If you're seeing this, you could follow my work on patreon, members get a story a week + more. (I'm trying to get 30 followers this month) You could pick a copy of my flash fiction on itch: lucidillusions.itch.io/forgotten-al... or kofi ko-fi.com/s/d33c50d04d (at spooktober discount) #TBBChat

Unclench your jaw. Relax your brow. Go get a drink of water. See if you've taken your meds Eat something. Doesn't matter what you look like right now, i think you look amazing. Because you do. You're a wonderful person. And have this. 🫂🖤 you did great today. You made it through

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

I’m FINALLY reading The Love Hypothesis and am absolutely mortified that my reason for doing a PhD is almost verbatim what Olive’s is. Although I have enough faith in the psychology/autism research community that someone else would research this if I don’t, so at least I have that going for me 🤷🏻‍♀️

Are you autistic and living in Australia? If so, please consider completing my research survey. It takes 45-60min and will help us understand the experience and impacts of autism identification, to try improve access to autism identification. tinyurl.com/autism-uc14359 #autismresearch #psychresearch

birdposting these guys are SO tiny

Birds being named based on their male counterparts is kinda dumb. Here's a pair of purple sunbirds. The female doesn't have any purple at all, and tbh the male also manages to showcase it's shiny feathers but not the purple ones. #Birds #Photography #nature #BackyardWildlife #EastCoastKin

Me: I’m not a horror girlie. Content/authors/artists I’m a fan of: @lucidillusions.in @vermillionworks.bsky.social @theotherhappyplace.bsky.social The Magnus Archives Midnight Mass Feed by Mira Grant Blindsight by Peter Watts The Thicket by Noelle W Ihli … am I secretly a horror girlie?

Went back and changed the old Knell title cover to the Chapter 1 cover (the art in it will be edited but...later. 😵) and made the Nest of Bones art into the comic title cover at the start of the archives. Not so sure about the text on that one but oh well they're updated PLACEHOLDERS at least. XP

Also, since I’m not normally a horror girlie, there are also non-supernatural stories like this one.

Is it too early for spooky stories? September is basically October, right? Because yall, @lucidillusions.in has some spine tingly short stories on Patreon and they are so good!!!

absurdly small is the best genre of bird

I love absurdly small colourful birds

they use my little garden arch like a climbing gym

New CATI Comprehensive Autistic Trait Inventory. Yep I am still autistic ... try it here ⬇️ www.cati-autism.com

You can get my queer little mermaid book on sale!

I did several of Hugh’s courses last year and this tip was hugely helpful. I now put in my references as I’m writing my outlines and it saves future-me so much time #phdsky

Oh hai Bluesky. I’ve been so busy with uni I’ve kinda fallen offline. But be warned: my ethics application just got approved so I’ll be spruiking my survey real soon. #phdlife

Look at the fluffy feathers 😍😍😍 I mean, I know it’s for warmth but such adorable chonk 😍😍😍

winter parrot

A Eurasian Scops Owl was found being pecked at by crows in a park in Skopje, North Macedonia. Thankfully it was rescued and later released thanks to the efforts of Irina Tosheva and Velian Jagev #owlsintowels Original post: 01 Nov 2023 instagram.com/p/CzEJNBcs4bK

“This little Ruru arrived 168 days ago with a broken leg... his leg had to heal with a cast and then he needed to regrow his tail feathers...He is not a tame owl and was very indignant at being weighed for the last time" #owlsintowels Posted 12 Aug 2020 by SIWH wildlifehospital.co.nz

A young Powerful Owl with a tilted head #owlsintowels "[She] presented with severe torticollis and had to learn to move her head again in the right direction. She was amazing!!" More of Peggy McDonald's work at: HGRC highergroundraptors.com ARRC arccinc.com.au source: instagram.com/p/BNvIDx0hGk5/

omg

misbehavior stems from an unmet need.

#psychology #psychsky #therapysky #therapistsky #cptsd #ptsd

Yup, this is my new favourite mental health app. Tap the link to add me as a friend, or add my friend code FYL8DVT5T6. app.befinch.com/share/dzn5A

The PhD is not a series of sprints. You need to pace yourself.

‘When you see your recipes in a $4 million book’ by RecipeTinEats. Looks like Bake with Brooki has plagiarised Nagi’s work. I hate how common this is - and the perpetrators usually get away with it. It’s partly why I don’t want to write another cookbook. www.recipetineats.com/bake-with-br...

ive been fuckennnnnnn,,,,,, EXERCISING???? ive washed my face and brushed my teeth TWICE every day??? i did all my homework last night even tho its not due til this afternoon?????? incredible

Me, reading a mystery novel in which the murderer tells the protagonist to destroy the USB drives and her laptop with her school assignment research: Are you mad, mate? Do you have no idea how cloud computing works? (The book is set in 2017, but still, we had Dropbox back then)

Oh my. I’ve recently started seeing child-clients at the psychology clinic I’m working at, and this scene from Such a Fun Age hits so hard. My heart breaks for this kid. And also, my brain breaks at the insight this kid has (she’s 3 years old in the book). From the mouths of babes, indeed.

I just submitted my first ethics application for my PhD! Wish me luck. A few more weeks of coursework assignments to submit and then I can finally come up for air again, just in time for my application to (hopefully) be approved.

What's a Magnus Archives statement you would NOT want to follow up? Now you can play through all your fav statements...or, better yet, terrify players with your least favorites. More statements, more weirdness, more Magnus Archives featuring writing by Jonathan Simms! mymcg.info/tangled

Tomorrow we are filming and doing a photo shoot of the finished Mr Sparkle costume and I'm having fun making some props for it. I have the best job!

BTS photoshoot with fire 🔥 #fire #photoshoot #bts

Second request: If you are a professional scientist or science communicator who is at least 18 years old and uses social media (including Bluesky) for professional purposes, please consider taking this survey. 🧪🌎 #SciComm Please help us to share it. umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Random question for immunology folk: why is Hepititis A asymptomatic in young children? What is different in the immune response? I'm struggling to find the right literature... www.aafp.org/pubs/afp/iss... 🧪

fun fact: currawongs actually naruto-run everywhere

I’ve finally set up my Author Spotlight page on Lulu (the printers for my journals) - letting people order direct from the printer so I can go on “holiday mode” when uni gets busy… and also makes it cheaper for the customers because we’re not paying a cut to Etsy 😅

Oh my god i just got an ad for an AI app that let's you put in pictures of people and it makes a video of the 2 people kissing. And it's example was making different celebrities kiss And I was like "that's troubling" But then it shows you can do it with PHOTOS OF YOURSELF AND "YOUR CRUSH" AND NO

Hey there #VisionScience and #PsychSciSky friends - does anyone have a favorite method for measuring artistic experience/ability? We could just ask people I suppose, but I thought there might be some sort of standard drawing task out there. Thanks in advance!

1/3 **The bouba-kiki effect** is the mental association speakers have between certain *sounds* and certain *shapes*. It stems from a famous 2001 experiment in which participants were presented with pairs of random shapes and nonsense word and asked to associate each nonsense word with a shape. 🧵

🧵The complexity of psychological science is curious at times. Take this questionnaire item for example: "I deliberately try to hurt or kill myself" Participants are asked how strongly and frequently this applies to them. (Item from the Youth Self-Report (Achenbach, 1991)) #psychology #science

THE GHOSTKEEPER came out this year! 👻 It’s about taking care of yourself, learning to set boundaries, and coping w grief/death/loss, and it’s 🌈queer🌈 It’s been called “a warm blanket nest”, “gentle and powerful”, and “surprisingly creepy” 👻 so it’s the total package! theghostkeeper.carrd.co

ngl, I've followed this person just to see how this pans out. Also cats.

Friends, you asked for it and we made it happen! I now have (at least) 2 shark research expedition fundraiser charter dates available where you can join us as an individual without you having to arrange a whole group! Be a marine biologist for a day, and support a great cause! Read on for info!

I did my PhD confirmation seminar last Friday, and I think it went well but oh my goodness. No one talks about how anticlimactic it is, since you're not really 'done' until you get that report back. ... or is that just me? #PhDsky

look ma I'm in le temps 👀

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