Elizabeth C. Neilson, PhD (she/her)

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 sidewalk and bike lane covered in snow and the road perfectly cleared. One of these is not like the others. A city's priorities become as clear as the spaces they choose to maintain in the winter.

"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

I like that I started that by apologizing when I, in fact, apologize for nothing

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, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91 Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour

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...

Chatbot: Do the same thing you’ve already tried over and over and take forever to respond
Human: Collaboratively and painstakingly troubleshoots to identify the problem (a missing phone number) and resolves it quickly

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

Careers

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)

Important note: the song was a deep track from a Spice Girls album

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

Screenshot of NYMag article, which reads: “All of this leads me to wonder: Has Brett Kavanaugh ever pulled up to a Home Depot to hire a day laborer to work on his backyard? Has he bought fresh-cut mangoes from a frutero? What about getting his car vacuumed and washed by an ensemble of workers? Does he leave a tip for the Central American hotel worker who cleans up his rooms? Has he gotten his hair cut by a Dominican barber? And can he imagine himself interacting with any of these workers, who may or may not be undocumented, during an ICE sweep that lands them in an unmarked vehicle, manned by masked agents of the state, subjecting them and their families to untold trauma until their release, which may not happen for days, if at all? Because I've done all of those things, and I can - and now I wonder if I might one day be swept up with them, too.”

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

Thank you!!!

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

Great Lakes temperatures reach new extremes: 'There are more than 100% increases' A University of Michigan study finds the Great Lakes are now experiencing extreme temperature shifts, affecting ecosystems and economies.

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...