I just gave a talk in front of my department where everything went wrong
-Slides were wrong
-Tried to connect my laptop instead and it froze
-Battery tried to die
-My text messages were popping up
I told everyone I bet they were paying attention to see what else could go wrong.

Embargo just lifted! A new study with over 700,000 patients shows, once again, that patients have better outcomes when cared for by female physicians. The benefit, as shown in some previous studies, is greatest for female patients.

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Blessed to have 2 Black women professors whose work I've long admired, who treat me like an equal with love & kindness & who find time to email/msg just to check in or uplift me (a little emerging scholar)! Prof Joan Anim-Addo & Prof. Historian ❤️! How academia should be!

We need a SharkTank for Research Grants. I prefer 10 minutes of public humiliation to writing infinite pages. Academic Chatter™

Extremely proud to be presidenting for this extraordinary organisation in their anniversary year ⭐️

it’s going to sound like i’m just dunking on this guy (I am, but not exclusively), but caring a lot about IQ is a strong sign of a mediocre mind. genuinely brilliant people don’t believe in or care about this stuff

Academic Chatter™ Wildlife photography 💕

🦒Lake Mburo, Uganda
🦁Lake Nakuru, Kenya
🦓Bandi, Sénégal
🐘Akagera Park, Rwanda

Still makes me laugh

Academic Chatter™ Playing acoustic (trad and less trad) music in irish pub sessions

Academic Chatter™ Photography and traveling 🥰

Academic Chatter™ Playing drums and yelling!

Academic Chatter™ Photography 📸

Academic Chatter™ All outdoors related things. Hunting, fishing, hiking, camping, etc...

Academic Chatter™ DIYing stuff (home decor), coloring books, thrifting!

What are your favorite non-work related activities/hobbies?

Let's hear it 👇

If moving your research online gave you more free hours in the day, how would you spend your time?
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Excited to announce the publication of my PhD study rdcu.be/dFfZ0 (open access)!
This paper emphasizes again the role of non-autistic community by reporting higher expectations of rejection in autistic people, in line with the double-empathy problem in autism.

God please give me better lab mates in the next life if I end up working in academia again.
ATLEAST ones who understand empathy and logic.

Nicholas Harp (Nick Harp) has been looking at possible resilience factors which might help to buffer against adverse outcomes throughout the pandemic. Find out more here: bit.ly/3ux4eow

Do not tie your identity as a professional to a particular language, technology or framework. You will outlast all those things many times over.