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samuel mehr

@mehr.nz

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i am a cognitive scientist working on auditory perception at the University of Auckland and the Yale Child Study Center 🇳🇿🇺🇸🇫🇷🇨🇦 lab: themusiclab.org personal: mehr.nz intro to my research: youtu.be/-vJ7Jygr1eg

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 6h

decentralizing science wouldn't be the worst thing tbh?

samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 6h

I suspect the next 10 years in academia will be marked by the proliferation of talent across universities globally, such that good universities outside the states, who aren't necessarily as front-of-mind globally as the harvards and stanfords are, begin to pack more of a punch

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 6h

I would have made a pumpkin pie too but canned pumpkin is pretty annoying to track down in Auckland (and who wants to pay extra to have it shipped to your house when in north america it costs like $5 for a big can.....)

samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 6h

in "top academics voting with their feet" news, economists and nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee are leaving MIT and moving to Switzerland at Universität Zürich

Nobel Laureates Duflo and Banerjee to Join UZH

www.news.uzh.ch

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 7h

We also had pierogis 🥟 which I guess is also a Canadian Thanksgiving thing?

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Richard Hills @richardhills.bsky.social · 11h

Thanks to the North Shore for having me back as your councillor. I’m proud to be the highest polling councillor on the Shore again and with the highest vote tally of any councillor in Auckland this time around.

Please read my long post here: www.facebook.com/share/176XZv...

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 7h

Jeez they must be doing well

samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 9h

Well that was delicious happy 🇨🇦 Thanksgiving y'all 🍗

Roast turkey, cran, stuffing, roasted dveg, cornbread

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 13h

well George is a bit smaller than I realized and is already all done. better early than late I suppose!

on to potatoes while he has a bit of a rest

samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 14h

That's a pan it's on, not the bottom of the oven (yikes!)

samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 14h

my memory is pretty hazy but I also only really became aware of them in Someday's last gasps....

samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 14h

I think it was still open when I first started working w/ tosci's ages ago but that was just before it went under. I remember our drivers were always annoyed about Someday management asking for one thing, him delivering it, and then complaining that he hadn't brought something else

samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 14h

Someday was before my time and it was a total mess, apparently; it was in the days of Davis being a lot more rough than it is now. having to put in security system after security system to deal with addicts shooting up in the bathrooms etc

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 14h

ah yep yea I used to run into Joe R often when I ran the tosci's kitchen but totally separate business and different vibe (very suburbs vs. city imo)

samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 14h

Toscanini & Sons was replaced by The Biscuit which was around in the 2010s when I was in grad school and was great. I wrote there often & went on several bad coffee dates there (and a few good ones). I think they went under a few years ago sadly

samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 14h

for awhile there was a place at Hampshire and Kirkland called Toscanini & Sons, which had replaced a great sandwich shop which was around when I was a child (Panini). they were unaffiliated with Tosci's but, confusingly, bought our ice cream wholesale and resold it

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 14h

just two when I was around (Harvard and 899), then we closed the Harvard shop (I have some of the old art here in NZ!) and for awhile there was also the Someday Cafe which was a different thing

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 14h

(Rancatore's ice cream isn't gus fwiw it's his brother, different company)

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 14h

Hahah 'empire'

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 15h

George is in and starting to crackle away. NZ turkeys are small which is convenient as NZ ovens are also small (last time I did it with a huge one and had to cook it on the BBQ!)

An herb rubbed turkey in oven with stuffing

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 15h

taking a five minute break while oven gets sorted. i would really like to have a second oven

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 16h

So far so good. Pie cooling, stuffing done, cranberry done, getting oven ripping hot for an hour before George the Turkey goes in.

Couple more hours for stock to cook down, potatoes and veg and cornbread next

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 17h

Blueberry pie going in

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 18h

Sam Sifton's opens his excellent cookbook THANKSGIVING with the line "Thanksgiving is not easy."

I appreciate honesty in cookbooks

we're doing Canadian Thanksgiving in NZ today with some other expats. Stock and cranberry sauce are on the stove. Spouse and kid out for supplies. It begins.

Screenshot of Sifton book with "Thanksgiving is not easy" opening line.

Cranberries, orange zest, sugar, salt, water in pot

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 1d

stayed up wayyyyy past my bedtime and just sent a much longer, much better draft of the thing to the guy. please clap

samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 29d

sent a draft of the thing to the guy please clap