Quand tu déposes ta candidature pour un contrat doctoral
Quand j’ai un nouveau logiciel à tester sur mes données
This game is amazing. 10/10 dialogue.
@kasorakorasoa it’s you muffin man
It's a-me !
(Late) Happy birthday @herehavesomepie ! Let's have a dorky singing for you from @queenie-shuu and myself. Hope you like it ! That was a delicious (ancient family tradition) cake and wonderful crémant.
°˖✧♛ hail the queen ♛✧˖°
David Dunning, along with Justin Kruger, published a paper called Unskilled and unaware of it: How difficulties in recognizing one’s own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments. The paper describes what is now known as the Dunning-Kruger effect, eloquently stated by Dunning himself:
“In many cases, incompetence does not leave people disoriented, perplexed, or cautious. Instead, the incompetent are often blessed with an inappropriate confidence, buoyed by something that feels to them like knowledge.”
and this is why 15-year-olds on tumblr feel qualified to make the rules, gatekeep, lecture, and police everyone else. they’re at that first peak, where realizing there’s a problem and someone oughtta solve it looks like all there is to know.
It’s back
I CANT STOP LAUGHING
this will always be my favorite
The day I don’t reblog this is the day I have lost all sense of humour.
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Do you have any tips for people who love space and are considering a career in the field but can't stand math and are generally awful at it? -a sad highschooler who just wants to work with space
*HOLDS YOUR FACE* aLRiGHT Let ME TELL YOU SOMETHING
First of all, no sadness here at this blog, no ma’am/sir/distinguished guest, how can you be sad about SPAaCCEEE
SECOND OF ALL
NASA/THE SPACE INDUSTRY IS FULL OF PEOPLE FROM EVERYWHERE, EVERY FIELD.
My group handles the operations of the computers and communication satellites of the International Space Station, right? Obviously we have tons of engineering majors, myself include, BUuuuT HOLD ON A DIDDLY DARN SECOND
we also have chemistry majors, statistics majors, physics major, we have a former elementary science teacher, and our intern is a lawyer who practiced for like 7 years and decided he wanted to go back to school. One woman told our boss at her interview “I’m only accepting this job if you swear to me I don’t have to do any coding.”
Heck, even today in a simulation I was decoding some data that comes down in hexadecimal and I was like ain’t nobody got time to do binary by hand, so I pulled out that calculator on my compy right quick. tyvm microsoft
What matters is, we all have that love and passion for this job and the things we do, and we work hard for it!
Aside from us, other disciplines / parts of NASA have people from the Medical field helping the astronauts, or working with their exercise equipment. There’s the Scientists who study the moon rocks, or the ones who study physiology and biology, or radiation, and a lot of other fields I probably can’t spell and/or pronounce. There’s the Business side of things that helps manage our contracts and our people. There’s the Strategic Partnerships office that works with our international partners and works out agreements on how we can contribute to one another. There’s the Inclusion & Innovation council, who promotes diversity at our campus and holds awesome events through our many Employee Resource Groups (ERGs). There’s Public Affairs, who coordinates visits from VIPs, handles our public image, puts out publications, makes videos, etc etc. There’s the Education Office, who helps with outreach and talks to students and makes them excited about SssspsPPPPAAAACCEEEEE and encourages them to join the co-op/internship program.
These, and much much more, are ALL a part of NASA Johnson Space Center, and ALL of them contribute to our space program.
Also, if it makes you feel any better, I am probs literally the worst person at aero engineering, mechanical engineering, and physics (CURSE YOU AND YOUR TREACHERY, C MINUS -sobs into college transcript-)
And though my degree is in computer engineering, I wouldn’t consider myself the best coder ever. BuT! I do have a knack for learning things quickly, and I get really excited really easily, and HOT DOG do I love me some space. So I took my strengths and applied them :D
IN CONCLUSION/ tl;dr
~SPACE IS NOT JUST ROCKET SCIENCE~ It’s this huge collaboration that takes every kind of person, because we need ALL that humanity has to offer to explore further into space, and to help everyone back on Earth as we do it. Off the Earth, For the Earth! And I promise, it’s not just all math equations. (Pretty sure I’ve done like maybe an hour or two total of straight on paper calculating math in the past two years. I have drawn a lot of diagrams tho!)
SO, you find what you love, find how to relate it to space and how to improve it, be as passionate as you can be and work your butt off, and I bet I’ll see you around here soon.
Sincerely,
-an ecstatic “adult”(hahahahahahahahahahaahahaha) who wants to see you work with space
(holy moly that got long sorry y’all I’m really bad at brevity)
BUCKLE IN KIDS ONE MORE THING
(sewist maybe? i think that’s a word?)
NOT ONLY HAVE I GOTTEN TO DESIGN GIGANTIC POSTERS FOR WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH / ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH, WE HAVE A WHOLE TEAM THAT DOES IT.
ALSO
Okay gotta lay off the caps
Nope I can’t do it for this next part
MY FRIEND GOT TO SEW PARTS OF CLOTH FEETS FOR A TEST PLANETARY LANDER.
ssssspppPPPPAAAACCCEEE!!!!!!1111!!1!!!!
Demotivational post
Quand mon DR parle de mes résultats en conf' comme des siens... mais qu'il ne les comprend pas.
Quand, pour les besoins de la thèse, je me retrouve à lire des articles d'économie (alors qu'à la base, je suis archéologue)
Quand j'arrive en colloque avec ma DR
Why don't we talk about Portugal more?
They decriminalized ALL drugs. Every single one. Yes, even that one. If you get caught w. more than a 10 days supply (what ever that means) of any drug you meet in front of a Doctor, Lawyer and Social worker about drug addiction. They may or may not give you a fine but essentially there’s no penalty.
AND IT WORKED! ADDICTION RATES DROPPED. HIV RATES IN INJECTION USERS DROPPED. DEATH BY DRUG OD PLUMMETED.
Potugal has shown us that when we treat drug addiction as a medical/health issue, instead of a moral one, it is more efficient.
here’s a good article on it
I really recommend Chasing the Scream it shows how we were all sold the lie of harsher drug laws would be the key to exterminating addicts but really it was a campaign steeped in racism and sponsored by lies.