currently obsessed with the chonky orange cat who lives around the physics building at UC Davis, who not only has a department webpage and a Wikipedia page, but also has a RateMyProfessor page with 331 ratings for his course Loaf 101.

[stevenray@sfba.social]

@dan @sharon @amanda best thing I’ve seen today.

[pooserville@dice.camp]

@dan @sharon @amanda Somebody gave him a 1/5 on RateMyProfessor and I will FIND them and I will FIGHT them!

[egonw@social.edu.nl]

@dan anything known about their academic tree? https://qlever.scholia.wiki/author/Q136505436#academic-tree

[nilix@cafe.nilfm.cc]

@desea @sharon @amanda @dan omg i rember this guy! glad to see he is still kickin

[pandachronicle@ohai.social]

@dan @sharon @amanda

He’s not that chonky! You take that back!

[pandachronicle@ohai.social]

@level98 @dan @sharon @amanda

RIGHT?!?!?

[artharg@mastodon.nl]

@dan @sharon @amanda I love how the highlights make his pupils seem like little hearts!

[monkeyben@mastodon.sdf.org]

@dan

Pronouns: he/him/chonker

@sharon @amanda

[boudah@hostux.social]

@dan @sharon @amanda

He is to his students what magnetism is to electric field.

Do not call him Schrödinger, or do it, who knows?

Mind space and time relativity when you ask him something.

Energy is not conserved if Cheeto and a tuna can are in the same room.

You may experience gravitational anomalies if your hand approach a part of his body he want you to pet.

[independentpen@mas.to]

@dan @sharon @amanda You know what's funny, I was once hired by a lawyer to "fix" the fact that he didn't have a Wikipedia page (while his two business partners did). This is how I became a Wikipedia editor. After researching his "issue" and Wikipedia's editorial rules I came to the conclusion that he ... basically wasn't important enough. Which I then had to tell him.

I love that Cheeto has surpassed this man.

[independentpen@mas.to]

@ids1024 @dan It's hard to get tenure. Sounds like he's on the track!

[prl@hachyderm.io]

@sharon @amanda @dan
Greetings to Cheeto from Oxford, a city of many noted academic cats...

College cats of Oxford

Once upon a time, we featured an image of Magdalen's kitten, Ozymandias, in our newsletter. We figured it might be a gentle contrast to our regular diet of planning and local politics. The grey ball of fluff with the steely eyes proved so popular that we got repeated requests for

Oxford Clarion (oxfordclarion.uk)

[clintjayio83@mastodon.radio]

@dan @sharon @amanda "Schroedinger's Nap"

[cambikelanes@better.boston]

@dan @sharon @amanda

Thanks for sharing! Remy the Harvard cat was cheated though. No Wikipedia article and there was even a course about him. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/01/maybe-its-remys-world-and-the-rest-of-us-just-live-in-it/

Then, while trying to find the above article I leaned tor the first time about Sarah the Harvard cat from the 1930s! Check out her hat! https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/12/1/sarah-the-cat-retrospection/

[djtoebeans@mendeddrum.org]

@dan

This just led me to discover that there's a whole list of individual #cats on Wikipedia. This is the internet we deserve.

List of individual cats - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)