To mix my metaphors: Florida is on fire and, ✨at best✨, DeSantis et al are rearranging the deck chairs with this fight with Disney.

Going for a stupid walk for my stupid mental health.

I regret to inform everyone that going for a stupid walk did, indeed, help my stupid mental health.

Me going for my stupid walk today.

It’s 6:30pm and I’m trying to make dinner. You’re asking too many questions. Go ask your dad if he got the new smoke alarm batteries.

It has come to my attention that we're in thesis defense season and not everyone has seen the snake fight thesis defense fanfiction archiveofourown.org/works/28299630

I can tell when my brain has stopped braining. I just read a sentence as “The administrators understand the administration.” That… that was not what that sentence said.

Today, the UF bargaining team said the quiet part loud and clear🧵: they reject the premise that UF is responsible for guaranteeing their employees make a living wage…

The notion of a lab as a “family” is toxic. I think of my lab as a punk band, where I’m the grizzled old manager who goes around picking up bar tabs, cleaning up broken glass and vomit, and lying to the police

Officially registered my youngest child for kindergarten (got all the paperwork in at last). But what’s really important is finding the person who snuck in here and started chopping onions.

It’s a gorgeous day outside and there’s literally no rule that I can’t sit outside on the back patio while editing this proposal.

Make your father proud by knowing it’s 'Father's Day,' with an apostrophe.

Brain drain. This is a huge loss for FL. Is anyone counting? The number of FL faculty leaving academia and/or the state of FL is staggering.

Much of the focus on the African American Standards recently adopted in FL has been on one middle school standard in particular, and for good reason as it talks about the "personal benefits" of being enslaved. But, lets look at some standards not getting as much attention 1/x

This is a statement from two of the people who wrote Florida's new education standards on slavery. In it they give several names of people to exemplify slaves who learned skills they applied later in life. Let's go through the supposed truth of this list one by one.

I am heartbroken to share that Dr. Charles Wingo has passed away. Charles was a brilliant physiologist, an extraordinary nephrologist, and an absolutely amazing mentor. His kindness, passion for science, and his devotion to his family are truly inspiring. williamsthomasfuneralhome.com/m/obituaries/C…