Therapists bracing for sessions this week

First in person conference in over 2 years #APS2022

A PhD student in 2022 with a Tricouncil award receives $21,000. The cost of living at the poverty line in Montreal that year is $27,948. Adding in-province tuition ($6864) means a total of $34,812 = student $13,812 in debt.

#ISupportGradStudents #ISupportPostdocs #Budget2023 means that people training to be Clinical Psychologists & increase access to #MentalHealth care in Canada can't afford to go to school and support themselves Support Our Science Chrystia Freeland @justintrudeau #SupportOurScience

A CGS-M is the *same* now as I got in 2005 ($17,500/year). My rent for a 1-bed. apartment was $750/month. Just looked up a similar unit, now $1800/month. I care about the future of science. We need to support graduate students if we want to recruit trainees. #SupportScience

Average rent in Kingston 2003: ~700$/mo Average rent in Kingston 2023: ~1600$/mo Inflation in Canada since 2003: 47.3% Graduate funding increases since 2003: 0% ⁦⁦Justin Trudeau⁩ you say you #SupportOurScience or EDI issues? ⁦CIHR⁩ supportourscience.ca

My Masters thesis & first first author publication "Roles of bilingualism and musicianship in resisting semantic or prosodic interference while recognizing emotion in sentences" is finally published in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition bit.ly/3LATAVS