Hi all, I'm hiring a junior specialist/research technician for my lab at UCSC. An ideal applicant would be an undergraduate who would like more research experience before applying for grad school but all are welcome to apply 🧪 recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01882

$95 b return on a $37 b investment. Federally funded research is a good return - even without, you know, remarkably effective new treatments for cancer, curing genetic disorders, making progress and improving the lives of those with neurodegenerative disease, etc. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

Anyone? 👇

Me: it smells like pie in the house, right? Partner: it’s probably just the butter. Me: oh yeah…but we should make pie soon, right?

Spotify got it right:

I made paella! Meat and veggie versions. Not bad for a first try! #ChemistsWhoCook

“It’s a very complicated situation.” 8 yo: “you’ve said complicated like 18 times.” “That’s being a grown up.”

Attempt no. 1 at chocolate geniose for a buche de Noel (for daughter’s French class): delicious but very broken upon rolling. Stay tuned for attempt no. 2. #bakingsky #howdowetagthingshere

It’s genuinely shocking if you’re remotely familiar with the basic facts of trans care and youth medicine. It is *profoundly* difficult to access gender-affirming care as a minor and the Times has printed more than a dozen articles implying that it is too easy.

Slight wicked spoilers: my 12 yo and I both got excited at the KC and IM cameos. After the movie, she said she was excited to see Elsa and thought that’s what I was excited about too 😳

*extremely Shania Twain voice* let's go girls actionnetwork.org/petitions/no...

My 8 yo: tomatoes defy physics.