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...

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”

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

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

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

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.

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!

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)_/¯

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!