Dana Menard
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Dana Menard
@shufflersunite.bsky.social
Clinical psych professor in Southwest Ontario. Researching resilience as it relates to sex, sexuality, and gender. Author of "Lessons from an Early Career Therapist" and co-author of "Magnificent Sex." First wife of @trantteam.bsky.social
Hey @jonathanconp.bsky.social! Get your shit together, I'm not made of streak freezes!
November 16, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I love how the daycare workers present problems to me as though might have insight or solutions: "Takes off her coat if you turn your back for 2 seconds? Yeah, that sounds like a real pickle. Let me know if you figure something out, will ya?"
November 14, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Me, to the departmental secretary, after I've locked my keys in my office. Again.
November 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
My husband's cousin is 10 years younger than us but just had her 2nd baby. Way to respect the birth order, Claire. Geez. Kids these days.
November 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
It's church Xmas bazaar season, motherfuckers!!
November 8, 2025 at 3:29 PM
A friend and I were talking about Mamdani's mayoral win at the age of 34 and he said, "What are we doing with our lives??"
Dude, Gillian Anderson talked about my book on her podcast. As far as I'm concerned, I'm done. I can coast until I die.

www.routledge.com/Magnificent-...
Magnificent Sex: Lessons from Extraordinary Lovers
Winner of the 2021 SSTAR Consumer Book Award! What makes sex magnificent? What are the qualities of extraordinary erotic intimacy and what are the elements that help to bring it about? Is great sex th...
www.routledge.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I need a spotify playlist called "Songs to nag co-investigators by."
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Petition to the House of Commons e-6811: Enforce the Canada Health Act! Sign House of Commons petition calling on federal government to enforce Canada Health Act (Ontario Premier Doug Ford is violating by allowing illegal user fees in private clinics).
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
www.ourcommons.ca
November 4, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Throwback to Nov 3, 2013. My dad had this framed and in the front entrance of his house.
November 4, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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If you are a Canadian scientist 🧪 alarmed by the unfair targeting of academics working on research related to EDI in the US ➡️

Turn your attention to our own House of Commons' Standing Committee on Science and Research and consider signing this open letter:

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Open Letter to Protect Tri-Council EDI Data
Why do we need urgent action to protect our data? The mandate of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Science and Research is to review and report on topics relating to science and research in ...
docs.google.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Reposted by Dana Menard
Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications:
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
October 30, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE

SECOND INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE OVER ZOOM TO MEET MORE OF THE TEAM

UNFORTUNATELY, YOU HAVE NOT BEEN SUCCESSFUL ON THIS OCCASION, BUT WE HOPE YOU'LL APPLY FOR FUTURE POSITIONS WITH THE VAMPIRE
November 1, 2025 at 6:34 AM
In preparing my lecture for next Thursday, I just found a typo in the textbook chapter that specifically focuses on intelligence testing. I'm fairly certain that proves something about my intelligence.
October 31, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Halloween seems like a fun day to reshare my paper with Angela Weaver and Christine Cabrera on which characters die in Slasher films and why: doi.org/10.1007/s121...
“There are Certain Rules that One Must Abide by”: Predictors of Mortality in Slasher Films - Sexuality & Culture
Slasher films, a popular and lucrative sub-genre of horror movie, are often thought to be characterized by violence, gratuitous sexual content and specific, repetitive tropes; however, although these tropes have been widely discussed and even parodied, there is scant research examining their validity. Thirty top-grossing slasher films (10 each for the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s) were subjected to content analysis at the level of the individual character to examine the factors associated with character deaths or survival. Characters who were shown nude on screen, who dressed in a revealing fashion, who did not engage in fight behaviors against the antagonist and who engaged in fewer types of pro-social behaviors were more likely to be killed. Several common tropes of slasher films (e.g., virgins survive, ethnic minority characters die) were not supported. The implications of these messages of which characters are depicted as “deserving” of survival are discussed in terms of gender, sexual scripts, and agency.
doi.org
October 31, 2025 at 12:38 PM
This is bad. Call your MPs, please. I didn't share data with SSHRC and CIHR going back 20 years for this.
Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications:
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
October 30, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Every year, I'm reminded, with a shudder, that one of my friends is a Christmas loon, who will be putting her tree up this coming Saturday (i.e., the day after Halloween). She's perfectly normal otherwise, you'd never know about this aberrant behaviour unless you're Facebook friends.
October 30, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Important article about what's happening in Ontario psychology. Let your MPP know it's not acceptable!

www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/9846de1...
Improving access to psychologists shouldn’t mean dangerously lowering our standards
Ontario’s regulatory body is slashing the requirements to become a licensed psychologist, which is a threat to the most vulnerable seeking mental health care
www.theglobeandmail.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:29 PM
@joshuagrubbsphd.bsky.social Are your ears burning? We're talking about your model at the Canadian Sex Research Forum in Vancouver.
October 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Please consider participating in or sharing the recruitment advertisement for our new study, which is focused on understanding body image in bisexual women. The link is in the alt text.
October 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Presenting at the Canadian Sex Research Forum yesterday!
October 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
October 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I was not prepared for how much of parenting is spent looking over at what your kid is doing it, assessing it, and saying "Eh, that's probably fine."
October 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Do American researchers have to explain why they only recruited American participants or is that special feedback that editors/reviewers reserve for Canadian researchers? Also, I'm getting pretty sick of having to explain why it's good to have data specific to my own country.
October 17, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Want the highlights from our latest #menopause research? Check out this article in @psychologytoday.com

@cygraham.bsky.social @menopausesociety.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This photo made a chill go down my spine.
This was Jean Piaget, for those of us who are constantly asked "why is your desk/table always so cluttered with papers"
(I think @sbmost.bsky.social first posted this somewhere a few years ago).
October 17, 2025 at 1:20 AM