It was great fun 😁😁😁 and I got to go around learning about leather tanning and lots of other leather artefacts by association.

After all the effort and anxiety, I went straight from being second author, to corresponding and first author. It’s been super hard doing this mostly on my own when I’m new to it all, and would have been impossible without the help I did get. But I did it. And it will only get easier from here.

A friend recently showed me that AI crap is invading grant writing. I wanted to cry.

If AI generated grant proposals start getting funded over human made ones, academia is dead.