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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

‘Thippe had a little ‘nip yesterday morning.

Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

Somebody got stuck in a moth trap early yesterday morning (I did not photodocument this indignity). She was surprisingly blasé about it.

A brown tabby Maine coon relaxed on several pillows. She does not have a moth trap stuck to her.

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026

This little cat asked me yesterday to feed her in my air-conditioned room rather than in the sweltering kitchen (this is her usual spot, acceptable again since the temperature has dropped nearly 20 degrees since her very reasonable request).

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/05/2026

‘Thippe was stricken by excessive adorableness while napping.

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/02/2026

The face of a cat who just had a ferocious pitched battle with her own tail.

This brown tabby Maine coon cat is completely worn out.

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/01/2026

‘Thippe would like to know where I hid the nice sunny warm snow-free deck

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/12/2025

What’s better than sitting in my lap? Lounging on a pile of clean laundry waiting to be folded.

A brown tabby Maine coon cat lies curled up on a pile of variously colored T-shirts.

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/12/2025

This poor baby shouted at me from across the apartment after midnight this morning to let me know she’d hurt a paw. There was much melodramatic limping. The paw is fine now.

A brown tabby Maine coon cat is laying on a burgundy fuzzy blanket.

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/12/2025

This cat would like to know where I hid the warm and sunny catio.

A brown tabby Maine coon cat sits on a wooden floor, not touching the snow beside her. There is a sprinkling of snowflakes in her fur.

A brown tabby Maine coon cat sits on a wooden floor, not touching the snow beside her. There is a sprinkling of snowflakes in her fur. She is facing away from the camera

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/12/2025

I’ve finally found out why there’s always a mousie toy in my laundry bag. This little laundry goblin fished one out from under the shelf beside her and dropped it in front of her, while sitting in the bag.

A brown tabby Maine coon cat glares at the camera from where she’s sitting in a blue IKEA bag. There are blue and aqua t-shirts crumpled in the bag, and a small brown mousie toy is in front of her, on a blue shirt.

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/11/2025

Ending #Piemageddon2025 with a pair of chocolate meringue pies. The filling came out lovely, but this are not among my better meringues; I couldn’t get it get it quite to proper stiff peaks. Even worse, the meringues of both pies pulled away from the crust as they cooled (not shown).

Chocolate meringue pie, cooling on a black wire rack.

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/11/2025

#Piemageddon2025 continues with…not actually a pie: behold the banana pudding! For those of you who didn’t grow up with this dessert, it’s kind of like a trifle, composed of layers of vanilla wafers, sliced bananas, and vanilla pudding, with a sprinkling of crushed vanilla wafers on top.

A perfectly composed banana pudding on a wood tabletop. There is a wooden rolling pin behind it that I used to crush the vanilla wafers topping.

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/11/2025

Continuing #Piemageddon2025 fruit pie day: cherry pies. Cherry was last year’s disaster pie (if you bake with frozen fruit, defrost it ALL the way before draining it). My shopping buddy found jarred sour cherries, so I’m hopeful.

A cherry pie, cooling on a black wire rack over a green tablecloth.

Another cherry pie, cooling on a black wire rack over a green tablecloth.

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/11/2025

#Piemageddon2025 day 2: fruit pies. Two very spicy deep dish apple pies. One of my housemates has a hand-cranked apple peeler-slicer-corer, which really sped up the apple processing!

A very spicy deep-dish apple pie, viewed from the side to show off the deepness.

The pie is cooling on a black wire rack over a green tablecloth.

A very spicy deep-dish apple pie, the sheen is from ‘pie wash’ (a 50:50 mix of heavy cream and milk). The pie is cooling on a black wire rack over a green tablecloth.

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/11/2025

End of day 1 of #Piemageddon2025: chocolate chess. I seem to have lost the recipe I’ve used before, so I improvised.

Chocolate chess pie cooling on a black wire rack over a green tablecloth.

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/11/2025

#Piemageddon2025 continues with chess pies. I’m hoping I successfully troubleshot the texture issue this time (I beat the eggs extra vigorously).

Chess pie cooling on a black wire rack over a green tablecloth.

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/11/2025

#Piemageddon2025 is begun! First up, a trio of pumpkin pies (because the One Pie recipe makes 1.5 pies). I got my disaster pie out of the way early by dropping one while sliding it into the oven (fortunately onto a baking sheet that caught the spilled […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

The disaster pie cooling on a black wire rack with a green tablecloth underneath.

A beautiful pumpkin pie cooling on a black wire rack with a green tablecloth underneath.

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2025

Hey birders! Anyone know what this handsome fellow is? And is it weird for it to sitting on a sidewalk, or that it let me get pretty close to it?

A blue bird with a black head, beak, and crest, white ring around its neck, and black and white banded tail feathers. The bird is sitting on a cement sidewalk.

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2025

This is the face of a cat who, earlier this evening, was crying as though her heart would break. Because she could see the bottom of her kibble dish. It wasn’t empty, just didn’t contain enough kibble to completely cover the bottom of the dish.

A brown tabby Maine coon cat lies on her side, paws curled under her chin.

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2025

Byron looking almost as well as he did two weeks ago. He’s on borrowed time, but more of it than it looked like this weekend.

A black and white cat lies in a Chewy box on a wooden porch. He has water and kibble in easy reach. He’s enjoying the sun shining on him.

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2025

Byron having some time in the sun. We are close to the end.

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2025

Byron photoshoot, with some help from ‘Thippe.

A black and white cat lounges on a weathered wooden deck.

A closer view of a black and white cat lounging on a weathered deck.

A black and white cat lounging on a weathered wooden deck, taken from a lower angle so his face is visible. Except than a brown tabby Maine coon cat has photobombed him, standing in the foreground and obscuring his face.

A black and white cat lounges on a weathered wooden deck, looking into the camera.

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2025

Gluten-free brownies: Bob’s Red Mill mix with added Ghirardelli 72% cacao dark chocolate chips

Gluten-free brownies, cooling in their pan

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2025

Gluten-free peach/nectarine with cardamom yogurt cake

Gluten-free yogurt cake, peach/nectarine with cardamom, on baking parchment

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2025

Some baking: chocolate chip cinnamon pound cake, French yogurt cakes with (right) cherries and (left) blueberries

Chocolate chip cinnamon pound cake, on baking parchment

Cherry (right) and blueberry (left) tea cakes, cooling on a wire rack

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/05/2025

I've been assembling the Barbie Dream Lab over my desk at my office. Right to left: undergrad, postdoc (also has veterinary degree), lab tech, MD-PhD postdoc, grad student, second grad student, small dog, PI.

A diorama of Barbies in lab coats. From right, white doll with blonde ponytail in a pink dress, black doll with her hair up, wearing a pink mask and lavender dress, a small pink lab bench, blonde white doll with a pink mask wearing jeans, black doll with long straight brown hair wearing a pink flowered dress, Asian doll with blue hair and pink dress, short Hispanic doll in a pink dress, pink and turquoise large lab bench, tiny dog, white doll with blue and black streaked hair in a striped top and black skirt.

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2025

‘Thippe is currently angry at me because I let the bee she was stalking out a window, rather than letting her find out for herself why stalking bees is a bad idea.

A brown tabby Maine coon cat, laying on a gray towel and an ecru comforter, gives side-eye.

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/01/2025

#Cookiepocalypse 2024 concludes with (gluten-full) jam sandwich cookies, again in strawberry, marionberry, apricot, and chocolate-dipped dulce du leche.

Jam sandwich cookies on a metal pan. These are strawberry and marionberry

More jam sandwich cookies. These are chocolate-dipped dulce du leche and apricot.

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Dr Sian Gramates @drglam.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/01/2025

Anise-flavored natale cookies. I think the rather goth sprinkles I found at the Star Market have improved #Cookiepocalyse 2024!

A pile of knot-shaped anise natale cookies. Half are sprinkled with regular multicolored nonpareils, the rest with purple, green, blue and white nonpareils.

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