Persistent Weak Layer

I’m trying for terrible mom jokes.

I see what you meant there. Those rocks were reduced.

Minimal biting is fine if you trade snacks for shots. Maybe a few scratches.

I know. I rewrote them all correctly. Still mad about it. You can’t be handling tetramethyltin under a III-V system SOP.

You absolutely rock for posting these today. We need this.

I may have to put this on my office door.

As a former HPM lab steward, I respect that they tried to get out of doing it. I ended up inheriting a bunch of SOPs for nasty shit that referenced or copied other docs that weren’t relevant, and just deleting it all would have been much faster and dumber than fixing it.

This book is a survival guide for these times.

I’m proud of the work we have done and continue to do. I’m Trying not to hate the name change, but most of us came here for the mission.
Most labs are named after places because they could not or didn’t want to announce their mission. We always got to be proud of ours. I hope we still can be. 🔌💡

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:

Elk
Moose
Pika
Marmot
Lynx

Didn’t they just get busted completely making up a nature paper on this topic?

Thanksgiving’s Going to Be a Tough One This Year, Charlie Brown Making popcorn again, huh, Snoopy? Keep it up. Sounds like pure nostalgia, especially with the way this year’s been going. I bet Linus would’ve cal...

"I bet Linus would’ve called those popping kernels 'little pangs of painful joy,' or something equally poetic, but of course, he’s not coming this year. Not after his meaning-of-Christmas bit took a turn to the right last winter. He’s booked solid through the spring with CPAC."

This has not received nearly enough scorn.

My favorite breakfast burrito and coffee spot on the B concourse rules. lol, die mad and miserable in the Starbucks line, losers.

I must Fill the freezer at every h-mart run.

I was tempted by my UMCP friends who went to work for frito lay and Snyders doing the lord’s work with dough extrusion, cheese powder, potatoes, corn, and salt. Grad school promised the beginning of the microbrewery boom with beer labs, but I was always an energy nerd.

I was also motivated by a “10 best degrees for the environment” list. No idea why chemical engineering (aka petroleum) was on there in 1995, but it was an interesting and useful path into solar and clean energy.

I chose ChemE on a dare from from my high school crush. He told me it was the hardest major and there was no way I could do it. He flunked out. I got a PhD.
My dad talked me out of environmental engineering because “you don’t even clean your own damn room”. He was right.

It’s weed or Greeley, but we can pretend that it’s ponderosas.

It’s not just the Ivy League. The gross jerk from ASU isn’t a surprise either. Predators still rise to the top of many. Academia is disgusting.

We knew they were dipshits then. Good to know they haven’t learned.

I am as unsurprised as every other femme scientist. The fact that we all know a few who would gladly jump into those files for “prestige” or “networking” makes me want to barf more.

Hey Megyn Kelly,

14-year-old Eloise would like a word:

“If my voice makes you uncomfortable, good…
because the minute adults start defending predators by defending the age of a child, you’re not protecting the truth, you’re protecting the predator.”

Sound up! 🔥🔊

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Preach it! With an added note for my research friends that efficiency and energy yield are very different things. We don’t live in a solar simulator.

There was only one sample left.

Amazing. It feels like we have a bunch of safety peeps retiring from lab, and this would be the best retirement present ever.

A harlequin Dane and a black Dane snuggling on the couch watching the game.

Great Dane posting. She tried to eat the pillsbury doughboy and then steal a burger from a TV commercial, but he loves her anyway.

Being nice to people is just fun. Asked young server at taco place how her day was going (fine but tired) and she asked me back. I said I managed to finish my to-do list and she unexpectedly gave me a high five! Treating people like people is always rewarding.

This will be very popular. Only libs fly. Much owning. Much winning.