Rebecca Robare
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Rebecca Robare
@robareowl.bsky.social
Scientist and writer, parent of twins, Sherlockian. PhD, Psychology/Cognitive Neuroscience, CUNY Graduate Center, 2010. https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/1935/
Great essay!
November 25, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Exactly!
November 25, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I remember doing the Time Warp…
November 24, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Acting like this is still an open question, as though he hasn’t spent 10 months dismantling the public health system.
November 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
You are all my people
November 24, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Eh, why have a midlife crisis when you can have a permanent crisis? Why let midlife have all the fun?
(43 going just fine, why do you ask? 😅)
November 24, 2025 at 1:21 AM
In 1995, I (then age 13) asked someone with a master’s degree about her career and what advice she had as part of a Scouting project.
“Never accept less than $30,000,” she told me.
1996.
Job ads like that are such an indictment of where our society is.
November 24, 2025 at 12:53 AM
I immediately made up a Paw Patrol plot about why the koi palace needs security… all I can say is, I’n glad my kids have outgrown it! Clearly I haven’t recovered yet! 😅
November 23, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Also my dishwasher had a secret little filter we did not know about at first (moved into house, no manual). Cleaning that sucker makes a big difference!
November 22, 2025 at 2:03 AM
That dress looks great on you.
November 22, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Oh good! I was worried that a “but” was dangling beyond the end there. (Like when the pediatrician told me that lactation consultants love to diagnose tongue ties and they’re always wrong, but then she actually looked at my child…)
November 20, 2025 at 9:11 PM
My sister had her tonsils out to alleviate snoring. The pain was horrendous and it didn’t help at all. (Obviously an anecdote and YMMV.)
November 20, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Reminds me a bit of how Signed Exact English was trying to pitch itself as a better alternative to ASL, but I read about that in undergrad more than 20 years ago and it was 20 years old at the time, so my memory is pretty vague.
November 19, 2025 at 11:51 PM
…it looks like your car gave birth and now someone needs to cut the cord…
November 18, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Fish fingers and custard vibes, there
November 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
My twins (8) were up late last night talking about different versions of folktales they read in school, and yeah, I get you…
November 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I’m glad to hear you put it in those terms, because when I saw the diagram of how the money is flowing the phrase that came to mind was “circle jerk…”
November 12, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Have you heard about @chuckwendig.bsky.social’s sandwich? So surprising, so delicious.
November 12, 2025 at 11:28 PM
As a parent of math kids, I love our school’s social-emotional curriculum as much as the differentiated math curriculum!
November 12, 2025 at 12:26 AM
These bodies have a lot to answer for.
November 10, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Yes, and there’s also the “oxygen not making it to your brain” aspect of anemia, and if your brain starts to glitch emotional stability is the first thing to go, so really we’re getting hit from all sides. 🫠
November 10, 2025 at 10:16 PM