Starting my year off right by throwing out every grain of magic sand in my house.

Let’s swap out the fragile, slowly maturing frontal cortexes of society’s teens and replace them with a soulless, sycophantic pattern recognizing machine designed by hubristic, Ayn Rand obsessed simpletons with no historical sensibility, & whose main motivation is profit maximization. This is fine.

It’s 21% of the world's surface fresh water, Michael, how much could it cost?

I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model

The way this semester refuses to end.

“Oh, you only fight the fights you can win? You fight the fights that need fighting.”

The new Knives Out is great

This year’s RSA symposium deadline

I have learned today that there will be a limited release of a restored 1995 Sense and Sensibility next week and when I say my eyes filled with tears I am not exaggerating

100 years of average January-October temperature anomalies over land areas through 2025... Data from NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0: www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...

I usually avoid dunking on NYT because it would turn into my full time job but I can’t let this pass. You know this is false. You know you are legitimizing fascism. You know more children will die because of this. I hope you are still able to feel shame because this is fucking shameful.

Confession as a Michigan fan: I care more about the Michigan State game than the OSU game. I respect the rivalry, but from a pragmatic angle, I have to interact with way more MSU people than OSU people. Keep in mind, caring is relative. My “caring more” is still very low on caring.

"A city's priorities become as clear as the spaces they choose to maintain in the winter." Creative done with @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

As I always do with boycotts, I urge: be tough with corporations, gentle with individual buyers. For some people, Black Friday sales are the way they get their kids jackets that fit, shoes that hold up to the weather. Yelling at them doesn’t help the cause.

Reboot Frasier except it’s Robin and Steve’s morning radio show

For my musical theater people: This weekend a woman told me that when she and her husband were dating, she told him her favorite musical was “Hairspray” and he wanted to get her tickets but he got them for “Hair” instead. It was his first time seeing a musical

AI is killing the college essay as more professors ditch robot-written papers for in-class exams. So now even fewer students are being taught to write well (an energy intensive task!). Students lose out, bc good writing = good thinking: a training of the brain towards structure, style & substance.

Hey alcohol research folks, is anyone still looking for symposium speakers for RSA? I have some EMA data on rural young adults that I’d love to present but I don’t think I have bandwidth to also organize. Hit me up if you want to hear more!

Learning this news at 9:45pm on a Sunday while folks try to process my tax exempt certificate is somehow a low

As someone who has revamped their psych of gender class assignments to be explicitly focused on critical thinking in response to media, the NYT really gives me a lot to work with

Apologies to everyone who has to be around me for the foreseeable future because I’ll either be 1) watching Diane Keaton movies or 2) quoting Diane Keaton movies at every opportunity

RIFed: Office of Science - CDC Library They have helped SO many of us with their expertise & guidance so we can do efficient & quick research. You don’t need us toiling in Pubmed for days at a time during an outbreak. The library helps us get what we need quickly so we can continue our work.

Jane Goodall was not only a pioneering primatologist, she also campaigned more relentlessly and selflessly for the natural world than anyone I know. A great soul if ever there was one www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

I know I’m preaching to the choir on this but I am trying to get a issue with Delta sorted and the quality difference in experience when they move me from a chatbot to a human is WILD

My department of Psych & Counseling at UMKC is hiring a TT Assistant or Associate Prof who can supervise student assessment training in our Clinical Psych PhD program. Research area is open! We hit R1 status last year and KC is really great. Full ad at www.umkc.edu/hr/careers/ (Job ID 57427)

My child: I don’t want to hear this song again. Can we listen to the pump thing? Me: What pump thing? Child: The one about the pump…in London Me: The lecture about the Broad Street Pump?? Child: Yeah. Sure, why not?

Figured as long as I’m getting myself a little treat, I’ll treat my laptop to being turned off for the first time in six weeks

You’ll be trucking along and saying “ok I’m fine” and then your best friend flies across the country to surprise you, and you cry three times

I never thought I’d say it but truly folks do not have any compassion for my poor nerves

As an elder Millennial woman, I’m sure on a roller coaster ride with this best actor in a drama race

A few questions about Brett Kavanaugh: nymag.com/intelligence...

Devastated to report that the annoying and tedious task of buttering and flouring your mini muffin baking pans will in fact yield mini muffins that easily come out and don’t disintegrate

A million years ago a person on the other place referenced a website or google doc that was a list of eating disordered focused psych internship sites? Does anyone know if this was a fever dream of mine or does it exist?

“The only motive for opposing this is to conceal wrongdoing.” @RepTimBurchett @RepChuck @AndyOgles @RepDavidKustoff @RepHarshbarger @DesJarlaisTN04 @RepJohnRose

The Great Lakes are warming much faster and more than the atmosphere. Not a good thing for many fish species. planetdetroit.org/2025/09/grea...

This 🧵 is long so please bear with me. It is compiles evidence in a historical timeline on how effective #COVIDVaccines are. When a pandemic ends we quickly and easily forget the tools that got us out of it. So here is my labour day gift to you prompted by this headline.

My work computer is onto me

Nothing surprises me more than when I enter my password correctly on the first attempt

London: if ambiguous rain signs were a city

I found a non-exhausted list of Indigenous radio stations that you can donate to in order to keep them afloat after the defunding If anyone has a better list, please let me know, and I will happily repost it (I couldn't find anything on here)

If I send this to you, I’ve been pointing out awkward dynamics in faculty meetings

Every episode we watch of Stick, Daniel says it isn’t as good as the first two episodes, and I explain it’s because there’s not enough Judy Greer.

If you need a distraction, help me with a meaningless (or is it??) task. We are at the point of the summer where it is clear certain objectives will not be met. I do refuse to give up on one: Meme. Vision. Board. So please send me your favorite memes. Relatable memes. Aspirational memes. All memes.

Think I’m going to be done with email for the day

It is wild (complementary) whenever I go to a city where old parents (like me) are entirely common. We were at a playground in Denver today and I swear, 90% of those parents had Jagged Little Pill come out during their formative years.

There are no red states, no blue states, only purple, from Idaho fuchsia to Vermont violet. And in every state there are children, non-citizens, and prisoners who can't vote. In every state where one candidate won, a bunch of people voted for the other candidate. And so forth.

Measles cases surge to record high since disease was declared eliminated in the US www.cnn.com/2025/07/05/h...

My neighbors: setting off fireworks Me, screaming into the night: Read the goddamn room

And then there's this nonsense. WE CANNOT SUBSTITUTE ANIMAL TRIALS WITH AI. We don't even know some of the basics of the immune system bc it's so fricking complicated. AI is based on what we know. Man, I was happier on the plane without wifi. Utter nonsense.