I’ve had you on while I’m doing maintenance in the lab and can’t touch my phone that’s kind of like welders I think

That’s because it’s for Doom Eternal Remastered: Definitive Edition especially made for Windows 11

hell of a writing prompt if you wanna extend the literalism

I’m in the middle of my PhD and I’m working on moving my fiancée and I abroad and my parents are actively planning retiring to Spain. There’s the stripping of women’s rights and also the collapse of research and public (and esp children’s) healthcare that’s happening pushing us

Please I want to stop hearing about Bill Belichick and his girlfriend whenever I tell someone I go here

But probably both

It’s really funny seeing this as our first outing with Belichick after the grad student union being told they can’t afford to increase our minimum stipend while they were in the process of hiring him

maybe they just think they’re getting a bailout

Almost every paper on solar panels I’ve read opens by citing the same NREL chart of solar panel efficiency, from journals like Nature to like the Vietnamese Journal of Chemistry
It’s sad to be in fear of such a prestigious institution dying

my start in science was interning at the National Renewable Energy lab in CO
every day I’m half expecting to hear about it being shut down or rebranded

you gave that Silkposting talk just in time

What breakthroughs on a monthly basis?

I am a PhD candidate at a US R1 university; my PI announced in group meeting that AI was obviously here to stay so he’s been brainstorming ways to use it by feeding the group’s papers into ChatGPT to try and train a chatbot
I and a coworker think it’s a dogshit idea but haven’t confronted him yet

is that a perk of the premium newsletter?

Thanks for the compliment on the post

Work mostly as I turn wrenches on a vacuum system

Maybe this is too late, but what is it like to “have a story you want to tell”? Where does that come from and is it a skill you trained yourself in or just something about how your brain works?