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My friend's child: Hey, Miss [savetheplanarians], your hair has WHITE STRIPES! Me: I know, right? Child, squinting thoughtfully: Did you get frozen like Elsa? Friend: Okay, we're not asking people that...

[eating breakfast on Sunday morning] Child: Hey, Miss [savetheplanarians], did you forget we're going to church today? Me: I didn't forget, I just didn't bring any church clothes to your house. Child, again squinting thoughtfully: Oh. I hope they don't see you. Friend: [Child]! People are allowed to wear whatever they want to church! Child: I'm not so sure about that.

#it's a church where the women wear dresses and the men wear button-up shirts and khakis #unlike my church where i wear jeans and a flannel and nobody notices #I told my friend she would get so much social capital by bringing an unchurched friend with her #she said she hoped her son hadn't made me feel bad about not bringing Church Clothes #I said that fortunately my self-worth hinged on more than the opinion of a 6-year-old boy

On a deserted stretch of land, two old friends wait endlessly for the mysterious Godot, passing the time with conversations that veer from t

#Paul Gross #at Stratford AGAIN??#so soon after King Lear???#we're gonna have to make 'that hellish drive' once again this summer I think #I actually really like waiting for godot #but only because I listened to an excellent lecture about it immediately before seeing it performed for the first time

birdandmoon

Ominous bird valentines.

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#valentine's day #birds

#valentine's day #da UP

birdandmoon

Nature Valentines: now available as a set of 6 cards, so you get to choose which friend is most like slime mold and which is worthy of the coveted phosphorus cycle.

#valentine's day #an oldie but a goodie

extremesofmediocrity

Chemistry valentines.

badsciencejokes

Here’s a few valentines day cards for you

#valentine's day #chemistry

badsciencejokes

Happy Valentines Day, nerds!

#valentine's day

badsciencejokes

Get ready for valentines day, nerdy lovebirds 😘

#valentine's day

badsciencejokes

Happy Valentines Day

#valentine's day #science

#valentine's day #star trek #star trek: voyager

queerdungeons

Now that I have a Lightbox I can take updated photos of Archibald Asparagus Saint Sebastian

queerdungeons

Fellas… the creator of Veggietales has seen it

queerdungeons

😭

#veggie tales #st sebastian

todaysbird

I need to share with you this image of a baby kākāpo in New Zealand from an article titled “World’s fattest parrots set for mating bonanza after bumper berry crop.” I find it so relatable. Me when I’m sleep

AMAZING piece of lint

savetheplanarians

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2026/01/14/kakapo-parrot-new-zealand-endangered/

#kakapo!

thatsbelievable

#MLK Winter Camping Weekend let's goooo #we are surprisingly resilient most years #but this year we have made a concession to the -20F windchill and will be getting a campsite with a wooden shelter instead of just my tent

melagerie

I have made some memes to commemorate the day

massachusetts-official

Official Post of Massachusetts

#'at least we're not in the great molasses flood'#Greg right now i would be absolutely willing to be in the great molasses flood #if it got me out of the great reportable disease panic

lovesodeepandwideandwell

I watched one of the guys on my conference panel generating his paper in chatgpt right next to me and I still want to scream and cry and throw up

savetheplanarians

Our laboratory professionals (these are people with PhDs on top of their professional degrees [mostly DVMs]) have begun experimenting with chatgpt recently. Those of us with a lick of sense are appropriately horrified, and brought it up at a recent meeting of our laboratory network's regulatory agency and governing body. Everyone else in the meeting, from labs all over the country, was also appropriately horrified, but struggled to articulate why we need to make Rules and Protocols preventing such a thing.

And then this very regal-looking, elderly Asian woman said, "This is cheating. It is plagiarism. When I came to this country for my undergraduate degree, my Freshman Chemistry professor took several of us international students aside and told us that he knew that we were getting American students to help us write our homework, because our English was not good. He said that we were not plagiarizing yet, but that we needed to be very, very careful. I have been very careful my entire career. To use generative AI to write anything is cheating, and we must not permit it."

#someone asked about using genAI to edit grammar #she just glared at them and said CHEATING #this is why she is on the National Quality Control Committee for our lab network #so much righteous conviction #I don't even know what university she's from but I adore her