I’ve talked this up before, but: @slacktivistfred.bsky.social’s analysis of LEFT BEHIND is one of the most formative and useful things I’ve ever encountered, as a writer

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO HORSES! IT IS HORSE BIRTHDAY! HORSE!!!!!

And i think you need a certain generation and level of status to pull off the raw html homepage.

On a related note, "antepenultimate" was a surprisingly useful word in my last choir, three pages is a pretty common amount of score for the last chunk of a piece you're rehearsing.

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That's a good Hwæt! (cf @hwaet.info)

love that software developers are advertising AI functionality in every single app now and it's up to you to try to figure out if they mean "this has spellcheck" or "everything you create in this app will sync in real-time to sam altman's personal laptop" or something in between

Not now, haunted Victorian shoes

Love 2 encounter a weird Schrodinger's login state where I can see my eRA Commons account details after supposedly not being able to log in, but not access my actual grants. I will never not be mad at DOGE for suck-ifying login.gov. But I guess it makes sense: So infrastructure. Very security.

You should be able to respond to reviewer comments with memes to liven up the peer review process.

Improbably, my career's probably going in a direction where this matters to me. Anyone have tips for twitter/bsky researchers looking to *~PiVoT tO ViDeO~*? (Current workflow is I think something, type it, usually delete but sometimes post, and at no point did I check if my hair is brushed.)

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This has been going on in my phone contacts for a while, but parenting a toddler has really upped my speed running the history of last names Mostly occupation/location surnames (Amy Babysitter, Kim Swim Class) and reverse patronymics (Mike Lila's Dad) @gretchenmcc.bsky.social is this documented?

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Reading old court transcripts and, I mean, whomst

this is a work of art

I named my fists Kahneman and Tversky because I’m gonna make your losses loom larger than your gains

It's the pre-atomic steel of our time! (I didn't invent this comparison, but I can't remember where I saw it) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-bac...

This seems to be the viral conversation du jour, so I'm going to record my thoughts in a thread (below) as I watch it: www.dwarkesh.com/p/ilya-sutsk...

I don't usually fly Delta but when I do I wonder if it's called that because the flight is the delta between you and your destination

🚨 THRILLED to share Northeastern University is hiring a new Director for our human Siemens Prisma 3T MRI Center (Associate or Full Professor levels) who will join us as faculty in our Institute for Cognitive and Brain Health! Please share widely! northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

It’d be exciting to think that Bluesky has people pretending to be American like Twitter but I honestly don’t think they could talk about Star Trek Deep Space 9 the way it’s expected here without having watched all the episodes a dozen times

In 2014 I introduced a replication project in my grad research methods class. I taught this version of the class 4 times (no longer teach it). Some tallies: 9 published replication papers; 30 grad student authors; 19 *open* data sets; materials, syntax, etc also open (all on OSF). Check them out 👇

@simine.com has an astonishing combination of intellectual humility, willingness to publicly state unpopular opinions in pursuit of truth, and thoughtfulness about how to deploy that truth-telling for maximum positive impact. Bravo Simine!!

I think it's hard to overstate how much Simine has changed research practices and standards in psychology for the better, despite at times massive resistance from powerful parties with a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. Very well deserved award imho 🥳

There is no reason why systematic reviews can't be open. The data used for synthesis is *already* open and there are many excellent open source tools that can facilitate the easy sharing of analysis scripts. Here's a nice guide for performing open systematic reviews doi.org/10.1525/coll...

There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.

Do you study behavior and/or cognition & wish you spent less time worrying about messy data? Wondering about FAIR data sharing for the 1st time? Come learn about Pych-DS: it's"spellcheck" (aka a data standard) for your datasets. I'll be at VV17 for the final #sfn2025 #sfn25 poster session!

We replicated one of the oldest experiments in Psychology (Triplett, 1898) as a registered report. Children completed a task faster in pairs than when they were alone. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Developmental science is full of all kinds of methodological challenges that turn out to be relevant beyond kid research - Infants stubbornly refuse to fill out surveys, so we built Children Helping Science to capture webcam data. Voice/video consent process at the start of every session.

Also for UX research...

Y'all. N>3,800. !!!!!!! Goodness gracious.

161. Gallup, 1940: "Do you think the unemployment problem can be solved?" (Ed. note: we see here the classic YES!/Yes/NO!/No scale that regularly torments @kathleenweldon.bsky.social and the other good folks at Roper)

Hi there, I'm a research scientist (developmental psychologist) heading to my first #sfn2025 #sfn25. You can find me at my poster on standardizing behavioral / cognitive data (PSTR477, Weds afternoon 1-5pm). I love data management horror stories and I'm friendly - feel free to say hi!

Watch out for Ea Nasir this Halloween!

psssst, five-page forms full of legalese don't support informed consent

A reminder to those of us with international collaborations that it's Temporal Chaos Week!

I met a oceanography researcher the other month at a conference who had a poster about open sensor systems that people in the field use to track currents/temperature/ocean things. Then just as an aside he mentioned that some of the sensors are attached to seals!?! anibos.com

This is not funny, Episcopalians only do this when the country’s in distress

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

this is basically portland's version of a haka