I want VAR to review my faculty evaluation from 2014

I don’t suppose anyone wants a notebook? 🤷‍♀️ ko-fi.com/loreandordur...

I had life-changingly good tarka dal for dinner. Just wanted to share.

Using my holiday to work on a project. This is a baenaet jeogori, the traditional first garment worn by newborn babies in Korea. Part of my exploration of Korean sewing traditions for the past couple of years.

I realize there are bigger and more important things to be upset about, but there is no inferno Crossword in the new issue of the Atlantic and I am vexed

Happy Canada Day! We're closed for in-store shopping today while we try not to melt. In the meantime, enjoy 10% off everything online from the comfort of your (hopefully air-conditioned) homes! www.bakkaphoenixbooks.com.

What a game!

This is not at all meant to compete with the outstanding/extraordinary bird photography on this app, but I’m quite pleased with this photo I snapped of a young robin in a serviceberry tree yesterday. #birds

Yesterday, for no apparent reason, a study participant I worked with about a decade ago, popped into my mind. Just now, the head of the lab I was with at the time emailed me to offer me co-authorship on a case study about that participant. Really delighted that this is being written up!

Embroidery progress

I never get tired of stories like these. I looked into this particular patient and it appears he received Casgevy— I was on the IRB at a hospital where that drug was first trialled and that was my first study as an official reviewer!

Love my cute new needle minder

mushroom

This is Meta’s suggested comment on a friend’s post whose cat died at the unexpectedly young age of 4 years, 10 months, due to a heart condition. So helpful 🙄 and how much of my day do I spend clicking unsolicited AI panels closed?

hoo boy I bet Ravelry's landing page for Pride this year has some folks real mad

There's no time like the present to tell people you love them, or to follow a ghostly pale fox into the old forest and begin a new life among the wild folk of the wood. Or you could do both. It's up to you.

If you think Bluesky sucks, you are not using it correctly. I have curated my feed to be full of DeliciousWeirdos™️ and KingShitposters™️ which means endless nerdiness (complimentary), bangers, and really insightful threads. Sorry you aren't having fun you aren't playing right. Try harder!

"Ich askid ChatGPT," Well Ich askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and the moone daunsinge above, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.

Trying a new coffee roaster from a very non-Anglophone part of Quebec

If you’re not already into birds, this is get another example of why this is such a fun hobby. Every day I learn about a new bird or bird thing that brings me joy. Look at this fight between a peregrine falcon and a fucking pelican!!

My favorite art history genre is "Judith beheading Holofernes"

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I NEED HELP! Please take this quick, meaningless 19 question survey so I can get data for my students to learn stats! I did a similar version a few months ago but missed an important question type. Even if you did the old one, please do it again! Please circulate widely!

Neko Case has written the lyrics AND script for stage version of Thelma & Louise.

Paging all #MedSky writers. Submissions are open for a very special issue on the theme of Embodiment in Medicine. Open to all. ❤️‍🩹

Sewing and listening to Japanese Breakfast, a band I learned of via @michaeldthomas.bsky.social’s daughter Caitlin, through a post a few years ago. I never met her but she had SUCH amazing taste in music ❤️

Your daily affirmation. Be as wild as you need to be. Be as loud as you have to be. And most importantly, be as weird as you want to be.

Everyone should have at least one hobby that frustrates them (knitting, mini painting, birdwatching) and one hobby that doesn’t (knitting, mini painting, birdwatching)

okay I was today years old when I realized Japanese Breakfast and the author of Crying in H Mart are the same person

We have received a plethora of farm fresh eggs as a gift, and so my partner suggested making a couple loaves of challah. I pointed out the irony of choosing today out of all days to make it (Passover, even though we’re not Jewish) Update: neither loaf is rising, even in a proofing drawer!

Increasingly convinced that the people developing and testing tech accessibility options are all able bodied, as we struggle to help my 82 year old mother, who just wants to play bridge online. The design decisions feel like they only suit extremely computer literate people without disabilities.

are you really a genetic counselor if you haven't handed your ordering provider a test requisition for yourself and said, "here, sign this"?

It would be fun to do cartomancy with any of these ha ha

I used to get the most delicious breakfast burritos in Santa Fe. Red sauce, perfectly done eggs, nice crispy potatoes, a little cheese and onions. Also Christmas enchiladas with blue corn tortillas, cheese, and chicken and some posole on the side. God, I miss New Mexican food 😭

Going through my photos today and I found this shot I took a few years ago with a lens I bought for 20 bucks—a Soligor highly prone to vignetting but capable of delivering some very nice shots. This is on Eastman double X.

Wee silk pouch, for my Korean textiles class. This was quite challenging to make but very satisfying. This is used for holding auspicious beans and rice as a gift at lunar new year. The material is a plain weave starched silk. That was very tricky!

I have a joke about mitochondrial DNA that I learned from my mom, who learned it from her mom, who learned it from her mom, who learned it from her mom, who learned it.........

Sure, the world may be falling apart, but don't let that stop you from being kind. Don't let it stop you from creating your own weird worlds for all to see. Don't let it stop you from becoming a spark in the darkness.

Well, it just so happens I was an incredibly uncool teenager who was listening to early 80s music in the mid 90s

AAAAAAAHHHHH

I lost the post about recurring dream imagery, but this is one of mine. We live in a house just like this, but the tower is forbidden to us

neighbour

THIS INSECT CATHEDRAL IS ARGUABLY BETTER THAN THE REAL ONE.

Instrument approach procedure on a very misty morning at Richmond Park in Glasgow today. #birds

Microbiologist, army captain/missile inspector

Everything is scary, however, I was delighted to see that the new issue of Clarkesworld contains not a short story, but a whole frickin novella (or a novelette?) by @thomasha.bsky.social So that is nice

I am reminded of an anecdote of a modern child finding a floppy disk and saying, "Hey look, someone 3D printed the save icon!" 🫠

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

🆕 at @naturemedicine.bsky.social How does ChatGPT Health do for appropriately triaging a person as to whether to go to the emergency room or stay home? www.nature.com/articles/s41... Not very well. Under-triaged 52% of case vignettes that are considered gold-standard emergencies

This was the Starling murmuration, on Sinker's Fields, at Whixall yesterday. It was one of the most spectacular natural spectacles I have ever seen and is a must watch.