As my Christmas present to you all, here is a list of my top-10 metal tunes of 2020, in no particular order. It's a mixed bag of genres and styles, but they're all bangers!

First up, The Terror Begins by Make Them Die Slowly. Horror-movie inspired grind/black/industrial from Mick Kenney and Duncan Wilkins.
https://t.co/0QboX6EBMt
Next, Northern Irish thrashers @gamabomb, with Lords of the Hellfire Club from their excellent new album Sea Savage. https://t.co/fdR16ky3mi
Now for something a bit off the beaten track: brilliant New York black metal experimentalists @imperialnyc's City Swine.
https://t.co/HDKgfe7yDF
Time for something a bit more accessible: this year's best symphonic metal from Sweden's @eleine. Here's the title track from the fantastic 'Dancing in Hell' album.
https://t.co/mvJ650pgcH
From the symphonic to the raw and grungy: Chelsea Wolfe and Jess Gowrie's new band Mrs Piss with Downers Surrounded by Uppers. https://t.co/yvdhtsljWW
Next, the most affecting metal song to come out this year, Tuskegee. @zealandardor's unique combination of black metal, blues and spirituals makes them the most exciting band in metal imo. https://t.co/hq4kTDBd1V
More great black metal, A Hostile Fate from Manchester's @Winterfylleth: https://t.co/A7cnFKq7oK
Time for some Tech-Death: for me, @contrarianband are particularly strong in combining spectacular musicianship with great songwriting, as demonstrated here on In a Blink of an Eye: https://t.co/m46if1xutV
Now turning down the tempo with a haunting track from Hungarian duo The Moon and Nightspirit, Aether. https://t.co/sn7ppwoCCP
And finally, for a more mainstream sound, Fearless by Sweden's @Amaranthemetal, from their excellent album 'Manifest' https://t.co/2UlWchslA6

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When the university starts sending out teaching evaluation reminders, I tell all my classes about bias in teaching evals, with links to the evidence. Here's a version of the email I send, in case anyone else wants to poach from it.

1/16


When I say "anyone": needless to say, the people who are benefitting from the bias (like me) are the ones who should helping to correct it. Men in math, this is your job! Of course, it should also be dealt with at the institutional level, not just ad hoc.
OK, on to my email:
2/16

"You may have received automated reminders about course evals this fall. I encourage you to fill the evals out. I'd be particularly grateful for written feedback about what worked for you in the class, what was difficult, & how you ultimately spent your time for this class.

3/16

However, I don't feel comfortable just sending you an email saying: "please take the time to evaluate me". I do think student evaluations of teachers can be valuable: I have made changes to my teaching style as a direct result of comments from student teaching evaluations.
4/16

But teaching evaluations have a weakness: they are not an unbiased estimator of teaching quality. There is strong evidence that teaching evals tend to favour men over women, and that teaching evals tend to favour white instructors over non-white instructors.
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