Fellow academics, I'm doing it. Going all in. Pulling the plug, literally.

This is on my syllabus for Spring 2026: "This is an analog class. No Canvas; this syllabus is your guide."

All readings are printed books; hand-written exams; no laptops. #academicbluesky #Highered #academia #Rutgers

When your PI waited till 9 PM to see your western, but you didn’t get the over expression and now feel like a cheater :))

When you think Nanodrop is delusional, but your PI says it’s just your lucky day

I was working on a home assignment and asked ChatGPT to provide the sources for a certain mechanism (proton motive force driving an efflux pump tbp). Three top “papers” from Nature and Asm had broken links, and googling the headers brought ZERO results. Scientific prodigy, my aunt Fanny

- Excuse me, professor, where is the spectrophotometer, I know it’s in one of your labs, but don’t remember, which one?
- You know, I honestly have no idea, - replies thoughtfully professor M., a renown scientist and polymath

When you are a biologist, but still able to recognize a physics conference poster on a train

The faculty and the university campus look like a fairy tale at night time. And, honestly, this IS where magic happens