If you had asked me to guess what decade Sidney Crosby played hockey in, I would have guessed the 1930s. That is not a 21st century name.

Is your day $*&%(🤬? Reminder that Cornell ornithology lab has bird cams to keep your desktop 🪷😌 www.allaboutbirds.org/cams/all-cams/

If this grad school thing doesn’t work out I’m opening a nightclub called Voxel where the dance music is recordings from inside an MRI machine.

One of our lab members was talking about her dog who she suspected had a stroke - she said his bark changed. Me: Oh no! Did he have dysARFria????

I tried to make a joke about Grice’s maxim of relation but the male duck billed platypus has venomous spurs on its hind feet

So the thing about the leprechaun trap that grinds my gears (in addition to its existence) is how it's just a blatant pyramid scheme -- you have put out a little money to lure the leprechaun in, and then when you catch it you're supposed to get its gold in return. Teach 'em young, I guess.

Today, from the prof: "Well, Socrates was certainly being ANNOYING..."

A banner day for feedback tbh 😂

One thing I genuinely enjoy about working as an acute care SLP is walking into a patient’s room when the consult is for “dysarthria” because the presentation is anything from global aphasia to totally intact speech and language

Changing my font to "Glacial Indifference" for an assignment in a display of passive aggression so passive that it bypasses aggression entirely.

New confession now that I know what epistemology means: I still don't understand Bayesian statistics and at this point I'm too afraid to ask.

Shots fired in my philosophy class: "It's like Sartre-- who was stupid -- said..."

Living in the Philly area is like “Well, they’ll get 2” in DC and 20” in Boston, looks like it’s 0”-25” for us”

Cowards

A fun thing about this grantsmanship course is that every piece of advice we've gotten is something that someone else has said explicitly not to do and vice versa

Roses are red /ɬæmpein/ is crisp Babe, I can help With that lateral lisp #SLPValentines

Hey, baby, are you my R code? Because there's something deeply wrong with you and I cannot for the life of me figure out what it is, but damn am I motivated to try.

3 weeks later and I am STILL thinking of the person in the meeting who introduced themself as a "polymath and autodidact." Launched me straight back to undergrad at UChicago (/neg)

Met a friend of yours at the Audubon Zoo, @reilly-coglab.com

The lights in the new building are motion-activated which means if we run participants in the evening, as I am doing now, we are periodically plunged into darkness which is NOT IN THE PROTOCOL, DAMMIT

Me: Yay! I think I successfully removed stopwords from my text! My text, with every stopword removed regardless of spacing: s truth unverslly cknowledged sngle mn posesson good tune mt wnt wfe Me:

good.

Just a reminder in the midst of all of this that shoveling a little bit at a time (yes, even if the snow is still falling) is easier and gentler on your body than digging out from under it all at once.

the Lord is my shepherd, He shaves my entire body to make sweaters

I'm writing a draft of my personal statement for my biosketch and it feels a lot like when you're getting to know someone and they ask you, like, "What's your favorite book" and in that moment you cannot name a single title of anything you have ever read in your whole life.

Well, guess I’m gonna learn something this semester

In honor of another first week of classes, a friendly reminder that you can easily replace,”Please share your preferred pronouns if you have them” with “please share your pronouns” which has the benefit of being both more concise AND less stigmatizing!

High point of the weekend was me realizing seconds before disaster that we probably should not let the nonagenarian on oxygen blow out her birthday candles.

Having to register (and pay for!) for summer camps in January is ludicrous, actually

Went to a painting party and decided to stick to a theme, thus we have Catisse and an homage to Louis Wain

I went to the opening of Macbeth at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Patrick Stewart was there. He sat in the row in front of me and I found it very reassuring to look at his real-life head when Lady Macbeth was displaying his head on a platter.

Me at the beginning of break: I am going to be so productive. Much writing. Very think. Me ten days into break: If I slightly melt the salted chocolate caramel and sandwich it in between two snickerdoodles, it will be A TASTE SENSATION

No Time to Die needs no alteration

Had a nice walk along the canal towpath with my dad, saw this guy and a bunch of mergansers!

I had a joke about Atropos but I had to cut it short.

Trying to get a group of lab folks together is turning into an Abbott and Costello routine. “Reservation is for five” “I thought six? No wait, seven” “Reservation for five for seven?” “No, reservation for six for five” Finally our dearly departed R guy was like FOOD. 1700 HOURS. SIX PEOPLE.

This semester has been about sixteen years long & I finally had my last two classes today.

Don’t watch Shetland because at first it’s just a quiet little detective show and then one day you’ll wake to find yourself telling your daughter “just get a wee little dram down ye” when trying to convince her to finish her milk

I've been thinking a lot about phonotactically/orthographically legal non-words for research reasons but now I'm wondering how hard it would be to build a non-word crossword. I think the challenge would be avoiding accidental real words or acronyms, particularly for shorter entries!

Very alarming time to have a relatively uncommon (and often misspelled) last name and live in Philadelphia

There are five people and five dogs in this house. Call of the Wild meets Lord of the Flies

@reilly-coglab.com my sister in law got angora rabbits. Remind me again how you get the fur off of these guys?

Don’t watch Shetland because at first it’s just a quiet little detective show and then one day you’ll wake to find a text from your spouse that just reads: MORDER?????

Working on the @avcx.bsky.social variety puzzle in between pies & my 5yo keeps asking “can I help? Can I help?” Finally had to explain to her that knowing how to read and spell are prerequisites. Love that energy, though!

Exciting news: this year I can finally say I have made a pecan pie for Thanksgiving for more than half my life.

There was a mashed potato bar at the wedding I went to last night and now I'm wondering whether my wife and I should have a wedding -- it's been 7 years, but it's never too late, right????

Me: our power surged and half our outlets don't work, along with two light switches and the dishwasher. also the porch light Electrician who installed the whole-house surge protector over the summer: did you change the lightbulb in the porch light? Me: EVER HEARD OF OCCAM'S RAZOR, GORDON

Just got bamboozled by PEMDAS in my multilevel modeling class

This is for all stores! Don’t go to your campus Starbucks during the strike!

Not too late to quit, John. Better late than never! www.inquirer.com/politics/pen...