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tevetorbes 🧨 🎆 🐍 @tevetorbes.bsky.social · Jul 13

Toronto I am in you

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tevetorbes 🧨 🎆 🐍 @tevetorbes.bsky.social · Jun 24

Ninja

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tevetorbes 🧨 🎆 🐍 @tevetorbes.bsky.social · Jun 24

Met @gricechemistry.bsky.social at ACS GCE- he didn’t even know he was talking to me I’m such a ninja

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tevetorbes 🧨 🎆 🐍 @tevetorbes.bsky.social · Apr 16

This morning's hot take is brought to you by my reading of a Qualifying Exam this morning.

Stop using Latin in writing.

All of it.

Yes that includes et al. And etc. And e.g. And viz. And every other Latin phrase that has an english equivalent.

tevetorbes 🧨 🎆 🐍 @tevetorbes.bsky.social · Apr 14

I imagine the Venn Diagram of "endowments don't work like that" and "why can't we spend football money on academics" is a circle

tevetorbes 🧨 🎆 🐍 @tevetorbes.bsky.social · Apr 14

Curious the number of faculty who will gladly carry water for the "university endowments don't work like that" crowd

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tevetorbes 🧨 🎆 🐍 @tevetorbes.bsky.social · Apr 9

Dungeon Crawler Carl is in my stack but I think it’s apocalyptic

Currently reading Gideon the Ninth

A Master of Djinn probably more fantasy than sci fi

If you like fantasy I’d say Nettle and Bone my favorite in that genre that I’ve read recently

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tevetorbes 🧨 🎆 🐍 @tevetorbes.bsky.social · Apr 9

What counts as apocalyptic?

What counts as scifi?

A Master of Djinn
A Memory Called Empire
Delta-V
The Mercy of Gods

These may fall under “apocalyptic” unfortunately

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tevetorbes 🧨 🎆 🐍 @tevetorbes.bsky.social · Apr 7

Not like-like but like

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tevetorbes 🧨 🎆 🐍 @tevetorbes.bsky.social · Apr 7

FTA:

"However, we must avoid the false promise of simple solutions and shifting the burden of a sustainable food transition on single food system actors. "

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tevetorbes 🧨 🎆 🐍 @tevetorbes.bsky.social · Apr 7

Did you read the response? www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

www.pnas.org

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tevetorbes 🧨 🎆 🐍 @tevetorbes.bsky.social · Apr 6

I need a car in Prussian Blue

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tevetorbes 🧨 🎆 🐍 @tevetorbes.bsky.social · Apr 3

A tale told in three parts

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tevetorbes 🧨 🎆 🐍 @tevetorbes.bsky.social · Apr 3

Raw ramen = delicacy
Cold canned chili = serial killer vibes

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tevetorbes 🧨 🎆 🐍 @tevetorbes.bsky.social · Apr 3

Butanal

two beavis and butthead characters are standing next to each other

ALT: two beavis and butthead characters are standing next to each other

media.tenor.com

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tevetorbes 🧨 🎆 🐍 @tevetorbes.bsky.social · Apr 2

When I was in grad school, I TA'd the inorganic synthesis lab. On the last day, students were cleaning off their lab benches with acetone, and one somehow got sodium metal in the sink next to the freshly acetoned bench. Hilarity ensued.

Anyhow, probably a good idea to keep the base bath away

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tevetorbes 🧨 🎆 🐍 @tevetorbes.bsky.social · Apr 2

Base bath is never overkill, it is baseline clean. Anything less is still dirty.

a woman in a pink dress is saying i said what i said

ALT: a woman in a pink dress is saying i said what i said

media.tenor.com

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tevetorbes 🧨 🎆 🐍 @tevetorbes.bsky.social · Mar 28

I'm not going to wade into the fluoride in water debate (ha!), but let's at least get our messaging right.

We can't simultaneously lionize and demonize the word "natural."

Contrast :

Ephedra is a natural plant extractive

Fluoride is a naturally occurring mineral in soil, water, and rocks

tevetorbes 🧨 🎆 🐍 @tevetorbes.bsky.social · Mar 27

I got basically the same comment on one of my P&T dossier reviews around year 3-ish.

"Applicant should consider being awarded more single-investigator grants." Oh, great advice, thanks!

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tevetorbes 🧨 🎆 🐍 @tevetorbes.bsky.social · Mar 26

a man wearing a hat and goggles is sitting at a table with a coca cola bottle in the background .

ALT: a man wearing a hat and goggles is sitting at a table with a coca cola bottle in the background .

media.tenor.com

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Kalvin the Reindeer @kalvinmacleod.bsky.social · Mar 26

23ANDME: we're bankrupt

ME: uh oh are you going to sell my DNA?

23ANDME: yes but it won't be a problem

MY UNAUTHORIZED CLONE: yeah stop worrying so much fuckface

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tevetorbes 🧨 🎆 🐍 @tevetorbes.bsky.social · Mar 26

Does your culture make a sandwich or wrap of some kind, containing deliciously seasoned meat? Do you also put French fries on it? We could probably be friends hmu

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tevetorbes 🧨 🎆 🐍 @tevetorbes.bsky.social · Mar 25

I understand the broader point you are making, but surely $25 million for a single early career scientist is a misprint?

Otherwise this is frankly absurd that a single investigator would have a single grant worth $25 million

tevetorbes 🧨 🎆 🐍 @tevetorbes.bsky.social · Mar 25

Agree on noise- I can’t concentrate with lots of background noise so it was hard for me to pay attention

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tevetorbes 🧨 🎆 🐍 @tevetorbes.bsky.social · Mar 25

I was not a fan- it was hard for me to concentrate on speakers being able to hear other pods

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