In light of the proposed changes to licensure in psychology approved by the CPBAO today, I am pleased to announce that I will be jumping ship for a career in chemistry instead. I'm sure @trantteam.bsky.social can find room for another post-doc, right?

Allegedly they wouldn’t “have to vacuum so much” if I stopped “being so dramatic” when they are “just trying to brush me” which all sounds fake. I choose neither

One really weird thing right now: Lib ministers keep using the word "talent", but only with respect to foreign workers. E.g. "we want to have a strategy to bring talent to Canada", as if there was no domestic talent to be developed. (I get it, they're all parroting the mandate letter, but still)

Via Rail attendants are top-notch at their jobs. Mine just came by and asked if I was ready for another gin-and-tonic <10 minutes after she delivered the first one. No notes.

Look at these splits. So sexy.

72 minutes for the 10km, which is pretty good for me.

Quick 10km with some friends.

Any social scientists out there had to submit a safety plan to their REB for interviewing people who might be in another city? Like, if we're in Windsor, we can't call 911 for a suicidal person who is in Regina. Help!

The Internet tells me that today is Neonatal Intensive Care Unit nurse day so shout-out to the staff who took such good care of Rosemary for the 5 days she spent in the hospital post-birth. Special shout-out to the nurses who told me how they react when the baby ISN'T cute. I think about you often.

I love music. I did 5 years of music on high school. I have no sense of rhythm, and can't match pitch or hold a tune. So I sing to my daughter as no one should listen. However, when she wants me to stop she says: "can we turn this off?" And that's awesome.

In the song "Gimme Sympathy", when Metric asks "Who'd you rather be, the Beatles or the Rolling Stones?", I feel like I know people who would pick the Monkees.

#AcademicSky Submitting your grant application at the 11th hour

A journal editor just used pregnancy as an example for me of something that is binary and not on a continuum. Seems like an excellent opportunity to traumatize him back, right?

Someone asked me how I was doing today and I replied, "Living the dream" so I guess that's where we're at on the Irony-meter.

Therapist: So, what are you doing with your one wild and precious life? Me: Apparently, email. Also meetings Therapist: That's not really... Me: Tidying as well Therapist: Therapist: um Me: Doomscrolling? What answer are you looking for

The lab motto of the Menard Psych Group.

I'm an academic micro-influencer: Occasionally, my students do what I tell them to do.

I keep thinking about an institution where I interviewed who instead of doing the whole 2-day campus visit decided to YOLO the process with one 45 minute Zoom interview and a 10 minute job talk. I hope they found their perfect match.

working on revisions to a manuscript I wrote years ago and it’s fascinating to edit past me, she did such inexplicable things with punctuation

"I have been scammed in my qualitative research" https://researchintegrityjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s41073-025-00179-7 Bandiera et al (2025) report fraudulent research participants using AI tools to pretend to be part of the relevant study population

Want to set your PhD students up for success during the spring term? I’m available Jan 1-21 to deliver programming w/2 stipulations: 1) must be outside U.S., 2) must help with travel. This isn’t about making money; it’s about serving the academic community (& doing so in places good for my health).

Just found out that my cousin had a baby on Strava??

If you enjoy… Weekends Safe working conditions Retirement benefits Paid vacations Breaks at work Sick leave Paid holidays … then you’re part of the labor movement. Happy Labor Day.

Hello non-American cis lesbians! Would you consider travelling to the USA right now for a convention? Would you feel safe with the visa process and border control given all of what's happening? Do I know anyone who has been recently? One of my friends is deliberating and would like your thoughts

Check out our new publication based on my master’s thesis! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Really wish my childhood crush Dean Cain wasn't competing to see how big of a douchebag he could possibly become. He's retrospectively ruining a lot of happy TV-related memories.

I cannot stress just how important it is to let people have their early Halloween decorations and pumpkin spice drinks and be as basic as they wanna be this year without making them feel some type of way about it. Like, for your own safety.

…Tom Clancy’s Magnificent Sex was sitting right there, waiting for you to use it. Plug your book

I mentioned to a couple of people that I had a surprise waiting to be shared when Moderna got approval for its updated COVID-19 vaccine. It’s approved, and the big news??? Completely produced domestically!!!!! 🥳🤩 Approved as usual for all aged 6mo+!

Tom Clancy's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male.

Ruin any book by adding "Tom Clancy's" to the title. Tom Clancy's Protective Groups in Organic Synthesis

I'm teaching "Tests and Measurement" for psych undergrads this fall and I feel like every bio I read for major figures in the area goes "Psychologist, academic, and proponent of eugenics."

Our 3.5 year old will say "Let's tidy up!", and then stand there and watch us do all the work before walking away telling herself "Good job!!" We think she's going to grow up to become a university administrator.

Parenting manuals: When your child is being resistant, give them the illusion of choice. Me: We need to go into the grocery store to buy cat food. Would you rather bring Curious George or The Hungry Caterpillar with you? My 3.5 year old: NO!!

If you have Jesus in your heart, even the most vanilla sex is a threesome

hear me out here, what if none of it is a 'distraction' and they're just doing a lot of horrible shit simultaneously

Boomers calling into CBC's Cross Country Check Up show about generation stereotypes to explain why the boomer stereotypes aren't true is the most boomer think I can think of. I almost had an aneurysm.

Email from a predatory journal said they hoped I was "fine." I'm not sure what I've done to offend them.

Kind of want to blindly accept the design suggestions from PowerPoint for my undergrad class slides. Sort of a "Jesus, take the wheel" approach.

My 3.5 year old is named Rosemary but so is one of the licensed psychologists who supervises external placements of our PhD students, leading me to receive emails like the following: "Rosemary(big) hasn't figured out the supervision schedule yet."

Black women in higher education, consider supporting this doctoral student with her dissertation research. #academicsky #edusky

Whenever I see on Instagram that our daughter's daycare has been doing STEM-themed activities, I scoff because her father is a real live chemistry professor and she'll get way better exposure to that. And then I realize he'll probably just have her clean glassware for the first few years.

Almost every major university financial fraud is done by administrators...yet note the difference between the comically instrusive surveillance and accountability for faculty over every dollar vs the complete lack of oversight for management spending (or stealing). lfpress.com/news/local-n...

Oh hey our new Voices article is out - on building safer labs, physically, culturally, and psychologically. Featuring contributions from @trantteam.bsky.social, @shufflersunite.bsky.social, @rachael-dickman.bsky.social, and more! www.cell.com/cell-reports...

This is outstanding. Hahaha

I need this daycare virus train to end. I wasn't fully recovered from the cold virus she gave me when I came down with the vomiting virus she had last weekend. Send help.

I do occasionally feel bad for the Dana J. Menard in Minneapolis/St-Paul, who is a financial planner by occupation but is now forever affiliated with a book about great sex because we share a name.

So this is a great example. This post barely made to a couple of accounts. What am I doing wrong on here? Can someone help explain the Bluesky algorithm to me so I know how to get advice out to the right people? It sucks when you want to help students, but your voice gets lost.