Had what I hope is my last mandatory OPT meeting this afternoon - regarding Clearing House.

Then I spent a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon following that sitting and drinking coffee and talking about everything from the Academy to M/s to the Chicago Scene with hypatiasghost for something like three hours. It has been way, way too long since I was able to have a ( Read more... )

"Departments, research and courses in sexuality and gender studies are under attack--and what we stand to lose is the important contributions that research and scientific inquiry make to sexuality related policies, programs and interventions. Lawmakers in Georgia and Florida are using 'budget cuts' as an excuse for a witchhunt--targeting sexuality ( Read more... )

Well, the first round of dissertation edits came back - and it was about as bad as I expected ( Read more... )

I realized yesterday that I never, anywhere, cited Roy Baumeister in my dissertation ( Read more... )

An Open Letter to 9th Graders

Armand Cerbone, "White Noise" and LGBT relationships - apply to BDSM/Kink.

I am in the middle of internship applications, a truly gawd-awful process for anyone in psychology - perhaps the best reason for not bothering with a doctorate and only getting a Master's.

Heck it is probably the only reason worth mentioning - but it really is one of those horrible rites of psychology graduate student passage ( Read more... )

Ok, it's not as bad as Bulter (Judith, not W.E. as phoenixprime assumed) but it I have to say that Relational Frame Theory: A Post-Skinnerian Account of Human Language and Cognition edited by Stephen C. Hayes, Dermot Barnes-Holmes, and Bryan Roche (2001) is some of the most obtuse language I've read in awhile ( Read more... )