I had a student write a successful master's thesis this spring, from which we will write a paper. I am thinking of having him be first author (this would be non-alphabetical) although I will be the corresponding author. Is this silly?
I think using the mathjobs wiki is a mistake. It is stressful as an applicant to be involved in at all, and the majority of faculty are not aware of its existence. In the end, most of the awarded positions only say filled, and after such a delay that this information is essentially useless. On the other hand if your name is all over the mathjobs wiki and you don't get a job it effectively advertises against you ( saying something like "this person had a lot of interviews and no offers, they must have a personality flaw").
From JSE's recent blog posts, and link, two great thoughts:
1) Say you are in a point in your career (say grad student/ junior researcher) where discouragement and marginalization are common, and you are a from group X. It does not matter if the discouragement etc is correlated with your membership in X. The only thing that matters is if you perceive it to be, as that perception determines your personal feelings (and your feelings are all that really matters).
2) General inflammatory opinions are undesirable in the comments of a particular anecdote in a hot subject. For me this is a reminder for those who speak for the sound of their own voice to shut up when they don't have something relevant to say - especially on controversial topics (although I am for this in general).
A month ago I read Lev Grossman's "The Magicians". Everyone who reads this blog should read this book. It rocked; as a short review it is a cross between Harry Potter and the Grasshopper King. Magical. Punny, academic, grown-up Piers Anthony. Ok, I am gushing, I will stop.
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