From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/10509 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter May Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Leicester Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2021 20:59:16 -0500 Message-ID: Reply-To: Peter May Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="15606"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: "categories@mta.ca" Original-X-From: majordomo@rr.mta.ca Thu Jun 10 20:27:55 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from smtp2.mta.ca ([198.164.44.75]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lrPPG-0003ok-Pe for gsmc-categories@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 10 Jun 2021 20:27:54 +0200 Original-Received: from rr.mta.ca ([198.164.44.159]:33386) by smtp2.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1lrPOP-0003DZ-CE; Thu, 10 Jun 2021 15:27:01 -0300 Original-Received: from majordomo by rr.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.92.1) (envelope-from ) id 1lrPO2-0006JW-Q3 for categories-list@rr.mta.ca; Thu, 10 Jun 2021 15:26:38 -0300 Content-Language: en-US Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.science.mathematics.categories:10509 Archived-At: Following up on David Roberts:?? I am in close contact with a truly excellent category theorist who, until recently, was at Leicester. It is not just a proposal: action has been taken, and she is no longer employed there.?? The sheer hypocrisy of claiming to seek excellence by downgrading to teaching only positions is transparent, as is the sheer ignorance of the interplay of mathematics and related areas of application. Peter [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]