So many real zingers in that book. "If she could only wear clothes that were both perfectly attractive and perfectly modest, she could both enjoy the attention that being a woman in the department got her while also commanding respect as a scholar." oof

I don't feel that I'm often given the opportunity to reflect on the ways I've improved at the parts of this career I find the toughest. It was odd for me today to compare the sheer time and effort involved in that 2010 R01 vs. today's R15.

We are also hiring a tenure-track computational chemist/biochemist with a separate job listing: apply.interfolio.com/170206

We would sure love to have our IDeA NOA for the year here in Maine! Maybe we could look into getting funding out the door for existing meritorious science, even!

I did probably about the same -- 20 minutes in each of my two courses. They were extremely engaged (and also horrified that funding rates are so low).

In fact it is the profoundest wonder we can still imagine and accept, and at the same time so unusual that we have to force ourselves to wonder about the wondrousness of this wonder.” -Miroslav Holub

Does a lunch of a cookie and cereal from the dining hall count as eating food?

I tried to argue for retinal ganglion cells in a neuro department discussion about which cell type is the most beautiful, but I lost to the person who studies Purkinje cells. :(

I find it particularly frustrating because I simply don't think of students comparatively in the way the scales seem to want me to. Is this student in the top 25% of students I have ever met? The top 5%? The top 1%? How *on earth* would I keep that information in my mind.

I hope Lauren conveyed my love to you like I asked her to! I'm always so proud when I see our students presenting. They look so grown-up!