liztomania

new pics of zelda being the cutest lil stinker on the planet just dropped

BTW when I say abolish ICE, I mean abolish it entirely and replace it with exactly nothing. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. That's it.

happy qualifying exams week to ME!

my fave first-time listens this year: moisturizer - wet leg, very human features - the bug club, how to ruin your life fast - couch dog

and finally, a few to wrap up december

maybe 2026 will be the year I finally stop using spotify

yeah this tracks

november!

when people ask why I took eight whole years off between undergrad and grad school

”that fortitude is to be commended” thank u anonymous reviewer

I didn’t expect the reviews for my rejected GRFP to be so nice 😭

october

and here’s september

anyway here’s my friends trying to get a baby mouse to drink water out of a seashell

almost forgot august

not trying to brag but my trivia team has won so much in the last several months that I think everyone hates us now

every time I read anything about rfk jr and the MAHA crowd

hi-vis utility vest + 70s band shirt = fieldwork chic!

july

any day I don’t lose undergraduates in the woods is a win in my book

here’s june… brian wilson’s death didn’t affect me at all

😭

had a dream about collecting trillium seeds last night. in case you were wondering where my mind is at

dropped the ball in may… it’s fine

Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

i’m sorry who is coming up with these common names? wet dog wakerobin? stinking benjamin???

the face of a girlie who, in the last two months, (1) got a mysterious tail injury even though she's an indoor cat and (2) snuck outside while the catsitter wasn't paying attention (??) and was missing/too scared to come inside for 2.5 nights (!!) until we managed to trap her and get her back home

do you think the undergrads i work with liked it when i repeatedly did my best david lynch impression yesterday y/n

east tennessee has a fast food restaurant called pal’s sudden service, which is infinitely funny to me because it implies the service is unexpected

i guess this is the only thing I use this account for now