Four posts, zero papers, one honest ranking of nightmares.
By Christopher Frey (@FreyChristopher) · X
Fifty-three years is not a PhD, it is a career with a defense scheduled at the end of it. Somewhere in Chicago a completion spreadsheet has been lying politely for five decades.
By Stephanie Drumheller (@uglyfossils.bsky.social) · Bluesky
Paleontology might be the only field where no change is the result you hoped for. The rest of us check on our experiments and pray something moved. She checks and prays nothing did.
By Thanh Neville (@thanh-neville.bsky.social) · Bluesky
Every scientist has two nightmare settings. The one your brain invents for free, and the one with a submission deadline and a grants manager copied on it. Marriage is just having a witness who can rank them correctly.
By Thomas S. Davis (@thomassdavis.bsky.social) · Bluesky
Peer review runs on the most reliable currency in academia: guilt, reciprocity, and the hope that someone returns the favor when your paper lands in March. Pay has never once appeared on that ledger.
That’s the four. See you tomorrow morning.
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