e.m. spanton [they/them]
em-spa.bsky.social
e.m. spanton [they/them]
@em-spa.bsky.social
failed physics professor
I didn't consume any news in the past year, anything interesting happen?
January 1, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Some tips for the new year:
-If you are mentally ill, don't :~)
-Consider making more money if you are having financial troubles 🤑. If you can't pay rent, you might become homeless!
-If you are doing things that are unhealthy, consider doing something healthy instead. 👍

Hope this helps!
January 1, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Another year of deeply fucking up my health insurance situation :~). Excited to pay thousands of dollars out of my dwindling savings and not get any useful mental healthcare, haha
January 1, 2026 at 3:04 PM
I did in fact cry upon finding out that the character 'Deadman' from Death Stranding 2 turned out to be.. dead.
December 29, 2025 at 11:16 PM
In 2020, I was hired as an LSA Collegiate Fellow & Assistant Professor of Physics at the University of Michigan. My experience there lead to a complete collapse of my mental health in a large part due to a lack of support from the physics department.
December 27, 2025 at 2:10 AM
A part of me wants to be messy and call out the assholes I encountered in my now-dead physics career. I've toyed around with writing something formally about how fucked up academic physics is, but I can't really push past the incredible amount of anger + CPTSD I have to write something constructive.
December 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
the fact that the best we can do in terms of 'good social media' is a recreation of mid-2010s twitter is pretty pathetic
January 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Remember that every day you can participate in small acts of resistance against the Trump administration, such as liking and reposting my posts
January 22, 2025 at 11:52 AM
feeling a bit invisible right now
January 22, 2025 at 2:16 PM