Pissed off scientist, mumbling truths like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold.
Ivory tower
Joined July 2016
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I am neither a perfectionist nor an ideologist. I am just a little academia-developed OCD. #PhDLife #RealTimeChem #AcademicConfessions #PhDChat
Creativity is not an ephemeral eureka moment; it is a lifestyle of persistent disciplined experimentation undaunted by failure. #phdlife #RealTimeChem
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Arriving to the lab and finding beautiful crystals, and then finding out that they're of your starting material 😢😢😢 #RealTimeChem #frustrating
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The 5 stages of grant writing:
1. I have an idea!
2. This is sort of complicated
3. This will never get done in time
4. It might actually come together
5. This is fun, and I’m super excited!
...directly coincides with: submitted - now back to all of the work I’ve been putting off
This is like my dropbox telling me that I just added a few thousand files, making me wonder if dropbox thinks I am hacking the UN...
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Dear Senior Faculty, please don’t give out the personal cell phone numbers of junior faculty as a contact and replacement when you are trying to avoid professional service obligations.
There certainly should be more scientist and engineers involved evidence-based debate, policy and government. Thank you @pcabezaspadilla for sharing!
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3rd and 4th year grad students, please apply! #WomeninChemistry #MerckChemistry (now also open to Canadian students & check out the new gender language)
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We used that technique because my student had a crush on the technician #overlyhonestmethods @OverlyHonestly
Sadly my husband also follows this advice so our house is a mess. Fortunately, we are allowed to expect kids to do whatever we want. xitter.cf/heyyguido/status/10110…
No I am not overpaid xitter.cf/chronicle/status/10113…
If higher ed were a movie, which one would it be? "Sometimes it feels like Thelma and Louise," Oberlin College's president says: chroni.cl/2IsbCGf
the struggle seems real xitter.cf/Julie_B92/status/10112…
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First paper took 17 minutes to mark. There are 80. I'm totally and utterly doomed.
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#caturday reminder: if your thumb smells like chicken and tastes like chicken, it probably is chicken
I cannot tell if the author is trying to write a scientific paper or the state of the union speech. #ShitMyReviewerSays #RealTimeChem #phdchat