Recently, a date said they were an INTJ (i.e., Myers Briggs). I told her, “I'm a PhD in psychology. I refuse to entertain some unscientific typology of personality with dubious scientific backing.” I took pride in expressing my needs. As a Pisces, I really struggle with that.

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I was an extremely guilty child, constantly wracked with shame. I'm happy to report that this trait has not translated to my daughter, who just fumbled a large watermelon, watched it explode on the ground, and declared "oh well, it was heavy."

I surveyed 4 personality handbooks and asked 2600 people how important it is to study each topic (from 1 to 5). All were rated above midpoint (yay!), but mental health/psychopathology, genetics/heritability/neurology, emotion regulation/happiness, and change/identity stood out.

People only hate Elon Musk because he comes from an emerald mining fortune made in apartheid South Africa, he buys ideas and pretends he’s an inventor, he’s a white supremacist, union-busting, abusive employer, he’s hoarding $1T in stolen wages, he makes us ashamed to be human,

no it’s okay sir i know this 70mm showtime of The Odyssey is sold out, i just have to deliver this very large horse-shaped package to someone inside

Conan just doing bits to his employees for 18 years and never having a genuine conversation is sort of the vibe I bring to my work place, unfortunately

Handing your 7000 words over the word limit draft to your co-author

believe it or not, the world's entire population can fit inside this cube in new york city that means we can move everyone here and use the rest of the planet to build data centers to run agentic workflows seems like a no brainer to me

i would never leave the house ever again if i saw this

final exams are wonderful because I get to see students I’ve never seen before in my life

Having fun isn't hard, when you've got a library card!

The one employed philosophy PhD right now

Civilization was built by people like this, and there is a stunning lack of gratitude in our culture for their work. In this specific case, at least half of the apple varieties in Brown’s collection were considered “lost” until he personally tracked them down and saved them. He literally went on quests where he did things like, tracking a lost variety back to a stump of a long-ago-cut-down tree near an abandoned homestead in remote Appalachia, took cuttings from the green shoots coming out of the stump, brought them back and planted them. Absolute legend.

**At my funeral** Student: "Will this be on the exam?"

Reviewer 1: “ready to publish” Reviewer 3: “ready to publish” Reviewer 2:

Every April Fools Day, I look my students in the eye and tell them how much I appreciate them

Every morning, I wake up and read the obituaries. If my name isn’t in there, I have breakfast. Then, I complete yet another university-mandated training of some sort. This has been my life for 17 years.

Dear Jenny, I need four Walmart giftcards for donors visiting. I'm stuck in a meeting. If you don't have time, could you provide me with the elusive knowledge that frees me from the shackles of unhappiness that so stalks me? If not, giftcards fine. I'll reimburse. Thanks, Bill

I've had 4 proposals/defenses the last 2 weeks. I have 8 the next 2-3 months. A normal professor would complain and be overwhelmed. Not me, though. In a time of anxiety, I'm getting some of the best sleep I'll ever get. Then, I wake up, ask one question, and sign the form.

We asked people around the world to rate the morality and ethics of others in their country. The U.S. is the only place we surveyed where more adults describe the morality and ethics of others living in the country as bad than good. See our full morality report here: pewresearch.org/religion/202…