made this plot from my job spreadsheet (as a treat). I put in 46 total job applications to yield one job offer, which I signed today!

entering a beautiful and blessed phase of my life where I have signed the job offer and but not yet started the job…. cheers!

how I feel about my success getting a new gig in the current scientific funding environment

okay gang, do we think that coffin nail/railroad spike tattoo invokes "Jesus on the Cross" or just general tough-as-nails vibes? example of what I am talking about below

fuck my phd, I need to start cramming for Anthropeum!!!

lrt: the person reposting the racist ai-generated screenshots about japanese ppl is 1) a biology prof who “studies information flows” and 2) is the publisher of this book. and advertises a class he designed about AI! so I’m sure that is good 🥴

I’ll see your lucky heads-up penny and raise you two heads-up dimes I just found in the parking lot… call that “waiting to hear back from a job guy’s delight”

no, we don’t “WATCH” “TV”

the times they are a’changin

npc-ass lookin grill

fuck yea let’s go

reading wikipedia this morning

Dollar General: Absorbs Into Your Skin Quickly

how it is feeling lately

I’m a real (semi-reformed) skin picker. the plastic on the bottom of beer caps hits the closest to picking skin for me, and I liked this thing too. otherwise mostly didn’t have a ton of luck 🤷

post a non-religious picture you think of as holy

this wk I took my undergrads out to a stream to look for macro invertebrates for their lab and we found a leech (pretty cool), but they all were trying to dunk on me like “oh you love the leech so much? do you wanna hold it and have it as a pet?” yeah man I teach the class. anyway leech be upon ye

bitch what the fuck

katie just did this to me in year of our lord 2026 [she would like me to be clear she was the “party rock is” and I was the “party rockers”…. obviously…….]

oh let's see what my committee member's website looks like, maybe I can use it to get some ideas for updating my own. oh...... oh...... okay....

I’ve already cooked one of these recipes successfully (salmon spread)

I’ve had this book in my list for forever, and I finally bought and read it! really really good, and lots of very good and doable recipes for neo-great depression kitchen. also, learned through reading it that author has a wife!

this is $8 worth of groceries. lactose intolerant people are the most persecuted class.

seems threatening

this is who runs this account:

I love paying my $30/year student membership for my professional society, with lots of benefits like

this is apparently a different thing!! but we HAVE seen the northern lights from approx this exact vantage point below which was nuts!

idk how clear it is in this photo, but there’s an “ice pillar” in the sky in Richmond Virginia rn???