haven't really posted here much lately but it seems it's picking up so hello! I currently have a 10.5 week old baby so the posts will likely continue to be sporadic, hah.

Qualitative researchers' experiences of methodologically incongruent peer review feedback w/ @ginnybraun.bsky.social @jeffnz.bsky.social @janeemcallaghan.bsky.social @andrealamarre.bsky.social & @joannasemlyen.bsky.social psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Really pleased to have this paper on qualitative researchers' experiences of peer review with @ginnybraun.bsky.social @janeemcallaghan.bsky.social @joannasemlyen.bsky.social out there - open access. We recruited lots of the contributors on the other place... psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

a big ick for me: human research participants being called "subjects"

TFW they are predicting a bad hurricane season and your baby is due in September 😬🙃

dear journals: doing one peer review for you does not mean I've signed up to do one peer review every other week for you.

sometimes I wonder about my choice to leave a mainstream academic path. then I remember I almost never work on weekends anymore, and also that when I left my old institution I then did *free work* (supervision/review) for them for a full year after.

my files are a mess and my blood pressure is low: a pregnant academic story.

A fun fact about me is that if someone asks for an article of mine and I send it and never hear back I assume they hate it (and me) 🙃

first of March and I've already reviewed 9 papers this year...

just over here always being pedantic about how researchers define "recovery" from EDs 😜

For the first time in my life I took the full 2 week time period allotted to doing a peer review rather than feeling self imposed pressure to turn it around in 48-72 hours. Feels good 😂

Microsoft changing its default font to Aptos from Calibri is the best news.

finally deactivated my account at the Bad Place after months of non-use

so as it turns out December 28th may not be the optimal brain work time to try to coax one of the most difficult papers I've ever written into existence...

I get that being concise is important, but also... at what point are we completely losing the story of research in favour of simply presenting raw results?

Being a person who loves walks becomes *complicated* during Canadian winter

I've stopped "getting credit" for peer reviews on tracking sites for a few reasons: 1. there are a bunch & they don't consolidate. 2. they suggest this "raises your profile as a reviewer." I've no interest in raising my profile as a reviewer. I like reviewing but I don't need to do more free labour.

what if I told you you did not need to justify your qualitative research by throwing numbers into it?

I just wrote the date as 2018, so there's that.

I will probably always find it annoying to pay for parking at healthcare appointments.

Absolutely gorgeous walk through untouched snow this morning 😍 exhausting but lovely!!

As a kid Christmas tree getting day was my absolute favourite—maybe even more special than Christmas Day! I’m soooo happy to have a real tree again after 4 years celebrating Christmas down in NZ where they have real trees but I was too worried about them drying out in the heat to get one!

ordering pizza and watching Christmas cartoons tonight. just what I need.

the fact that I have never once submitted proofs without at least a minor anxiety attack is... concerning. 51 papers + 10 book chapters published and STILL. every. single. time.

Is there like some kind of rule that says that proofs must arrive when you are overwhelmed and anxious?

It's been 14 years since my ED day hospital tx admission. I used to celebrate this day as my "recover-versary." I stopped doing that a while ago-not because I'm not doing well, but partly b/c I *am*. That version of me feels like a distant memory. I don't "do recovery" perfectly & I no longer care.

getting my COVID booster today and so naturally I am unable to concentrate on anything until I go do that...

To be honest, until I learned that emetophobia was a thing (probably sometime in my 20s was the first time I heard about it) I assumed everyone felt the way I did about the potential to get sick (read: horrendously afraid, highly anxious, and willing to do anything to avoid it) 😆

me, reaching the discussion section of a paper: "Ok so you get it right? Good. Have a nice day"

I had to go through a roundabout alongside three school buses today and I made it through, please clap.

I have been studying eating disorder recovery for 12 years. and to be honest, I think I've nearly reached the limit of what I can say about it, with the kinds of research I'm able to do, from my particular perspective. don't get me wrong, I think it's important to research & talk about.

recovering from a migraine is always an interesting experience. and by that I mean, pretty awful.

it's a problematic policy to not allow refunds for a conference in these times, yes? in my view this promotes attending even if sick because of being unable to recoup the cost of a conference you *paid to present your work at*

the constant struggle of seeking help with medical things while making sure practitioners understand that due to your ED history you're profoundly uninterested in changing your diet unless there is a *very strong rationale* for doing so.

I'm really annoying about Qualitative methodologies. and most of my learning has been from making my own mistakes, learning more, and doing it differently the next time around.

Fix and Fogg discontinued their coffee maple peanut butter after I left NZ and I can't help but think this is not a coincidence

upcoming webinar with Prof Su Holmes about eating disorders & rethinking what "sociocultural" means www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rethinking...

Maine was fun and scary.

Stopped off for a little stroll in St John on the way down to Maine for the weekend

Summer hair and winter hair are two completely different things.

Simply the best

today in peer review: "we think this manuscript will be of interest to you. The timeline is fairly generous: 4-5 days." it's a farce at this point honestly.

One is never too old to carve a pumpkin IMO.

my only real claim to fame is being born in the same year as Taylor Swift.

I wish I were a resilient enough person to get a COVID booster and flu shot at the same time, but unfortunately I'm not that tough.

just had a journal I don't regularly review for ask me to review & when I said no they emailed me & tried to guilt me into doing it. I do *more* than my fair share of reviews. this was obnoxious.

Hot take: orienting to ED recovery as a process and something you are “in” vs “have achieved” is not “settling for less.” In recovery/“recovered” might look functionally the same on the outside—perhaps we could just let people orient to their own experience in their own ways?

every time I'm working with a new qualitative dataset I think about how sample sizes are sometimes deemed "too small" when in fact the sheer amount of data is very large, not to mention the depth. e.g., the 14 interviews (not even super long ones) I'm looking @ now = more 80 000 words.

Not really the sign you want to see before your hike 😅 (no bears were spotted)