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.

Universities you work for love to be like: 💖 ✨ YOU ARE INVITED ✨ 💖 🪩 🕺 to give us money 💃🏼 🪩

I'm starting to think writers should have to pass a test before they're allowed to use the "unreliable narrator" trope. Looking at you, Alice Feeney.

This International Women's Day, I'm asking whether "hater" is a gender identity or a sexual orientation, because either way, I'm ready to come out now.

‘Daylight saving time’ is also sometimes called ‘daylight saving,’ ‘daylight savings,’ ‘daylight savings time,’ or ‘daylight time.’ So, listen to your heart.

I wrote it up here, with a picture of a mockingbird, and links to data and code. /2

My yearly plea, daylight savings time should take effect at 4pm on Friday and the day called “early happy hour day” and become a beloved national holiday.

Sure, Lex Luthor was all evil and stuff and he wanted to kill Superman at all costs, but was he really worse than Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk? He did employ a lot of people and he definitely funded scientists. Frankly, I'd be willing to give life in Metropolis a shot.

March is the only month that is also a verb wait no we forgot about May never mind as you were

Update: It didn't go very well. Everyone else in Windsor was clearly plotting too.

anyway, protect the dolls or die in a battery fire. seriously fine either way

a Model Y with a “I bought this before Elon went crazy” bumper sticker next to a Cybertruck with a "trans science kills kids" bumper sticker at a red light, getting literally exact the same amount of respect from us

My dog: This water dish hasn't been scrubbed in 23 hours, it does not meet my exacting standards. Also my dog: Ooh, spicy puddle water. Don't mind if I do.

I'm feeling really on top of things lately, and I realized why last week. In Rosemary's first year of daycare, I was deathly sick 1 out of every 3 months. Now I'm not. You can get a lot of shit done when you are not constantly sick/recovering from daycare viruses.

Hey why did the costco ceo actually reply to my email

You've heard of Snakes on a Plane. Now get ready for Dinos in a Submarine (courtesy of my 4 year old).

Behold, the traditional Family Day trifle.

The 2026 Barkley Marathons is over. There are no finishers. #BM100

The old guy who owns the dry cleaning/alteration place looked at my sneakers with their soles peeling away and then asked me 1) how old they were and 2) what I had paid for them. The answers were "15+ years" and "they were free." I can't remember the last time I felt so called out.

Yay the barkleys! during which i cheer blindly at a list of unhelpful nicknames of insane people i dont know as they endure 3 days of sleep deprivation & terrain-and-weather-related torture on a mountain in TN, on purpose, as narrated by a mysterious figure called "keith" #bm100