I'll refrain from posting pics for those who don't want their socks spoiled but this month's awesome socks are *chef's kiss* impeccable fall vibes

I should not be as proud as I am for 1) correctly identifying that the new pokemon go level structure follows an exponential curve and 2) using said curve to predict that my new level would be 69, but here we are

I've repeatedly told myself that I'm not buying every variant of every Taylor Swift album but acoustic tracks are definitely tempting me right now

lol my grad school's alumni association is trying a new fundraising thing and it might actually work because it's "donate $10 or more to name a campus squirrel" and, like, I wasn't really planning on donating to them anytime soon but idk a $10 piece of paper to name a squirrel is kinda tempting

Do any of my other swiftie friends here follow @autotayloralert.bsky.social and know what's going on with all of the posts tonight? Is ms swift getting ready to Do Something or is the bot and/or store acting up?

Today's college football thoughts: the assorted rivals of both of my teams all have orange as one of their main colors. This is fine with me, because I'm also just not really a fan of that color

doing the academic equivalent of stalking my mentions and keeping an eye on what papers cite my papers is proving to be a useful strategy because I just found a paper that's potentially interesting for some of my planned future work and even better it's a well-written paper I'm enjoying reading

How can something that's supposed to be beneficial (a holiday) so completely derail my ability to take care of myself?

Hurricane forecasts are now much more accurate, 20 years on — largely because of federal government research.

Are we...good...again??? (this post is about FSU football)

that feeling when you're almost done writing a research proposal for a postdoc and just double checking that all of your references look good, and then you find a preprint doing something very very very similar to what you're proposing to do

we have now had three different"motor vehicle theft (e-scooter)" emails this semester, and it's still the first week and at this rate I can only assume every e-scooter on campus is going to end up reported missing at some point in the semester

This week's trivia team name was "America's Royal Engagement" and we won trivia on a Swiftie final bonus question (name all four of her albums of the year) so clearly TSwift is lucky for my team

really getting frustrated that all of the documentation on chunking big datasets seems to boil down to "it's easy once you know how to do it" but then nobody can do an eli5 of how to do it so that I can actually learn

it happened again so now this Friday is just me trying to organize myself for next week rather than trying to get anything more done this week

things I should be doing: figuring out how to describe this summer's descent into insanity in an academic manner so I can finally make forward progress on my dissertation again things my brain wants to do: make memes about the weather

me looking at the seven-day forecast and seeing highs in the 70s for early next week

how is it only the end of monday right now it feels like it's gotta be at least the end of tuesday with how long today has been

me looking at this afternoon's north atlantic tropical cyclone outlook like "we've had one easterly wave develop into a hurricane, but what about a second one?" *disclaimer* the chances of this second wave developing are currently low, and if it develops, it'll take 5+ days to reach the Caribbean

Shout-out to these alerts paired with @bluenotify.app because after taking too long to decide on an edition last night, I got one just now with the restock

Tonight's trivia team name is "33 million puzzles" in honor of the TSwift album announcement

My office computer restarting itself last night and closing all of my open (but thankfully saved) code has completely ruined my productivity today

Me: heat safety is very important especially because I'm on medications that mess with my thermoregulation Also me: <grad school town> is a bunch of wimps when it comes to being outside in the summer

I think I have become too fixated on weird code errors and mathematical discrepancies between papers and have lost track of my actual dissertation ooops

so, so far, focus friend is extremely cute, but trying it out has reinforced that my phone is the least of my distractions when I'm working on my dissertation (like, it's running on my phone right now as I'm writing these thoughts on my laptop while my code is running on my work-provided desktop)

I just found the dumbest solution and it's literally having two versions of the same string for different uses because my files are named with yyyymmdd but I have to use yyyy-mm-dd to select data within those files

I would like to file a formal complaint with the million different datetime formats data can be stored with because converting between them is a real pain

the fine line of postdoc proposal writing of highlighting your academic brand (research specialty) without the project being too same-y to what you're doing with your PhD

The month: July The weather: heat advisory TJ Maxx: it's spooky season

dear scientists: order of operations really really matters when you have both integrals and anomalies involved in the same equation please make sure you're clear about what order you do things in so that your science is replicable (ideally by putting code online but at least be clear in the paper)

when taking your migraine meds promptly actually makes the migraine (mostly) go away and you're glad it worked but also angry at the fact that it works

Do single-serving loaded baked potato kits exist? Because I would like to have one for dinner this week but the only ingredient I know can get in a single serving quantity is the potato

apparently being an adult on a work trip is using a "make your first uber eats order and get a discount" promo code to order bread, milk, cookies, and yogurt to your hotel because you just want something simple after a long day of travel

currently questioning my life choices (regretting the glitter jeans I got for a dance recital because they've turned the whole load of laundry slightly glitter) (they were on point for the dance recital though)

now taking bets on how many times I'll listen to the new of monsters and men song this afternoon because it's keeping me calm as I am once again fixing code things

Sometimes I love getting fixated on a research/coding problem. The last two weeks are not one of those times because we're approaching "it's a hardware problem and the code only runs on the old less efficient hardware" as the only remaining solution

Getting my NBA finals updates from the local pokemon go group chat has been a really interesting experience

Me trying to finish my dissertation and find a postdoc in weather/climate science over the next few months

can I please go back to the version of me that was blissfully walking around campus with the local pokemon go group and whose biggest concern is "why are there tubs of bottled water outside the student union on campus?"

update we're now just asking conda to please update so I can try installing a package to maybe make the memory usage not explode the server

please I am just asking to be able to save some climatologies to disk without using 500 GB of memory this worked on the old server why isn't it working on the new one

so it turns out that half of the data I spent the last two weeks processing didn't actually process so it's looking like a really good time to literally run from my problems except for the fact that I'm already feeling the crunch for finishing my dissertation (trying to defend in ~November)

I finally finagled a way to do the spatial derivative but now I'm having to do scale analysis to make sure my finagling hasn't broken anything else because my orders of magnitude don't match the papers I'm referencing which don't match each other

I just saw a family of ducks walking through my apartment complex's parking lot in a nice little row and I'm so sad I wasn't able to grab my phone fast enough to take a photo of them (also the lighting is garbage because it's close to sunset and about to storm)

I'm ready to give up on all of these "smart" data types and go back to managing my dimensions and units myself in a physical notebook because one method won't let me take a spatial derivative across multiple times and the other won't let me save my data out for use later

the fact that I'm in my office working this afternoon when there was a tornado warning at 5am (my apartment is fine) and I have a dress rehearsal later this afternoon really speaks to how much I want to finish my dissertation

what I'm trying to do: figure out the units on this thing for my research so I can get the next batch of code running tonight what I'm actually doing: watching storms approach my office while popping virtual popcorn re current events

i am once again asking who thought it was a good idea for the charging port for mac mice to be on the bottom because i am once again sitting in my office unable to do the work i want to do because my mouse battery is very low

Some friends and I went on a birb walk this evening and we saw some birbs and also some, er, characters. One dude running barefoot on the mixed surface trail and some kids who caught a water moccasin??? Anyways have some of my phone quality birb pictures

ngl seeing all of the news about the proposed budget cuts to US science is really rough both as someone who is planning to finish a PhD this fall and as someone who had ✨ideas✨ for research to do with some of those upcoming NASA earth science missions