Six-year-old Mary Walker, who flies into inexplicable rages when everything in her immediate environment goes bleepy bloopy bleep blorp, has reportedly been called “a spoiled brat” by helpful well-wishers.

Writers are nothing if not well versed in the art of telling their writing software why its punctuation and grammar suggestions are incorrect.

I was reading ‘The Fabric of Civilisation: how textiles made the world’ for fun on Thursday - was answer Qs for a local scout group using stuff that was in it on Saturday. No knowledge is wasted. #StayCurious

One of the major fruits of research is delight. Think of how often you’ve read about a discovery and really enjoyed it. Often the most pleasurable kind of news. Public delight isn’t discussed enough as one of the major outputs of funding research.

The Canadian Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research is launching a US-style attack on EDI in Tri-Council funding.

As part of this attack, they are demanding disclosure of confidential demographic info + reviewer comments of all Canadian researchers who have applied b/w 2000-2025.

Go fuck yourself