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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm my daughter's marching band's "official photographer" (not an actual position) and so my quite expensive hobby still involves heavy lenses 😅

Marching band marching onto a football field, drum majors in white in front of band in black.

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

All theories of exposure expect divergence, with some people responding better--so either all of those theories are wrong, or we are not measuring the right thing or in the right way--but that's not the difference score's fault. It's unreliable because your theory is at best poorly specified.

McMahon reaction theme with the steps (1) Our theory predicts change over time (2) Let's test it with a difference score (3) Difference scores are often unreliable (4) Unreliability of the difference score is fatal to your theory

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

New from my lab! So, you've heard that habituation during exposure doesn't predict overall treatment change. Emotional processing theory must be wrong and we need a new theory. But... what if the measurement of habituation was unreliable? Free for 50 days link: authors.elsevier.com/c/1noIo39qZA...

The "always has been" theme with the first astronaut saying "Wait it's all measurement" ("Always has been")

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

More fancy French tea tasting! American Breakfast was a baffling yet tasty caramel affair. Is Russian Breakfast the smoky blend you might expect? From the smell, no. Smells like citrus. Let's let it steep a while...

Bag of Mariage Frères Russian Breakfast Tea.

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The day Katniss came home. Not long after, she got really dirty and I was drafted to give her a bath. She really hated it, but also decided right after that I was her favorite human. (Her sister also came home that day, but she prefers my daughter.)

A kitten loafing in a cat carrier, door open

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Reverse image search suggests it's original...

Reverse image search showing multiple listings with the sticker in question

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My dialect map is like "become ungovernable." It's only really sure I'm not from the deep south. I guess (born in Philly) + (raised in central PA) + (lived in St Louis and Chapel Hill NC the rest of the time) = ...uh, California?

Dialect heat map showing a cold region in the deep south and a bit in the upper midwest, otherwise it guesses I could be from PA (true) or CA (not at all true).

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Never mind I found it, too bad he's not looking at the camera though

Director Akira Kurosawa witnessing a conflagration on the set of Ran.

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I always associate "not out but through" with this anecdote from Carl Jung:

Strangely enough, I had such a case only today. A lady, having set-
tled too much in the upper stories, living too much in the head, and
on a poor footing with the underworld, recounts the following dream:
There was a very dangerous-looking circle of lions. In the middle there was
a pit that was filled with something hot. She knew that she had to go down
into the pit and dive into it. So she went in and was somehow burned in
the fire. Just one shoulder of her jutted out. I pressed her down and said:
“Not out, but through it!”

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Repeat offender. Is our cat a serial killer?

A little chick cat toy face down in a water bowl

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

They say criminals always return to the scene of the crime

A blurry wide eyed cat in the foreground near a bunny toy face down in a water bowl

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

One of our cats has a habit of putting her toys in the water bowl, leading to this grim scene

A bunny cat toy face down in a water bowl

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Well, looking at this one, as an example--over 99% of the variance is within person. I just don't think a single time point, or even quite a few time points, will get you meaningful between-person variance to work with.

ICC showing over 99% variance within person for one protein

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

It's fine (as in small/broken leaves) and the aroma is strong. Inside of the bag has been stained yellow, which I take as a good sign (I like strong Earl Grey otherwise what's the point). It's steeping...

A spoonful of loose leaf tea, showing the small leaves.

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Fancy French tea part deux, Breakfast Earl Grey. Right now my favorite EG is EG Supreme by Harney and Sons. How does this version complete?

Bag of Breakfast Earl Grey tea by Mariage Freres

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Today I am trying...American breakfast tea! But it is expensive French loose leaf tea claiming to be in the American style. Will it outdo Lipton? I mean yes, of course, because Lipton is barely tea (and optimized for iced tea), but still, interesting to see what this is up to.

A small bag of Mariage Freres "American Breakfast Tea"

The tea leaves in a spoon. Nothing too remarkable, a bit on the brown side.

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

A lost episode where Twelve takes Clara to Japan...

The timeline makes it look like Capaldi's Doctor has said: Tomonoura, a harbor town in Hiroshima Prefecture, has captivated filmmakers. Miyazaki Hayao stayed there for two months and used the port as the model for Ponyo. Hollywood also arrived when The Wolverine filmed scenes among its cobblestone streets.

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I read through some of the replies and I guess maybe I'm unusual in that this one hit me particularly hard but that's on brand I guess

god: i have made Mankind
angels: you fucked up a perfectly good monkey is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Men, what is preventing your bathroom bookshelf from looking like this

A small bookshelf in a Parisian bathroom with an astounding array of books in French, including: multiple Kafkas, Ulysses, a book about Edward Snowden, and then a book on George W Bush in office in English for some reason

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

What are the chances that Sweet Carolina BBQ Stack in a McDonald's in the UK resembles anything someone from NC would recognize?

McDonald's menu features "tastes of the tournament" including the theoretical BBQ plus "Mexican Chipotle Chicken."

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Swan training continues apace (not pictured, the ducks that just could not figure out how to get all the ducklings on the same side of the fence going across the water)

A swan with two young swans in the water.

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Swan in training, Regent's Park, London

A swan with two youngsters by the side of a body of water.

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

From: Let America be America Again, by Langston Hughes

Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,
The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,
We, the people, must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain—
All, all the stretch of these great green states—
And make America again!

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

It was a lot of fun! They each played at least one of my favorite songs (Like a Motorway; Sukie in the Graveyard)

Saint Etienne on stage, backed by a drummer, violinist, and back up singer

Belle and Sebastian joined by a large group from the audience, dancing to The Boy with the Arab Strap

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

So Sue Perkins was conducting an orchestra a block away from the flat I'm staying in so obviously I had to go see...

Sue Perkins introducing the next piece to the crowd before conducting it

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The headline and I think the article itself is misleading in that the contributing factor was what kind of job women had, not what each woman did on the job as an individual. To my mind the implied intervention would be "get a desk job" not "lean forward less."

Text reading: Exposure
Information on occupation was retrieved from the Occupational and Industry Register with the Danish 1988 version of the International Standard Classification of Occupations (DISCO-88) from 1 January 2004, and the 2008 version from 1 January 2010 (DISCO-08).17 We used a crosswalk to convert DISCO-88 codes to DISCO-08 codes.18 Women were assigned their occupational job code from the year their pregnancy started. Time spent standing, walking and forward bending ≥30° during working hours was assessed using the PRECISE JEM15 developed in 2025 from a Danish pregnancy cohort.19 Briefly, the PRECISE JEM is a quantitative JEM based on a combination of accelerometer measurements from 403 female workers (109 DISCO-08 codes) and ratings from three experts (all 1171 DISCO-08 codes), using linear mixed-effect models and best linear unbiased predictions. The JEM provides estimates of occupational hours spent standing, walking and forward bending ≥30° while in an upright position for all DISCO-08 codes. The JEM for standing was trimester-specific; therefore, exposure was assigned according to trimester with a 1-week lag. In contrast, the JEMs for walking and bending were merely pregnancy-specific, hence the same exposure estimate was applied throughout pregnancy. The exposure variables were continuous and represent hours per 8-hour workday.15

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I'm at the Freud Museum in London, which is in Freud's last dwelling, a nice house on a street of nice houses. At a guess, largely paid for by fees from American psychiatrists who wanted to become psychoanalysts and so went to Vienna to be analysed by Freud. (Will update if I find otherwise within)

The Freud Museum in London, including a sign quoting Freud calling it his last address on the planet. Two blue plaques (one for Sigmund, one for Anna) can be seen on the large brick house.

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Doing a little Doctor Who site seeing as a treat

The BT tower in London. Back when it was new and called the post office tower it showed up in Doctor Who. I mean look at it. Of course it did

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Trooping the colour in London. (King's early military birthday party)

The king and queen of England in a horse drawn carriage

Jets streaming red white and blue smoke over a crowd near Buckingham Palace

Jets streaming red white and blue smoke overhead

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Have I mentioned in in London now

Trafalgar square, featuring red bus and black cab (and tourists)

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Sculptures at Ekeberg Park in Oslo. Today I learned that the city bought this land to develop a place for factory workers to go to get away from polluted air and the crowds. So then of course a few years later Edvard Munch gets anxious there and has the idea for The Scream. Artists. So ungrateful.

Nordic pixel forest installation (giant strings of colored slights hand from the trees and change color)

The couple sculpture: of the couple you can only see their metal feet, they merge into an undifferentiated blob as they hang between trees.

Sculpture: A hooded figure bows to a totem in the shape of a buff version of the scream. A real hooded crow walks between them.

A hudra sculpture (supernatural creature in the shape of a beautiful woman with a cow's tail.

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The Scream (painted version) emerges for one of its four daily half hour shifts.

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

And here's the Munch Museum from the Oslo Opera House roof, with seagulls.

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

People walking on the roof of the Oslo Opera House (picture taken from ninth floor of the Munch Museum)

People walking on the roof of the Oslo Opera (picture taken from ninth floor of the Munch Museum)

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Jeg er faktisk i Oslo (I am actually in Oslo!)

Karl Johan monument outside the Royal palace, Oslo Norway

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I swear to you I did not rearrange anything before taking this picture, this is actually the way my corresponding bookshelf looks

A shelf of Doctor Who books in nothing like a correct order

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Someone has been gifting faculty with tiny pink ducks for unknown reasons (I mean other than whimsy). I found today I had received one myself. I've set a monster from Doctor Who to watch over it...

A figurine of the great heamovore, a monster from Doctor Who, with a tiny pink plastic duck at its feet.

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

In the biggest vote of confidence yet in my photography skills, my daughter and her girlfriend asked me to take their junior prom photos this weekend. I'm fond of this one from "after" the photoshoot as we headed back to the car.

Two young women in blue prom dresses, one helping to hold the skirt of the other up, walking toward large trees through a field of clover.

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Congrats to the 2026 graduates in Psychology and Neuroscience at UNC Chapel Hill! ...if I called your name I hope I did ok 😅

A sea of Carolina blue graduates standing at the beginning of the ceremony in the Dean Smith Center

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Tonight's entertainment, we took our daughter to see The Happy Fits, who put on quite a show

The Happy Fits on stage, featuring a singer with a cello on a strap. They are in front of a backdrop of their album cover (lips and ivy)

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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

A sowthistle peeking out from the steps down to the beach, Surf City NC.

A sowthistle peeking out from the steps down to the beach, sand in the background.

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