Me: I was really productive yesterday. Let’s have another great day at work today My brain:

what ppl thought fashion would be like in the future: simple. elegant. uniform. like star trek what fashion is actually like: there are a billion options. you have to spend 6 months researching pants that'll last 2 days. a 14-year-old makes fun of you for wearing the wrong cut

Some advice to 1st yr grad students who are finalizing decisions on which curriculums and labs to join: Do NOT join a dept where decisions/policies are made w/o student input Join a lab based on the environment >> the science. Choose a mentor with values that align wt yours

Trying to finish a PhD but the PhD is trying to finish me.

eclipses don’t impress me. i am abruptly overcome by darkness every day

How on earth is this not “employer mad because retiree did not continue to work for free?” Before you answer, remember that NIH grants are explicitly made to the institution not the PI personally (hence the institution being punished)

When everybody is discussing science at the seminar while I’m thinking what I’m going to have for lunch

It seems ive struck a nerve here. I have more to learn. I apologize for assuming that some of the most highly trained and educated people in the world earn more than $70k USD to perform labor that would cost almost double in any other line of work

The way people excuse bad behavior in academia is one of the hardest things to grapple with. “Oh, that’s just how he is” “They didn’t mean it like that” Or worse… [SILENCE] This culture where people are reluctant to hold each other accountable is debilitating.

Kinda unsure why we'd continue to expect better from a for-profit company and their profit-driven decisions supporting their $500M+/year profit. Also academic publishing is a scam.

Modular, inducible, and titratable expression systems for Escherichia coli and Acinetobacter baumannii biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio

Academics will nod sagely at this then write a 900 word run-on sentence

Yeah, well can AI do THIS *re-write a sentence 17 times then delete it and lie face-down*

Future employers won't care what your PhD is ABOUT, they'll just care what it REVEALS- your ability to stick to a task you absolutely regret saying yes to

Defeating imposter syndrome by actually being incompetent

I love how every scientist on my feed immediately made the same joke about "I have a concept of a plan"