Altitude. check. Whiskers for miles. Check. Pounce muscles coiled. Check. Dead cool red background. Check. < wills sister to come just a LITTLE bit closer... >
the guy in Florida with the cosmic theory of everything DID have a persistent game...
actually, I did this routinely when I wore soft-lens contacts. Special joy to swipe a contact off your eyeball with a capsaicin-contaminated finger. But, 3% H₂O₂ is magic...
Reflecting on 30+ yrs in academia, when I started, simply no such thing as a predatory conference—nor predatory journals (only "bottom-feeding" journals 😂). By end of my career, I had to regularly counsel my grad students & postdocs about them, lest they be easily taken in. #AcademicSky#ChemSky
ALT: a woman standing in a body of water with a ghost in the background
happy for you, then, as there's nothing better than starting to raise your flag as an incoming asst prof in front of all the right audiences!
(Cross-post from The Bad Place) I suppose we're doing this again. This is incorrect: the Roman army relied heavily on non-citizens throughout nearly the whole of Roman history, including periods of its greatest success in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC, when Rome came to dominate the Mediterranean.1/
you might want to look very carefully at the invitation, as you are correct that it's rather sketchy to invite someone on two days notice. is it a reputable conference? did they add you at the last minute because they felt they needed to check some box they'd failed at originally? be judicious.
bleach, by contrast...
her cover of John Hiatt’s Icy Blue Heart is to die for