Had very honest conversations about using ChatGPT for a class assignment. It was refreshing to have students really engage on what I’m teaching with my assignments and the issues with using AI.

Spouse away. Prepped 2 full meals on Sat & Sun and now have 2 dinners and lunch for the first half of the week. I’m so smart sometimes.

Organizing a conference is a lot.. I’m very tired

Friday afternoon class on a very rainy day and the attendance is abysmal.

But.. I had students asking questions way past class ending. The engagement has been great, even if the numbers are not.

Subject: test mail merge

Subject: test 2

Subject: test I promise this is the last time

a red angry bird is sitting in the snow and says how do you do it ? omg Alt: a red angry bird is sitting in the snow and says how do you do it ? omg

Discovering how to mail merge and sending multiple test emails to my poor students. They are so patient with me..

How complicated it seems when you have never needed to send more than one email at a time or you use an EDL because the message is the same to all.

I can personalize auto- email? 🤯

And this will happen repeatedly for you entire career.

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Mellissa successfully defended her MSc thesis & is closing in on last edits!! Great thesis, great presentation, great discussion.

Her thesis developed a baits enriched transcriptomics for the zebrafish chemical defensome & used it to look at basal expression in liver, gill, gut & kidney!

Every day is a good day when you are playing hockey

Canada lost at hockey this morning..

My team lost at hockey this afternoon. What a way to bookend my day. Shit.

Preparing for a MSc defense on Tuesday and boy am I excited reading this thesis. Such cool data & this will be so much fun!

Mellissa probably does not share this view of her defense right now.

Kid#1 is at the rink as a referee today. Gold medal game goes into OT and everyone agrees to delay game. They pull a tv with extension cord out onto the ice. Both teams, coaches & refs watch the end. Wonder if the teams got instructions of what not to do, before their game started. Lessons kids.

That sucked so epically. What a shitty end to our best game in this tournament

20 min OT is so good. I hate shoot outs. Just play to win.

Of course it’s OT

Nope. That wasn’t it. Too many missed opportunities in this game.

Ok so Horvat’s face may save this? Please make something happen

I can’t handle this. Multiple crazy opportunities that didn’t go in. Too many men not called and now we are on the PK with a double minor. (Yes this is a clear and reasonable call)

Why yes it’s time for hockey. Got my coffee, a cat on my lap & breakfast. Totally normal for a hockey game? No but I’ve always set an alarm to get up for Olympic gold medal hockey. Go Canada Go 🇨🇦

The WilsonToxLab graduate students were all out for GRD. Matt, Max, Jack and Hunter are standing behind Molly & Mellissa. Max is proudly holding his award certificate!

Graduate Research Day for the Biologists! What a great day with presentations by Max and Hunter and a poster by Molly.

Congratulations to Max for winning a best presentation award!

Emailed an apology with my late text for a grant after being sick with a cold last week. Found out I was the first co-I to send in any of the requested text. Hmm. Not really sure what that says about me.

Yes, I have a cold, don’t feel great but have a midterm scheduled for my class. Yes, I am going in with an N95 mask to give my midterm.

One of the hard things of being a prof is not being able to just stop & rest when you are sick. I mean, if you are really sick, you can go on leave. But you are still typically connected to your lab. If you have milder illness & just want a day in bed? Too bad if you have due dates & teaching.

It’s really exciting. The project is one I’ve really wanted to get going and so the $$ will make this possible. My whole lab was doing a happy dance. 💃🏼 🕺

Hmm. Weird. I feel like I’ve been told that by soooo many people. What do I know? First time funded by CIHR. I’m old but still somehow a Newbie. I’ve got that new prof feeling all over again

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It’s official. I am funded by CIHR. First time in my career & so grateful.

The budget cut is bigger than I was expecting, much deeper than the 10% ATB people always talk about. Does not matter.

I look forward to sharing lots of data on reproductive toxicity of chemicals!

Dear people who live in snow regions

1) shoveling the sidewalk is often a city by law. People walking on the snow & trampling it down is NOT enough.

2) I know you are concerned about driving, the roads & yes, the traffic but you still have to look for pedestrians before you cross the sidewalk

Snow day. ❄️❄️❄️

So much snow this January. It’s super weird to have 2 snow days in the same month.

Just in case we are open tomorrow, I’ve moved everything (lecture & tutorial) virtual. Loads of students commute. My class was very empty Friday with people heading home early. Hamilton will have about 35 cm of snow in all, but Toronto up to 60! No need for students to risk getting to campus.

❄️❄️❄️

It’s a cold (possibly very snowy) winter weekend…

Used my base layer & wool socks today to walk down for an appointment

Hockey is canceled tomorrow in anticipation of a lot of snow

Stay warm out there ❄️ 🥶