Tim Ribaric

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Tim Ribaric1d ago

I'm going to tack this onto all the work that I do to *makes hand wiping motion*

"This email from Tim is for entertainment purposes only."

Tim Ribaric2d ago

REB's have run amok. I think their primary role is to discourage people from performing research involving humans.

I need to fill in a .doc file (yes, not .docx) that is making my eyes bleed.

Tim RibaricMar 24
How did my fortune cookie know I was a Marxist?
Tim RibaricMar 23
Borealis DataMar 23
In early spring, #ResearchRoundup highlights a dataset on Blue-spotted Salamanders, which begin migrating despite sub-zero body temperatures. Explore this dataset by Glenn Tattersall and Danilo Giacometti from Brock University here: https://doi.org/10.5683/SP3/FZJBQH
Data to accompany manuscript "Sub-zero body temperatures during early spring migration in blue-spotted salamanders (Ambystoma laterale)"

Amphibians that reproduce in early spring at northern latitudes may encounter environmental ice while migrating to their breeding sites. Due to the...

Borealis
Tim RibaricMar 11
We are going into contract negotiations this Spring/Summer. We are using this as part of our messaging.
Tim RibaricMar 11

Savage.

Source: https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2026/03/11/no-i-dont-want-my-article-turned-podcast-opinion

Show threadTim RibaricMar 9
I'm seething, look at all these typos. (Saving for posterity's sake)
Show threadTim RibaricMar 9

Conclusion to this story. A very kind colleague redid the form in a way that is not aggressively anti-Mac and I filled that one in and sent it in instead. Fingers crossed it gets accepted.

(Coda: I hear back from the school and then suggested filling in the form, printing it, sigining it, scanning it, and then having that process repeat for the person who will endorse my run. Can you imagine in 2026 that was actually suggesed?

Tim RibaricMar 9
This is most frustrated I've been in years. It's like enshittification is slapping me directly in the face.
Tim RibaricMar 9

I'm trying to run for Senate at MPOW. This requires a PDF filled in with Adobe but on the Mac the form is not working correctly. Trying to update adobe (maybe that'll fix it?) and 2+ gigs of disk space for a PDF reader.

Democracy is conspiring against me.