Well, sever my synapses.
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Perhaps just a mishap with the Delorean in the garage?
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Sure, those are great gifts for the kids, but what to get mom?
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Thatâs horrible. I would have thought that certain members of the public responded well to pretentious buzzwords.
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Itâs not the public, though: itâs their academic supervisors and colleagues.
Iâve seen the same thing in business/IT though. How often does a woman whoâs a software developer say sheâs a ârockstar developerâ out loud? I work with a couple of women who would match that criteria, and they never get called that or recognised as such. They just clean up the messes the recently graduated contractors make and were celebrated for, and donât get any credit because that was just fixing, not creating. Which theyâre never given the opportunity to do. 
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Iâve met a couple of women developers who have pulled it off, but it takes a lot of chutzpah and self assurance to do it, and a willingness to play the boys game like a boyâŚwinner takes all.
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. . . from men only, I guess.
I sometimes wish my wife could blow her own horn more often. But maybe it wouldnât go over well. Fortunately the powers that be know she is great and frankly indispensable; when she retires they are going to be SOOL. There are some things about her employment that really grind my gears. Like two people, colleagues, on the same level (only my wife has more experience and is frankly smarter IMO) moved to a different company to stay on the same contract. The guy asked for a higher salary. They said, âWell, the only way we can do that is for you to be a manager.â So they made him a manager with only one person under him.
Can you guess who that one person is? 
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metioned in one of the tweet threads
When describing research in grant proposals, female life scientists use narrower, more topic-specific language than male applicants, resulting in lower reviewer scores, according to a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper published last week investigating health research proposals submitted to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. But the advantage of broad language doesnât stretch throughout the full scientific process: Proposals that use broad words liberally lead to fewer postfunding publications in top-tier journalsâand they arenât more likely to result in follow-up funding.
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Itâs weird, eh? One would think focusing more on ones topic and less on puffery would have the opposite effect.
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NSF is most efficient when it allocates grants based on sober, narrowly focused applications. But how does NSF persuade Congress to appropriate money?
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But if itâs hundreds of light-years away, hasnât it already done whatever itâs going to do, but we donât yet know what happened?
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In a way, because we cannot causally interact with it outside of that 690(x2)-year bubble, it truly hasnât happened for us. Thatâs what makes relativity so mind-bendingly weird.
As far as we know it ainât blowed up yet. The dimming might be something else.
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I first read about the possibility years ago.
Of course, astronomically speaking, âsoonâ could mean today, tomorrow, or 100,000 years from now.
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Someone probably just said the name three times in a row before it could stop them.
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Aww shit. I feel bad for them.
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Well, it was already there, so thatâd be the only way to make it go away⌠
Unless someone had a very large sandworm handyâŚ
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A horrifyingly penis-like because-of-the-scaling and stop-action-reality kind of sandworm?