Bill Nihilist
@wmkenkel
Will Kenkel, the rodent-studying ape. Asst. Prof. Psych & Brain Sciences University of Delaware www.besvolelab.com
New office art: "The Impatience For New Data" In 1965, the Mariner 4 probe sent back the first televised images of the surface of Mars. Unable to wait for the processed image, NASA employees hand-colored the data with crayons.🔭🧪
"This is bullshit. I am *too* elite" I tell myself as I try to conserve storebrand cheese
"...We will not vanish without a fight. We're going to live on. We're going to survive. Today, we celebrate our Bastille Day!"
This is happening at the end of my block. We could simply choose not to live like this. What a messed up country.
Good luck to everyone who's also submitting a grant today. Bon chance, little R01!
In the past week or so I have: finished an R01 (1 week ahead of deadline), submitted my dossier for external tenure review, and -best of all- built my son a mud kitchen for playing outside 😎
Hard to reconcile with the data that young people are the most optimistic about the economy and Gen-X the least
This does have some big animal spirits implications for what happens if we ever snap out of it. A positive swing in subjective sentiment could lead to an positive swing in objective metrics. As FDR put it "The only thing we have to scroll is doom itself"
'No, no, no, these people are Ablative Non-Combatants -only Hamas uses human shields' www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/u...
You know who this works against? Ayatollahs! (in this case the Ayatollah of Rock n' Rolla, Lord Humungus)
It's weird the only bodycam footage ICE has released is of Will Stancil:
I want people to know I'm a guy who loves fishing and/or has a pituitary disorder