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Drew Parton

@dmparton.bsky.social
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Psych professor, stats nerd, climber, skier, cat dad. He/Him/His.

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Drew Parton @dmparton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Being 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.
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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Sadism is Linked to Greater Habituation to Schadenfreude: osf.io/me6vf
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Drew Parton @dmparton.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Teaching 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.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 24/06/2026
Sports Commentary xkcd.com/3262/
Comic. [A person and a second person with a ponytail sitting at a table with a screen showing a soccer game behind them.] PERSON 1: They could be in trouble. Over the last 36 years, they’ve gone 0 for 2 when they’ve scored in the 37th minute to lead 2-1 against a team whose country comes before theirs alphabetically. [caption] I wish sports commentators hadn’t discovered p-hacking.
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Drew Parton @dmparton.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Got to see the aurora borealis from our balcony
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Samuel West @sjwest.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
A 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/Never
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Never, by SJ West
2 track album
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Drew Parton @dmparton.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Got to watch some of my first students graduate this week. I’m so grateful for all my peers in the Gen Ed department.
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Drew Parton @dmparton.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Grades are submitted and it’s finally nice enough in Rochester to sit outside. First semester as faculty officially complete 🎉
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Kurt Gray @kurtjgray.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
I’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...
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When Jon Haidt Called Me a Cheater
Science, Snark, and the Moral Mind
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Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture. Understood instantly what it meant.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 15/12/2025
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
One 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
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Chelsea Parlett @chelseaparlett.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
You 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.
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Wes Bonifay @wesbonifay.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Working on a solo-authored adversarial collaboration
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Drew Parton @dmparton.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
I’m excited to announce that I will be joining the fine folks at Rochester Regional Health as non-clinical teaching faculty this coming January!
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Drew Parton @dmparton.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I’ve never received a predatory journal invite quite this ominous and vaguely threatening…
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Society for Affective Science @affectscience.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Affective 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)
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Drew Parton @dmparton.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
My stats-burnt brain read this as “Poisson Regression” at first 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Josh Miller @jdmiller.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
In 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
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Drew Parton @dmparton.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
This is incredible and I love my hometown for it.
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Wyatt T. Brown @brownwt.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
I’ll be talking about the asymmetric relationships between psychopathy and positive/negative empathy (though the analyses diverge from this abstract)! :-)
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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Happy fat bear week to those who celebrate explore.org/fat-bear-week
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Fat Bear Week 2025 | VOTE
Choose 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.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 06/09/2025
Finally! 🤩 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
Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
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Samuel 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/
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<em>American Journal of Community Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library
Violent 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...
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Drew Parton @dmparton.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Very "fun" and "cool" to graduate and go on the science job market right now 👍
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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
If 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
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
people 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
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Drew Parton @dmparton.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
What fresh hell is this?
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Drew Parton @dmparton.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
This came to me in a dream.
A picture depicting a “hand shake” meme wherein two seemingly disparate groups are united by a shared factor. Here, Mathematicians and Climbers are united by the shared trait “being very particular about chalk brands”
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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
New 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...
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AI, peer review and the human activity of science
When researchers cede their scientific judgement to machines, we lose something important.
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David Chester @davidchester.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Four 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...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I’m not sure if you can overdose on schadenfreude but we’re about to find out
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John Sakaluk @johnsakaluk.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
My 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!
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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 20/03/2025
I’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/
Screenshot of the linked Quarto website, with input checkboxes to change different conditions for a regression model that predicts economic performance based on US political party, with a reported p-value
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