🚨 New preprint! 🚨 Inform and Do No Harm: A Novel Approach to Reduce Negative Effects of Mental Health Awareness My student Dasha Sandra tackled growing concerns about false self-diagnosis following awareness efforts and found a promising solution. Thread /1 With Zindel Segal

My dog just left my home office to go puke on the carpet in my husband’s home office. I’m taking this as a sign that I’m the favorite.

I love it when my hotel room comes with a complimentary live spider on the bed.

Battle not with cringe, lest ye become cringe

Another nail in the coffin for all these snake oil salesmen. ‘Researchers have now run many studies testing the impact of universal school mental-health interventions and have found that they don’t really improve mental health. When improvements are found, they’re small – a tiny

I googled “is it safe to travel as a woman in Morocco”. Skimmed ~15 recent travel blogs written by women, noticed all featured advice about how to decrease your likelihood of being harassed by men in public spaces, and decided I will not be going. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Y’all have fun though.

An example of selection bias: I (mistakenly) thought academics were getting less annoying, but I later realized most of the annoying academics had moved to that one knock-off website.

Proximity seeking poodles

One year ago I got married. Pretty good life choice. 10/10 Would recommend.

I’m starting to suspect the working bunnies in Eureka Springs are not unionized….

Apparently my fun facts about how many female bats can store sperm in their reproductive tracts is not considered “appropriate” for a family friendly cave tour.

Just found out that “enough ranch to be waterboarded in” is apparently not a recognized SI unit.

Last night my husband and I went to a community theatre production of Into the Woods. His main critique was that the princes’ costumes were from completely different historical eras.

I think I need a bigger couch.

Got this leather chair for my office so I’ll look like a real professor.

Photo taken after both poodles puked, and we had to pull over on the side of the interstate to clean out the backseat of the car.

“Weird isn’t a culture. I don’t have to respect weird.” — Hank Hill