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A single-panel comic. A woman with curly dark hair and round white glasses, wearing a lab coat, leans forward confrontationally. Behind her stands an older man with a gray beard, glasses, and a lab coat. The woman has just been told, "I'm not sure if I agree with you about tyrosine hydroxylase activity," and she retorts, "Oh yeah? You wanna see where my citations come from?" A caption beneath reads: "Academic pro tip: According to Google Scholar there are over 100 papers by someone with the last name 'God.'" The joke is that she can cite God as a literal authority. Votey (aftercomic): hand-lettered text on a white panel reads, "(The real question is what God's Erdos number is)" — referring to the academic measure of collaborative distance from mathematician Paul Erdos.