Bob Bailey

In honour of the endless debate about shameless lab naming, please join me over at my new professional Twitter home, @BaileyAqSciLab

But I guess since I don’t look much like the guy in the lower right now…

Can’t wait until I look like that guy in the top right in six months!

We had a paper accepted this morning that was in brain since 2016. I am an engineer by training, and never really understood what a catchment was. During my Ph.D. I heard this word, and watershed used a lot. Then, I learned these are topographically derived.

@KirkwoodLab @jeremy_bradbury @WilsonToxLab @seer_lab I think it's practicality and modesty. Naming your lab what it does says it does that great ... others, not so much. Naming it after yourself says it does whatever you do the best it can. When all else fails, go with a catchy acronym and logo!

Yes I became a celebrity by naming my research group the Wilson lab 🤣🤣🤣 If I did topic what would it be? The contaminant pharmaceutical temperature &/or radiation effects on development or reproduction in mostly aquatic species research group? Rolls right off the tongue.

Great opportunity to work with one of Canadian aquatic science’s best.

@YorkUScience @Sharmalab Congrats on being part of the “establishment”. Much achieved and great things still to come.

Congrats to Sapna Sharma @SharmaLab for receiving the Established Researcher Award! Her research program focuses on predicting the effects of environmental stressors, such as climate change, invasive species, and habitat alteration, on lakes. bit.ly/3DFiKNy | #YorkU

@AlbrechtS_H @Sharmalab @YorkUScience @dawnbazely He’s mellowed perhaps.

@NuclearKirk @KirkwoodLab @ontariotech_u Nuance and qualification don’t really work in pandemic messaging. What @NuclearKirk is saying, although true, quickly gets degraded to “might as well not bother” *logic*.

@KirkwoodLab @ontariotech_u We've obviously had this discussion before. Point is it needs a disclaimer saying like "for a specific set of circumstances..." or that "risk is lower than..." Against a background of DC unmasked, colleagues unmasked in offices/outside, relative benefit is lower than a month ago.

@DeninaSimmons An ecology prof at the end of the winter term.

I just watched a fly that was laying "dead" on the window sill wake up and start flying around. Does anyone know what that is called?

Nice to hear the story focusing on applications of marine eDNA on @InfoMorningCB this morning. Kellie White and I are also doing eDNA work at CBU (Biology) with a focus on freshwater mussels of conservation concern!

@dpmckenzie @DrZ_Psych The sweet spot between padding and ignoring important stuff you do might be a generic title (e.g. “History of Conflict at Drive-thru Restaurants”) and then listing the guest spots where you’ve talked about this.

An icy mystery deep in Arctic Canada bbc.com/travel/article… via @bbc_travel

@DrZ_Psych @elita_parto In my experience there are two kinds of people. Good people, who have the paper rolling over the front, and terrible, willfully wrong people. Preference is genetic, or at least epigenetic.

@elita_parto 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 ya I guess. But that can be chalked up to laziness - I feel like actively putting it in the wrong way is passive aggressive somehow 🤔

Really?! After 10 years of marriage he goes and does THIS?!?!

@DrStevenMurphy Thanks to @DrStevenMurphy for hosting a wonderful celebration of Becky. Wonderful to see everybody, albeit for the worst reason. I guess we can feel solace knowing she would’ve loved the vibe. ❤️

Thank you to our community and to the family for a fitting tribute to our beautiful Becky. Rest In Peace my friend. May your smile, warmth and laughter always fill our hearts. I hope you can feel our love. You were the best. 🙏

@elita_parto @DrZ_Psych Reminds me of a joke sign I once saw… “Please put the seat back up when you’re done. I don’t want to touch it either”

@DrZ_Psych You’re lucky that it’s not on top of the toilet paper holder……… just saying!

@Billius27 I think the business model of curbside will keep it around. They don’t have to deal with me messing up the produce, dealing with checkout, leaving my cart in the parking lot... Optimizing all that makes it cheaper for them, like take-out in restaurants.

@tmalsburg A bad English acronym pun… “too much information stats”.

@fireroute19 Sorry, I don't know what that means.

Just read a tweet were someone claimed that large samples are bad because they increase the risk of overfitting 🤦‍♂️

My wife screwed up and said the B word around my toddler and now he's running around the house yelling it. How do I stop this? What if he says it at daycare and the other parents think we're Bayesians?