There’s nothing better than watching a Republican man wither like a dry flower in the sun when faced with a strong, confident woman. Here, Russell Vought is taken down by Representative Pressley. 😎👏💙😎💙👏😎💙👏

some days are so bleak and wet that you need berry shortcake and champagne for lunch

They called on Mourna at the coffee shop. That's me. I'm Mourna 😩

worst sign-off I've seen is a list of recent publications or accolades. academic cringe has no limit

OMG it paid off to pay close attention to our marina neighbors. We just rescued the tiniest 4-day old seal pup, Bücür, who slid and got stuck btw the inflated inner bottom of a half-sunk dinghy and its outer layer. It was thrashing and howling in panic. Mom couldn't even manage to locate the pup 😭😭😭

Look at our wake 🤩

#Statsky I need your help. If you have a consulting gig or been involved in building a (stat. modeling) consulting center, would you be willing to share your business model, sample contracts/terms/conditions, your approach to recruiting clients... esp. in an academic setting, I'd appreciate it!

comparing notes on public restroom usage patterns with hubby me: women seem to rarely ever fart or even poop in their stall when other stalls are occupied. they often wait until others leave and they're all alone him: well some men come in, fart loudly, and leave

ugh another wave of bot accounts, this time with human names and pics. if you look up your recent followers, you'll see a bunch with the same llm-giveaway post pinned on their page. fyi.

"Is it not also ‘post truth’ to assert expert prescriptions for policy as if these are definitive and non-negotiable ‘sound science’, without mentioning the significant extent to which these prescriptions are also shaped by assumptions, values and interests?" Great points brought up in this post!

likely a niche pet peeve but would be nice if we stopped calling what non-sailing-marine-vehicles do "sailing" since, idk, they don't even have sails?? especially not speedboats that terrorize the seas. they do a lot of things none of which can be described as sailing.

This is the reason hubby is the salad master at home. I'm very impatient when it comes to washing greens. He takes his time & does it so meticulously that and organic division of labor has emerged. He's so good at it by now that we don't like eating salad outside (which may not be the worst thing).

For one of my final editorial projects before rotating off Clinical Psychological Science, I wanted to come full circle and end with the same focus I started with - celebrating the importance of multidisciplinary psychological research journals.sagepub.com/eprint/XEP2G...

Tenants 5 & 6 are having a more exciting evening as Bücür, the runt, has managed to haul its chest up the dinghy for the first time, though may have temporarily misplaced the nipple it wants to suckle on

Reporting from the tenement halls on a quiet evening Tenants 1 & 2 are comfy, tubular, and well-fed

Reporting from the tenement halls on a quiet evening Tenants 1 & 2 are comfy, tubular, and well-fed

TIL the word nincompoop likely (though contested) derives from the Latin legal phrase 'non compos mentis' (not of sound mind)

That's right, millennials can make things better! Also useful advice from the amazing Dr. Kemi Doll: “Treat any menopause advice that doesn’t also mention cancer screenings with suspicion.” (Read her book!)

My first memory of Sam Neill was from Ivanhoe (1982). I was just six and his portrayal of a villainous Norman knight had left an impression. I don't think I've ever seen anyone talk abt that movie (it was broadcast as a TV series on single channel days in Turkey & I'd get impatient for next Monday).

🧪If you’re feeling defeatist and tempted to brush this off because you think they’ll ignore it, know that it can still move the needle for legislators and serve as evidence in future legal challenges. It doesn’t have to be profound. I posted my call to reject these proposed changes, you should too.

This is in part - but not completely - a neutral citation problem. When we cite, we should disclose what we cite something for and what that citation means in our text. Most citations nowadays are 'neutral' in the sense of lacking these narrative indicators. 1/

Especially where it comes to distinguishing research (in all its forms) from reviews (in all their forms) and hypothesising (including opinion pieces/think pieces, etc.), reference labelling matters. It is not that we do not know how to do it - we just don't do it. 3/3

This is a genuinely deep, difficult, and vexing problem

oooooh i'm very tipsy on this blessed sunday afternoon. ama.

for having been on social media so long, i have remarkably little sense of what posts of mine will get interaction. no apparent correlation with my preferences. kinda makes the whole influencer thing seem like fantasy fiction to me. i personally enjoy the randomness and unpredictability of it all.

First barrier: minimization of women’s pain. The pain caused by the tenaculum was not considered important or severe enough to prioritize innovation in its replacement

That article outlines all the ways that science continues to innovate and consistently comes up against the structural barriers and bias that prevent its wider communication

RE: the transphobic gamete nonsense Academic publishing is not suffering from a dearth of problems but from a metascientific POV, we need more research into the harms caused by academic opinion pieces that cosplay as research and are used to Trojan horse baseless ramblings into academic discourse.

decided to bike to deception pass park, underestimated the distance. it took an hour and a half. but now listening to sea shanties against the view of the pass and the bridge. hope we can ride back before it's dark.

ideal reading conditions. bookmaxxing, if you will.

In case it might help, here is a copy of my comment: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Great news: The newborn has survived the night and is already curiously observing its surroundings. Mom found an empty raft to leave the pup on while she goes out to hunt/feed. But she's not going too far away and keeps peeking out of the water to keep an eye on Churu.

oh my, we went for an evening stroll and this seal made noises to us from the dock. we skirted around her, thinking she was showing some attitude. turns out she was about to give birth. now fifteen minutes later, we're back and she's with her baby and some placenta. and we can't possibly pass 😱

i am speechless

how is this real?! also an unplanned cameo.

In 1990, 21,280 Nike sneakers spilled into the ocean... Hubby read the following story in a non-fiction sailing book and I tried to verify. The main story about the floating shoes is true (look up Hansa Carrier on Wikipedia). Scientists' (oceanographers, not flotsamists) involvement is also true.

3 years after publishing my book 'Representational Change and the Use of Metaphors in Problem Solving', this week it has finally become open access www.taylorfrancis.com/reader/downl... I had a thread about it on Tw*r, but I've long since deleted that account, so let me say a few words here: 1/13

This is one of those papers that winds up in a prominent journal and managed to bob and weave past reviewers with statistical training. Starting with the simplest possible thing: 469 effects from 70 experiments but AFAICT, there's no explicit handling of that hierarchical structure.

oh you're confused by paper maps? you'll absolutely love nautical charts that require magnetic variation adjustment.

oooh i am now able to call phrases and sentence structures I dislike, llm-generated '[insert a serious thing]-shaped object,' i'm looking at you! among others

i just had affogato with coffee-chocolate chip ice cream in case anyone cares to know

Thursday is sardine day; every day is #Caturday

What does it all mean? Srsly, what does this inference mean for each research question? Forced commensurability w/o considering model assumptions, enforcing the same analysis on every study, not considering whether %s mean anything within context... How do we research without having to do research

It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.

Reminder time: there are world-class faculty and opportunities for students at state schools all over the US. If it's true in lil' ol' Idaho (and it is!), it's true in your state too

the reason alexander is “iskender” in arabic is that the “al” was regarded as the definite article in arabic instead of of a part of the name. so people assumed the name was “al eksander” (the eksander). eksander later turned into iskender through metathesis and made it to other languages.

apparently perimenopause has decided i should have straight hair now. no matter how hard i try, i cannot manifest my curls anymore 😭 of all the things they don't tell you about getting older as a woman... this hurts.

Why isn't this happening every day, everywhere? That's what's so hard to understand.

what are they planning?

Mt Baker looked very pretty tonight but someone insisted on sharing the spotlight