Dan Ports

currently obsessed with Cheeto, the chonky orange cat who lives around the physics building at UC Davis, who not only has a department webpage and a Wikipedia page, but also has a RateMyProfessor page with 331 ratings for his course Loaf 101.

https://hpc.ucdavis.edu/people/cheeto-cat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheeto_(UC_Davis_Cat)
https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/3028076

(via @sharon and @amanda; photo from Wikipedia)

#cats

Feb 11 at 11:57pmWeb
Show threadBlake PattersonFeb 12
@dan @sharon @amanda I miss my sweet, orange girl.
Show threadRobin BobcatFeb 12
@blakespot
Ooh, a orange girl? Rare! Not as rare as male calicos, but still very uncommon.
Show threadVanalopeFeb 12

@RobinBobcat @blakespot

Happy to share our home has been blessed with an orange girl. All hail Orange Julius, 1st of her name! 😃

Show threadRobin BobcatFeb 12
@Vanalope Lovely! She looks soft and full of purrs and possibly even has the brain cell this week!
Show threadVanalopeFeb 12

@RobinBobcat lol, we also have an orange boy who is the poster child of orange boy single brain cell. Julius however is not like that at all. She's an aloof Empress who doles out her affection as she sees fit. Our other kitties do not question her rule. Her consort allowed to snuggle her anytime is our eldest cat, a Grey male tabby, Yondu...our King Kitten.

She's a true cat's cat.

Show threadAstroHydeFeb 12
@dan @sharon @amanda lol the ratings tho 🤣 Us human profs could learn a thing or two
Show threadLevel 98 🇺🇦Feb 12

@dan @sharon @amanda Prof Cheeto asked me to pass on a message:

"Who you calling chonky!" 😀

Show threadPandaChronicle ResistsFeb 12

@level98 @dan @sharon @amanda

RIGHT?!?!?

Show threadKathleen TuiteFeb 12

@dan @sharon @amanda

i'm weirdly pleased to see he has a page on the davis localwiki, too!

https://localwiki.org/davis/Cheeto

Show threadSindarina, Edge Case DetectiveFeb 12
@dan
Show threadSkean Harshly KC1WKVFeb 12

@dan

Just want to say thank you for posting this. It's been a massively shit day, and this made me smile. Much appreciated.

Show threadIan Douglas ScottFeb 12
@dan I don't think Cheeto had a faculty page when I was still a student at Davis. Nice to hear he's been a productive researcher I guess.
Show threadElisabeth MFeb 12
@ids1024 @dan It's hard to get tenure. Sounds like he's on the track!
Show threadJonathan YuFeb 12
@sharon @amanda @dan where can I find Miso's faculty page?
Show thread0x4d6165 (Julie or Mae)Feb 12
@dan @sharon @amanda UCSC needs this too
Show threadstevenrayFeb 12
@dan @sharon @amanda best thing I’ve seen today. 🤣😂😁
Show threadVirginicusFeb 12
@dan He’s keeping an eye out for that bastard Schrödinger.
Show threadThinkaholic is 🐸 antifaFeb 12
@dan @sharon @amanda Somebody gave him a 1/5 on RateMyProfessor and I will FIND them and I will FIGHT them!
Show threadEgon WillighagenFeb 12
@dan anything known about their academic tree? https://qlever.scholia.wiki/author/Q136505436#academic-tree
Scholia

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Show threadnilixFeb 12
@desea @sharon @amanda @dan omg i rember this guy! glad to see he is still kickin :D
Show threadTheosoreassFeb 12
@dan @sharon @amanda went through the reviews ,the 3 star and below seem to be peeps who don't understand that professors arent things but are actually live beings who need space some times ,or they never interacted with a professor before and got bap bsp bapped
Show threadPandaChronicle ResistsFeb 12

@dan @sharon @amanda

He’s not that chonky! You take that back!

Show threadArthur van der HargFeb 12
@dan @sharon @amanda I love how the highlights make his pupils seem like little hearts! 😻
Show threadBen ToddFeb 12

@dan

Pronouns: he/him/chonker 😎

@sharon @amanda

Show threadElisabeth MFeb 12

@dan @sharon @amanda You know what's funny, I was once hired by a lawyer to "fix" the fact that he didn't have a Wikipedia page (while his two business partners did). This is how I became a Wikipedia editor. After researching his "issue" and Wikipedia's editorial rules I came to the conclusion that he ... basically wasn't important enough. Which I then had to tell him.

I love that Cheeto has surpassed this man.

Show threadprlFeb 12

@sharon @amanda @dan
Greetings to Cheeto from Oxford, a city of many noted academic cats...

https://oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats-of-oxford/

College cats of Oxford

Once upon a time, we featured an image of Magdalen's kitten, Ozymandias, in our newsletter. We figured it might be a gentle contrast to our regular diet of planning and local politics. The grey ball of fluff with the steely eyes proved so popular that we got repeated requests for

Oxford Clarion
Show threadM0UAW, ClintFeb 12
@dan @sharon @amanda "Schroedinger's Nap" 🤣
Show threadCambridge Bike LanesFeb 12

@dan @sharon @amanda

Thanks for sharing! Remy the Harvard cat was cheated though. No Wikipedia article and there was even a course about him. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/01/maybe-its-remys-world-and-the-rest-of-us-just-live-in-it/

Then, while trying to find the above article I leaned tor the first time about Sarah the Harvard cat from the 1930s! Check out her hat! https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/12/1/sarah-the-cat-retrospection/

Maybe it’s Remy’s world, and the rest of us just live in it

With Remy the cat as their model, Graduate School of Design students learned how animal life can encourage empathy in design.

Harvard Gazette
Show thread🌻 Welcome Back 🌻Feb 17
@Cambikelanes @dan @sharon @amanda
It's pretty easy to start a wiki page. You've got some good references too. I think you can just request someone else do it too.
Show threadDJ ToebeansFeb 12

@dan

This just led me to discover that there's a whole list of individual #cats on Wikipedia. This is the internet we deserve.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_individual_cats

List of individual cats - Wikipedia

Show threadJim VanderveenFeb 13

@dan @sharon @amanda We have several well-loved feral cats at UC Davis, but Cheeto is by far the most famous (and chill). I always look for him when I walk by the Physics building, in case he needs any scritches.

#UCDavis

Show threadThe Marvelous Mx TellingtonFeb 13
@PeacefulEdna
Show threadalbertine legally sadFeb 13
@tellington This is so awesome 😍 I need to take the lecture Loaf 101 🥹
Show threadMarge吴静玫Feb 15
@dan @anguinea @sharon @amanda Whoever gave him an awful is going straight to hell.