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Alex Crenshaw

@crenshaw.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of Psychology. Couples, clinical trials, stats & methods. Views my own.

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Alex Crenshaw @crenshaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Zuckerberg working really hard to show folks that the book named “Careless People” about him and his company is aptly named www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Alex Crenshaw @crenshaw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Fun fact: this amount of hops will make as many as two 12oz IPAs
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
9/ A month in, I was betting so much that DraftKings’ quick-tap deposit buttons had increased to $500, $750 and $950, making it even easier to mindlessly transfer money into my account. I was also getting pummeled with push alerts inviting me to bet more.
A pile of phone notifications from DraftKings layered on top of one another. Each notification offers a promotion or boost.A dropdown menu reads “Deposit” and shows dollar amounts for $500, $750, $950 and Other, along with a “Slide to Deposit” button.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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Alex Crenshaw @crenshaw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Just as the “DJ as celebrity” movement (vs “weird nerd on the decks in the corner”) did a lot of damage to electronic music and real DJs, the “academic as celebrity” movement (vs “weird nerd in their lab in the basement”) has done a lot of damage to science and real scientists
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Lisa Starr @lisastarr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Fun story. As I was a grad student I published a 1st-author paper on co-rumination in J of Adolescence that got discussed in the NYT (side note, the reporter interviewed me but only named my advisor in the story). Our PR office wanted to build on it for more press, so they wrote up a press release…
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Alex Crenshaw @crenshaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"When it comes to the education of Black children in this country, there is nearly always going to be a struggle. It’s just a matter of which one." Whew, read every word of this. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m...
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In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)
A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The difference between, say, the opioid epidemic and shoving gambling apps in front of everyone is that no-one has plausible deniability about the effects of gambling. It will absolutely ruin lives and families. They may as well be promoting cigarettes. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/b...
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How DraftKings Uses A.I. to Target the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
never forget that our universities fired and expelled people for opposing this
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Alex Crenshaw @crenshaw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
'We've selected a person with literally 0 experience in education to run a massive university system. We're very smart people'
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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 16/09/2026
“Reading it made me wonder if there’s something about America today that selects for spinelessness at the highest levels” This has been a trend among univ presidents for a long time. Declining state support made them into fundraisers - the job is to appeal to the rich and powerful, not resist them
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Tom Rodebaugh @drrodebaugh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In case you missed it--reposting appreciated. If you are working with folks who are applying this year, you may also want to know about this handy list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... that @allisonharvey.bsky.social has organized!
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Accepting Clinical, Counseling or School Psychology Grad Student?
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ResJudicata22 @resjudicata22.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Cartoonist: Daniel Medina
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Alex Crenshaw @crenshaw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A show about people who learned you can acquire fame and money by being a heel on a reality show, where only half get what they want
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💾 grumpers:443 @grumpers.eurosky.social · 12/09/2026
"A short film about hope"
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Brennan Kahan @brennankahan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
***JOB ALERT*** We are seeking to appoint 3 Statistical Methodologists to work on methods related to the statistical analysis of clinical trials, or innovative design methodology. The posts will be based within the UCL Institute of Clinical Trials and Methodology. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Alex Crenshaw @crenshaw.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Really good blog about loneliness and our apparent lack of an internal thermostat, which we have for, e.g., food, to tell us when we need more people www.experimental-history.com/p/there-is-n...
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There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy
OR: hey buddy, your teeth are falling out
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Alex Crenshaw @crenshaw.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I finally paid attention to the lyrics of “what does the fox say?” after numerous listens thanks to my kids, and it’s low key a work of art open.spotify.com/track/5HOpkT...
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The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?)
Ylvis · The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?) · Song · 2013
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
After reading some of the recent pubs and discourse around US higher ed.… I should just stop right here. But here are the three major fallacies of much of what’s out there, three contexts that are missing, and the one big thing that is driving me around the bend (actually already there, but). 1/
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Another way to think about this - this is what your great idea to make class fun/engaging is up against. We can’t always innovate our way through this context
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Alex Crenshaw @crenshaw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Crosses off “missing neocortex and hippocampus” from my “what’s wrong with me?” brainstorm]
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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Impossible to put into words how useless Gmail search is. No wait, these guys did it!
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Paul Stillman @stillman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
My factor analysis prof reportedly used to keep a crystal ball in his office drawer. When people asked him how big a sample they needed he would take it out, stare at it a while, and say '2000.' Them: 'we can only afford 400 people.' Him: 'great, get 400.'
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Alex Crenshaw @crenshaw.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Answer 30 questions only to get classified based on lightning bug and pill bug
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Alex Crenshaw @crenshaw.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I’m just as offended at the laziness of the fraud as I am offended at the actual fraud (This is a lie, but the laziness is also shocking)
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Yale’s Office of Public Affairs banned reporters from Yale’s campus today. It’s corroborated by Francie Diep in her story for the @chronicle.com. This was an attempt to squelch press coverage today of the rally protesting Yale’s attacks on freedom of expression, their pending deal with Trump. 1/
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Ben Gvir posted this video on twitter today which shows fat and happy Palestinians on a conveyer built going through the Israeli "prison" (torture camp) system and coming out emaciated and maudlin. This is textbook genocidal content.
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Alex Crenshaw @crenshaw.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
We’ve dumped billions of dollars over 20+ years to find any evidence that mental disorders are brain disorders, and we’ve found none. Here’s why that means mental disorders are brain disorders
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Red State Universities: we believe in indoctrination and job training Students: we hate that is there another option? Blue State Universities: we promise to have no values except job training. It ain’t enough. My latest. Gift link.
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Perry: Republicans fought ‘indoctrination.’ Now they’re telling students what to study.
The conservative attack on higher education in states like Iowa is hard to watch. But it also provides an opportunity for blue states like Minnesota.
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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Does the new shingles vaccine (Shingrix) protect against cardiovascular disease (CVD)? Yes, according to a new 'natural experiment' study in @natmed.nature.com. But the truth is sadly far less convincing! Pull up a chair and let's examine another peer review failure in a Nature journal. 1/10 🧵
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Alex Crenshaw @crenshaw.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Surely this will get even more play than the race science post doc who got fired
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/08/2026
absolutely quintessential pseudoscience here. you burrow into the academy, either do crap research or none at all, and then start loudly claiming that "the science is settled"
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Alex Crenshaw @crenshaw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
[Jeffrey Dahmer gets fired from his job] 700 academics and counting: “Why did they fire that tennis player?”
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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
There are already plenty of stupid morons in academia but what the racists are demanding is that being a stupid moron should itself be a recognized academic discipline
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/08/2026
If you just happened to pick this week to start yelling about the importance of academic freedom, I sure hope you did more than watch silently for the past 18 months as the Trump administration assaulted everything from mRNA vaccine research to gender studies to the very idea of having universities.
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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Here is the full suspension letter from UGent that was sent to Nathan Cofnas, it shows ample reason for his suspension and potential termination. Including breach of contract, using the University of Ghent’s name and legitimacy to promote his racial supremacist views and causing reputational damage.
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
James Bond: you think I haven’t faced death before? Supervillain: oh, I don’t expect you to die, Mr. Bond. I expect you to suffer. *opens travel funding reimbursement software I think you will find your motorboat rental and casino reservations especially complex James Bond: no. no. pls kill me
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Martin Plöderl @ploederl.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
🔥 Finally, our commentary on the problematic harm benefit ratio of escitalopram to treat pediatric generalized anxiety disorder is published. It took about 2 years and several rejections. With @floriannaudet.bsky.social @joannamoncrieff.bsky.social @markhoro.bsky.social and John Warren 🧵 below
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Alex Crenshaw @crenshaw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Me: unblinding my review for transparency when one of the 6 references I mention “might be useful to review” happens to be one of my papers Meanwhile:
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Alex Crenshaw @crenshaw.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
How did I miss this tweet before. I’m laughing so hard I’m weeping
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Alex Crenshaw @crenshaw.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
New paper! We find that the Reliable Change Index (RCI), used to statistically evaluate whether an individual patient improved, is operationalized so inconsistently across clinical trials in psychology that results are often incomparable... (1/n)
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
My only rule is to scribble down a question, however broad or bland, for each panellist. Then if one of them isn’t getting any questions, you can throw one in to get them going.
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Alex Crenshaw @crenshaw.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I feel ambivalent whether preregistration should be standard for any experiment. But when interpreting clinical trial results, knowing a bit about the history, I treat studies pub’d before the era of mandatory trial registration with extreme skepticism. Hard to defend the 1st thought given the 2nd
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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.
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Alex Crenshaw @crenshaw.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
A reminder if you need a printer and are frustrated with the options because they suck. Just buy this Brother printer. It's fine www.theverge.com/23642073/bes...
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Best printer 2023: just buy this Brother laser printer everyone has, it’s fine
Do you really want to think any more about printers than this?
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Alex Crenshaw @crenshaw.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The version in the couples literature is “we threw all these variables in a model together to see what is most important” and it’s a rampaging epidemic
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 23/07/2026
In Nepal, HIV outreach workers left jobless by U.S. foreign aid cuts turn to sex work to survive, walking the streets alongside the very people they once fought so hard to help.
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Sex work or starve: Aid workers in Nepal left jobless by USAID cuts turn to sex work to survive
After the United States slashed its foreign aid funding last year, more than 280,000 aid workers worldwide lost their jobs.
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Leah Banellis @leahbanellis.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Sensing your body (‘Interoception’) is everywhere in theories of mental health. But when we tested how well hundreds of people sensed their heart and lungs, the link to symptoms was almost nowhere to be found. 💣 🚨New @natmentalhealth.nature.com paper 🚨🎉 asks why 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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