Cat Adams, PhD

I have been alerted to the existence of a sweet spreadsheet of female mycologists! Check it out for #MushroomMonday #gid=0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

This indie dev is making a game where you can literally play as Ancient Egyptian wall art. - Switch between a 3D archaeologist and living 2D art - Survive puzzles that fight back - Progress by mastering both worlds It’s called Fresco. This mechanic is genius.

I've used em-dashes my whole life — they add rhythm and grace to writing. But now they're an AI tell. Can we get a grandfather clause for those of us who were fluent in em-dashes before ChatGPT launched in November 2022?

Friday the 13th doesn’t seem so ominous anymore now that every day carries a threatening aura.

It can download pdfs and never read them?

kind of nuts that we decided children cannot have jobs unless that job is specifically actor

@PhD_Genie My advisor didn't get tenure...

Write an academic horror story in six words or less, based on real-life experiences

My 11yo had an idea for a website, and instead of asking @claudeai to make it for her, she asked it to make a tutorial that would teach her how to make it. Her tiny fingers typed every line of code for this site, I am SO proud 🥹 rhyme-finder.com

The journal: “your work is being cited” Me: 😃 The citation: “…as he stupidly and unattractively argues…”

@lady_valor_07 How to like most people: When I meet a new person, I 1) assume they are awesome and then 2) act like it's *my* responsibility to learn HOW they are awesome. It's not their job to show me how they're great; it's mine. It's a simple but important shift in thinking!

I’m 25. Give me oddly specific life tips. No general ”surround yourself with positive people” tips. I want the most random, specific advice possible.

@wuraa_olaaa The Left Hand of Darkness!

In honor of International Women’s Day, name your favorite book written by a woman.

My hot take is that everyone needs to be friends with people significantly younger and significantly older than themselves. You miss out on a lot of the richness of rewarding human connection by only socialising with people who are approximately the same age as you

The first time we ever heard the song Baby Shark, it was on a plane. A dad was letting his toddler play the song on an ipad. On repeat. Loudly. On a plane that we were trapped on. ....it was a long flight. barstoolsports.com/blog/3564627/u…

Once I read this thing where a woman said that she will not read any books on productivity, time management, habits or how to live the best life if they're written by men because they were able to manage that time or build those life changing habits because they HAD A WIFE. Instead, this person said they would only read female-authored books on that subject--moms or wives that did the laundry, worked, and still got stuff done. I think about that a lot.

Lord of the Rings extended editions aren’t too long if you’re pure of heart

Does anyone else have the kind of ADHD where you just kinda refuse to open mail?

one reason why the wife and i spent so much time preparing a birth plan is that after she got pregnant, we wanted to avoid the first trimester nausea, so we started researching and reading the literature turns out first trimester nausea is driven by hormones the placenta produces (mainly GDF15 and hCG), but what makes it worse for most women is blood sugar instability. pregnancy lowers maternal fasting glucose, so if the stomach gets empty overnight or in the morning, nausea gets significantly worse which means eating crackers or cookies in the morning doesn’t help, you’re spiking and crashing blood sugar when you need stability what the research shows is that protein reduce nausea better than carbs. what worked for us was a protein and fat rich meal before bed (to sustain blood sugar overnight), then good carbs and fats as soon as she wakes up before the crash hits it may have been luck, but it helped a lot and the wife almost never suffered from first trimester nausea when we went to the gynecologist and asked about nausea prevention, she said “it’s normal, you just have to deal with it”, and that’s how we realized we had to do most on our own

@UltraKingDragon This is the only kind of list I want to be on.

I’m making a list of people who like dragons. Reply if you want to be added. I’ll explain later.

@doaknet In high school my friend and I would bring random orange safety cones to Justin's house and leave 'em in his driveway and we learned years later that we made Justin's dad paranoid about why cones kept appearing.

In high school we had a bit we called "The Orb" where at night we put a bunch of glow sticks in a fish bowl in the middle of the road and if a car slowed down to look at it our friend would come out from behind a tree in his gorilla suit

a very common misconception is that the space between the cats ears is where the brain goes. this is actually wrong. that’s where the kisses go.

With all the epic rain, a new crack appeared in our bedroom ceiling and I just heard and saw water dribble down from a skylight and I am becoming Very Nervous.