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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 · 1h

this thing was really wedged in there, I was like "huh maybe if i use a thin flexible thing i can wiggle it out" and then "maybe if I chop it in half it will go down the drain"

samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 3h

the american expats in new zealand facebook group is always a joy but it reached new heights yesterday with a completely insane post on a plan to charter a private jet to bring a bunch of people's pet dogs to NZ. "it's pricey, $215K, but if enough people join in, this could work"

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 3h

This surely is true

samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 3h

All the implements I tried, in order of how useful they were

À bunch of tools starting with a fork and ending with small pliers

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 3h

(thank you, thank you very much)

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 3h

(I just spent 20 min dislodging a piece of plastic, probably a former toy part, from the garburetor's vice-grip teeth)

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 3h

Dads, after fixing one (1) thing in the house

You know I'm something of an engineer myself meme

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 5h

(tbc I like all of these journals I am just academically silly on main)

samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 5h

Oops I appear to have made a similar joke before (different attire, same idea)

samuel mehr @mehr.nz · Aug 24

psychology edition

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 5h

While aus/nz academics haggle over hundreds of dollars aus/nz academic leaders routinely waste hundreds of thousands of dollars

samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 6h

Hilarious that it's only a partial refund

"yeah nah the rest of our work is fine! Trust us! Because that worked last time!"

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 8h

never a dull moment on Auckland harbour, today the boat is a teensy weensy one where you can reach down and touch the water

Another great day for ferry commuting!!!

Auckland CBD from the ferry but unusually from a much lower vantage point

samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 9h

samuel mehr @mehr.nz · Apr 19

feast your eyes on my riches, America

Some boiled eggs, peeled, not, and their shells

samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 9h

i mean if anybody is thrilled about eggs on here it's me. i love eggs

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 10h

JEP: General; Psych Science; Nature Human Behaviour

Photo of a Kansas City Chiefs press conference with Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. Reid is wearing a gray suit and red tie with a lapel pin. Kelce is wearing a camp-style short-sleeved shirt with a bird print, along with a suede cap, and Mahomes is wearing a white collared shirt, a pink checkered double-breasted vest, and a pale pink tie.

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 10h

look i'm excited about eggs too but I don't go emailing perfect strangers about it

subject line from NYT Cooking: "I'm excited about these eggs"

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 12h

I am currently in a 7-hour grant review meeting and was expecting leftovers but ok josh whatever

samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 1d

Because I love brisket

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 1d

Whatever happened to that idea of a science twitter conference involving very little science but where we all cook for each other

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 1d

bsky is for laughs; linkedin is for cringe

samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 1d

*Karenough

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 1d

lolol nearly got blown away, it is Very Windy on the top deck today

samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 1d

Another great day to be ferry commuting!! Extra large boat today, I guess the usual smaller ones are out for repairs so I'm on the third floor enjoying the breeze

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 1d

it might be the pettiest thing to be annoyed about but I hate that the sparkle emoji ✨ used to be fun and light-hearted and now has been fully co-opted by AI slop

samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 1d

haha do you play trombone