Drew Parton @dmparton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Being a business analyst is very fun because you can just say “that’s a pretty simple logistic regression” and they will react like you have spoken in some eldritch tongue a spell to raise the dead. 010
Reposted by Drew PartonPsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Sadism is Linked to Greater Habituation to Schadenfreude: osf.io/me6vf 002
Drew Parton @dmparton.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Teaching at a health college, I know that my psych courses are effectively mandatory side quests, but it’s incredibly heartwarming to get this from students. 000
Reposted by Drew PartonRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 24/06/2026Sports Commentary xkcd.com/3262/ 363499455
Reposted by Drew PartonSamuel West @sjwest.bsky.social · 21/05/2026A rare personal post: I recently finished production on a two-song demo for a new country/bluegrass/folk type project. I am quite proud of these songs as I have never taken on the full breadth of production before. Please share if you enjoy! sjwest.bandcamp.com/album/Neversjwest.bandcamp.comNever, by SJ West2 track album 271
Drew Parton @dmparton.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Got to watch some of my first students graduate this week. I’m so grateful for all my peers in the Gen Ed department. 030
Drew Parton @dmparton.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Grades are submitted and it’s finally nice enough in Rochester to sit outside. First semester as faculty officially complete 🎉 020
Reposted by Drew PartonKurt Gray @kurtjgray.bsky.social · 21/03/2026I’ve long wanted to write about this. Paradigm changes are hard and messy, and science is social. Interested in y’all’s thoughts. www.moralunderstandingnewsletter.com/p/when-jon-h...moralunderstandingnewsletter.comWhen Jon Haidt Called Me a CheaterScience, Snark, and the Moral Mind 0225
Reposted by Drew PartonDaniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture. Understood instantly what it meant. 1027431011
Reposted by Drew PartonMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 15/12/2025Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year. 357238397190
Reposted by Drew PartonBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 09/12/2025One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential 62143894042
Reposted by Drew PartonChelsea Parlett @chelseaparlett.bsky.social · 03/12/2025You know that thing Coco Chanel said about accessories? “Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take one thing off” We should all do that but with about 50% of the text we put in slide decks. TAKE. IT. OUT. 5457
Reposted by Drew PartonWes Bonifay @wesbonifay.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Working on a solo-authored adversarial collaboration 2624
Drew Parton @dmparton.bsky.social · 25/11/2025I’m excited to announce that I will be joining the fine folks at Rochester Regional Health as non-clinical teaching faculty this coming January! 110
Drew Parton @dmparton.bsky.social · 20/11/2025I’ve never received a predatory journal invite quite this ominous and vaguely threatening… 010
Reposted by Drew PartonSociety for Affective Science @affectscience.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Affective science has lost an extraordinary member of our community: Dr. Paul Ekman, who passed peacefully at home at the age of 91 on Monday. Dr. Ekman's pioneering cross-cultural research on the interpretation of facial expressions in emotional terms...(1) 15127
Drew Parton @dmparton.bsky.social · 19/11/2025My stats-burnt brain read this as “Poisson Regression” at first 🤷🏻♂️ 000
Reposted by Drew PartonJosh Miller @jdmiller.bsky.social · 17/11/2025In our rejoinder, we argue 1) Dark terminology isn't used responsibly as BL et al. claim, 2) the term can be replaced with a more sensible and scientific one, 3) data support our position (Stanton et al., 2025), and 4) popularity ≠ importance. @davidchester.bsky.social @drlynam.bsky.social 22913
Reposted by Drew PartonWyatt T. Brown @brownwt.bsky.social · 08/11/2025I’ll be talking about the asymmetric relationships between psychopathy and positive/negative empathy (though the analyses diverge from this abstract)! :-) 152
Reposted by Drew PartonJaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Happy fat bear week to those who celebrate explore.org/fat-bear-weekexplore.orgFat Bear Week 2025 | VOTEChoose the fattest bear of the year! Some of the largest brown bears on Earth make their home at Brooks River in Katmai National Park, Alaska. Brown bears get fat to survive and Fat Bear Week is an annual tournament celebrating their success in preparation for winter hibernation. 1183
Reposted by Drew PartonOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 06/09/2025Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n 11341482054
Reposted by Drew PartonSamuel West @sjwest.bsky.social · 14/08/2025🚨New Paper Alert🚨 Just published in AJCP - one of my students and I (along with an awesome team of collaborators) explored the ostensible impact of historic redlining practices on contemporary violence exposure risk of adolescents living in those communities. Data and code here: osf.io/ekxmf/onlinelibrary.wiley.com<em>American Journal of Community Psychology</em> | Wiley Online LibraryViolent injuries tend to cluster together geospatially. The discriminatory housing practice of redlining undertaken by the United States federal government in the 1930s has been repeatedly linked wit... 177
Drew Parton @dmparton.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Very "fun" and "cool" to graduate and go on the science job market right now 👍 000
Reposted by Drew PartonDaniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 06/08/2025If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages 147177556413
Reposted by Drew PartonRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 22/07/2025people who use AI as a replacement for thinking, learning and communicating should be shamed and punished. the same way we shame and punish drunk drivers, or people who negligently discharge firearms. it is bad to misuse tools in a way that damages society 513430865
Reposted by Drew PartonJoe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 25/06/2025New from me and @carlbergstrom.com in @nature.com on navigating LLMs in science, from the jumping off point of peer review. www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comAI, peer review and the human activity of scienceWhen researchers cede their scientific judgement to machines, we lose something important. 23816
Reposted by Drew PartonDavid Chester @davidchester.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Four years, six studies, and many many revisions later, our paper on prosocial aggression -- harmful acts that are motivated by a broader goal to help the target of the aggression -- is finally in press in Motivation Science! Check out the finalized preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps...osf.ioOSF 173
Reposted by Drew PartonKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/06/2025I’m not sure if you can overdose on schadenfreude but we’re about to find out 299128811653
Reposted by Drew PartonJohn Sakaluk @johnsakaluk.bsky.social · 28/03/2025My Phd student Noah is recruiting Trans* and Non-Binary folks to participate in a survey study on well-being (uwo.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...). Check it out if relevant and of interest to you, and appreciate any signal boosting in your networks! 13447
Reposted by Drew PartonAndrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 20/03/2025I’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :( So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/ 571468434