 I want to talk today about one thing, one really specific thing. I've been really busy writing lately. I'm working on a new paper which I'm excited about, editing some things which I'm excited about, but there's something that keeps catching my ear that I keep hearing in conversations and it's a little thing, but I want to bring this to the attention of my friends and my colleagues, especially my friends and my colleagues who are advising students. Stop taking ownership of your students. And I mean that like broadly like stop taking ownership of their projects, framing everything as in like you had the brilliant idea and they just executed it, like probably we're all guilty of doing this at some level and maybe it's completely inseparable from the role as an advisor. But like really specifically, stop taking ownership of your students in your language. Just like when you're writing a good paper, you want to eliminate passive voice. I want you to work on eliminating ownership voice. There's probably better terminology for this. I'm not inventing this concept, it's just something that's been catching my ear. So I'm bringing it to you AstroVlog audience. Help me eliminate the, here's what I mean. Stop saying my students or things like they work for me. These are basic examples of the language I'm trying to eliminate from my vocabulary. People don't work for me, they're not my subordinates and they're not my students. I don't own them. Instead I'm very fortunate to have student collaborators who I work with. We are working together on things. I hope they don't feel like they work for me, but that we work together. That's it. It's not that hard. I don't own them. They work with me. They're my colleagues. They're my collaborators. They make the job worth doing. In fact what I particularly hate about saying that students work for me is that I don't think that's true. I think that's the opposite. My job is to generate ideas, eliminate roadblocks, find funding, and provide support so that they can do the work that they have come here to do. So yeah, let's just try to do better, okay?