Erin A. McCarthy
@erinannmcc.bsky.social
Professor. PI of the ERC-funded @stemma.bsky.social project. Basketball superfan/player/coach and sometime softball shortshop. "Mad for the books."
Oh, it was Scimago, which is why I wasn't too bothered 😆
November 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Oh, it was Scimago, which is why I wasn't too bothered 😆
It’s a worldwide Cloudflare outage. I ran into the same message on another research site today. I don’t think there’s anything to be done except wait for the service to come back.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Cloudflare outage causes error messages across the internet
US company that defends millions of websites against malicious attacks suffers unidentified problem
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
It’s a worldwide Cloudflare outage. I ran into the same message on another research site today. I don’t think there’s anything to be done except wait for the service to come back.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
None, though I had a pretty spectacular collapse from mono the week after what turned out to be my last semester of coursework
November 18, 2025 at 1:32 PM
None, though I had a pretty spectacular collapse from mono the week after what turned out to be my last semester of coursework
Ha! It's because I'm rounding from Fahrenheit. I thought adding a repeater bar might be overkill. 😂
16 is a pleasant outdoor temperature, but I'm still wearing a jacket.
16 is a pleasant outdoor temperature, but I'm still wearing a jacket.
November 18, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Ha! It's because I'm rounding from Fahrenheit. I thought adding a repeater bar might be overkill. 😂
16 is a pleasant outdoor temperature, but I'm still wearing a jacket.
16 is a pleasant outdoor temperature, but I'm still wearing a jacket.
In the summer, my parents *cool* their house to around 25.5 C.
November 18, 2025 at 11:57 AM
In the summer, my parents *cool* their house to around 25.5 C.
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Actual poets/novelists on this committee: "Our priority is getting someone w/ a national publication profile who is good at teaching / won't shirk service"
Me: "my main priority is getting someone who will recover ancient liberty to heroic poems, from the troublesome and modern bondage of rhyming"
Me: "my main priority is getting someone who will recover ancient liberty to heroic poems, from the troublesome and modern bondage of rhyming"
November 17, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Actual poets/novelists on this committee: "Our priority is getting someone w/ a national publication profile who is good at teaching / won't shirk service"
Me: "my main priority is getting someone who will recover ancient liberty to heroic poems, from the troublesome and modern bondage of rhyming"
Me: "my main priority is getting someone who will recover ancient liberty to heroic poems, from the troublesome and modern bondage of rhyming"
It was a joy to read the book and a pleasure to review it!
November 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
It was a joy to read the book and a pleasure to review it!