When two over-packers marry and reproduce, the problem doesn't double, it becomes exponential. All I can say is at least we didn't bring any kitchen appliances on THIS trip.

Conferences are fun because it's unexpected encounters with a whole bunch of people with whom you have unresolved emotional baggage with lectures in between.

Today, I signed an Executive Order temporarily repealing bedtimes in the City of New York so that kids of all ages can watch our team in the NBA Finals. As Mayor, you’re forced to make many difficult decisions. This was not one of them. Go Knicks.

Could the next chemist who seed @trantteam.bsky.social at #CSC2026 please tell him to stop butt dialing me?

My brother-in-law once said that you could either run a race to win it or run it while wearing a funny hat. As I prepare my tenure package, it seems pretty clear which route I've taken.

There is a certain breed of men who cannot tolerate criticism of The Godfather. It's gotten to the point where I don't generally share my opinion on that film just in case.

Good luck, #CSC2026: @trantteam.bsky.social and co are on their way.

I felt surprised and dismayed by the comedy writing of "Shifting Gears", but I guess that's on me for picking something starring Tim Allen.

The way my 4 year old can wreak absolute devastation on a tidy space and then walk away without looking back is a level of nonchalance that action movie stars can only dream of.

Art class should never stop being a thing. Like if right after our lunch breaks we all got to go down to the basement, throw on a smock and make collages out of old magazines while somebody's slightly witchy aunt tells us how great we're doing, I feel like we'd all be in a better place

All the chemists I know when it comes to the wild oversimplification of hormones and neurotransmitters.

Achieved a lifelong goal last Saturday:

I think about this post a lot.

This is why none of you should feel bad for the relentless roasting John gets from me on this website. This right here.

Yelling at our dog, Finn, for letting himself get provoked into a shouting match with the neighbour's dog, and yelling at Bodie, our neighbour's dog, for stirring shit up unnecessarily.

Got into a weird argument with a friend and what I wanted to say by the end of it was "I'll bet you didn't read the syllabus when you were in undergrad" but I don't even know that he'd understand why that's an insult.

I had predicted Carolina in 6 for round 1 of the playoffs but I'd like to revise that to Carolina in 4.

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Hey, it's infertility awareness week! Finally, something I'm good at, because it's sure as hell not getting or staying pregnant.

Little Thursday throwback:

My 4 year old threw herself to the floor of the grocery store during a tantrum and then pretended it was a fall. Another little girl saw this and told her mother that it definitely wasn't a fall, and all I can say is that I might be raising a drama queen, but at least I'm not raising a narc.

Popcorn isn't very good.

Leaving "the good candy" at the work office instead of the home office is a good idea up until you want the good candy and there's none available.

An ethics application doesn't get submitted when it's complete, it gets submitted when you're sick of looking at it.

My friend made a Christ Krispie for Easter.

There goes my neighbourhood.

I feel like most of my adulthood since I turned 30 has been contemplating the latest development and asking myself how I got here.

Very sad to report that the reprieve @trantteam.bsky.social and I had because of our 4 year old's language delay is now at an end, and she is fluently repeating curses. Time to borrow a strategy directly from The Good Place, motherforkers.

me: I stole a lot of Kit Kats my AI companion: Listen, we all need a little break sometimes! You deserve to treat yourself! me: I… stole a LOT of Kit Kats my AI: take a breath. You did nothing wrong! Theft is the foundation of capitalism 🙂

It's really fun how when the tri-councils set a grant submission date, those deadlines are chiseled into stone and inviolable but when we're talking about deadlines to get results back to the applicants, it's a much more vibes-based situation.

Sunday pizza time: Quattro Stagioni.

Grant wins: 10% joy, 90% "I said I'd do what???"

Videos of animals being startled by other animals is an underappreciated genre.

If you’re Canadian, PLEASE sign this petition to have endometriosis classified as a disability!!! Living with this incurable disease is horrible, it’s debilitating, it’s even humiliating sometimes. Please give us a break. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

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Spring is the worst of all the running seasons, and I'll fight anyone who claims otherwise in the parking lot of their choice.

My daughter told me she wanted to be a chameleontologist. I thought it was a phase. But she is really into newts and iguanas right now. We dont have anyone at UWindsor who studies them, and she does ask the real important questions like: "what does the newt say?"

The episode of OnPsych with the incomparable @davidjoffe64.bsky.social is back up! #Covid and the Brain

The Menard Psych Group moved into our new lab space last week, and my grad students are coming to understand what it means to be right next door to my office (me endlessly popping in with a series of comments and questions). I think they want to go back to the shared, non-climate controlled space.

The finished product

Honouring my dad tonight by making pizza with his favourite food in the whole world (ham) and his least favourite food in the whole world (pineapple). Ours was a complicated relationship.

It is endometriosis awareness month and I'd love to share some fun facts about it but everything I've learned is just completely fucked up. Do people want some fucked up facts about endometriosis? I've got those.

I sang The Beatles' "8 Days a Week" to my 4 year old earlier this week and now she's taken to singing the "Hold me, love me" part over and over again, but in a lugubrious, Leonard Cohen-style chant. It's...disconcerting.

do I know any surgeons on here? if so, please DM me this is NOT for medical related reasons, this is an economic project guesstimate about anesthetic usage please RT

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My honors thesis student was upset this morning to learn that it's hard to publish non-significant findings and he responded, "But wouldn't that result in a bias in the literature??" So from there, we discussed the replication crisis and I feel like my job is slowly ruining Science for him.

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