Sometimes, when I'm walking, I use the Google assistant function in my phone and verbally tell it to set a reminder for me to do something important. Usually this works great. Sometimes, when the reminder comes up days later, I can't decipher what Google wrote down for me:

Remember, it’s technically only imposter syndrome if you’re good at things

Check out my lab member's entry to a CIHR IHDCYH short video competition. Here is a short video on the rise of aggression from COVID: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbv5... Here is the link to vote (vote for Suzanna Dinh): cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/54519.html

I was just talking about this with my measurement class last week - just that simple face validity check to see if it seems like this scale actually seems like it measures what it says it does.

Well, it took less than 24 hours after I posted for my "to do" list to double in length and for me to feel almost completely overwhelmed again. Yay.

Aka me at a conference 🫣

Now that I've submitted my latest grant application I suddenly feel like I have SO MUCH free time!! Going to savour this moment before I remember all the things I back burner-ed while I wrote that grant 😬

Guilty

in a culmination of @shaynagram.bsky.social's attempts to turn me into a sex r*searcher, i'm excited to have been able to share my work on sexual minority men's experiences of discrimination. mental health, and the buffering effects of having same race / co-ethnic partners at #CSRF2025

Here's my grad student doing a killer job presenting his poster at #CSRF2025 He helped me resurrect a neat project where we looked at condom negotiation and relationship power in men's sexual relationships with other men!

Can't believe I'm lucky enough to see @ygirme.bsky.social present at #CSRF2025 this morning! ❤️

Can the BDSM/kink community teach us how to make consent more sexy? Is it considered verbal foreplay? Sometimes! But power dynamics still seem to influence consent behaviours in this community. Such interesting work this morning at #CSRF2025 !

My thesis student did an amazing job presenting the work from her independent study project with me! ❤️ #CSRF2025

Greetings from Vancouver! We're here for the #CSRF2025 conference and went out for our first SCWASH Lab & Friends dinner!

Journaling is a nice part of therapy. A lot of similar thoughts from day-to-day.

I have missed collectively celebrating the team that I grew up cheering for. From George Bell catching the final out in 1985 to Alomar tagging Eckersley in 1992, Joe Carter meeting the moment in 1993, the Batflip in 2015, to this moment. Enjoy it. Nothing is guaranteed. Let’s bring it home.

How much do millennials hate using the phone? Well, tonight, while I was putting our toddler to bed, my partner spent 25 minutes struggling with the website and the app for a pizza place. TWENTY-FIVE MINUTES. Before giving up and just calling them to make our order.

Eternally grateful that my past self knew I would be bogged down with something and completely forget to set up something for a course I'm teaching. A reminder popped up on my phone this morning and I literally said "what the?... Oh yeah!" out loud. Thank you past self.

Just to be super clear, if you’re phoning in your peer review to ai you should quit your job so someone else who actually likes science can have it.

I got my flu shot and covid booster today ⁦‪at ⁦‪cvs pharmacy‬⁩ and I’m feeling great (bring it on, virus season; you won’t slow me down!). These vaccines are waiting for you too!

Ooh that feels good to fantasize about 🥹

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Today we followed up our lab meeting with pumpkin carving - I just love the energy that is coming together in my lab this year! 🎃❤️ So grateful for these incredible scholars I get to mentor.

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand. "Let's set a meeting" (Okay probably widely relevant outside my profession, but very applicable to me)

Happy Thanksgiving folks! May your glass of sparkling always be half full. ❤️🍗🥂

Yup. Happy Thanksgiving. 🇨🇦

im very happy to announce that ive transitioned into my new role as an assistant professor at toronto metropolitan university (TMU) and im accepting applications for a graduate student to join my lab starting Fall 2026! joining the psych department at TMU is a literal dream come true 💙💛💙💛

Tonight my MIL remarked that my faculty position seems like so much work. 👍 Then stage-whispered to my partner "at least she gets the summer off" 😂😳😐😩😭

Do men rely only on women to prevent pregnancies? How do masculinities, critical consciousness, and contraception intersect? Our project's final paper is part of this month's issue of Culture, Health, and Sexuality. Check it out here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @tandfresearch.bsky.social

Watching the deadline for this grant application tick inevitably closer and closer every day while I scramble to assemble the components - but trying to stay optimistic:

here are some helpful steps for academics who are considering creating genAI images to use for lab branding: 1. don't

Hi #canadian researchers - please sign this petition to help ensure funding isn’t cut to tri council agencies (NSERC, SSHRC, and CIHR). We’re looking at potential 15% cuts to ALL federal spending including grants win.newmode.net/canadianasso...

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

📅Save the date: CIHHRC, @cahr-acrv.bsky.social, and HIV in Motion are hosting a Café Scientifique on November 27th at 12pm EST. This free, virtual event will feature research and practice updates on HIV, Aging, and Rehabilitation. Registration is now open! forms.office.com/r/sRmnWpSLGx

Last week, the Ont govt announced that psychologists will be getting prescription rights. This next week, our psych college announced that in response to govt pressure, the new standard to be a psychologist will be 1/3 of the training we currently require. This needs to be public.

Always need to remember to account for the time it takes to force myself to work on a grant application (instead of procrastinating with other tasks) when I consider my time estimate of how long I need to work on it. 🫣

Holy Cow - read the whole thread 🤯

Tomorrow is World Contraception Day. In 2022 we searched for participants for our study on the choice of contraception by people with testicles. The current fascist backlash trying to silence marginalized voices was already a problem as some quotes indicate journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Has this been done before?

Currently attending a conference & our field is quite a bit into fancy modeling, so it’s time to repost this blog post. Don’t try to squeeze your research question into whatever model is fashionable right now; try to build the right model for your research question. www.the100.ci/2024/08/27/l...

"It looks like you are trying to do literally anything. Would you like to make it worse using AI?"

Yesterday I looked at my Google calendar for Tuesday and was so excited because it looked like I finally had a day with no meetings! Then I realized I had to book a meeting for Tuesday morning, and as I did that in Outlook, I saw a second meeting in the afternoon that I'd forgotten to forward. 😔

Gupta: It is safe. That’s what the best-quality research shows. And how irresponsible, using the podium of the WH to put this out there when you’re not even offering an alternative. That is dangerous. An untreated fever is dangerous. Untreated pain in pregnancy is dangerous.

Best part of my job. I can have a crazy wrong idea, test that idea, and then say—well, that crazy idea doesn’t work, but I’m glad I tested it.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

Pleased to announce that my chapter with Phil Kavanagh @martakowal.bsky.social about how to apply evolutionary theory to study romantic love has been published in the International Handbook of Love (2nd ed). link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...

I'm doing the same.

share.google/JdfJcbjKb6jq... New headshot just dropped! 😎

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