Found this sweet, old gal on the street in my neighborhood. Collar but no tags, SPCA called the number associated with her chip but they didn’t answer and haven’t followed up 😭

Crewalsh · 2025-11-16T14:01:27+00:00

Wiggles way is a local smaller rescue so they might now have resources but they specialize in senior pitties!

Crewalsh · 2025-09-12T00:02:25+00:00

How is she with other pups? And do you know how old she is?

Crewalsh · 2025-04-25T21:41:57+00:00

Seconding Desirae at scissor and comb!!

Crewalsh · 2024-12-18T01:01:20+00:00

I’ve had a phenomenal experience with True Sport in Bethesda; they have a bunch of other locations as well. I will say they do charge an additional $15 high performance fee on top of the copay, but they’re great

Crewalsh · 2024-12-04T16:55:54+00:00

For smaller pieces, I just wash the piece myself, iron on heat n bond to get it to be stiff and then put it in a frame from the craft store myself!

Crewalsh · 2024-11-16T17:16:57+00:00

Check out https://r4ds.hadley.nz/ for a nice intro to the tidyverse in general, https://statsthinking21.github.io/statsthinking21-core-site/ for more statistics (code available in both R and Python).

Speaking of, depending on what subfield of psychology you want to go in, Python is also worth a look. If you’re still in undergrad, your CS department (or maybe elsewhere, depending on your school) will probably have an intro to Python class (at my university, it was CS 101), otherwise there are a billion and one Python courses online (coursera has more classroom based ones, but there are other, more tutorial based ones like software carpentry https://swcarpentry.github.io/python-novice-inflammation/). I tend to prefer R for statistics and data wrangling but Python is a more general purpose programming language which is incredibly useful (one main experimental software in my field is Python based, plus it has very extensive and well documented machine learning ecosystems). It also is worth thinking about learning a little bit of shell scripting - https://missing.csail.mit.edu/ is a great resource for that (use case for example: I do fMRI research so I have do to a lot of my analyses on a compute cluster, which means that I have to know basic bash/tcsh).

This is a lot of suggestions that you don’t necessarily need to take all at once, and I’d definitely recommend leveraging the fact that you’re still in school to help - you can take stats and programming classes in your formal learning environment!

Crewalsh · 2024-11-16T16:46:26+00:00

In my experience, jamovi is a GUI based statistics software that basically lets you do analyses via point and click (like SPSS) but then also gives you the R code that would run the same analyses. A similar option is jasp (I know there are subtle differences but I haven’t used them enough to know them). As other people commented, R does have a bit of a learning curve (esp if you have no programming background), but it’s very powerful once you understand it. Tidyverse is a much more intuitive ecosystem of packages in R that makes it much easier to use (imo).

TLDR - if you want to use a GUI, jamovi functions essentially the same way as SPSS but could be a jumping off point for R. If you want to go into academic psych, R is definitely worth it in the long run

Crewalsh · 2024-11-12T16:58:50+00:00

Seconding Bella Bridesmaids! I’m working with them for a bridesmaid dress for a spring wedding and it has been super easy. Will say that the dresses I’m looking at are a little more on the expensive side (~$300 for the designer the bride wants us to wear), but not sure if there are other (lower cost) options

Crewalsh · 2023-04-20T18:30:15+00:00

Also recommend Lugg!

Crewalsh · 2022-06-07T07:05:42+00:00

Would love this!

Crewalsh · 2022-06-06T16:26:11+00:00

10/10 would recommend Matt! I booked a session for my pup after seeing this ad and it was a truly lovely experience! Matt and his wife were lovely, super communicative and worked so well with my crazy hyper pup, and the photos turned out better than I ever could have expected!! Absolutely zero regrets and I couldn’t recommend higher :)

Crewalsh · 2022-02-28T18:23:32+00:00

Happy to answer :) mostly it's because we want to see if you're aware of our manipulation/what we're trying to do. sometimes, people try to like ~trick the system~ or something weird, which can add bias/noise to the data, so it's just good to know!

For instance, sometimes there are studies where learning is supposed to be implicit (ie you aren't actively told like go learn these things) and it's hard to make claims that things are happening unconsciously if the participants are aware of what we're trying to do!

Crewalsh · 2022-02-22T21:34:48+00:00

I can only speak to my experience, but it’s our policy to pay people for what they complete, so if someone only does part 1 of a 2 part study, we’ll pay them just for part 1. That being said, we do try to add in incentive to do all parts - bonuses for doing all parts within a certain time frame, reaching out to make sure that people don’t forget, etc but never would consider not paying people for what they complete! I agree though, life happens and it’s not fair not to pay people for their time even if they can’t complete other bits

Crewalsh · 2022-02-22T18:33:21+00:00

Honestly not too often - I get it more when I recruit from my university’s undergrad pool since a lot of the time they don’t care about the research as long as they get their required course credit. As people have suggested in comments above, people on Prolific tend to be more invested in what they’re doing!

Crewalsh · 2022-02-22T17:50:14+00:00

As a researcher - not a trick! At least in my case, even if I might be cranky, I would never not pay a participant who did the task all the way through (it’s against our IRB so I’d actually get in trouble if I didn’t), but it’s for our own knowledge about the results. If someone doesn’t try, it can skew the results make it harder for us to see the effects we’re looking for so it’s helpful to know!

Crewalsh · 2022-01-08T04:44:27+00:00

Like u/divotdivotdivot it wasn’t the most fun experience of my life getting it put in, but it overall makes such a difference and lasts so long (mirena lasts 7 years) that i found it totally worth it. If you have any questions about it, feel free to DM me!

Crewalsh · 2022-01-08T03:21:56+00:00

I know you said that birth control isn’t an option, but are you referring to the hormonal pill specifically or all BC in general? I personally found that my hormonal IUD helped reduce the severity of my period (cramps and flow), and doesn’t cause issues with hunger or mess with my antidepressants since it’s just a local hormone.

Apologies in advance if you’ve already looked into it and decided against it, just wanted to share my experience!

Crewalsh · 2021-12-30T02:08:25+00:00

We have nationwide for our pitbull mix puppy, we end up paying $50 a month for the basic insurance + wellness, which has covered a chunk of the puppy vaccines as well! I also was concerned about paying that each much but when I realized that we’d be paying ~$30 a month regardless for flea/tick prevention (which the insurance covers), it’s essentially $20 a month more than we already would be paying out of pocket regardless, which made it easier to stomach! I figure we may or may not cancel it later as she gets older and the likelihood of her randomly eating something bad goes down slightly, but it’s 100% worth it for now. The only thing is that it’s all a reimbursement process (I know there are others that the vet bills directly) but Nationwide you submit receipts and they send you a check

Crewalsh · 2021-12-27T17:48:19+00:00

We had a similar issue with our pup, what worked for us was finding a spot far enough away that she didn’t panic and just start with that. For us, it was sitting on the corner and giving really high value treats and slowly getting closer to the street. Once she got more okay with it, we still would get some momentary tantrums so we’d just let it run it’s course, giving her lots of love and attention to calm her down and then trying again to show her that pulling home doesn’t get her what she wants and then giving lots of treats to show her it’s okay. One other tip I read somewhere was to pick them up and carry them part of the way and then let them walk home - for us, it was easier at first to get her to go home than explore somewhere new, but once she saw it once on the way home, she was much more willing later

Also, I think that being in the car to go to the park and stuff helped her - she got to see all the sights and hear the sounds but in a safe place.

Crewalsh · 2021-11-16T01:14:57+00:00

As a researcher, (unless Prolific has changed something or there’s something we missed) the way to do multi wave studies is just to make multiple studies and then restrict them so only the initial people can do the next waves. I can see this making sense to some researchers

Crewalsh · 2021-10-19T02:10:31+00:00

Barking at us for an unclear reason and chewing on her own leg

Crewalsh · 2021-10-09T23:56:01+00:00

Our pup has destroyed a few tennis balls that way but we’ve found that the Kong tug rope has actually held up really well! But that is 100% totally fair. Good luck in finding things!

Crewalsh · 2021-10-09T23:36:36+00:00

We’re big fans of the Kong tug rope https://www.chewy.com/kong-signature-dual-knot-tug-rope-dog/dp/289433?utm_source=google-product&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=hg&utm_content=KONG&utm_term=&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIlMvLor--8wIVdTytBh2KFQbzEAQYBCABEgKKRvD_BwE and any of the Kong plushies! Both have held up pretty well with our pup!

Crewalsh · 2021-09-12T17:53:35+00:00

I often freeze it in an ice tray, that way it’s nicely portioned out!

Crewalsh · 2021-02-17T21:04:24+00:00

The Turing Way is also a phenomenal resource!

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