Alex Anderson-Frey

Discouraging to work for hours on a peer review and open up the reviewer comments to find that the other two reviewers clearly just used GenAI and called it a day. There's always been a huge discrepancy in how much work people put into these, but this is pretty bad.

A black and white cat lies on her back in front of an open window.

The same black and white cat looks back at the camera, still upside down

The same black and white cat maintains eye contact with the camera and sticks her legs up

Nobody appreciates sun like a PNW cat

Congratulations to Dr. Henry Hua on his successful defense yesterday!! Henry has been an amazing student and I can't quite wrap my head around no longer having our weekly meetings.

Victory treat with another two vaccines under her belt! (under her cummerbund? she is wearing a tuxedo, after all!)

Wanted to advertise a 3-year postdoc fellowship offered by the Washington Research Foundation (the other WRF!) - if you're interested in applying and work broadly in severe wx, please reach out to me and we can see if my group @ UW is a good fit for you! www.wrfseattle.org/grants/wrf-p...

Conveyor belt sushi makes for a fun birthday lunch!

Five years with this goofy little cat!

Clara was not sold on my ugly sweater selection for playing in the holiday party this evening!

Walks in Victoria are always gorgeous!

Still so great to be able to just pop across by boat to Victoria to visit family for the weekend!

One of the tasks was to create the most surprising output in Python. One group made good (nightmarish) use of their image processing skills!

It's Python Taskmaster day in class today, where students test their programming knowledge against a series of very silly tasks! The prizes everyone is competing for? Adorable weather stickers.

Phew, power back after over 20 hours. Temperature inside the house dipped to 59, so I'm glad to be comfortably warm again! Clara has declared a cat's first right to warmth and is pressed up against the living room heating vent.

The only time this app was worth looking at

Yup, there goes power here in the Northgate/Pinehurst area

Lots of what looks like power flashes with this wind! #seattlewx

It's that time again! According to the shelter's best guess, Clara is 5 years old today! Still tiny and full of energy, but a lot more cuddly and a little less skittish year by year.

Donating blood this afternoon and wanted a substantial lunch... can't go wrong with Saigon Deli in U District! 😍

Clara had a mild sedative before her vet visit today (just a checkup and booster shots) and seems to be enjoying it

Weirdest thing I've ever seen

Vote for Clara in SAFe’s Tenth Anniversary RePURRsentative (STAR) Photo Contest. Show your support for Seattle Area Feline Rescue by voting for Clara in SAFe’s Tenth Anniversary RePURRsentative (STAR) Photo Contest

I've entered Clara in a little photo contest to benefit the shelter I adopted her from - if you'd like to vote and make a donation, click here! gogo.photo/499596

The Powerpoint equation editor and I have finally reached a detente.

Today is the 66th anniversary of the Fawbush and Miller tornado forecast for Tinker Air Force Base, often called the first tornado forecast. These are the surface weather maps ~6 hours before (small bottom left hand corner) and ~6 hours after (large map).

Busy times between quarters with some travel and prepping for a new-to-me course, topped off with no fewer than *six* journal review invitations in two days! Sorry to my editor friends - today's going to be a day of lots and lots of 'no's. 😔

Flying to Illinois to give a seminar - the first few minutes of every flight still blow me away!

This feels analogous to "import numpy as plt"-style shenanigans!

Putting tea in my "pip install coffee" mug somehow feels like an accurate representation of trying to add something new to a Python environment...

Dramatic skies at the office today!

Spent 11pm-4am at the emergency vet last night! They were worried about all sorts of scary things, but of course Clara just had an upset stomach and was fine after a shot of antinausea meds. So relieved!