I’m just waiting until they become the new captcha, in the style of “which is a real animal?” 😅😂

Or the double-beaked flamingo 😂

I am slowly starting to recover now. And really looking forward to being back in the lab, with a longer and regular sleep schedule this upcoming week ;)

And of course nothing is ever perfect. And there are a million things that could go better and stuff to fight for. But I am already very happy for what I have achieved and how far I’ve come. So far further than the little kid version of me ever dared to think to be possible.

I get to figure things out, that nobody has done before. I get to work with amazing people from all over the world. And am even starting to (hopefully) be a good mentor to them. I do appreciate that I’m super privileged in lots of ways for these things.

Just like it will always be SP = Signal Peptide and never SP = Sports Park.

...I'd take fume hood white noise over 24/7 techno any day 😅😅😅

I feel like I need a full phylogeny to figure out where this evolutionary line split of from the rest of the "salads" 😂 This is also such a bizarre English language thing to me. But then again, I shouldn't complain as there is 'Wurstsalat' (sausage salad) and similar in German.

Please...I need to understand. How on earth is this a "salad"? 😅😅😅

And somehow I am also helping to organise it, so if you want me to personally convince you to attend, let me know 😉