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Dr. LLL @dr-lll.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Teachers and Instructors, what innovative pedagogical techniques have you seen and/or used? #AcademicSky #EduSky

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Dr. LLL @dr-lll.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Teachers and Instructors, what are your must-have tools for enhancing student learning? #AcademicSky #EduSky

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Dr. LLL @dr-lll.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Tell me about a course you took and loved that was NOT part of your academic major. For me, I loved my history course on Europe Between the World Wars. It was a side of history I had never learned before. I also took a ceramics class that was fun even though I wasn't good at it. #AcademicSky #EduSky

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Dr. LLL @dr-lll.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

I was very lucky to receive a high-quality liberal arts education. It not only gave me a broad multi-disciplinary base of knowledge but it also inspired me to want to learn more about biology, psychology, history, political science, art, philosophy, and many other disciplines. #EduSky #AcademicSky

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Dr. LLL @dr-lll.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

When I say #EducationForAll I mean it. I'm so happy this year to be leading a faculty learning community exploring ways to support neurodivergent students in the classroom. Remove those barriers! #EduSky #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #CogSci

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Dr. LLL @dr-lll.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

The thing I love about being a faculty member is that I can continue to learn, even 17 years after my last degree. Having just tackled R, I'm next setting my sights on Unity game design #EduSky #AcademicSky

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Dr. LLL @dr-lll.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Now that it is October, my posts will focus on #EducationForAll . I believe that every person has a right to get the best quality education and I will fight to remove barriers that prevent that #EduSky #AcademicSky

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Dr. LLL @dr-lll.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Are there any tech gadgets you can't live without? How have they made your life better? #EduSky #AcademicSky

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Dr. LLL @dr-lll.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

What are your technology solutions for online data collection? I'm always looking for new ways to collect data from hard-to-reach samples but have no research funding. I've used PsychoPy with Pavlovia.org and jsPsych with Cognition.run but I'm looking for other options #AcademicSky #CogSci

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Dr. LLL @dr-lll.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Something I've recently learned: sometimes, it's better to just re-write the code from scratch than fight to fix code that's not working. I find that I come up with more elegant solutions that way and the code is much improved #AcademicSky #CogSci

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Dr. LLL @dr-lll.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

What are your big professional goals for this semester? I hope to get acquainted with my new Tobii eye-tracker (although honestly, some days it's hard to just keep my head above water) #AcademicSky #EduSky #CogSci #PsychSciSky

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Dr. LLL @dr-lll.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Did you accomplish any professional goals over the summer? I spent most of the summer learning R and practicing with data I've been collecting from several projects over the past couple of years #AcademicSky #EduSky #CogSci #PsychSciSky

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Dr. LLL @dr-lll.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

The class is 50 minutes, which is why it feels rushed when I don't have any time cues. By the time I finish announcements, that's only 45 minutes of content

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Dr. LLL @dr-lll.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

The clock in my classroom does not work. I never realized before now how often I use the clock to pace myself while teaching! Is that true for you as well? #EduSky #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

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Dr. LLL @dr-lll.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Anybody else have a summer that was not restful at all? #EduSky #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

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Dr. LLL @dr-lll.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I pressed every single function button. Nothing. After several agonizing minutes, I realized there was a tiny privacy slide, the same color as the laptop, just above the webcam. I had run my finger over it and couldn't even feel it! 4/4

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Dr. LLL @dr-lll.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

It had worked just fine the week before. Restarting didn't work. It still didn't work on Thursday, and worse yet, the audio wouldn't work either. I tried troubleshooting. Running diagnostics, it said that a button was preventing it from working. 3/4

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Dr. LLL @dr-lll.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I had to get a new laptop earlier this year because the hinge broke on my old one (I abused that thing with thousands of hours of work during COVID). I needed to run a meeting on Wednesday and the webcam wouldn't work! 2/4

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Dr. LLL @dr-lll.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I took a much longer hiatus from this platform than I planned. One of these years, I'll learn to take a proper summer break from work. Now that we're in September, let's talk about tech troubles. #EduSky #AcademicSky 1/4

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Dr. LLL @dr-lll.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Our society has idealized views of scientists in their labs, doing science all day. I find my time so fragmented by all of my responsibilities that it is rare for me to do science all day, even though I want to. Are any of my fellow scientists facing similar working conditions? 6/6

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Dr. LLL @dr-lll.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Then I did the paperwork to register the students. Then I checked my email again. Then I graded an assignment. Then I packed up my "homework" at 5:15 PM because I planned to work at home too. Why am I sharing all of this information? 5/6

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Dr. LLL @dr-lll.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Then I taught two classes. Then I dealt with all the paper I had accumulated that day - putting away notes, stacking assignments together so that they were organized. I worked on another syllabus for a different class. Then I had a meeting. 4/6

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Dr. LLL @dr-lll.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I spent some time preparing a syllabus that was needed for me to get students registered for a fall course. Then I provided career prep advising for a student. Then I answered student questions about course concepts in office hours. Then I worked with my lab group. 3/6

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Dr. LLL @dr-lll.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

My work day yesterday started at 6:15 AM when I had an idea for a new research project while brushing my teeth. I wrote it down so that I can look to the literature to see if it's been done. I got to work at 7:15 AM, talked with a colleague, and then checked my email. 2/6

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Dr. LLL @dr-lll.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Now that it is May, we're going to focus on #MayResearchPractice, where I will share my experience on how research is actually done in practice. For this first post, I want to walk you through a day in the life of an undergraduate professor. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky 1/6

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Dr. LLL @dr-lll.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

No study is perfect, but you need to guard against getting excited by media coverage of a study before reading and evaluating it for yourself. Claims about the causality of variables and the applicability of the results tend to be overblown. 5/5

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Dr. LLL @dr-lll.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Every study has some level of internal validity and external validity. Examining the method of the study - the participants and their recruitment, and what the measures and procedures were - can help you evaluate its validity. 4/5

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Dr. LLL @dr-lll.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

External validity is the ability of a study to find results that "generalize" or apply to other samples of participants in other areas. Because a lot of psych research uses volunteer participants (many college students), it may not generalize to others. 3/5

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Dr. LLL @dr-lll.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Internal validity is the ability of a study to demonstrate that one variable causes a change in another one. Because variables are often interrelated, and behavior is complex, it is rare to have a study in psychology with strong internal validity. 2/5

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Dr. LLL @dr-lll.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

To close #AprSciLiteracy, let's examine internal and external validity. You've heard of "correlation does not indicate causation", right? Sadly, social media and the news often imply causation when the method doesn't permit it. 1/5 #PsychSciSky

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Dr. LLL @dr-lll.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Always look for measures of effect size - Cohen's d, R squared, eta squared, Cohen's f squared, and many MANY others. If you are reading an article and don't recognize the effect size measure, search for it online to learn more. 2/2

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Dr. LLL @dr-lll.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

If we can't rely on p values, what can we rely on? Effect sizes! Every statistical test has measures of effect sizes to consider, and many journals now require authors to include effect sizes for their statistical tests. 1/2 #AprSciLiteracy #PsychSciSky

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Dr. LLL @dr-lll.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Both p-hacking and HARKing harm the advancement of science. Why do people do it? Faculty and research positions are often tied to publications and funding, so perhaps the current model of science needs an update. 5/5

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Dr. LLL @dr-lll.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Perhaps the most famous case of p-hacking and HARKing is the work of Brian Wansink, whose pizza buffet studies had data with mathematical anomalies uncovered by van der Zee et al. (2017) - search for "statistical heartburn". 4/5

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Dr. LLL @dr-lll.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

HARKing is coming up with Hyp0theses After the Results are already Known, which can occur by measuring a lot of different variables and then running statistical tests on every combination of variables, perhaps without statistical correction. 3/5

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Dr. LLL @dr-lll.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

P-hacking occurs when a researcher either runs participants until they get p<.05, or runs a lot of participants to get a really low p value, even if the effect they are measuring is small. 2/5

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Dr. LLL @dr-lll.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Continuing our discussion of p values in #AprSciLiteracy we need to talk about the unethical practices of p-hacking and HARKing. These practices exploit the scientific process to increase publications, funding, or even fame. 1/5 #PsychSciSky

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Science Magazine @science.org · 17/04/2025

The National Science Foundation has put a cork in its grantmaking pipeline after billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency set up shop at the agency this week. scim.ag/4iowX4t

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NSF halts grant awards while staff do second review

Action comes after DOGE team arrives at science agency

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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

For my scientist friends who have been struggling with anxiety, depression, grief and more, two licensed therapists are hosting a 90min pro bono session. It's today (Apr 17), starting in half an hour (9:30am PT) but there will be more sessions in future. www.eventbrite.com/e/coping-wit...

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Coping with Upheaval: Support for Terminated/Defunded Scientists

If you're a US scientist feeling demoralized, burned out, or anxious in this unprecedented political moment--you are not alone. (Free event)

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Dr. LLL @dr-lll.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Because the public (and even some researchers) don't understand p values, you can have trivial effects that are "significant" be respected more than stronger effects that failed to reach p<.05. You need to evaluate the effect sizes to judge the strength of the effects. 5/5

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Dr. LLL @dr-lll.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

However, p values are not magical. If you look at any table of critical t values, F values, or r values, you'll notice that the critical value for statistical significance is affected by the degrees of freedom (often derived from the number of subjects). This is a problem. 4/5

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Dr. LLL @dr-lll.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

(for example, the sample mean difference between two compared groups) would be equal to or more extreme than its observed value". By convention we use .05 because it's large enough that some effects will be "significant" but small enough that not every one is. 3/5

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Dr. LLL @dr-lll.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Grabowski (2016) reports that the American Statistical Association (ASA) Board defined p values as "the probability under a specified statistical model that a statistical summary of the data ... 2/5

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Dr. LLL @dr-lll.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Next up in #AprSciLiteracy, let's talk about p values. You may have seen the meme of James Van Der Beek crying with p>.05, or the meme with PSY with p<.05. What is so magical about .05? Convention mostly. 1/5 #PsychSciSky

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Dr. LLL @dr-lll.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Research funding is often necessary to conduct the science or to support the scientist doing the science. But if you don't read the funding and conflict of interest statements, how would you know whether to trust the results? 4/4

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Dr. LLL @dr-lll.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

And, let's not forget Andrew Wakefield accepted money to "find" a link between the MMR vaccine and autism (Embree, 2004) though no such link has been found in other studies. Now there's a measles outbreak in the US. 3/4

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Dr. LLL @dr-lll.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Science has a long history of people publishing things that were influenced by funding sources or other conflicts of interest. The Sugar Research Foundation sponsored research blaming coronary artery disease on fat, not sugar. (Kearns et al. 2016) 2/4

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Dr. LLL @dr-lll.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Next up in #AprSciLiteracy, let's talk about research funding and conflicts of interest. Articles today usually have a statement regarding funding sources and/or conflicts of interest. Why are these necessary? 1/4 #PsychSciSky

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