Next time someone asks how I use my PhD, I’m going to say “In my email signature.”

Makes the CTA look embarrassing

NPR just described symbiosis as “being really good room mates”

Doctors orders

I'm now one of those people who has hundreds of unread messages in my personal inbox. Thanks screen fatigue.

Im not the only nerd sitting outside Powell’s waiting for it to open

Sitting in the back of a plenary room is really informing my future slide design. And also where I should sit at these sessions

I am in an exit row on the airplane and I do not know what to do with all the leg room

Unfortunate coincidences: every time I travel I get a migraine. Every time I get in an Uber, there’s way too much air freshener. Oh well. Off to #PEARC23

not speaking from personal experience or anything

Why on earth does Outlook have a short key for sending mail (Command enter on mac)? What if you just cut something to move it, forgot to take your thumb off the command key, and want to create a new line to paste what you just cut?

And not all libraries compensate extra if you have a PhD

I’m a casual enough Star Wars “fan” that I was disappointed when @sbmagle told me the show Andor isn’t about Ewoks.

Happy St Patrick’s Day!

Unsolicited data management advice directed at no one in particular: if your folder only has one file in it, consider whether you need that folder.

Not to mention the lack of metadata standards for those types of data

All of them assume that there's a free discipline specific repository for the data to go into at the end of the project, which misses the hardest part of this: how to pay for preservation/sharing after the grant period if you don't have one.

None of them address active data storage in a way that would prompt researchers to budget for the amount of data storage they would need during the project.

All of the examples are for data types that have discipline specific repositories, which leaves out the hardest part of complying with this policy: how to curate and share data that doesn't have ready made standards and a place to go. Also doesn't prompt for submission costs.

None of them address "active" data storage in a way that would prompt a researcher to budget for data storage during the project.

Though I'm not excited about the use of " to indicate same thing from the previous line. You're on a computer. Copy paste.