iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 9h

More of this please! This team held focus groups with young people and their experiences of “addiction” to social media *do not resemble* typical substance use-derived criteria ❌ withdrawal ❌ tolerance ❌ relapse ❌ need for clinical intervention

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 21h

Thanks to all thirteen(!!) local @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social shows, I had a great time chatting with you all about teens and social media today.

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 05/10/2026

In which the author disagrees with Mr Wolfers and discusses what it *really* looks like when you sit down and have a conversation with your ideological opponents. When you do not have the protections of the ivory tower it turns out to be a much darker experience than he imagines it to be.

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Dining with wolves – Notes from a data witch

Polite discussion over lunch is not a reasonable option when you are on the menu

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Without actually sending your scripts/data to other people, it can be hard to ensure others can easily use your materials. This looks like a great solution. Another cool feature is that users can also tweak scripts to see how conclusions can change when different parameters are used.

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yeah it was fun, but I love that movie anyway. All the new content was at the very end/credits, and the wild thing was that 2/3 of the people in the theatre left without seeing most of the new stuff! The entire point of the re-release!

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Why yes, I did just pay money to go see the end credits-upgraded Avengers: Endgame at the theatre

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But She'S Got A New Hat Smithers

ALT: But She'S Got A New Hat Smithers

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 04/10/2026

This is very good. “Over 2.2 million cancer deaths can be attributed to Costco; that’s more than 20% of all cancer deaths between 2000 and 2018.”

Ridiculous things you can “prove” caused cancer mortality

Everything causes cancer. Sounds cliché; maybe those California warning tags were right all along. But thanks to the methodology created by Alwadi et al., we can now prove that anything and everything causes cancer. Oh, sorry, that is too strong of an assertion. To use the authors’ words, since they have claimed their papers don’t prove causality, we can create an association between any physical landmark and cancer and, from that association, figure out how much cancer is attributable to that thing. Which is totally not the same as saying “that thing causes cancer.”

For instance, living near a private four-year university is associated with a 15-fold increase in cancer mortality when compared

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sleep deprived brain no work good anymore

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Avoid this outcome at all costs I tell you

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I gave in finally after refusing for years. This is a one and done situation for sure.

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Amber Ying 應緣 @amberying.com · 02/10/2026

Guess I'm gonna talk about this anyway. It's been a week at my new job, and I signed a bunch of paperwork so I can't exactly talk about it in detail. But what I can say from my short experience is that AI, LLMs in particular, need to be regulated like whoa.

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It is eight in the A M and the five 14-year-old boys having a sleepover party in my house have just recently decided to try the sleeping part

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Barney Gumble: Don't Cry For Me, I'm Already Dead

ALT: Barney Gumble: Don't Cry For Me, I'm Already Dead

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Jason Moore @moorejh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Who isn't in need of some good cable management? #scifi #startrek

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rogier kievit @rogierk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Exactly this. Make yourself and your work easily findable. Yes, also if you are just starting - Perhaps you gave an impressive talk or an exciting poster, and I want to know more, invite you to something, or recommend you to a colleague. I can't count the number of times I just gave up & moved on

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Andrew Pruszynski @andpru.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy to announce that I am searching for for a graduate student, starting Fall 2027. If you want to study the neural mechanisms of reaching and grasping, come join us in the rich environment of the Sensorimotor Superlab. For details: www.pruszynskilab.com/positions.html

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Behavioural Science in 2026.

The Homer stonecutter meme.

Top image: Remove the stone of "Terrible MTurk data"
Bottom image: Attach the stone of "Terrible synthetic sample data"

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Carolyn Baer @carebaer7.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm recruiting a graduate student for Fall 2027! Full funding, beautiful campus, and a great community to work in. International applicants welcome - Canada is a great place to be. More info about what I look for and the app process: www.trentdevminds.ca/join-the-lab www.trentu.ca/graduatestud...

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moin syed @syeducation.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Gave a talk in my dept. on the OSF transition. I wrote up a rough script of the session, which could be of interest to others. I synthesize existing resources and provide my own perspectives. Comments and corrections welcome! zenodo.org/records/2306...

the header for a paper describing "Life after OSF" #metascience

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Chris Ferguson @cjferguson1111.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In this interview I chat with Putnam School District superintendent Richard Surrency about school cellphone bans, why they don’t seem to work, and how it connects to larger moral panics around social media and technology. It was a fun interview! www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWnM...

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Pulse Podcast Phones and Student Wellbeing

YouTube video by PutnamSchoolsTV

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Another tick in the “cons” side of the decision chart for whether to spend time on LinkedIn

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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Bluesky @joshuagrubbsphd.com : eggplant emojis for new porn paper LinkedIn Josh Grubbs: no eggplant emojis Who is left to speak truth (a sense of personality) to power (LinkedIn)?!?!?

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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you missed today's @rinpharma.bsky.social workshop, here are a few of my favourite "quick fixes" for some common #ggplot2 issues 📊 1. Use {ggview} to preview plots at the same size and resolution as you want to save them with ggsave() to avoid the annoying resizing #RStats #DataViz

library(ggview)
ggplot(mtcars, aes(wt, mpg)) +
geom_point() +
canvas(
width = 6, height = 4,
units = "in",
dpi = 300
)

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 01/10/2026

RIP to everyone’s favorite p<0.05 factory

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 30/09/2026

academia is such a roller coaster, but in the past week or so, our lab has had a big paper acceptance, a successful dissertation proposal, and a notice of a new grant award and yet, I still sometimes find that trying to savor the good is always a struggle

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Nobody past the age of twenty should be obsessed with what people majored in in college and see it as the single defining choice that entirely shapes someone, deterministically, for all time

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s cardboard recycling night this week and guys, I am feeling pretty unhappy about putting this box out at the curb 😭

A large cardboard box scrawled with the label “Fortress of Solitude” in a child’s misspelled writing

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Confirming I only 10% understand this

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There are tons of infill homes in my 1970s subdivision that are single-family homes but physically consuming at least equal space to a six-plex apartment walkup.

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Very niche market to be captured by scammers posing as MacArthur and or Nobel committee informing you of your award but first I need you to send your banking info so we can do the ETF

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

lol I was *just* thinking about how since this award is so super secret that one can always be optimistic about maybe this year being my year 😂

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 29/09/2026

"Replication crisis" reforms like preregistration & pre-analysis plans were developed to control false positives in experimental research. Does that work in observational studies? Our new paper in Sociological Methods & Research argues for a different approach. 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A Replication Framework for Observational Research: From Specification Restriction to Specification Expansion
Jonathan Ben-Menachem https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8092-0848 jbenmenachem@gmail.com, Ari Galper https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7909-8837, and Nic Fishman
Abstract
Sociology has remained relatively insulated from debates about the “replication crisis.” Heeding calls to consider replication more deeply, we introduce a distinction between two types of research reforms that have emerged in the wake of the crisis: specification-restricting and specification-expanding reforms. Specification restriction is often promoted as a way to increase the repeatability of research findings by controlling false positives. We argue that this statistical justification is less compelling in observational contexts—where the assumptions licensing false-positive control are harder to sustain and rigid ex ante analytical commitments can instead enshrine fragile specifications—than in experimental contexts. We further argue that apparently low replication rates do not necessarily imply a high prevalence of false positive findings. Instead, we propose a replication framework centered on specification-expanding reforms, stronger incentives for confirmatory research, and meta-analysis. This approach equips sociologists to assess the repeatability of findings and build a more cumulative discipline.

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John Flournoy @johnflournoy.science · 28/09/2026

Been thinking about this. People say 'social contagion' like it's a bad thing. Yeah, if you put it like that. What it really is is just: people sharing information. Yes, it can increase identification. That's a feature.

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 28/09/2026

As I wrote: "What work is worth being compensated for? What would be the terms and conditions for compensation? What happens when the work is inadequate? Who is invited to review and thus eligible for compensation?" www.kwglobal.com/blog/pay-pee...

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Making “Pay Peer Reviewers” More Than a Slogan - KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd

In this post from ORIGINal Thoughts, author Zen Faulkes addresses a commonly posited solution to the reviewer shortage—compensating reviewers.

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Kevin M. King @kevinmking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is ridiculous. The only avenue for fellowships for international scholars has been the K99. It was already so hard to get, and now there is no way for them to come and train and build a career in the US. It will decimate our ability to recruit the best scholars around the world.

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NO YOURE INTENTIONALLY MISREADING ME

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Stephanie M. Lee @stephaniemlee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NEW: I talked to Joseph Henrich about why he wanted to tackle the issue of politicization in anthropology for the Vanderbilt humanities commission, what he found out, and what he thought of my Q&A with the head of the American Anthropological Association. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

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The Harvard Anthropologist Who’s Skewering His Own Field

Joseph Henrich, an author of a divisive report about politicization in the humanities, says, “I knew it wasn’t going to make everyone happy.”

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Quantitude the Podcast @quantitude.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Getting a bit judgy, tomorrow…

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The man said Bluesky bait after all!

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think the market correction we need is fewer b-school graduates

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David Sidhu @davidmsidhu.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Please repost!🙏 I’ll be recruiting grad students this year! Looking for students passionate about language and cognition. Some topics could include: -Iconicity and Bouba/Kiki -Embodied Cognition -General Semantic Effects in Word Processing See what we‘ve been up to: classilab.ca DM or email me!

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About — CLaSSI Lab

The CLaSSI Lab is headed by Dr. David Sidhu at Carleton University, in the Department of Psychology. We explore questions related to language and cognition, using a variety of experimental techniques ...

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