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Laurel Brehm @drlearnasaurus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If I got one of these made of our elderly cat, do you think they could accurately portray the eye boogers, drool when being petted, and signature pose of ‘hissing at the children?’

An ad for ‘cuddle clones: unmatched accuracy down to the last detail’. There’s a phot of a dog and a stuffed animal that looks a lot like the dog.

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Laurel Brehm @drlearnasaurus.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

This night heron (wild, native species) who likes to hang out in the penguin enclosure is my favorite animal by far at the Santa Barbara zoo.

A bunch of Humboldt penguins standing on a rock waiting in line for fish. There’s a heron also there too across from the penguin queue— they have the same general coloring as the penguins but different legs and different beak.

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Laurel Brehm @drlearnasaurus.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Seeking Latinx parents of kids who use/once used AAC devices for a BA thesis survey on how to design these tools better. Please feel free to circulate widely.

My name is Arlee Vallin, and I am an undergraduate Biospychology major with a minor in
Speech, Language, and Science Disorders at UCSB. I am conducting a research study examining
the experiences of Latinx families with children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder
(ASD) who communicate via augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices, and
more specifically, understanding parents’ perspectives and experiences with these tools. I am
also interested in examining the different perspectives of each parent within one family.
If you are interested, participating involves completing an online survey that will take
approximately 10 minutes to complete. Your participation is completely voluntary, and your
responses are completely confidential.
If you are interested in participating, please use the link below to access the survey. We welcome
multiple surveys per family; do one survey per parent:
English: https://forms.gle/awN4q1jKRkRXGAtf8
Spanish: https://forms.gle/iN5E7c6NZK4zqt5PA
If you have any questions, contact me at arleevallin@ucsb.edu or Professor Laurel Brehm,
Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara,
lbrehm@linguistics.ucsb.edu. Thank you for considering participation in this research.

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Laurel Brehm @drlearnasaurus.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Lab cleanup today. Found the label maker and also suppressed the urge to label the inside box with ’probably useless shit’.

Clear plastic bins with labels that say ‘cables’ and ‘defunct??’

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Laurel Brehm @drlearnasaurus.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Today’s lecture will include this gem and also a discussion of ‘large boulder the size of a small boulder’

An analysis posed to students about why pope Francis accidentally swore in a speech.

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Laurel Brehm @drlearnasaurus.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Continued coffee obtainment strugs

coffee window is closed due to bees today

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Laurel Brehm @drlearnasaurus.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

you’ll love her other costume too. From a few years back when she was a little less crusty.

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Laurel Brehm @drlearnasaurus.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

my best cat wig yet. (I have made one other)

Crusty white cat being bribed with tube treat. She’s wearing a Rumi wig.

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Laurel Brehm @drlearnasaurus.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Macaroni necklace makes a good cat trap.

A grumpy looking white cat sitting politely inside a macaroni necklace, on top of a stack of chuld set, on a counter in a kitchen.

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Laurel Brehm @drlearnasaurus.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Same, department keurig machine, same

Led screen from a keurig machine that says ‘ NOT READY’

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Laurel Brehm @drlearnasaurus.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Flu and covid boosted— ready for fall quarter baybeee

Me, a late 30s white lady with dirty glasses, giving a thumbs up with two colorful cvs bandaids on my arm.

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Laurel Brehm @drlearnasaurus.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Household cats organized some fun party games for the house today: ‘find the pee’ and ‘pin the tail on the lizard’. Good thing they are cute.

A fluffy dilute orange cat with curled paws showing off his soft tummy. (It’s probably a trap)

Three all white creatures in loaf form: a seal pup stuffy, an elderly grumpy cat, and a beanie baby cat

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Laurel Brehm @drlearnasaurus.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

‘What do you want your sign to say, honey’. 4.5yo:

‘Bad guys are not nice’, a guy with a long nose, and two rows of ‘no no no no’ in orange below it.

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Laurel Brehm @drlearnasaurus.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

They’re giving out free picture word interference stimuli at TJoes.

Stickers of picture with words on them: bagel and ‘everything but’ and a peach and ‘pie’ and carrot and ‘cake’

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Laurel Brehm @drlearnasaurus.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Even Santa Barbara got the message today.

A grey sky over a culdesac in a suburban neighborhood

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Laurel Brehm @drlearnasaurus.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Oh that one is just a side project

One large orange cat and one small white cat spooning.

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Laurel Brehm @drlearnasaurus.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

2000 miles on my child hauling ebike today in about 2.5 years of biking!

A rad power bike odometer which reads 2000 miles

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Laurel Brehm @drlearnasaurus.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

Today was certainly a day for the whiteboard.

Ggptol() — misspelling of ggplot— in crappy handwriting

An elaborate animacy hierarchy and attempt to map animate and inanimate members of categories. Pets= dog cat roomba rock; vehicles = car van horse; cartoon characters = Minnie, Mickey, lightning McQueen

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Laurel Brehm @drlearnasaurus.bsky.social · 05/10/2024

Bowl of oatmeal. To go with her brother, Goldilocks, and the humans, dressed as the three bears

A white cat sitting on her favorite leopard print blankie with a giant spoon and three giant stuffed blueberries

A ginger cat dressed in a fetching blue dress, looking worried

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Laurel Brehm @drlearnasaurus.bsky.social · 07/09/2024

handout prep for 'intro to experimental design' going pretty ok

snippet of a handout with the following text: "Why do we need to think about stats in experimental design? See H&W SGEP chapter ‘Inferring Causality’.

Lord’s Paradox: *you can’t fix design with statistics*
-If groups are not random, but differ at baseline before your manipulation, results differ depending on your underlying causal model & whether you statistically ‘correct’ for baseline

Simpson’s paradox: *not accounting for existing differences can reverse your results*
-If there is a systematic difference within each group, but a larger difference between groups, the ‘true’ pattern gets obscured or even reversed.

and then two figures-- one explains the Lord's Paradox in equations and the other is of the Simpsons.

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Laurel Brehm @drlearnasaurus.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

Update: color is oasis blue. I love it but we’ve gotten more parking tickets already than the last 2 years. (Not our car but same color)

An ‘oasis blue’ (blue raspberry) colored Chevy bolt.

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Laurel Brehm @drlearnasaurus.bsky.social · 18/05/2024

Mobile eye tracking lab for ages 5-60 is set up! Key components: Eyelink duo on a keyboard mount, two participant chairs— one with a baby yoda booster seat, kid and adult size headphones, and a pile of glow sticks, tattoos, and stickers. Photo is my awesome RAs Tanvi and Yoselin.