Sadly I have no links to lawyers so I have no idea who to ask about that. Oh, also professional society doesn’t want to tell any employers about harassment either which is a problem because STEM shit that’s been in the news. At least on the upside I know the harasser’s line manager and the policy for filing a…

I got sexually harrassed at a professional conference recently (because having a dude come up and give you shoulder rubs, then make a comment about how you better get used to this happening all the time when Trump gets elected while looking at your boobs isn’t creepy as fuck) and I am disappointed in my professional…

No, the $34 gets rolled into the $10,180 Maryland resident of $32,044 non-maryland annual tuition and mandatory fees.

DC/Maryland/Virginia. The only two that have stick on a somewhat regular basis are Alexandria and Norfolk, which makes it look like DoD folks are the demographic they think drives stick (whereas I want stick because I’m in the Blue Ridge and stick in snow way better than auto in snow).

OMG yes. Freaking Mini USA tries to sell the Mini as the car of drivers but doesn’t seem to stock sticks on the lot (or they’re a hideous color like dayglow orange). I’m still beating around central VA in my stickshift 2005 Scion xA.

Seriously, the whole point of taking an NSA job is that you don’t bring work home because you can’t. Homeboy, doing life wrong.

Well I mean...Geoff Marcy Noted Astronomy Department Sleezeball wasn’t punished, he just left via retirement, so sadly I think there could be a case.

Two dresses with big black belts that look like they needed to belts to give the models a waist instead of looking like shapeless sacks: not a good look.

Honestly having worked in a government agency I can see why she’s not coming clean. It won’t look good if someone bluntly says that if you get one of the IT folks that just follows the rules told to them by their boss rather than knows the rules as actually written you effectively wind up with a computer whose only…

Well....this actually gets to an interesting issue in that we actually kinda need to do stuff now. Back in the Apollo and Gemini days there were lots of experiments with different types of fuels that weren’t well recorded by the corporate partners, and sadly when those folks die some of the knowledge goes with them.…

That mission to Mars ain’t gonna happen with what we have now. Yes, we have SLS but in order to send people to Mars we need to have some sort of craft (besides just the rocket) where they can actually _live_ during the transit time. Right now they just have the Orion capsule which to put it nicely is small as fuck.

As a Principal Investigator on multiple federal agency grants, yes I am aware of that. I’m also aware that for the multiple universities I’ve been with grad students cost more than postdocs because we have to cover the tuition waivers in addition to their salary, other fringe etc. The even lower average annual grant…

Well the problem with your assumption is that if NIH has to increase salaries due to a legal reason, they will. The NIH postdoc salary tables are now at least increasing to just the ~$48k level at which postdocs no longer qualify for overtime pay even when salaried. They can raise the pay, they just don’t wanna.

Us Colorado ladies = BAMFs.

Well the requirement on electrical outlets makes it clear it’s not just for breastfeeding, it’s also for women who need to pump. So breastfeeding & pumping rooms.

I think other states also do the same thing but perhaps it’s not well know. Like in Colorado where I grew up around Denver: you could bet your ass that a bunch of athletes would come from the Cherry Creek area or from Jefferson County because that’s where the money was.

I made this point here this week about the money and got lectured by another commenter about how Phelps was from Baltimore. It’s like they’ve never been over to Towson or anything. Or refuse to acknowledge that Maryland is number one in the US in terms of median income.

Because Rockville/Bethesda area are full of people with large disposable incomes that can support their childs sports training of increasing time, intensity and cost as they grow up?

God bless the Washington Post but.... the Hawaiian Winter Baseball League is professional and Lee Anne Ketcham and Julie Croteau played in the League in the 90s outside of their time on the women’s professional baseball Colorado Silver Bullets Team.

I think the bigger problem for Hiddles is the long running rumor that he was Tilda Swinton’s boy toy pre Only Lovers Left Alive, so this may be an attempt to make him look more acceptable to the mainstream.