I had two research papers accepted today. TWO! And a third was accepted two weeks ago. I am thrilled these projects are going to see the light of day, but I need to be honest about how draining it has been to do so much work in my free time that I am no longer being paid to do. Academia left me in June 2020, yet I am still finishing out projects from my post-doc. In what other career are you expected to continue doing your old job — unpaid — for months and years after your last day at work? This is an abusive practice, & we need to stop normalizing it.

I am LIVID!!!!! I’m in South Texas visiting family right now and wanted to get tested as soon as I got here just to be safe. A full year into this pandemic and recent uptick in cases and deaths, yet there is *still* unequal access to resources and testing here!!!! I tried to stop in a CVS for a test, but they said that they were only accepting people with appointments and there are none available FOR THE NEXT TWO WEEKS!!! They suggested I go to an urgent care center instead.