply before Oct 7! vcu.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

vcu.csod.com

Assistant Professor- Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering

The Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering (MNE) of the College of Engineering (CoE) at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) invites appli...

030

Dr. Lane Carasik @lanecarasik.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Virginia tech’s football team is so bad they’re trying to give away tickets to their football game to all state employees. 🤣

000

Dr. Lane Carasik @lanecarasik.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

I’m thoroughly amused by fusion folks who hates hearing/seeing folks say/write “nuclear fusion energy” and not “fusion energy”. Pretty sure the terminology nuclear fusion is what popular culture will use.

120

Dr. Lane Carasik @lanecarasik.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

I really wish fusion energy companies would not crap on nuclear energy as a way to promote fusion.

010

Dr. Lane Carasik @lanecarasik.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Reminder to NIH funded folks, you are not the only people who get federal funding. Those of us funded through DOE/NSF/USDA/etc are not irrelevant. Please do not treat us like we do not matter because we do not do NIH funded work.

000

Dr. Lane Carasik @lanecarasik.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

I desperately want the background story movie behind the SmokeStack twins from Sinners.

010

Dr. Lane Carasik @lanecarasik.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

@americanair.bsky.social your customer, in Seat 3C on Flight AA4990 RIC to ORD, physically threatened me after I asked him to not poke and slap the person sitting next to me in seat 2D. I hope y’all decide to tell this person to chill out with the attempts at physical intimidation on planes.

000

Reposted by Dr. Lane Carasik

Toon Dreessen @toondreessen.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

This. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ i’d rather we invest our time and energy and improving the ability to make flat pack modular mass timber pre-fabrication more cost-effective and viable than spend $ chasing dreams of 3-D printed concrete houses

2207

Reposted by Dr. Lane Carasik

I'm Uni :3 @unicouniuni3.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Too round to be serious :3

A black and white cat with a perfectly round face stares straight ahead with a serious expression. He’s wearing a soft yellow collar, sitting calmly in soft lighting—but his face is almost too round to take seriously.

757507588

Dr. Lane Carasik @lanecarasik.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

I really feel conflicted by this. QT makes sense for GA, if you grew up there you know. But Buckees is more popular than Pilot in Tennessee? Wat

120

Dr. Lane Carasik @lanecarasik.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

@dannyavula.bsky.social are you (The City) going to give grants to helps restaurants that have to cancel service again today through the rest of the boil water notice? Water boil advisory twice in the same six month period is going to be extremely damaging to the restaurant industry.

000

Reposted by Dr. Lane Carasik

Nick Touran @whatisnuclear.com · 24/05/2025

Everyone says nuclear power is overregulated. With the big nuclear EOs looming, I spent a few weeks talking to people in the nuclear industry to find out which reforms they thought would be most helpful, and which they were nervous about. Here are the top 12. whatisnuclear.com/news/2025-05...

whatisnuclear.com

Regulatory Reforms the Nuclear Industry wants

I surveyed lots of people in the nuclear industry and made a list of reforms that most people agreed on

7268

Dr. Lane Carasik @lanecarasik.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

I could really go without a grant agency claiming charges on a year past closed out grant are retroactively not allowed.

000

Reposted by Dr. Lane Carasik

Deanna @deestemteach.blacksky.app · 04/05/2025

Last year, I shared a gofundme for one of our students that made it to nationals for the National History Day competition. This year, his younger brother is going. Our first junior high student to make it to Nationals! There is no funding for travel and registration. Please help! gofund.me/5d6ef6f5

gofund.me

Donate to Gabriel's journey to Nationals!, organized by Ranel Heard

Hello! My name is Ranel Heard and I am the proud mother of Gabriel Heard. Gabriel is in th… Ranel Heard needs your support for Gabriel's journey to Nationals!

495111

Dr. Lane Carasik @lanecarasik.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Journals, please stop trying to shorten review time. A review is gonna take a month no matter what, don't ask me to do it in 7, 14, or 21 days.

010

Reposted by Dr. Lane Carasik

I'm Uni :3 @unicouniuni3.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Unigiri at the bar? （Uni sometimes looks like an onigiri, so I call him Unigiri）

A black and white tuxedo cat sitting with its front paws tucked under its body, staring intensely forward with a serious expression. The cat looks calm and confident.

807712829

Reposted by Dr. Lane Carasik

molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

the most stubborn dog on earth

1952390134

Reposted by Dr. Lane Carasik

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

It's fun to ask what kind of mathematics different animals would discover first, what they would find intuitive. Octopi would obviously instantly figure out differential geometry, but I think possums would discover statistics before the Pythagorean theorem.

5634

Reposted by Dr. Lane Carasik

Pokémon Gems @pokemongems.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

where is groudon

Picture showing a groudon in a picture book

1206690994

Reposted by Dr. Lane Carasik

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

End of the academic year fatigue has kicked in. Oof.

91522

Dr. Lane Carasik @lanecarasik.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Well it’s good when good news comes in pairs. Two journal papers accepted within the same week!

050

Dr. Lane Carasik @lanecarasik.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

I once again ask employers to stop asking their employees to donate to their organizations.

011

Reposted by Dr. Lane Carasik

molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

it’s a relaxation emergency

862653198

Reposted by Dr. Lane Carasik

molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

he brought his bowl over and now he’s just giving me the side eye like he’s thinking about not leaving a tip because the service is terrible here

1575233

Dr. Lane Carasik @lanecarasik.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Sorry folks, I’m pretty sure universities already are “launchpads for innovation”

000

Reposted by Dr. Lane Carasik

Sebastian S. Cocioba @atinygreencell.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Conducting research solely on ideas that have immediate commercial application is the antithesis of innovation and disruption. Walk with your eyes forward, not toward the ground a foot away from your stride.

46015

Dr. Lane Carasik @lanecarasik.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

If I could just get a chance to breathe this semester…

010

Dr. Lane Carasik @lanecarasik.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

"In-silico" makes me irrationally annoyed.

000

Reposted by Dr. Lane Carasik

Daniel de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Hot take: The big "problem" in social science is not that "ideological bias" drives our findings. The big problem is we excessively reward productivity. This encourages sloppiness, which reproduces itself over and over. The result is a "natural selection of bad science" (Smaldino & McElreath).

45210

Dr. Lane Carasik @lanecarasik.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Generally, good leadership discuss desired vs. needed work assignments with their team before making assignments.

020

Dr. Lane Carasik @lanecarasik.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Sorry folks, it’s not realistic to ask me to schedule meetings on Saturday and Sunday.

000

Reposted by Dr. Lane Carasik

Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

IKEA’s shark character, BLÅHAJ, and his son, Junior, at Tokyo Bay IKEA

A pair of bipedal sharks in human clothes stand in the street. The smaller one, on the right, is waving.

4051591313

Reposted by Dr. Lane Carasik

The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

look at this absolute unit

A very large Exmoor Horn ram, with a small yet noticeable smile.

13795351607

Reposted by Dr. Lane Carasik

Carlos M. Portela @carlosmportela.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Grateful to be part of the 2025 NAS Kavli Fellows cohort representing MIT MechE —a week of discussions w/ early career leaders across disciplines! Enjoyed sunny SoCal, enthralled w/ ‘diverse’, ‘engaging’, and ‘insightful’ scientific discourse, especially in the current scientific context.

031

Reposted by Dr. Lane Carasik

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

old.reddit.com/r/Professors... If if you can't teach algebra 1 to a kid because you instead have to teach them fractions, that kid gets to algebra 2 and then has to be taught fractions again plus maybe a little algebra 1 if they catch on fast enough, etc

old.reddit.com

How do we deal with the flood of unprepared students?

Was just tutoring a young first-year in financial math. We were talking about how to to find your total loan amounts. The following is an excerpt...

1494

Reposted by Dr. Lane Carasik

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

old.reddit.com/r/Professors... "My students can't solve c = freq * wavelength for wavelength given c and frequency." Like, US students are coming in who *can't use calculators*

old.reddit.com

STEM profs, what's the current state of incoming freshman math skills?

I only have my own experiences, and I'm curious how universal they are. If you were to pick the level at which 50% of *your* freshman students...

2584

Reposted by Dr. Lane Carasik

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

old.reddit.com/r/Professors... Then there are students who "learned" math from YouTube, but can't apply anything because you can't learn math passively.

old.reddit.com

The freshman were NOT prepared for Calculus 2

I'm a TA at a top 10 engineering university in the USA. I was a teaching assistant for Calculus 2 last semester, leading (compulsory) recitations...

1647

Reposted by Dr. Lane Carasik

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Like, students are coming in who need remedial courses to remedial courses to remedial courses because they're coming in with 5th grade math education. And then having to take each of those courses at least twice, usually in the form of a class having to teach arithmetic instead of algebra, etc

2806

Reposted by Dr. Lane Carasik

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Basically "I teach statistics, these kids aren't failing because they don't understand statistics, they're failing because they don't understand *fractions*"

113217

Reposted by Dr. Lane Carasik

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

old.reddit.com/r/Professors... Math education is so bad in the US that professors of freshman courses are saying that they *can't even fail their students on the subject they are teaching* because the students need 4 years of remedial math just to get to that point.

old.reddit.com

What Can be Done About Undergraduate Innumeracy?

For the past two semesters, I've been teaching an introductory Statistics class for non-majors. This is at a large public R1 university that I...

719748

Reposted by Dr. Lane Carasik

molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

otto wins again, mr indestructible came through his eye operation like a champion.

3077214

Dr. Lane Carasik @lanecarasik.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Tenure clock extensions are not the solution to this. A tenure clock extension is the most minimum thing universities can do to protect their junior faculty.

010