i really want people to stop writing scientists as awkward, stilted conversationalists who don't understand idioms or emotions and start writing them as depressed alcoholics who swear like sailors unless they're in a specifically academic situation
Seriously the number of academics I have seen who look like gum on the bottom of someone's shoe but who can scrape themselves into a vaguely human position if you tell them there's grant money on the line is much higher than you would think




















