She was complaining about it, and my coworkers and I asked why she didn't just make a sign to put directly on the door. She told us that people get "sign fatigue" - that is, signs work initially, but as soon as your brain starts thinking of it as just another part of the environment you stop seeing/paying attention to them, and the behavior begins again. This is a very real phenomenon!

At the same job, my coworkers and I kept forgetting to put our reagents back in the freezer at the end of the day. We made a Google calendar event to remind us every day to put them away. Same thing, it worked at first, but eventually our brains just assimilated the event notification into the litany of notifications that one ignores over the day, and it stopped working.

Hey everyone! I created this pdf cookbook (full of recipes crowdsourced from friends/acquaintances) to benefit the Anti Police-Terror Project and The Okra Project (the former is a black-led organization working to defund the Oakland police department, among other things, and The Okra Project provides home-cooked, nutritious, culturally-specific meals to black trans folks). The suggested donation for the book is $7, but feel free to give what you can/wish. I didn't want to put it behind a paywall, so if you are not in a position to donate at this time, you can still access the pdf.

The book + the link to donate can be found here: