Andy Fraass
@fraass.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at UVictoria.
Paleobiology of absurdly small things.
Paleobiology of absurdly small things.
I still think that they should have used this picture, I still think it's the best out of the options I sent.
October 10, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I still think that they should have used this picture, I still think it's the best out of the options I sent.
Also, holy shit, I _might_ have been misdiagnosed with Anxiety and not ADHD (or just anxiety and not both) when I was 20? How would my career have been different?
July 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Also, holy shit, I _might_ have been misdiagnosed with Anxiety and not ADHD (or just anxiety and not both) when I was 20? How would my career have been different?
In the winter of '22, I wrote a plea (grant) to my institution to let me have some of our funding envelope to buy a fancy microscope and a bunch of workhorse microscopes. Years, a medical leave, several additional grant stages to both national and provincial level agencies, and it's here.
May 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
In the winter of '22, I wrote a plea (grant) to my institution to let me have some of our funding envelope to buy a fancy microscope and a bunch of workhorse microscopes. Years, a medical leave, several additional grant stages to both national and provincial level agencies, and it's here.
Perfect encapslation of how our group Slack operates.
May 23, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Perfect encapslation of how our group Slack operates.
Richer universities do better supporting their students, but that's only part of the story. Some departments do _much_ better than others in the same institution, which suggests there's more to the story than just UBC and UT have tons of cash and that solves the problem.
May 22, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Richer universities do better supporting their students, but that's only part of the story. Some departments do _much_ better than others in the same institution, which suggests there's more to the story than just UBC and UT have tons of cash and that solves the problem.
🚨 New Paper 🚨
Coauthors and I just published our work in PLOS One on Canadian graduate funding. We found that Canadian graduate funding falls _well_ below cost of living.
On average, $10kCAD below cost of living.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Coauthors and I just published our work in PLOS One on Canadian graduate funding. We found that Canadian graduate funding falls _well_ below cost of living.
On average, $10kCAD below cost of living.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
May 22, 2025 at 9:58 PM
🚨 New Paper 🚨
Coauthors and I just published our work in PLOS One on Canadian graduate funding. We found that Canadian graduate funding falls _well_ below cost of living.
On average, $10kCAD below cost of living.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Coauthors and I just published our work in PLOS One on Canadian graduate funding. We found that Canadian graduate funding falls _well_ below cost of living.
On average, $10kCAD below cost of living.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Spotify has my normal music choices pretty accurately described...
March 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Spotify has my normal music choices pretty accurately described...
I record all my lectures.
Our camera doesn't track me.
I wander lots while I lecture.
Therefore, the recording looks like this.
Oh well.
Our camera doesn't track me.
I wander lots while I lecture.
Therefore, the recording looks like this.
Oh well.
March 14, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I record all my lectures.
Our camera doesn't track me.
I wander lots while I lecture.
Therefore, the recording looks like this.
Oh well.
Our camera doesn't track me.
I wander lots while I lecture.
Therefore, the recording looks like this.
Oh well.
It'd be pretty early, but this might just be the culmination of my teaching career. All downhill from here.
@seos-uvic.bsky.social
@seos-uvic.bsky.social
February 13, 2025 at 10:46 PM
It'd be pretty early, but this might just be the culmination of my teaching career. All downhill from here.
@seos-uvic.bsky.social
@seos-uvic.bsky.social
I have to go run to teach my course, but I've never had a graph hurt as much to make as this one.
January 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I have to go run to teach my course, but I've never had a graph hurt as much to make as this one.
I might not have been able to be at #AGU24 this year, but I'm very happy to congratulate @chrislowery.bsky.social on his Asahiko Taira International Scientific Ocean Drilling Research Prize. Well earned!
December 12, 2024 at 8:17 PM
I might not have been able to be at #AGU24 this year, but I'm very happy to congratulate @chrislowery.bsky.social on his Asahiko Taira International Scientific Ocean Drilling Research Prize. Well earned!
Youngest continues to be obsessed with Metric, oldest and I really like The Beaches. Strange that Presidents of the United States aren't on here, like they usually are.
December 5, 2024 at 12:30 AM
Youngest continues to be obsessed with Metric, oldest and I really like The Beaches. Strange that Presidents of the United States aren't on here, like they usually are.
I've been creating my slide deck for a "Explore UVic" lecture I got invited to do, and it's going to go one of two ways: fantastic or it'll end up being just so, so amazingly stupid.
November 8, 2024 at 11:14 PM
I've been creating my slide deck for a "Explore UVic" lecture I got invited to do, and it's going to go one of two ways: fantastic or it'll end up being just so, so amazingly stupid.