Emmett Speed, PhD

Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.

Just click on this: skyviewer.app/explorer #RubinTelescope

“Legal path to transition” might be one of the most violent anti-trans phrases I’ve ever heard.

I mean

Kids, if you're gonna go protest, take a trip to the hardware store first.

Cyril is much more likeable.

Quick. Somebody tell Trump that the best way to own Elon is to restore all research grants and double NSF funding.

My defense revisions are turned in - now I can die in peace

It’s ridiculous that my wife might be denied spiro when my doctors’ attitudes toward my spiro has largely been “fill your pockets from the barrel in the hall”

now, back to learning more JavaScript so i can make a Mayan number calculator...

So, please enjoy my extremely thoroughly-detailed Chol Q'ij converter. And, you know, take a look at my CV while you're there. I need a job.

My dissertation defense was also looming, so of course I hyperfixated on learning to code (I think this was a subconscious protective measure so I didn't die of panic attacks). Now that I've defended and am waiting for specifics about my revisions, I've had time to re-hyperfocus on my JavaScript.

I picked up HTML and CSS a few weeks ago on a whim, because I signed up for Proton email and that had a custom domain option, and if I'm going to have a custom email I might as well make a website for it. So I started playing around with something to put my CV on. Then I got fired.

i made a Mayan calendar converter for Chol Q'ij/Tzolkin dates.

emmettspeed.phd/cholqij.html

I've been frustrated with other Mayan calendar converters for a while - they just give the date and none of the cultural detail, or all the detail is woo-y new age bullshit. So... I learned to code.

I'm also sick of calling congress but please do it this time:

The only way to avoid this is by never skimming it again after submission.

I DID IT

I'm defending my dissertation on Monday and it's feeling very real right now.

there is nothing in the world so on-the-nose as getting home from one's PhD graduation and immediately sitting down to file for unemployment.

I love adding this one data point to economic charts. It works every time.

I'm graduating with my PhD on Thursday though. It's a weird week.

...this sucks.

We heard rumblings about DOGE but there were contingency plans. My job was secure and I was told not to worry about it.

I straight up haven't been unemployed since I was 9 and started operating industrial sewing machines with my dad & grandma after school. I don't think it's really hit me yet.

A comparison of city annual costs per household between suburban ($3462) and urban ($1416) development patterns. Breakdown comparison for suburban v urban: $129 v $69 parks, $406 v $177 fire, $171 v $91 transportation, $36 v $19 culture/econ, $194 v $27 sidewalks/curbs, $297 v $158 governance, $97 v $38 libraries, $280 v $26 roads, $613 v $147 storm/waste water, $185 v $185 solid waste, $360 v $192 police, $87 v $13 school busing, $434 v $232 transfers to provinces (eg school boards), $197 v $42 water.

This time with the alt text hopefully working.

Utah's got UDOT which is fun to say. "You-dot"

I'm less worried about me & more worried about the kids my program served. There's 2500 kids in Utah who are struggling in math that aren't going to get any more one on one attention.

emmettspeed.phd/CV

Good thing I've been playing with making my CV on neocities. Sorry it's kinda ugly, but. You know. I didn't know I was going to need it today.

Anybody need a... one of me? My job search just got desperate.