Chip Pickens

This is the bleet that just keeps on giving...

It is funny how Connections bot uses "this was a creative guess!" as a euphemism for "what the hell were you thinking?!?"

Does this mean Bluesky is now the new town square?

Freezer died... alarm failed

Headline that says"Woman buys used Hyundai for son. When engine goes out 4 months later, the salesman decides to Scare Quotes Take Care of the Customer

It really does sound like he off'ed the lady.

Things have gotten so bad that scientific societies are basically sending out kitten gifs in their emails...

All black kitten in a cat condo

A mostly black kitten with white paws on top of a cat condo

Also, this last one comes from assembling a "cat condo" as we apparently have 2 cats now

Current tool total:
1 hammer
1 rubber mallet
1 adjustable wrench
1 flathead screwdriver
1 Phillips head screwdriver
1 pair of plyers
1 pair of wire cutters
17 hex keys/Allen wrenches

I like that whenever my son marvels at things I tell him about my childhood, I can just tell him "it was the 80s" and he seems to have a deep understanding of what means...

I'm sure this is a silly question, but is there any reason (other than making sure neither company has an advantage based on what turns out be circulating) why they can't decide to have Moderna target one variant like BA.2.86 and Pfizer target one like LP.8.1?

Seems like hedging bets would be good.

My favorite part of being on faculty search committees was reading applications that listed a paper as "submitted to Nature/Science".

I always assumed that they submitted to Nature at 1 am and then submitted their job application at 2 am before Nature could desk-reject the paper

Manhattan is lovely and, as a bonus, we have one fewer jerk than we would have in a different timeline.

Did the NY Times stories suddenly get shorter today?

Everyone always asks "what is pi to the 10th digit?" but nobody ever asks "HOW is pi to the 10th digit?"

Watching the local news in Florida and getting a big "Florida Man does ..." vibe

This is great!

Congrats!

A squirt-gun baptism... the famous picture of this from 2020.

That escalated quickly

Yesterday, I was informed that there is an even worse one depicting me as an octopus in the facility break room

Also, I don't think I have ever had oatmilk and I don't own cool boots.

The undergrad office for the lab is getting out of control.

For the record, I:
1) don't own a tophat
2) don't usually drink iced coffees
3) don't have s mullet

Psych is closing out strong at Open House

The Psych Department booth is BUSY!!

@kstate.bsky.social

A picture of Poet In A Box feeling hopeless about competing with ChatGPT

This is what they did 2 years ago

What a difference 2 years makes!

Two years ago, Poet In A Box at the KState Open House felt like ChatGPT was going to overcome them... and now they seem confident.

Way to get your mojo back!

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@kstate.bsky.social

Psych students and one of academic advisors at the Psych booth, facing away from the camera to show QR codes on their shirts

Psych students and one of academic advisors at the Psych booth, facing the camera

K-State Psych (and Psych Club) is psyched (get it...?) for the K-State Open House

This hurt... a lot...

4 K-State undergrad researchers standing with the American Psychological Association president

Four K-State undergrads had breakfast with APA President Debra Kawahara this morning at the KCKCC Psychology conference. They are presenting research from my lab in the poster session.

From left: Andy Robinson , Valeria Rodriguez, Dr. Kawahara, Addyson Emily, and Louis Unrein.

It gave the contact information for NIH employees

So... it would be a convenient way to see if someone was still there if it was working

I spent 10 months as a federal employee (and 5 years as a trainee) a while back and I've used it periodically since then...