Dr. Kalen Zeiger (they/he)

I realized I hadn't posted a Rainbow Rule slide on Bluesky yet, so I wanted to fix that. Treat others as they want to be treated. If you don't know how they want to be treated, just ask them. It really is that simple. #RainbowRule #TransPeopleBelongEverywhere

Nougat makes such interesting choices for sleeping. #caturday

About to head to our seats. Nice to have a fun night out.

I keep seeing a push (ads, comments, etc) for politics to be civil and that we need to get away from being derogatory to those we don't agree with. That framing is disingenuous. It presents both sides as being in good faith and that these aren't life or death issues for one side but not the other.

Yesterday while teaching advanced statistics Nougat (cat) chased Cookie (cat) into my office. Cookie jumped up next to me, meowed, then projectile vomited a hair ball and ton of food onto my desk and pants. Nothing in any of my education or career to date prepared me for how to handle that moment.

I'm still salty about a wordle a few weeks ago where the breakdown afterwords told me that while PRUNY (a word every toddler who's taken a bath knows) was a valid guess, it wasn't likely and USURY (a word only specific legal &/or finance career paths know) had been the only likely answer left.

Look at this cool digital sticker. What a good idea.

If you are in the Denver metro area, come see us at Big Pride Littleton!

Thought a cat sitting by a pumpkin was very October. Happy early #Caturday

I told my partner we had the chance to grab some Kathy Griffin comedy tickets if he wanted, that she looked funny and was labeled LGBTQ aligned. Reminder: I have no life outside clinic, academia, and research. Anyways, he did want and we have two tickets for the 23rd 😁

Rice-A-Roni is starting to feel at home.

At the first band concert of the year for our youngest.

Guess where the new doggo is.

We brought home a new family member today from the Humane Colorado - Leslie A. Malone Center. He's a bit over a year old and we are still deciding on a name (no family history, found as a stray, doesn't respond to the name the shelter gave him, etc). I'm petitioning for Rice-A-Roni.

Nougat found out he can push open the sliding closet doors and bring out whatever yarn he wants. He's having the very best day as a result 😹

Look at the lovely sunflowers my partner met me with at the airport yesterday. I thought it was funny, because I met him without Huckleberry chocolate from Seatttle. Between the two of us, we covered the flowers and the chocolate 😁

Let the fun and learning begin 😁

The last of this season's planting plugs came today, all native plants (Woods Rose, Rabbitbrush, Saltbrush, Sumac, etc). I repotted them temporarily and watered them. My husband will plant them this weekend. I'll be in Seattle for Antioch's fall Sex Therapy residency weekend 🙂

Raise your hand if you don’t give a fuck what bathroom people use 🙋🏻‍♂️

I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️

My partner brought me home some strawberries, bananas, and ginger chews. I haven't been able to keep anything at home down yet, but I'm hoping these might stay down.

Disabled and chronically ill people deserve equitable access to absolutely everything that health-privileged people have. 🖤💙😷🥄

Corporations spend more than $1.5 billion a year on union-busting. That’s $1.5 billion they could have spent on higher wages, better benefits, and improving workplace safety. Remember: if they weren’t so scared of worker power, they wouldn’t fight so hard against unions.

so infuriating that trans people worked for decades to get covered by anti-discrimination protections in blue states but when major medical institutions in blue states categorically refuse to give us medical care they freely offer to cis people, blue state AGs just refuse to enforce said statutes

Girls sports are for girls, and trans girls are girls. I'm so tired of this, and sometimes wonder how so many folks don't get tired of constantly punching down when they could be making things better fir everyone instead.

This isn’t about being scientifically correct. It's about presenting a veneer of scientificity to legitimise a process of securitisation: constructing trans people and those who support them as a security threat, thereby legitimising exceptional measures and laws (terrorism) bsky.app/profile/kale...

Saw this at lowes while grabbing clearance plants today. Trans jester or trans clown?

Unironically and very literally, these are the types of measures and results we use in measurement and statistics courses to teach about breaches of ethics and what researchers should not do.

The pets are confused about why we wre on the wrong side of the window.

I just spent 10+ hours reworking all the Advanced Stats I assignments, readings, and resources to use/include jamovi in addition to SPSS, in the hopes it will have less issues for Mac students. Next up is prepping slides for Human Sexuality and Gender Affirming Care. The most fun of times 😅