Dr Alexandra Marley

My partner and I are both guilty of this: he thinks I eat too slowly and gets annoyed when I save my leftovers to eat later. Thinks I should eat everything at once.

I think he eats way too fast though and should slow down to enjoy his meals. If he gets full, save the rest for another time.

I was in my 2nd year of a fine arts/arts double degree and was required to do intro linguistics to fulfil my major in European Studies.

It was taught by a notoriously dull lecturer and so had a high drop-out rate. I'd never even heard of linguistics until meeting that walking cardigan!

This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast.

They’ll play this in museums in future.

(🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)

YOU WEAR SIZE 14 SHOES, RIGHT?

Heinous 'killing people is fun' comment aside, is Trump arguing for military enslavement? I'm reading that right, yeah?

My almost-3 year old skipped a nap today and is now in possession of not one, not two, but three tin whistles.

🎺🎺🎺

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Coffee, straight out of my nose.

My 2.5 year old has named one of her dolls Bongus

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Sometimes when I need a laugh, I ask my mum questions about technology:

Mum, what's AI?

Mum, do you know where the cloud is?

Mum, what's the dark web?

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2 ace post-doc positions at UQ on Prof Felicity Meakins' Australian Research Council Laureate project: ‘Amplifying Indigenous Ecological Knowledge in Western Science with Language’.

Get on it!

uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/uqcare...

I have been enjoying more and more linguistics content on here over the past couple of years since I left the Other Place.

I hope we can keep it growing!

After almost 4 weeks, our little boy has finally been discharged from the hospital and we're home!

Can't thank the incredible staff at Centenary Hospital for Women and Children enough for saving the life of our newborn. 💚

Medicare is a TREASURE. Protect it. Don't take it for granted! 💪⚕️💚

The hunchback of Mariah Carey:

Just learned that the Italian word for 'teleprompter' is the same as their word for 'hunchback' - 'gobbo'.

Points if you recognise the song from the "phonetic" lyrics on the screen.

4. Here's some unsolicited advice on managing your own recovery after birth... [From someone who has never given birth]

3. Well, my friend Fiona had 13 kids in the ICU, and she was in labour for 5 days, and she haemorrhaged frogs, and then her legs fell off, then her partner left, and then... Etc.

2. I looked up your baby's condition and diagnosis on Google. Do you want me to send you the search results?

1. What do you think the most traumatic moment was?

What not to say when someone tells you their newborn is in the ICU (a real-life casestudy):

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My toddler having a meltdown because she "needs" a walrus. Not a toy one. Not a picture. She needs to go to a zoo and see a walrus apparently.

And so today I discovered that there are no walruses in Australia.

I once had this cheap phone who's inbuilt autocorrect replaced 'program' with 'pogrom' when I was mass messaging a group of volunteers about their rosters at ICHL... 😬

Not only will I not be billed for my bub and I both having major abdominal surgery this week, we will receive home visits from nurses and midwives to continue to support our recovery.

Love Medicare.

I will be eternally grateful to the incredible medical team at Canberra hospital and I feel so lucky to be living in a country with such a good public health system.

My bub ended up in the NICU and needed emergency surgery just 24 hours after he was born. He's fine now and recovering well but this past week has been the most terrifying and traumatic week of my life.

I was so convinced I wasn't in labour this morning (at 35 weeks) that I took my toddler to a birthday party then when my contractions didn't abate, left my partner and child at the party playing hide and seek and drove myself to hospital.

Anyway, I now have a wee lad with no name yet. All well. 👶

Sweet merciful crap 🤦‍♀️

Came here to say this

"My community’s security will not be possible at the expense of others. That is not safety. It is scapegoating."

Referring to my midwife as a "consequences of sex worker"

This juvenile eastern Koel just arrived in our birdbath. First time overt ever actually seen one (we can hear them all the time though in early summer).

They are parasitic nesters, and sure enough after a minute, a poor wattle bird turned up with a meal for its gargantuan imposter baby...

Summernats has once again blessed Canberra. 🚗💨🍩

I will say this for the hoons:
- they're pretty serious about sun protection
- they really know how to carpool

Canberrans could actually learn something...