Ever built something intricate and unique, only to have it snatched away from you and put in the hands of philistines? It's not a good feeling.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/30/an-unpleasant-memory/

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Awww, hugs. Bitter memories still sting years later.
@pzmyers i'm still more than a little salty about the end of my time in academia.
@pzmyers I got to keep the part I built (until the grant ran out) but a colleague lost his work: https://www.left.ox.ac.uk/
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