If the next James Bond has to be British, male (🙄), and white (🙄🙄) there is only one answer

Someone needs to post a link to the tshirt

My department has a freshwater ecology position posted - come work with us! isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/IowaStateJob...

Idk if the Canvas thing is an attack (I assume it is but 🤷‍♀️), but if it is you know what would be nice to have? A functioning FBI…

People who are talking about young people needing to learn AI because they’ll get left behind have it exactly opposite. People need to figure out how to navigate the world expertly without AI so that then AI becomes a really helpful tool.

The fact that our required syllabus is not branded is a missed opportunity. Seriously, it is THE most boring looking document I have seen in a while (at least it is using accessible headings, which I was skeptical they were going to use)

I cant remember if this a "dry"part of Dallas...

When Woke 2 arrives we are reorganizing the DFW exurbs as workers’ communes

Protein

I teach 400 kids in the fall (no TA) - the number of emails is bananas. Good luck with 6000🫡

This was a phenomenal episode of an already great podcast!

Paddington the movie is more delightful than I remember (need to find #2 tomorrow)

Internet friends - I am about to undergo another round of immunotherapy and it’s falling together really fast (amazingly) - where can I get some fancy n95s?

Serious FOMO tonight 🪵

I am tired of getting 1-2 emails A DAY from the bookstore advertising sports crap. I do not dare unsubscribe lest I not get important emails about book orders....

Extend this window to 100 days and you can include the Halloween blizzard!

I hope the Muppet show reboot continues and if it does there absolutely needs to be an AEW episode, specifically Miss Piggy crushing hard on MJF.

This is who runs this account

There are 3 (!!!) Flickers at the feeders this morning - sometimes all at once 😍

🙄 seriously???

Is there a way to remove the new AI summaries from the top of gmail? I would rather read the email to get the details. I try searching for this and I get alot of AI "answers" that don't answer my question. Mostly they tell me how to get said summary.

Ecologist position at Iowa State University - isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/IowaStateJob...

Right?!

Did not send out my usual “do not ask for point bumps” announcement because it seemed tired, naggy, and no one really asked for them. Turns out the reason no one asks is this announcement. So. Many. Requests.

At a course design with AI panel (mostly to hate on it) and apparently chat GPT will write your exam questions and the longest answer is always correct. It also preferentially uses b and c for correct answers... lol

Or Christmas shoes

Now im going to have this stuck in my head m.youtube.com/watch?v=JSQF...

First they take down the stack maps from the library walls because, of course, you can just use your phone 🙄 (no way am I connecting my personal phone to the university's wifi). Now the "spaces" listing is just hang out/studying spaces - stack maps are nearly impossible to find

I’ve already been sitting at the blood draw lab for 30 minutes - easily could see 30 min more - but sunk costs I guess

Watching @ricksteves.bsky.social excellent 2020 episode on the rise of fascism was probably not the best idea for me today. Should have stayed in the alps (other episodes in the season)

Novavax on-boarded! CVS in Iowa

Cleaned out my “working” email file and my Inbox - I’m down to 2 things

Sitting in the next room and the dog is on the bed - all of the sudden she pops out in the hall and drops a “teenage” mouse - she seemed surprised. Not only did I have to dispatch it but I am left wondering where did it come from??? There are likely many more….

What fresh hell is this???

Given how much she hated Courtney Love in the 90s this look is something

EXCLUSIVE: Madonna will return in 2026 with a new dance album, reuniting with the label that helped make her a superstar, Warner Records. Details: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

The University has moved everything off the website - replacing with links to a box folder (which is firewalled). Many of these documents you cannot download or print - which is unhelpful if you need to write down notes on it. So I end up taking screenshots...

Comedy over here today - i go outside to clean Hacklia seeds off a pair of socks and a squirrel -15 feet up in a tree 20 feet away - starts chewing me out. So I yell insults at it, as one does. Which prompts the dog (inside) to start barking

Time to play the game of will my flu vaccine appointment at the Walgreens take place in a dirty store room…

Wow! The new @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social episode is so good - and also absolutely terrifying.

Also never seen before - a wasp fly in and grab a caterpillar - startled me!

Prairie people - does Andropogpn gerardii (Boy bluestem) get smut? I assume so but I’ve never seen this before

Someone in Ames needs to make bank with our water - we already have a theme song

Up to 4 Service Now requests. I apparently need to be called in to find all the broken things.

Send an IT question about recording classroom lectures into the Service Now portal (God speed dumb, but urgent question). As I wait (maybe forever?) the program provides helpful AI generated links that might answer my question. Things like the employee benefit plan or taking sick days

Got maybe 4 hours of sleep - today is going to go super well I can feel it

The only thing keeping me going today is the Canvas exam password theme I have chosen - with dreams the staff will find it amusing

This is some bullshit

Thank god I am out of this age range (we only drove for 2 years because we were considered walkable even though we had to cross 2 MAJOR roads- even then we parked about a block away and walked from there)

Just a girl, with systemic poison ivy, waiting for my z-pac at the pharmacy, foreeeeeeeeverrrr