idk man, feels a little gross that the first thing that comes up when I search ‘phd’ on etsy is “I survived my wife’s doctorate program” ☠️

oh no another hit tweet

For those of you with Biorad thermocyclers (especially the older S or C1000s) the green plastic insert to stop you from crushing the tubes is called a 'tube frame' and is part # 1849001

In a perfect world, our government would simply regulate runaway vehicle bloat. We don’t live in that world yet, so in the meantime it’s our duty to go online and make fun of truck guys who buy 6,000-lb tanks to shuttle between their job at a bank and happy hour at Chili’s

r u cool with me coming over and shedding half my hair all over ur floor

academia is actively hostile to low income students

If anyone doesn’t know, the {ggdist} package is THE package for plotting distributions. It produces absolutely gorgeous figures of analytic or data distributions. Aside from {ggplot2}, this is probably the package I use the most for dataviz.

This is a great program! I got my start at Eagleton and now I’m doing policy on the hill!

Also NJ State Gov is genuinely awesome and doing important work.

Academics will write, 'put shortly' and follow it with a run-on sentence containing 35 independent clauses

So many people who don’t like kids were raised by people who also didn’t like kids

It’s so painful to be raised by people who didn’t actually like kids. It’s an inherently neglectful childhood where you learn to police yourself b/c you’re seen as a burden for being a child

very few things bring me more joy than being right about somebody