I saved the chapter “I’ll read it later and other lies we tell ourselves” to my read-it-later app 😛

Are you adding yeast, or doing it wild? The few times I’ve tried ginger beer, it always ends up with a thick, almost gelatinous microbial mat. One time I strained it out and it tasted ok, but feels like I’m doing something wrong.

prove that they’ve learned to listen to their community. Only after earning my trust with a proven track record of community-driven decisions would I come back

At this point, even building up a track record like this, I don’t know how I’d believe it. Particularly not with the same people in charge.

Mastodon is “microblogging” (think Twitter) for the fediverse. There’s also pixelfed (Instagram), peertube (youtube) and more.

This is real. I’m a white guy with every advantage, a PhD from Harvard and nearly 10 years of research after my PhD, but it’s still rough out there.

I’m geographically limited - I’m sure if I were willing to move anywhere, things would be a bit easier, but still.

This is an interesting perspective! Don’t think I’ve looked at it quite this way - I want to believe that one can be a kind and also realistic mentor - that’s what I strive for. But the people who manage to get faculty positions are, by definition the ones who don’t heed all of the signals telling them that academia is a mug’s game.

I’ve never seen a hosta with a stalk that high - the leaves are usually closer to the base, no?

Interesting… That may be in my future:

“backing up” biospecimens and other physical samples is not as easy as baking up data. Freeze/thaw often degrades things, and volumes maybe be quite small and not amenable to aliqoting.

Oh hello! I remember chatting with you in the comments section of my science blog (We, Beasties) over a decade ago 😊. Nice to see you in the fediverse