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Samantha Joel

@datingdecisions.bsky.social
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Social psychologist, relationships enthusiast, Associate Prof at Western University. socialmeasureslab.com

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Alex Elizabeth Byrne McMillan @undeniablyalex.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK
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ceej @ceej.online · 05/10/2026
we don't have time for another plague apocalypse. we already did that. we're on to robot apocalypse now, try to catch up. next in line is fungal apocalypse. please consult the schedule
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
clearly, we need an AI summary of the thread
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Justin Mogilski @justinmogilski.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Found it. I’ll encourage them to apply.
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In the 8ish hours since the announcement went out about this mini-conference, I have arranged my whole summer travel plan around it.
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
IARR is hosting a mini-conference in Brazil this summer! June 23-25. Who wants to go see amazing science and beaches and mountains with me?
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Umm... rude. Accurate and very rude.
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ooooh IMPS is in Vancouver next year! Nice
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Meta-science/methods improvement people: What are your favorite conferences?
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Ryan LaRochelle @rlarochelle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I have a piece in today's @bangordailynews.bsky.social where I argue that we need to defend the broader goals of higher ed: developing engaged and worldly citizens who know how to think critically and are prepared for democratic self-government. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/09/24/o...
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Opinion: Higher education is about much more than career preparation
“Post-secondary education has always been about creating an educated citizenry to benefit individuals and the nation as a whole.”
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This thread reminds me of the time my university press office set me up to do an AMA on reddit, and instead of calling my analysis technique "machine learning" (which is basically just regression with extra fancy steps), they called it "AI". No way to edit the title 😬
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The university press's job is to get the university in the press. As a researcher, your job is to push back, push back, push back on anything they write about your work that isn't completely scientifically accurate.
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It's like a learning vibe, maaaannnn. We're gonna like, really dig into the gnarly details, y'know? It's gonna be radical! 🤟
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This level of make-work coming from people who did not personally put in the work would infuriate me to no end. You have far more patience than I do.
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If the Streisand effect is getting attention because you don’t want attention, the Sheeran effect is getting drawn into politics when you don’t want to be drawn into politics
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I think every supporting act has withdrawn at this point, and also the band?? Is there anyone left? This is incredible.
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
After much consideration, I've decided that I too am pulling out of Ed Sheeran's tour.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 14/09/2026
When we talk about how science is broken, maybe at least consider how a huge collaboration measured the ripples in spacetime resulting the collision of two black holes 1.3 billion light years away, as counterweight the guy who had to fake his data to show that people who procrastinate fall behind.
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I do not want a Briefing or a summary Please just go away - a Haiku about AI
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Unofficial CP24 Mirror @cp24-mirror.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
#BREAKING: Ontario Science Centre laying off entire science department
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Ontario Science Centre laying off entire science department
The Ontario Science Centre has laid off 30 workers including the entire science department, The Canadian Press has learned.
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
1. No 2. Mount Allison University/University of Toronto 3. 2006/2008
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 28/08/2026
This matches my pet theory that people mostly answer questionnaires based on vibes, and so certain specific aspects about the phrasing matter very little.
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Noah Pevie @noahpevie.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
As someone who had the misfortune of reading this McMaster review article during my comps (which focused on, among other things, top surgery & multi-level meta-analysis), here are responses from plastic surgeons discrediting the McMaster review article:
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 20/08/2026
if spreadsheet people was ever meant as an insult, i am reclaiming it. my columns and rows are beautiful even if others don't see what i see within them
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Works in Canada!
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The bottom line is: it's 4pm on a Wednesday and I'm not wearing pants. I'm just never giving that up.
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Since the advent + proliferation of LLMs, I feel like a lot of folks have forgotten that regular programming/scripts exist
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Huge congratulations to Emily and Dave for launching their aggression measures repository! AggreScale!! 🥳
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
So how far back do I have to click to confirm what this is about? (the answer is more than three months, or 90 clicks, ask me how I know)
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FuzzyWuzzy in Toronto🇨🇦 @fuzzywuzzyto.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This is how it's done. www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nov...
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‘Heated Rivalry’ author donates $300,000 to Nova Scotia libraries
Several Nova Scotia libraries that faced possible closures this summer are getting a major cash boost from one of the province’s most famous authors.
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
For the record, the proportion of professors at Cambridge who are Black is 0.4%. The number of Black people in the UK population is 4%. So the number of Black professors at Cambridge is ONE TENTH of what you would expect in a meritocracy.
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Well, I think the thing is that any social media platform could serve those goals, if we all used it. The effectiveness of any given platform depends on how many of us are on that platform. And it looks like a critical mass has picked LinkedIn (the most consumer-oriented option available).
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
LOVE this. I totally agree - culture is what we collectively make it.
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This is amazing. Do I heart it? Do I clap? Do I "support"?
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Right. And that kind of self-promotion is important, especially for folks on the job market. And that's always been LinkedIn's thing. But it also seems like a key place where people are posting papers/findings and having academic discussions now? That feels like a new niche for LinkedIn.
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I triple dog dare you to go on there and post a meme.
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Seriously. Everyone is on this thing! And it's so professional. So corporate. Where are the shitposts? Where are the memes? Friends, what are we doing??
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Devastated to learn that academics use LinkedIn now.
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The Metacheck team is busy building an improved version of the osf_download function (www.scienceverse.org/metacheck_bo... ). You will soon be able to use metacheck to download all files, wikis, and meta-data. You will also be able to upload everything to Zenodo.
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36  Checking Local Files with repo_check and code_check – The Metacheck Manual
A guide to Metacheck, an R package providing a module based tool for checking scientific manuscripts and data repositories for best practices using text search, R code, and optional LLM queries.
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
My feed really, really wants me to follow Barack Obama.
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
My lab generally does postprints - we share the article once it's accepted. We don't usually do preprints because we expect the article to change, often substantially, as part of the peer review process.
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Your post made me log into LinkedIn for the first time in at least six months, and once again try to get the lay of the land over there. And... I think your hatred is entirely rational.
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
noooo say it ain't so
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I think that securing the resources to allow unlimited file storage forever from a free service is an impossible task, especially in the current landscape. This is definitely the right move. And we're all so grateful to you for everything you've done, Brian.
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Melissa Baker @melissabaker.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Live look at me telling psychologists about Harvard dataverse after the OSF change email went out
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Jamie Cummins @jamiecummins.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
A brave and tough call to make. It's hard to overstate how influential OSF has been on science in the past ~15 years. It's been such a staple that you'd almost forget how much cost, time, and effort it must be to keep going. Kudos to the OSF team for everything they've done.
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Dare to dream big. It's possible to go skydiving AND eat shredded cheese straight out of the bag.
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simine vazire @simine.com · 10/08/2026
Special issue at Psych Science on psychological science in the real world! Send us your best work looking at whether effects from the lab (or from theories) hold up in ecologically valid settings. Submission deadline: 15 January 2027 www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
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Special Issue Call for Submissions: “From Lab to Life: Psychological Science in the Real World”
Editors: Roni Porat and Vishnu SreekumarPsychological Science invites submissions presenting innovative research that brings psychological science “into the wild,” whether to strengthen its ecological...
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
IS it a backronym? Maybe the new lab title just happened to spell my own name 😉
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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Since I don't really study relationship decisions anymore (and haven't for some time), I thought it was time for a proper rebrand. New logo compliments of James Marchment! Cool thing about academia: if you get tired of studying something you can just... study something else instead.
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