Hannah A. Brazeau, MSc @HABrazeau Twitter profile

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Hannah A. Brazeau, MSc

@HABrazeau

6 years

Blocked someone today for responding to the “don’t have sex with your students” conversation with “but surely you don’t mean ALL students” Don’t be this guy. Seriously. You shouldn’t be teaching.

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Hannah A. Brazeau, MSc

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Dear profs that make fun of students for mispronouncing a word: You all can’t even settle on a single pronunciation for the word “niche.” Sit down.

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6 years

Students: if someone pulls a line like this on you, it means 1 of 3 things: 1) they’ve bought into the I must overwork myself to succeed myth 2) they have poor time management 3) they’re trying to take advantage of you Avoid like the plague

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6 years

I tell my graduate students and post-docs that if they’re working 60 hours per week, they’re working less than the full professors, and less than their peers.

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Oh FFS here we go again. NO ONE IN ACADEMIA CLAIMING TO WORK 100 HOURS PER WEEK IS ACTUALLY WORKING 100 HOURS PER WEEK. Knock it off.

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Hannah A. Brazeau, MSc

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4 years

AAAAHHHHHHHHHH I GOT IN I GOT IN I GOT IN I GOT IN I GOT IN!!!!!!!!

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Hannah A. Brazeau, MSc

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6 years

Opening twitter when you follow a lot of biologists is a gamble. What images will pop up? Cute baby animals, or bot fly removal? Beautiful flowers, or stills from a colonoscopy?

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Hannah A. Brazeau, MSc

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7 years

Impost-R syndrome: when you're convinced everyone but you learns R effortlessly.

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Hannah A. Brazeau, MSc

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4 years

When I finish this degree, it’ll be safe to speak up. When I get a tenure track job, it’ll be safe to speak up. When I get tenure, it’ll be safe to speak up. When I’m chair, it’ll be safe to speak up. When I’m retired, it’ll be safe to speak up.

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Hannah A. Brazeau, MSc

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2 years

I want to see every university president live off a budget equivalent to a PhD student stipend for one semester. No savings or credit (because your masters used that up), must budget for moving expenses from last city lived in.

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Hannah A. Brazeau, MSc

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6 years

I’m now officially the first person in my family to complete all requirements for a university science degree. Holy crap. Not gonna get emotional, nope nope nope.

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Hannah A. Brazeau, MSc

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2 years

Someone doesn’t have tap access to the science building

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7 years

👻OOOOOooooooOOOOOOO The ghost of future hard drive failure reminds you to back up your data oooooOOOOOOooooooo

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Hannah A. Brazeau, MSc

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7 years

Never underestimate the positive impact of a prof telling a student they've done a good job

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6 years

Pre-talk: “OMG I’m giving a talk, I’m going to mess up, I can’t do this” During talk: “OMG I’m talking to a room full of awesome scientists about my own work this is amazing!!” The pre-talk jitters can be intense but wow it feels good once you start.

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Hannah A. Brazeau, MSc

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3 years

Is it just me or is field work season like 80% just checking the weather forecast every 20 mins?

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Hannah A. Brazeau, MSc

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7 years

Dear well established scientists that talk openly about difficulties experienced as a student & past failures: OMG thank you so much

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Hannah A. Brazeau, MSc

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4 years

I mean….*ahem* I am very pleased to announce that I have been accepted into my top choice PhD program - U of Guelph 😊

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Hannah A. Brazeau, MSc

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5 years

Dear lab coat manufacturers: some of us actually have hips 😡

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Hannah A. Brazeau, MSc

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2 years

Undergrads moving to campus: don’t ask grad students for directions, we don’t know a dang thing. Seriously.

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Hannah A. Brazeau, MSc

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8 months

Grad students! HAVE. NON-SCIENCE. HOBBIES. I would lose my mind if I was doing/thinking science 24/7. What are your non-science hobbies?

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6 years

Shouting “he/she’s friendly” is not equivalent to putting your dog on a leash

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6 years

Best orientation swag ever 😂

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Hannah A. Brazeau, MSc

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6 years

Just warming up a snack in the microwave #SerialKillerOrScientist

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Hannah A. Brazeau, MSc

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6 years

Also muting the quoted tweet. Your well being is not up for debate. Glorifying overwork is toxic. Everyone, regardless of their work title, deserves personal time & reasonable hours. I absolutely will not debate work-life balance.

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Hannah A. Brazeau, MSc

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6 years

Since it’s mid term exam season, a reminder: it is never ok to mock students and/or their exam answers on social media. Even if the student you’re mocking doesn’t see it, others do and that gets internalized. Don’t lament about how they don’t ask Qs then pull this stuff.

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6 years

Hey grad students: credit work done by undergrads. If you didn’t do it, don’t take credit for it. Also: call out other grad students that pull this nonsense.

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Hannah A. Brazeau, MSc

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3 years

Science involves a lot more arts & crafts than most people realize, I think

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2 years

It kills me that so many people are dismissing potential post-viral neurological disorder like it’s not a big deal.

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6 years

Make that two

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Hannah A. Brazeau, MSc

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4 years

It’s not an apology, it’s publicity. Don’t share that article. She’s not sorry. Never has been. Cut ties, stop giving her money and attention.

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Hannah A. Brazeau, MSc

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2 years

A small but important win: cloth masks are no longer considered adequate at the University of Guelph (finally)

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6 years

*daydreaming about a world where being found guilty of sexual harassment = funding is stripped and distributed to scholarships for women*

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2 years

Fun fact: not all university students are childless. Imagine navigating the constant flip flopping in school COVID policies for both your kids and yourself simultaneously.

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Hannah A. Brazeau, MSc

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3 years

Neighbours may be wondering why I’m yelling “it’s not a f*cking date!!! STOP IT!!” but that’s just data entry

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Hannah A. Brazeau, MSc

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5 years

Dear science twitter: behold, the gif you’ve always needed

Swear Trek

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6 years

Since academic twitter is talking about money again: Don’t recommend students take a year off to travel/go on a big vacation after defending/etc unless you’re ready to hand over your credit card. Some of us don’t have cushy lives like you.

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6 years

Undergrad me: “classes start next week so I’m going to wander campus and find out where every single one of my classrooms are ahead of time” Grad me: “I have a class that starts tomorrow and I don’t even know where the building is yet”

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6 years

A lot of stuff written for #womeninSTEM is geared to moms and/or how supposedly awful long distance relationships are, so just a random reminder that you’re not failing as a woman in sci or broken somehow if you don’t have or want kids or a live-in partner.

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“Ok, have all day to work on this big mess of complicated code. I spent all summer just working with data & code, I got this” *opens R* “.........” *googles “how to make a data frame”*

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Hannah A. Brazeau, MSc

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6 years

Pro tip: never drink tea brewed by a botanist with a grudge

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6 years

Reading an R tutorial vs attempting the code myself

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@HABrazeau

6 years

Hi. Do you have an undergrad in your lab? Do you treat them like a robot? Do you expect them to clean up after everyone? Do you dump tasks on them just because you don’t want to do those tasks, with no regard for what the undergrad learns from it? The you shouldn’t have students.

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I’m really not comfortable with how many stories about grad school and/or postdocs involve a spouse with a well paying job outside academia. Science actively tries to keep single women out.

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Hannah A. Brazeau, MSc

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6 years

They said it’d take 4 years so I did it in 3 #firstgen #convocation #AUCONVO18

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@HABrazeau

6 years

Pro-tip for dudebros: if you gouge your own eyes out you won’t be able to see women wearing pants. Just sayin.

Inside Higher Ed

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6 years

Associate dean wrote that women shouldn't wear pants, saying “women must veil their form to obscure its contours out of charity towards men"

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6 years

Geez, birders are scary good at ID. *dark blurry photo that is 98% branches* “Ah yes that is a 12.3 week old brown crested Bonwin’s starling. It has just consumed 1.78 g of worms & this particular individual goes by the name Marjory”

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7 years

Random reminder: efforts to encourage interest in STEM for girls = good, but kinda useless if STEM remains hostile to women who stay in.

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6 years

Random reminder for students: librarians are magical & your campus library probably has more resources than you realize.

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6 years

Proposal to rename bees as pollen puppies

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Hannah A. Brazeau, MSc

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7 years

A brief summary of my thesis journey so far

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Hannah A. Brazeau, MSc

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6 years

Hey #ArrestedScience tweeps, may I also suggest: #ScienceNineNine When you & a lab mate agree to edit each others papers & be brutally honest

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Hannah A. Brazeau, MSc

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6 years

Soooo that thing where twitter hides tweets & makes you click on a warning about the hidden tweet maybe containing offensive content? It hid one that said “stink bugs” and nothing else. Gendered slurs and nazi crap don’t get hidden, but stink bugs do. Okay.

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Hannah A. Brazeau, MSc

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7 years

Pro tip for sci dude: when a sexual harassment case comes to light, I guarantee you not a single woman cares if you claim to be different

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Hannah A. Brazeau, MSc

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4 years

Way too many of you professors are using reopening plans to say awful garbage about undergrads instead of criticizing the actual people responsible for your inevitable on campus outbreaks: upper admin

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4 years

Autocorrect keeps changing et al to eat all and that’s bringing publish or perish to a much darker place

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Hannah A. Brazeau, MSc

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6 years

Screw gendered expectations of niceness and submissiveness, wield confidence and intelligence like an axe

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6 years

ATTENTION BIOLOGY TWITTER: way too curious minds want to know - what does your study organism smell like? Let us know with the hashtag #MySciSmells

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6 years

Quick bit of info for students new to working with real data* *actual data used for real research, not simulated data used in courses

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Hannah A. Brazeau, MSc

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6 years

Kinda wish there was actual formal training in figuring out which journal to send a paper to

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Hannah A. Brazeau, MSc

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3 years

Doing grad school during a pandemic

ESPN

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Name something that 𝙞𝙨𝙣'𝙩 an Olympic sport, but 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡𝙨 like an Olympic sport 🤔

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Hannah A. Brazeau, MSc

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3 years

Well, I guess it’s official now. Next week!

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Hannah A. Brazeau, MSc

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7 years

Can someone make a bot that just tweets "don't put *random noun* in your vagina" so @DrJenGunter can have a break?

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Hannah A. Brazeau, MSc

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6 years

100% support women that have earned title putting Dr. in their handle but let’s not forget about all the women kept out of doctoral studies for reasons beyond their control

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Hi. Are you a dude? Did you see something awful directed at a woman on social media? Did you tell her "well I hope you reported it" Why?

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OMG I GET TO READ A BOOK AND I DONT HAVE TO MEMORIZE ANY OF IT AND NO ONE WILL EVER ASK ME SUPER DETAILED QUESTIONS ABOUT IT THIS IS GOING TO BE AMAZING

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“Well, we’ll have to make sure we can use those images in the paper, fair use and such” “We can use them because I own them. I drew them last night” “WHAT?!” Heh. Love it when #sciart skills come in handy for straight up sci :P

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Hannah A. Brazeau, MSc

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1 year

Well, time to update my email signature because I am no longer a PhD student, I’m now a PhD candidate

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7 years

So much of science is designed to keep out people that can’t pay huge chunks of money constantly. I’m so tired.

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7 years

Interesting that lots of awesome women scientists with lots of followers can't get verified but an account pretending to be Science mag can

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4 years

Ok the worms have gotten way too much attention. Science tweeps: tell me about your favourite bats.

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4 years

Omg I really need to WRITE ALL THE THINGS and finish this masters

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6 years

Woah. I clicked submit. I did it. I applied to my 1st choice MSc program. Now to deal with official transcripts paperwork.

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6 years

Oooookay I’m muting this tweet now before my phone melts

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4 years

*underfunded plant science stare at well funded model organism Twitter*

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7 years

Poked up to say hi. HELLO LITTLE BABY! Look at how frickin cute it is!!!! 😍 #snake

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Hannah A. Brazeau, MSc

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6 years

So now the debate is which biology professor posted this

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3 years

If I die from covid I want my death recorded on video and I want it sent to every senior admin at the university of Guelph every single day until every one of them resigns and leaves academia permanently

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6 years

Dear sci authors: it is very unlikely that someone’s name (1st or last) is “undergraduate” “So & so discovered blah blah blah with an undergraduate student” come on, we have names FFS.

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6 years

Sorry did someone say #BiInSci

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4 years

Why should we expect anyone to trust and follow science when even universities won’t do that. The various absurd uni COVID policies are just the latest in universities ignoring the data.

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4 years

If the only person your tenure protects is you, you don’t deserve tenure.

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2 years

Remote department seminar series are so great. Can hear from people we would not have been able to hear from otherwise due to travel & cost constraints. Why on earth would any department ever consider giving that up?

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6 years

This has pretty much been my entire day (its fixed now. Yay typos)

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4 years

MEEP

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6 years

Considering the number of interlibrary loans I’ve needed for my thesis, I think I should include the librarian in my acknowledgements section

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6 years

Scientists that claim they work 80 hours a week are liars

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6 years

Dear future me: I swear if you ever say “that’ll be easy, I can get that done in a few hours” I will hurt you

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3 years

Happy Pride! Your reminder that the A in LGBTQIA+ does NOT stand for ally

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6 years

I had to go through the very first batch of code I wrote for my thesis today to re-analyze some data. I wrote that code almost a year ago. Everything was clearly commented and the data files were all present and organized in 1 place. Thanks, past me.

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3 years

My undergrad uni is running a contest ($1000 towards your tuition) and to enter you have to…submit proof of vaccination. Damn. That’s smart.

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7 years

Aaaaand I’m ready for tomorrow

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8 years

Or you could ask a biologist but whatever

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8 years

Neil deGrasse Tyson visits Seattle next week. Ask him about GMOs, sex, and this tie of his:

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3 years

Fun milestone: Got the first significant result of my PhD today

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5 years

Since the semester is almost over & it’s about time for final presentations, a reminder for students: Giving a presentation isn’t about not being scared of public speaking, it’s more about being scared & doing it anyway.

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2 years

For the record: I do not give 1/8th of a crap what the university arbitrarily decides, my personal policy is even 1 student with no mask = no in person class. This will not change at any point this semester.

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STOP STARTING ARTICLES ABOUT PROFS FOUND GUILTY OF HARASSMENT AND ASSAULT BY PRAISING THEIR WORK. WHAT IS ACTUALLY WRONG WITH YOU, JFC.

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6 years

DEFINE THE TERMS OF YOUR EQUATIONS DIRECTLY OR CITE A PAPER THAT DEFINES THEM STOP SENDING PEOPLE DOWN ENDLESS CITATION RABBIT HOLESI WILL FIGHT YOU

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7 years

@realscientists I once almost handed in a paper with a really bad typo in it. Thankfully caught it before submission. The misspelled word was “organism” I think you can guess what word I accidentally used instead.

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2 years

I don’t know who needs to be told this but you don’t need to have your own lab to buy parafilm

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