too true!

Postdoctoral Associate - Blacksburg, Virginia, United States Job Description The Ghosh Lab is seeking a highly motivated Postdoctoral Associate to work on a research project investigating immune priming and disease dynamics in bumble bees. The successful cand...

Postdoc position with Enakshi Ghosh working with myself, @hufbauer.bsky.social and Ian Pearse! Based at Virginia Tech and visiting us here in Colorado!

Despite the photo, it is not on geese...but in fact, focused on insect immunity!

jobs.apply.vt.edu/jobs/postdoc...

🚨 2nd master’s project!
Interested in bird migration & genomics? 🧬🐦
Use whole-genome data to trace the recent colonization of Ouessant Island by Blue Tits and explore how irruptive migratory events can shape colonization dynamics. Please share! #ornithology

www.vogelwarte.ch/de/wir/mitar...

Wow my kid is rocking HS. I'm so impressed. 3 A+s and two As.

Minor victory of the day. I fixed our vacuum cleaner.

lol! I had the same thought.

I can hardly wait!

Ridiculous!

the "handshake" service for advertising and hiring student hourly positions remains as nonfunctional as ever. just sayin'

These are gorgeous!

I'm bribing myself to get through a few tasks.

Post-teaching puddle

Congrats!

I was visiting a friend in Southern California and her next-door neighbor had been to Hawaii and "informed" me that that is the only place on earth you can see the Milky Way.
It was so Madagascar - the one star they could see from the Central Park zoo!
I just nodded and smiled.

We're fractured still.

Ok, time to prep (more!) for the week to come.

Yeah, me too! (Miss the old bird site, but also love plant insect interactions)

Instead I'll tell you what's cute: the dog grabbing a toy and running at a squirrel squeaking it like crazy. If squeaks could kill! Lol.

I kinda miss my anonymous bird site account. I liked having a place to complain about things, apparently!

Comic sans is alive and well.

I was greeting question by question and so I didn't realize that they weren't saving until all the questions were graded. Lolsob!

lol exactly!

I know! I should have tested it but have never had this w past exams.

I got no error message when I navigated to the grade book. Every single grade is now gone.
Every. single. grade. Every personalized comment attempting to both instruct and encourage. 209 grades. Uuuuuugggghhhhhh

Just spent 5 hours grading a short essay exam in Canvas. I apparently missed that even when the answer shows as graded in canvas the grade isn't saved unless you scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page and click update.

16 just asked to watch episode IV w me.
Thank you social media feeds for making this happen! (A rare statement indeed.)

Hooray!

Just.... no.

Smaller units, but I should probably still stop at some point! Lol

How much chocolate is too much chocolate?