I have just learned something new and it has surprised me.

Emoji prize if you can me, without looking it up, what GANTT stands for.

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A grant rejection 😔(not surprisingly in 13th Friday and also saw that coming as the reviews werent great) senior colleague learnt the news and said" hey want to go for a pint, I am buying?" Hell yeah Onwards upward!
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Today's highlight (so far)

Data analysis task that was so enthralling, my cup of tea went cold.

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#LifeOfPI I managed to set up a crossing to generate new #drosophila so the ERASMUS+ student starting in May could do their exp! Fingers crossed!

First two months of 2026 in #PeerReview

I've reviewed:
4 papers
3 grant applications

I've submitted:
1 paper
1 grant application
so I've “requested” ~6 reviews from the system.

So I'm in credit at the Bank of Peer Review so far.

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The frustration of having to convert a (beautiful) LaTeX document into a MS Word document for a journal is offset by the zotero plug-in for Word. It's MUCH better than it used to be under v7.

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81 x two thousand word mini dissertations marked in two days, think that's a #LifeofPi moment 😫😄🎉🥂

I hugely regret agreeing to review this paper.

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Successful London fly meeting
https://genetics.org.uk/events/london-fly-meetings/
#drosophila researchers got together this afternoon and my postdoc Yu-Chien also get to give her talk! Well done! We also have cheeky ramen lunch at Ippudo as a 尾牙 "wei-ya" a typical pre Lunar New Year outing to appreciate co-worker in #Taiwan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weiya
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Lecturing today. I know that pop culture references are hit-and-miss-but-mainly-miss when teaching a class of Gen Z folks. However, when ad libbing, they tumble out. I got away with a reference to "The Hunger Games" and De La Soul, but my mention of The Care Bears' Cloudmobile fell distinctly flat. Hey, it made sense to me at least.

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