Great start to a Friday morning: got in early, tidied up my desk a little, got myself organized, opened my computer to find that the WiFi is down yet again.

“Similarly”

Being in grad school is a lot like elementary school except the bully smacking you in the head while yelling "stop hitting yourself! stop hitting yourself! stop hitting yourself!" is actually just you.

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 wearing an oatmeal-coloured cable knit jumper and staring off into the middle distance

Damn even the graffiti in Lancaster is wholesome

The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia was founded in 1855

Not surprised but still disappointed that ASHA changed their Certification Standards to remove references to diversity and inclusion

The thing that breaks me might be the annual compliance training not registering any of my progress and kicking me back to the beginning of each module every time.

Got to give a guest lecture in @reilly-coglab.com's neurocognitive disorders class on the role of the SLP in end-of-life care and I'm so pleased with how it went! This group of MA students is so engaged and thoughtful! Teaching is so much easier when it's not fractions to 12-year-olds!

Farfalle is awful because it cooks unevenly. If the distal part of the bow is al dente, the middle is crunchy, and if the middle is al dente, the distal part is too limp.

Went to the fall fair at my kid’s school today and man, seeing every other grown person wearing a shirt with the Quaker values of simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equity, and stewardship felt like its own mini protest

This is going to be very Steve Buscemi How Do You Do Fellow Kids of me, but man, the bold-faced cheating is just breathtaking sometimes, you know? Back in college, people were at least ashamed of it and tried to cover it up but now they just openly talk about it like it's not super unethical???

Parsimony sounds like it would be delicious sprinkled over a nice roast chicken

Today in New Building Antics, the bathrooms have flooded!

There’s a murder of crows as well as a vulture just hanging out in the hospital parking lot which feels ominous

At the soft opening of the new building in September the ceremonial ribbon cutting scissors didn’t work. I’m taking bets on what Three-Stooges-ass metonymy they’ll manage at the official ceremony today.

It cannot be made clearer. If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

One thing I enjoy about our new multimillion dollar state of the art building is how the wifi goes out at least once a day and they charge you to use an ethernet port

Someone needs to bottle the specific blend of exhaustion and inspiration that conferences evoke. I want to sleep for 20 hours but also write two papers and a poem.

An undergrad stopped me in the gym locker room for help with using "this 80s-ass scale" so if anyone needs me I will be in the old folks' home enjoying my farina.

the US if Tylenol actually caused autism

Wish there were a way of convincing Apple Music that my specific brand of dad rock appreciation does not extend to Duran Duran or Coldplay

Nerds of bsky: do you pronounce lmer() as L.M.E.R, Elmer, la mer, or something else?

In class, watching a video on "the high amplitude sucking paradigm" like damn how'd they find the working title for my dissertation?

My child, who admittedly does not interact with very many men, referred to a mustache as an “up beard” today

I was asked to be the SLP rep at a clinical “speed dating” event (undergrads go around and hear what the various public health disciplines do, prizes are awarded to ppl who match description to discipline) and to my great amusement no one showed up. Stood up! At the mandatory speed dating!

When people ask, "Right before the Republic crumbled, who was doing the best 19th century literary pun stencils?" remember my name.

English needs separate terms to designate "spouse of my sibling" and "sibling of my spouse" and also to come to some agreement on when in-lawing stops. (My spouse's sister is my sister-in-law, but I draw the line at her husband being my brother-in-law! He's just some guy!)

I just think a set of tea towels with the Raven's Progressive Matrices designs on them would be a nifty holiday gift for the cognitive scientist in your life

The invitation (harsh and exciting, obvi) is just over and over announcing your place in the family of things

Squeezing every last bit of summer in before the semester starts on Monday

Weird that Penn has student housing specifically for statistics majors, but ok ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sure am glad all of our stuff got boxed up to move into a building we can’t get into on account of it not being built yet

Turns out Ithaca IS gorges!

Our impending move to the new building means I will no longer have an office, which means no more office door jokes ☹️

This One Weird Hack* Will Boost Your Productivity!!!!! *closing your door and not talking to anyone & periodically rewarding yourself with a Jolly Rancher like a rat in a maze

#CogSci20205 Day 2: my brain is mush, I’ve heard a bunch of great talks, and there is probably dim sum in my future!

Golden Gate Park rose garden!

Excited to head to San Francisco tonight for my first @cogscisociety.bsky.social conference!

The abstract vs the actual results.

I didn’t think Canvas could get worse but OPE

Surely someone has done "hapax legomenon" to the tune of Femininomenon??? Please???

Every day I pass the giant dumpsters overflowing with books the college won’t let us bring to the new building (bc bookshelves don’t fit with the decor) and every day it feels like an editorial cartoon about the state of higher ed

And I’ve got news for you about palalalia…

The photos I have taken in the past 24 hours consist of my daughter’s black eye (she’s fine), flooding on the highway last night (we were fine but holy moly), and a dead bird on a bookshelf in the lab down the hall. Feeling a little apocalyptic.

I'm making a crossword puzzle for my dad's 70th birthday. He is an avid birder. That's still no excuse to use CLOACA, right? Right?

One of my favorite summer activities is going out onto the front porch, peering up at the gathering maelstrom, and announcing, “STORM’S COMIN’, MA!” to my wife.