Author Archives: Michael Froomkin

Research Assistant Needed (2025)

Copright 'brizzle born and bred' Some rights reserved, https://secure.flickr.com/photos/brizzlebornandbred/I would like to hire a UM 2L to be my research assistant for 10-15 hours/week during the coming semester. If things work out we might continue into the summer, and/or next year.

The work primarily involves assisting me with legal research and other academic work relating to artificial intelligence, but also helping out on other random things.

I need someone who can write clearly and is well-organized.

The pay of $15 / hr is set by the university, and is not as high as you deserve, but the work is sometimes interesting.

If this sounds attractive, please e-mail me a note with the subject line RESEARCH ASSISTANT 2025 (in all caps), followed by your name and including the following:

  1. Where you saw this announcement
  2. How many hours you would ideally like to work per week (10-12 is quite normal)
  3. When you are free to start.
  4. Your phone number and email address.
  5. Several times you would be free to meet for a zoom interview in the next week or so.
  6. If you happen to have any experience with programming, Unix, or system administration, please mention that, as I can use that; I may even have a second job available for someone with these skills.  But please don’t be deterred from applying if you don’t happen to know about those.

Please attach:

  1. A copy of your resume (c.v.).
  2. A transcript of your grades (need not be an official copy).
  3. If you have one handy, also attach a short NON-legal writing sample. If you have none, I’ll accept a legal writing sample (whatever you do, though, please don’t send your L-Comm memo as it’s too hard to tell how much they’ve been edited by your instructor).

I look forward to speaking with you.

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This Is Going to be Great

Should be out in February 2025!

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A Strange Form of ORCID-Based … Advertising? Networking? Sp_mming?

My first thought was that this was a mistake.

My second thought was that this was an attempt to get me to read someone’s papers.

On the gripping hand, having looked at the user’s ORCID record, which is for a Czech masters in economics who did some tutoring several years ago and claims ties to the United Kingdom, Malaysia, Solomon Islands, Georgia, and Armenia but doesn’t seem to publish….I have no idea.

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Autoposting to Bluesky (continued)

I’m still looking for a good tool to autopost to Bluesky. The Atproto Share plugin sends a link, but no more unless supplemented manually…

(I tried a manual supplement for this post)

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No Joke

There was a saying (which I first encountered 30+ years ago in the UK) that, “Everyone talks about the weather, but no one does anything about it.”

That silly joke has a much more ominous cast in light of global warming.

On a less grim note, it’s so cool here today I not only could open the windows but I put on a sweater! This is quite rare in South Florida.

On a technical note, this will be my first attempt to auto-post to Bluesky….

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David’s First TV Interview

My son the law professor made his TV interview debut yesterday.

I’m naturally biased, but I think he’s good at this.

Incidentally, the weird background is somewhere at a conference he was attending.

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