I keep thinking about how when my daughter was tiny, she used to cry louder than any other baby to let me know she was displeased with the situation. She used to make rooms echo.

Anyway, I tend to chat with my students outside the lift. The other day this appeared:

First world problems I guess

Without downloading any new pictures, where are you mentally?

I love the little daycare app where it tells you what they ate. I like to imagine what it would be like if our workplaces reported the same:
7:30am: coffee (extra large serving)
10:00am: morning tea - biscuits (extra large serving)
12:00 - lunch - declined
12:30 - coffee (extra large serving)

Choose your fighter: writing research related documents edition

February is about to be a busy one.

Catch me at Perth Fringe at Future Science Talks show on 8th Feb, or for a less comedic turn during the performance piece 12 Last Songs on 15th Feb

The multi-modality in this particular parameter is going to finish me off. I just want to plot something nicely.

This was a very physicist attempt for this category

Happy 5 years since my PhD graduation to me! (Me and PhD supervisor on my graduation day 🥲)

We have baby magpies in our garden who are adorable, but also very destructive and they have decided to wage war against the cucumber seedlings in particular 🫠

Can someone help me figure out this office. I am sick of being blinded facing into the window, but if I sit facing the long wall I have so much empty space. The near desk I use for meetings/lunch. How do I arrange this better? I’ve had it arranged 5 different ways and hated them all

Make sure to check in with your friends experimenting with new likelihoods. They might look ok on the surface, but deep down you never truly know…

Answers on a postcard: as someone who is primarily a theorist, how would I go about using this product being marketed at me in my work?

Nothing says Christmas like a 2.4m tall metal giraffe light

Honey why did you hide the festive steamed buns at the back of the tree?! You know it’s my favourite

Disembodied Santa legs are popular this year

The raw turkey tree, available from BigW. Honourable mention to the rotating Christmas tree not pictured.

Somebody send help, the astronomers are torturing acronyms again 🔭