All the turtles

Pride Week in Copenhagen is this week (mid-August) for some reason - and my lovely, beautiful Pridosaurs pins arrived TODAY!

Like this fantastic paper on acronyms in science.

Fairly silly. Has some good points. And the best part is that it apparently isn’t the first of its kind.

My favorite acronym at the moment is the Novo Nordisk Foundation’s new programme called New Exploratory Research and Discovery.

NERD.

It’s called nerd.

I had such high hopes for Graveyard Keeper - Stardew Valley, but you tend a graveyard? Yes please!

But I was a bit disappointed and started my first solo game of Stardew Valley instead - I’d only played co-op (and back seat).

And named my farm Graveyard to keep with the theme I was missing :D Also:

- The cat was about to be named Salem, until I remembered that Lucifer is known as a cat’s name in a children’s christmas song.

- I’m waiting impatiently to get void chickens.

- Gotta have bats in my cave.

- All the scare crows.

- Going to name my goat Baahphomet.

- And the sheep Mææhfisto (that’s not the English onomatopoeia).

- Gonna decorate my house with skeletal remains.

But what am I missing in my plans? What is a good name for a cow? A duck?

Ok, good, that doesn’t make me sound like kind of an asshole. At all.

(I took an online character/strenghts test because someone recommended it).

Reading the elaboration of the results it sounds true enough - “Your top strength is Judgment which means you weigh information thoroughly. You consider all possibilities and examine things from all sides.”

Still, though. I’m not judgey, you’re judgey!

(That’s not entirely true).

When I came down to my bike this morning I noticed there was no other bike parked on its left, making it easier for me to get to my bike.

And my tired brain thought “Oh, that’s good RNG”.

“Public Understanding of Science (PUS) or Public Engagement with Science and Technology (PEST)”

The last read-through was a rollercoaster ride of thoughts and emotions including but not limited to;

- Fuck this shit.

- This is so boring. I wrote this, and have read through it SO MANY TIMES already.

- I’m so clever.

- Did I write that too? I completely forgot, but this is very cool. Well done me.

- I just want to be done now.

I sometimes read an article and think “my thesis will never be this well written or have an argument as elegant as this” and that makes me sad.

Then I remember that practice supposedly makes perfect, and that I’m not a professor like the person who wrote said article.

“As mentioned earlier...”

Him: “...And I really like what you did here, that is spot on!”

This chapter I’m writing is very much about cake and sweets. Literally and metaphorically.

“It has cost us quite a few road trips and cake [to establish this relationship].”

- When you ask a senior researcher-manager a question about his work that he hadn’t thought about and he has to stop and think about it for a second.

You wish that you could grow fur all over your head and face. That would be nice.