Me to everyone who enters my house: sorry for the mess, but I actually live here... so you know

a cartoon pikachu is hugging a green worm with a pink tongue Alt: Pikachu patting a sad caterpie on the back

I'd rather be playing Pokopia than filing out this paperwork, but the paperwork let's me do science and I need to be an adult about this.

As an aside, my autocorrect has had to get up to speed real quick on pokemon names and I've gone stardew deep I have a spreadsheet

Mouse shape and size comparison.

I had a favorite mouse (CM Xornet). It was discontinued and I had to endure other mice. They revived it as the MM720 and I bought five in case they discontinued it again. I'm down to 2 and it's discontinued again!

Nobody makes a mouse shaped like this anymore 😭

I learned about botanical sexism recently. Never had allergies until 3 years in Maryland

Screenshot from the NASA FY2027 budget request, based on the 2027 PBR. Text reads: "Astrophysics Explorer Future Missions funding supports future Astrophysics Explorer missions and missions of opportunity through concept studies and selections. NASA plans to release the next SMEX AO no earlier than spring 2027. "

Small beans in the grand scheme of the NASA budget request, but this is the line item I'm currently the most excited about because WE HAVE A REALLY COOL CONCEPT WE WANT TO PROPOSE AND I WANT TO TELL YOU ALL ABOUT. 🧪🔭🪐

We *just* got it spun back up and I'm not ready to table it for ANOTHER year 🫠

BREAKING: @whitehouse unveils 2027 PBR, including an encore ask for 23% cut to NASA overall and 50% cut to NASA science, plus zeroed out the Office of STEM. (Read in full on WhiteHouse.org, pages 73-75.) We fought and won this once, we will do it again. #nasaneedshelp #artemisii #PBR2027

Seconded

Making it 5 now

If I had to get delayed for four hours at least it was in BOS where the Chase Sapphire Lounge is the nicest I've ever been in

But I would like to get home...

More conferences should have a build your own puppy chow at afternoon snack time

Happy and full of gummy bears

I've seen these kinds of infographics fall to AI slop and I can't believe any of them anymore.

They used to be useful

Should be illegal for restaurants to change their name on delivery apps. If you're a Denny's, I deserve to know

A whole new layer to never judging a book by its cover 🤣

A present for the user of diapers many years too early 😅

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That reminds me of the guy that keeps getting sent packages of chopsticks!

Us: hey amazon this isn't what we ordered please refunded us :sent item back:
Amazon: this is so different this can't be what we sent you we're undoing the refund
Us: thats why we returned it...

So like what, are you going to send it back since we apparently didn't buy that from you????

The gutting of NASA Goddard has had a devastating effect on high energy astrophysics. The AXIS probe mission proposal was rejected without review. (The Goddard X-ray mirror lab was significantly impacted by shutdowns and pressured retirements, against the congress approved budget for NASA.)

I haven't lived in MA for ~5 years and I've scoured my CVS account multiple times and my prescriptions still print out with my MA address

In the game of electric wall charger vs car, the answer is both lose

Distribution of the topics of approved proposals for ESPRESSO in Period 117. 74.6 Transit follow up, 3.5% studies of systems around binaries (unclear if its transiting systems), 0.3% for RM studies, 11% for stellar physics, 0.4% for milky way studies, and 10.2% for cosmology.

Been checking the science topics of the proposals approved by the ESO OPC for ESPRESSO. 75% of the time went to one type of proposal. Statistics-focused follow up of transiting systems. There isn't a single proposal focused on discoveries, atmospheres, or anything low-mass planets 🔭#exoplanets

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

Imo the arXiv should impose an automatic ban the first time someone submits a preprint with a hallucinated reference in it. Zero tolerance policy.

I really did not need the slackbot to message me in all my workspaces 🫠

It's a setting we can change in our profile and the number of people that won't change it after I point it out...!!!!!!

Just don't download apps.

Waves from C 👋

Do you have a special shoe box? A gallery wall? Please show what you do with them!

Woops didn't see this in time! 😭

And it's only as I get into bed that I realize I forgot to recycle my badge 🙃

Picture of a badge recycling bin

Behold #aas247 ! A place to leave your badge for recycling. Just outside the exhibit hall.