Am I the only person on earth who gets out of sorts on breaks? I’m not a workaholic but definitely a creature of habit and routine. A few days at home and I get like jack nicholson in the Shining - well not that bad but still

@carlzimmer.com We modeled brain activity word-to-word during your Fresh Air podcast with Terry Gross in this paper.

Paper alert! (1/2) We examined brain activation for each content word in a podcast relative to incrementally larger ngrams (1-word, 5-words, 10-words) that precede each word with a focus on semantic distance. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Find me in this video of Ronald Reagan visiting my high school in 1988. It’s hilarious. I’m the only one out of 6000 people not clapping or paying attention. Check 48s in. youtu.be/o2ahqxWkFbw?...

Started drawing a rabbit which has somehow morphed into a werewolf. Fur is no easy feat for a beginner artist

One dog pulling ornaments off the tree and running upstairs to hide them under the electric blanket. Other dog so ashamed at this behavior that she is hiding under the kitchen table. Can you guess the bad dog?

Ho ho ho - it's the null hypothesis

It’s the most wonderful time of the year - when I watercolor a bunch of these heads as holiday gifts

I fondly recall listening for my school closing number on AM radio then walking to catholic school in the dark with a clip on tie and wet hair that turned into ice dreadlocks

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Mick is the best of the best!

The Reilly watercolor root vegetable series continues all through final exams. You name the next root vegetable.

They can all go to Helvetica

I recorded a 90 minute lecture on mute. GAHHH!!!!!

Old Country Jimmy Buffet - I tortured the rule to get to this but it was worth it

Painted an onion, and now I’m ready for a nap. Possibly hack away at grading or a journal review, but maybe also I’ll paint a mushroom. The day is young

SO SO IMPORTANT -- bravo to these authors

Was reminded of a lengthy debate in my lab about whether if someone took you to Olive Garden on a blind date if you would go on a second date with them,

I know a guy who irons a Hawaiian shirt

Call for papers 👇👇👇🚨 clinicalaphasiologyconference.org/cac-2026/

Technically I didn’t lie when my dentist asked me today if I’m good with flossing. I am indeed good with flossing. I just don’t ever do it myself.

I'm going on Action News tomorrow with my story about Philadelphia Dept of Revenue putting a lien on my house and referring me to a collection agency for five consecutive years of $0 past due. Nobody can resolve it. It would be super funny if they weren't hitting my credit and dropping the hammer.

Google’s AI summary for ‘do Priuses often get stolen?’ Stated that thieves prefer to steal Priuses for their fuel efficiency and quiet on their way to steal other cars.

I could live in this aquarium store. It would be cool to retire and open an aquarium store — or just to retire

@kaliwoodruffcarr.bsky.social YO!!!

My past due bill for zero dollars from the City of Philadelphia has now been bumped to a collection agency. I’m going down like Al Capone on a logical fallacy charge

In my drawing journey I have hit a wall. I don’t understand force. I’m taking a drawing class where the assignment is to draw little people twisting and lifting things. Try it! It’s harder than you think. Your intuitive understanding of embodied cognition really warps

MOM vs. GRANDMA 1:00 p.m. / Living Room This first fight will center around generational trauma and fruit salad. It will set the tone for the rest of the event. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/you...

You might be tempted to rip open Churu tubes with your teeth. Those things are somehow pressurized like a space capsule. If you open it that way, you’ll get a mouthful of Churu like I did a few days ago.

Grocery store human behavior is absolutely fucked.

So much cat hair. If you find a hair in your review, you’ll know it was me.

Kneecapper

@shaileejain.bsky.social WHOA!!!

Jackson Pollock in the flesh!

Basquiat and Banksy exhibition at the Hirschorn modern Museum - this one is basquiat

US Postal Museum Washington DC. Great museum! Thanks @luciapattullo.bsky.social for the recommendation

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Flamingo at the Smithsonian Zoo in DC

Administered the MoCA to my neurocog class tonight, and less than half of the grad students knew how to draw and set an analog clock to 11:10. Cohort effects are real!

Huge congrats to our lab's summer intern Aryanna Toomer from Howard University who won the undergraduate paper award at the Black in Neuro Conference -- invited to submit a paper on her work to Oxford Open Neuroscience as a freakin sophomore.

I made a giant mistake and shaved off my beard. I look like a weird baby with three chins. I also typed ‘soy museum’ instead of ‘spy museum’

A Soho Sessions benefit concert for AFTD, held on November 5, honored Bruce Willis, currently living with an FTD diagnosis. In attendance were music legends, dear friends, and FTD advocates who all share a commitment to advancing progress toward an FTD-free future. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4oySRFV

Making chex mix, listening to music, and doing a watercolor today. Fuck it.

“When faced with greed, envy, calumny, perfidy, or lies, people […] say indulgently, ‘That's human!’ With an excuse like that, they clearly show that they are renouncing any expectations of generosity or greatness from man.” —Simone de Beauvoir In this new 🐧 📕 ed. @jonathanwebber.bsky.social 👏 👇

The cruelty and smallness of these people has no downward limit

Glorious stuff.

Great Pets of Cognitive Science www.reilly-coglab.com/great-pets-o...

My kid was just admitted to Temple!!! She’s going to college! I’m in tears. What a journey.

Couldn’t recall which philosopher said run from the marketplace. Googled it and the only hits were fundraising half marathons that started in malls

100% going to the prom