Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉
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Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉
@drheaddamage.bsky.social
Science, sailing, sea and scattering (X-ray flavor). Against genocide in any form. Opinions are mine.
I run a blog at https://lookingatnothing.com/
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January 16, 2026 at 8:52 PM
But who did they learn it from and what was the supervisor doing.
January 14, 2026 at 5:09 PM
But what if you miss an important world event? Like WWIII? 🙃
January 14, 2026 at 10:41 AM
That's a very good question. It was in a cupboard of old vacuum parts, together with some stuff for custom plasma chambers and suchlike. I can't easily imagine scenarios where you don't have the space to spare for a T-piece and would need this. Apart from its elegance, of course.
January 14, 2026 at 10:41 AM
If you don’t have to work, it’s doable I suppose. But maybe by ”read” they mean: fed to GPT. but that’s just my sarcastic ass.
January 14, 2026 at 10:11 AM
Definitely a fan of either or both.
January 14, 2026 at 10:10 AM
Congratulations! 🎉🎈🎊
January 14, 2026 at 7:33 AM
Given the friends they keep, though, would you still want to if they offered you an FRS?
January 12, 2026 at 9:09 PM
Reposted by Dr. ir. Brian R. Pauw 🍉
If you can't/don't/won't use the swanky professor title to make academia better than the way in which you found it, what was the entire bloody point of getting the thing?

Fully aware I'm such an early ECR that I'm "not supposed to rock the boat".
January 12, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Thanks for the extra information, I learned something 😊.
January 12, 2026 at 8:35 PM
I had no idea they were handing out awards... US Nat'l Academy of Sciences I suppose?

(I guess they're not as breathlessly covered by AP as their coverage of the Globes..)
January 12, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Yes but I left them in my other pocket.
January 12, 2026 at 6:54 AM
There’s nothing else competing, is there?
January 11, 2026 at 8:39 PM