Anyway, did you know you can skip the news podcast episodes about how xyz wars started and listen to people talk about random non-news stuff? Feeling downright almost optimistic this morning.

This is such a cool idea!

I did my part

I thought you were saying John F Kennedy was better than someone with the initials SJU... That is one heck of a trip sir, good luck with that!

Thinking about the fact that my mom listened to the news for an hour while getting ready for work in the morning and then caught the evening news for an hour and read the newspaper on the weekend and that was it. Maybe being able to stream news podcasts 24/7 isn't such a great idea after all...

ChatBots are Diagnosing Diseases that Don’t Exist Based on Blog Posts Transcript: Many years ago, a friend of mine suggested an experiment: make up a conspiracy theory that was just plausible enough, and then track how far it spreads. It was fun to talk about, and he…

A researcher says she made up a disease with two posts on Medium, which led to Copilot telling users it was "intriguing and relatively rare." Posting two preprint papers about it online led to ChatGPT diagnosing people with it. 🧪
skepchick.org/2026/04/chat...

Lol, found this while trying to find a way to turn it off. I finally reopened outlook classic on my desktop and so far copilot is nowhere to be seen. Unfortunately there is no classic app for my phone :(

I read that as antigenic and was more excited about that than the actual description

MSP and SFO are two of my favorite airports to chill in.

Read this thread and the quoted thread for a fascinating Monday break

Van Gogh's The Starry Night

So yes, there's a little bit of Baltimore and a little bit of half-billion-year old hydrothermal vent in The Starry Night.

I gave some, keep forgetting to drink it 😭

Gitta is an excellent scientist and mentor 🤩

Remember the value of spreading hope

Lol, I was sick last week & am still sick today (it's just a cold, yes I tested) & my brain is running at 1/2 speed. My notes from last week's meetings are half assed for some & over done for others, & today I feel like I'm getting every other concept. My poor mentees! Hopefully tea will help.

You know how some mysteries are so much fun that you reread them even though you already know what happens? This series is like that, I loved the world and Jo Jones and all her friends and foes so much that I had to keep coming back 📚

🫂

A hill I will die on

I don't know who needs to read this, but you can simply say "use." You don't need "utilize." You really don't.

(Yes I know they have slightly different meanings, please resist the urge to "well actually").

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

Did you know that the husband of billionaire Connie Snyder owns the LA Clippers?

Apparently I can't turn co-pilot off on my outlook app because it turns back on every fricking time I reopen my fricking app and I am about to chuck it into the fricking ocean (or at least delete the app from my phone, which would mean no work emails on my phone, but also no work calendar and UGHHHH

A back cat (rear) and a tabby and white cat (front) snuggled together on a couch. Both are facing past the camera. The tabby and white has his tail around his legs; the black cat is on his side with his belly pressed against the other cats back.

Proof of cat(s)

BTW in case you were wondering, based on our spectrophotometry lab, the concentration of Brilliant Blue (aka blue dye #1) in blue Powerade is about 4 µM, or 3.1 milligrams of blue dye per 32 oz. bottle. If you get "Fierce" blue, the concentration of dye is about double.

Hard hitting science.

"She was looking to help people directly, rather than in a laboratory. She was not politically active, didn’t know anyone with AIDS and wasn’t even sure she had ever met anyone who was gay."

1. Starfish and coffee (is my ringtone!)
2. Let's go crazy (especially the beginning)
3. Purple rain

Prince

If you are missing Prince as we hit the 10th anniversary of his death you can tune into this academic conference all weekend
iwonderu.polishedsolid.com/about/

Starfish and coffee is my ring tone!

For the past week, MS Word has been suggesting autocompletes for words that are incomplete and in the wrong location. Turning off autocomplete in the settings doesn't fix the problem. Does anyone know a solution other than yeeting Microsoft off of my computer?

I am so sorry for your loss. My thoughts are with you and all of her lived ones 💜