Firstly, huge congratulations! And I hope you enjoy the Sheldonian graduation with the DPhils processing in with gowns transformed. I loved mine :)

Also though: ugh, I’m so very sorry you had to deal with that too, and from such a dismal array of ignorant underachievers to boot

ahahaha tempting! But too late now, I checked in last night, at which point without mentioning the emails they cordially upgraded my room for free…

Not a dumb question at all :) MNRAS is a journal of a different society, the Royal Astronomical Society

I begged them to stop and now they've started texting me instead

It’s relentless :(
Now up to 13 emails

Alarmingly: "If you include a long enough list of conspiracy theories in a questionnaire, in most countries tested so far, well over 50% of people believe in at least one conspiracy theory"

So here's mine.

If you're homophobic and believe being gay is a choice

then you're bisexual and in denial

I saw the names and misread this as "poopy wars" & was most disappointed when I realised my mistake

Although it's never too late for an MP to do as chimpanzees are reputed to do and to throw more than a question in PMQs

On the plus side it would probably end the phrase 'dead cat' for distracting

Congratulations! (I'm choosing to believe this celebratory happy dancing cat is not in fact AI generated but is in reality an amazingly well trained kitten)

I think you’ve just been pipped at the post I’m afraid

You were the first! Can you DM me an address to send it to?