Thanks, last night, for miraculously filling my unscheduled time this afternoon. I was getting dangerously close to being able to attend to some overdue paperwork.

Just realized I could've been using a mail merge to make these dozens of slightly different documents instead of pasting the same thing by hand a bazillion times. Hello I am a grown up person who works in a real office and wears shoes every day.

One year ago, I made the jump from academia to tech. It’s been a wild ride so far, so I wanted to share a few reflections on the transition for others that might be considering tech roles. 1/many

🔄 "Self-loops" in networks represent "self-hires"— profs at the same university as their doctorate. ♻️9.1% of US TT profs are “self-hires”, around 1 in 11. 📊Rates vary by field, and by gender, and far exceed expected rates from network null models. We don't know why! /14

Local Supervisor is so done with this commuting bullshit. Why won't the humans just stay in one place, with her, forever?

Homophily in hiring: K-State Physics has more faculty who are KSU PhDs than faculty who are women.

Cat and I are having a slight misunderstanding about whether she meant to jump up on the supervisor stool, or whether she was just ... vertically kicking the stool to see how stable it is.

This is chilling. No more physics majors, minors, or grad students at Emporia State. esubulletin.com/news/developin…

Scene: at my desk, in my office, just finished a zoom meeting. "I should refill my water bottle." Grab bottle, put on mask. "Oh, there's some left. I should drink it." Raise bottle to face, hit mask, cannot drink. I am a grown up person with a professional career.

Want to get your grant funded? Then you need a reviewer to champion your grant. Here are 4 ways to write grants that are easy to champion. @phd_genie @openacademics