I’m mentioned in a newspaper, in a way that isn’t likely to send a pitchfork- and torch-wielding mob lurching in my direction. I don’t know if I like it; it’s not as exciting.
Jun 19 2012
Well, this is unusual
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Deen
19 June 2012 at 8:45 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Aww, and there isn’t even a comment section to casually mention your plan for world domination.
Esteleth, Raging Dyke of Fuck Mountain
19 June 2012 at 8:45 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
The program sounds awesome! Congrats on the grant!
baal
19 June 2012 at 8:56 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Congratulations! 1.2 M is no small grant.
kevinschelley
19 June 2012 at 8:58 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Don’t worry, we can send some pitchfork-toting anti-science people your way. I’m sure someone will be upset about Science Education. Hopefully some Vermont Schools can get those grants again.
robro
19 June 2012 at 9:04 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
You’re delusional, PZ. Encouraging “success for science students of all backgrounds” could easily send a gaggle of mindless fundies and zombie bigots to your door bearing pitchforks, torches blazing, because “science” is code for anti-god and “all backgrounds” means people other than white, hetero males.
Audley Z Darkheart (liar and scoundrel)
19 June 2012 at 9:04 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I notice that they didn’t quote you, PZ. Too strident?
(Congrats!)
chigau (違う)
19 June 2012 at 9:23 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
“UMM Associate Professor of Biology Paul Z. Myers”
twice.
I think that they do not know your Secret Identity.
christophburschka
19 June 2012 at 9:24 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Oh wow, they didn’t even mention crackers. That’s as though Jen McCreight appeared in a news article with no mention of Boobquake.
Antiochus Epiphanes
19 June 2012 at 9:53 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Nice work.
Larry
19 June 2012 at 9:55 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Let’s see how much of that grant money trickles down to non-squid-intensive sciency disciplines.
Loqi
19 June 2012 at 10:11 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Never mind the grant, congrats to the newspaper for spelling “Myers” correctly!
dianne
19 June 2012 at 10:17 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Congratulations on the grant! Sneaky way of letting us know you got it though…
Jasper of Maine
19 June 2012 at 10:30 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Is it me or is he not on the front page/list yet?
Jasper of Maine
19 June 2012 at 10:31 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Whoop – wrong thread
Ms. Daisy Cutter, Gynofascist in a Spiffy Hugo Boss Uniform
19 June 2012 at 10:33 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Congrats!
Janine: History’s Greatest Monster
19 June 2012 at 10:41 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
How come they said nothing about Paul Z Myers being a grand poopyhead?
Larry Clapp
19 June 2012 at 11:12 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
They don’t call you “PZ”, that’s sure to throw off the haters.
'Tis Himself
19 June 2012 at 12:19 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Congratulations PZ.
Aquaria
19 June 2012 at 12:36 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Wonderful grant. Congratulations!
chigau (違う)
19 June 2012 at 12:46 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/05/27/the-good-news
eoleen
19 June 2012 at 12:56 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Congrats, PZ. You have won again. The reward for a job well done is, of course…. ANOTHER JOB!!! As if you didn’e have enough to do already.
Stella
19 June 2012 at 2:57 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Awesome!
frankb
19 June 2012 at 3:57 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
The Fundies won’t know its you. The article didn’t say Diablo University.
a3kr0n
19 June 2012 at 4:56 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I assume it wasn’t the government that appointed you director of the grant right? Because you will spend every penny as if it was your own, and get maximum creative return on it. Of course, the government wouldn’t stand for any of that nonsense.
Evader, the parasite-infested branch on the evolutionary tree
19 June 2012 at 5:12 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Does anyone else giggle at “Paul” or is it just me?
PZ sounds so much more badass.
nonny
19 June 2012 at 6:52 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Congratulations!
It’s so important, they printed it twice.
Azkyroth, Former Growing Toaster Oven
19 June 2012 at 7:16 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
I hope this doesn’t cast a paul over his online reputation.
Ava, Oporornis maledetta
20 June 2012 at 12:27 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Yay!
jamesemery
20 June 2012 at 3:58 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
GO PZ!
Manage that money! :D
boadinum
20 June 2012 at 6:01 am (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Yay, PZ! Are you allowed to put any of it towards sacking the city of god? That would be awesome…sic the cephalopods and the zebra fish on them.