Andrew G Dickson

Marine Chemist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography studying changes in the carbon dioxide content of the oceans

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@ebennett74 @drmikeDO1943 Blue books scared me as a student. I write appallingly slowly, and others asking for a second book when I’d barely used 5 pages was horrifying. Yet here I am . . . a retired Professor. 🤣🤣🤣

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@drvictoriafox I too came to the US as a foreign postdoc , initially on a J1. I managed to obtain permanent residency with sponsorship from the University of California (in the early 1980s).

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@drvictoriafox I don’t think that is now the case. I paid into Social Security through my taxes , and started receiving it last year though still remaining a permanent resident of the US.

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@GeoKilburn Congratulations!

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@DrVasshe Congratulations! Enjoy!

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@GeniusGTX You might enjoy the play by Anna Ziegler titled "Photograph 51" – two recordings of which are available on Audible.

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@DrVasshe Congratulations!

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@e8chin @joelgombiner I have seen how it is “justified” when the agreement is negotiated with the federal government - and it seems plausible. However, the money coming in is not spent that way in an unambiguously transparent fashion.

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@DrKimEBarrett True, but in my own University’s case the low “overhead rates” acceptable on gift funds and monies from a number of other non-federal sources have always seemed potentially problematic when justifying the usual F&A rates.

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@DrKimEBarrett @AMIposts @ucdavis @DrKimEBarrett I am well, thank you. Earlier discomfort from a hernia “fixed” (I hope) by surgery in early August, and the pneumonia I contracted at that time - which took me to hospital for a few days - is also now a dimming memory. All in all, I feel I’m ahead.

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@DrKimEBarrett @AMIposts @UCDavisHealth @ucdavis Congratulations!

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@timgill924 One half of the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.
(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

You seem, in your zest for efficiency, to embody both.

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@kittycat542 @DaRay38 @Thomashornall I recall my mother noting that in the 1970s. She was originally from Yorkshire, lived in London at that time, and was visiting me in Liverpool. 💕

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@stephmurrayyyy I recall when first arriving in the US from the UK whether we celebrated Thanksgiving in England. My smart-aleck comment: “yes, earlier in the year - when they left”. I still find it an odd holiday.

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@ClnHz Enjoy both! Congratulations.

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@hausfath Insofar as any real scenario for marine CDR would have a distribution of residence times, how might that smear these simple lines?

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@anjgoswami 🤣🤣🤣

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@hausfath For glum poetry, I prefer W.H. Auden: 😆

The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood;
For nothing now can ever come to any good.

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@e8chin This is why (some) Universities require theses etc. to be printed on acid-free paper, so that they endure. If they’re not (like most commercial books) even 100 years is ambitious without scrupulous storage.

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@e8chin It is a nice cheese, though I also enjoy the Midnight Moon. 🤣