Geekification

Saw this post about straight dudes feeling emasculated at the thought of taking their wife’s last name, and it gave me a sudden craving for fantasy media where some dude is called Leopold THE DESTROYER or some shit and there are all these rumors going around about how he got his moniker, all these made up stories about how he must have razed a village to the ground or slayed 12 dragons or some shit and it turns out he just took his wife’s last name.

Just want to add that I've been working really hard to finish some experiments and we are beginning to write our manuscript now. Sometimes these things work out.

The thing about academia is that you can have a 12 hour day and it still doesn’t feel good enough

The culture of overworking in academia is so overwhelming and destructive. I hope you take an opportunity to rest and recharge. I know it doesn’t feel like enough–and that it never, ever feels like enough–but it is. You deserve to rest.

This is so important

People have been asking me how long I’m going to be in this PhD program for and I’ve been saying “four years with good behavior”

I’m reposting this because I crack up every single time I walk past it.

It makes me sad that the clock got fixed. But I'll always have this gif!

Still true and I've lost ten pounds because of it!