make art! if it's the end of the world, you might as well make art! if it's not the end of the world, then the future will be better because people made art right now!

Nothing like a little bedtime anxiety to make sure I'm still not getting enough sleep.

Great to see so many LGBTQ+ menopause resources being collected here. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 www.queermenopause.com/resources #menopause #LGBTQ+ #Queer

1/7 💔 We are very disappointed to announce that on April 25, NSF terminated a $1.5M PhET grant – our Pathways to Open Source Ecosystems Phase II grant for advancing PhET’s SceneryStack project. Learn how this impacts our work and how you can help: bit.ly/PhETNSF2025

Woke up at 3am, can't get back to sleep. Whee!

When my job makes me upset, looking for a new one makes me feel better. At least I know I have hypothetical options.

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Found out today that a couple of people in my department think I'm "aggressive". Did i just earn a women in STEM merit badge?

Teaching students teamwork and ethics is so important, but also emotionally draining. I'm so tired.

Rubies are red, sapphires are blue, because Al3+ substitutes for Ti4+ and Fe2+ #GeoValentine

Thanks to whomever gave the suggestion to curse in your Google searches to bypass the AI suggestions. It works (though sometimes the results are different) and it feels delightfully cathartic.

Don't confuse being a fast talker with being a deep thinker. Speaking quickly signals confidence, not complexity. Don't mistake volume for expertise. Speaking loudly reflects conviction, not credibility. Sometimes the best ideas come from the least assertive voice in the room.

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Finding new creative ways to procrastinate against finishing my performance eval docs. Currently thinking about how to make an rss feed from emails to make maintaining a list of internship opportunities easier.

I am going to start the year by celebrating those scientists in my print collection whose birthdays aren’t known starting with one of the earliest recorded women in science, Peseshet. 🧪🐡👩🏾‍🔬 She is described in the elaborate Saqqara tomb of her son Akhethotep, royal official & overseer of priests, 🧵

Lucille Clifton, always.

Word of the day from my performance review did (meaning it keeps showing up in every sentence): incorporate. "If I incorporate the word "incorporate" into this paragraph one more time, it will be permanently incorporated into my brain cells. "

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Shout out to Paul Tol for making and sharing some gorgeous accessible color palettes. personal.sron.nl/~pault/

I'm going to start live-skeeting my writing process as I put together my 4-year review portfolio. I hate bragging about myself so I just need to whine into the void.

Bonus of using small whiteboards for class problems: an art challenge broke out before class started. It was decided I need to start coming in with prompts for them. So give me your best doodle prompts, I guess?

Why yes, I AM pretending I'm a dragon as I breathe out clouds on this cold morning.

Another linocut for my series on crystalline semiconductors, this time gallium nitride! Also I'm bringing back the old artist sign-off from high school , it's still my favorite. #GaN #SciArt #WomenInSTEM

Alright I need people to chill with the Wicked videos on TikTok. I have had the soundtrack playing in my head non-stop since the movie came out 😭

I keep trying to write something eloquent and just being tired. History matters. Philosophy matters. Languages and literature matter. Indigenous studies matter. Arts and humanities and social sciences matter. All of them. Signed, a physicist

I will never, ever get over this.

Pineapples are cool cuz when you eat them they eat you back. They contain bromelain, an enzyme thay breaks down the protein in your mouth so sometimes when you eat them, you get a lil tingle in your mouf

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can I code fast? no. but can I code well? also no. but does my code work? alas, no

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Even looking at my list of accomplishments (which is pretty long) is not enough to silence the anxiety ahead of my 4-year review. If you see non-tenured faculty members, tell them they're doing a good job. It's hard to keep pushing when it feels like I will never be enough.

My favorite time to come to work is over a quarter break. I have whole buildings effectively to myself.

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(please amplify) 4% of scientists face an important barrier to an the ENTIRE FIELD of single-cell genomics and here is why

I am mostly following artists and scientists on here, and I am not mad about it

Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place. Iain Thomas

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

A trans person isn’t the one denying your health insurance claim—that’s on a massive corporation. An asylum seeker didn’t hike your rent—that’s a billionaire’s private equity firm cashing in. Let’s be clear: The real fight is against billionaires and unchecked corporate greed.

I’m not a mad scientist. I’m just a disappointed scientist.

Nothing like a department strategic planning meeting to make me realize I need to get tenure ASAP so these people and their asinine opinions have no power over me.

I think there are a lot of people quietly struggling and not wanting to burden their friends/family. I am one of them. I know it’s hard, but try to reach out to someone. I promise you are not alone. I need to remind myself that as well. Take care of yourself, yall.

I love that the starter packs exist but they make me realize I don't really focus on one area enough for people to follow me for that thing. So I guess if you want mundane musings about life, science, and art from someone with ADHD and too many hobbies, I'm your gal.

When did Windows become so annoying to install? No, I do not want any of the million add-on services that give you even more of my data. I just want my computer to run and play games.

Didn't have many spoons for activities today. Let's try again tomorrow.

Thanks to @themerl.bsky.social starter pack, my following feed now has lovely buffer posts between the firehose-of-news posts. Highly recommend if you need some little breaks while scrolling. go.bsky.app/HPQsZAu

I'm working on a series of relief prints representing crystal structures. This one is the silicon (111) plane. What material should I do next? 🐡

Learned how to make linocut blocks for relief printing this month and I am obsessed. It's so satisfying to carve my design into a block.