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Jacob Long @jacob-long.com · 03/10/2026

came across this baseball card with four guys, all of whom had rather interesting names

1995 Topps quad prospects card: Brad Clontz, Steve Phoenix, Scott Gentile, & Bucky Buckles

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Jacob Long @jacob-long.com · 18/09/2026

Saw this scary lady in the front yard.

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Jacob Long @jacob-long.com · 04/09/2026

It's a factorial design, so we can decompose the disclosure effect vs. effect of generated appearance. There's a penalty for AI use in perceptions of the photo itself, but not of the person in the photo. And the quality increase of the AI photos exceeds the penalty.

A research graphic shows two matched pairs of headshots. Each row places a real photograph on the left and an AI-generated version of the same person on the right. A findings panel reports that AI generation modestly raised photo-quality ratings and AI disclosure lowered them, with no reliable average effects on social attractiveness or trustworthiness. The preregistered experiment included 817 U.S. adults.

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Jacob Long @jacob-long.com · 04/09/2026

New pub alert: Collaboration with our PhD students @ USC. We were interested in the practice of making a headshot of yourself via generative AI. It's you in the photo, but it's not a photo of you. People like the AI photos better, but don't like that they're AI. cyberpsychology.eu/article/view...

A research graphic shows matched headshots of the same woman: a real photograph on the left and an AI-generated version on the right. It reports that AI-generated photos received higher quality ratings, but labeling a photo as AI-generated reduced perceived quality. The preregistered experiment included 817 U.S. adults.

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Jacob Long @jacob-long.com · 05/05/2026

Google letting me know my personal info is on shithub

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Jacob Long @jacob-long.com · 13/02/2026

I caved and bought a hobby at the local shop. And it looks like this pull will pay me back with room to spare!

Roman Anthony team border variation baseball card

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Jacob Long @jacob-long.com · 09/12/2025

I remember when he said that

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Jacob Long @jacob-long.com · 02/12/2025

Hello [testing my dad's old Canon FD 50mm f1.8 on my Fuji X-mount]

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Jacob Long @jacob-long.com · 12/11/2025

Old version of the textbook I use has the meme on the cover

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Jacob Long @jacob-long.com · 10/11/2025

maybe it's time for me to try teaching R to undergrads again

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Jacob Long @jacob-long.com · 25/09/2025

Jump scare as I started peer reviewing this paper

Screen shot from macOS Preview app, showing "Page 5 of 112"

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Jacob Long @jacob-long.com · 10/09/2025

"63% rate of likely AI-generated responses" on mTurk www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Jacob Long @jacob-long.com · 07/09/2025

I feel that Google Gemini should know that Google has in fact released the Pixel 10 series of phones, maybe especially when I ask it a question about said phones using a Pixel 10 Pro XL

Screenshot of Google Gemini claiming the Pixel 10 series of phones is unreleased

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Jacob Long @jacob-long.com · 16/08/2025

Saw a spider hanging from my magnolia tree yesterday... #photography 📷

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Jacob Long @jacob-long.com · 15/08/2025

Enter, ice cream, men play ball, exit

Chocolate ice cream served in a small plastic baseball helmet

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Jacob Long @jacob-long.com · 17/06/2025

I would have turned it into a JPEG and I would have done it a lot faster

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Jacob Long @jacob-long.com · 11/06/2025

Prewrites strike again

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Jacob Long @jacob-long.com · 03/02/2025

Bossman is clearly writing emails with ChatGPT lol

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Jacob Long @jacob-long.com · 02/02/2025

I was Visited yesterday [by many more than I could possibly capture in a half-decent photo] #birds

2 cedar waxwings perched on small branches

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Jacob Long @jacob-long.com · 30/01/2025

Am I the only one who is finding it hard to go through their institution's approval processes quickly enough to get registered to ICA just two weeks post- acceptance notification? (I know it's not *required* but I've always been able to get hotel reservations day-of-release before)

Screenshot from ICA conference website showing key dates: 15 January — ICA headquarters releases acceptances & conference registration opens.

31 January — Registration deadline for being in the "early access" group for the hotel booking link

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Jacob Long @jacob-long.com · 27/01/2025

It does recommend going to AP and other places for more details, but no links and doesn't make clear whether those sources informed its responses.

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Jacob Long @jacob-long.com · 27/01/2025

Gemini gives me an accurate rundown of financial market news of the day but never shares the primary sources with me in the response (including the part I clip out). Especially interesting given that it makes reference to the "search results" as if it's something we're both looking at

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Jacob Long @jacob-long.com · 24/01/2025

Flashback to the bald cardinal incident from my days in Ohio

A horrifying and bald male cardinal on a fence

A horrifying and bald male cardinal on a birdfeeder

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Jacob Long @jacob-long.com · 21/12/2024

Gaming version of being ambidextrous I guess

Screenshot from Steam year in review stating that 47% of game time was spent with mouse and keyboard and 53% with controller

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Jacob Long @jacob-long.com · 19/12/2024

Update: should have stopped the count...

R analysis output showing a p value of .11

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Jacob Long @jacob-long.com · 19/12/2024

We got another one, from a completely different hypothesis test

R data analysis output showing a z value of 1.98 and p value of .0482

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Jacob Long @jacob-long.com · 19/12/2024

Running analyses as data come in for my (preregistered) study... to this I say, STOP THE COUNT

Screenshot of R data analysis output showing a p value of .048

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Jacob Long @jacob-long.com · 13/12/2024

Might as well have a peer review template with these pre-filled

Screenshot of these two citations:

Gelman, A., & Stern, H. (2006). The difference between “significant” and “not significant” is not itself statistically significant. The American Statistician, 60(4), 328–331. https://doi.org/10.1198/000313006X152649

Montgomery, J. M., Nyhan, B., & Torres, M. (2018). How conditioning on posttreatment variables can ruin your experiment and what to do about it. American Journal of Political Science, 62(3), 760–775. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12357

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Jacob Long @jacob-long.com · 04/12/2024

Local news is talking about me again

Headline screen grab that reads "teen boy, 32-year-old man"

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Jacob Long @jacob-long.com · 21/11/2024

1. see a cool study 2. see that they shared replication data 3. open up the replication script and see your R packages (modelsummary is the work of the amazing @vincentab.bsky.social) 👍

Screenshot of R code in which the packages "jtools," "modelsummary," and "panelr" are loaded. The first and third of those are created by the author of the post.

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Jacob Long @jacob-long.com · 18/11/2024

I like breaking out a chart like this when discussing measurement error with my students

A chart showing the distribution of US male heights, both as measured and as self-reported. Self-reported heights are slightly higher on average, mostly because there are fewer men reporting heights in the 5-foot-8 through 5-foot-11 range and an excess of them in the 6-foot-0 through 6-foot-2 range

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Jacob Long @jacob-long.com · 18/11/2024

An interesting claim since while they do show acceptance rates increasing, the only time they discuss the qualifications of the admitted students, the university states they have also increased. You can increase acceptance rates without making it easier to get in, you know 🤓

Washington Post headline that reads, "It’s becoming easier to get into many colleges; Despite common perception, acceptance rates are going up."

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Jacob Long @jacob-long.com · 15/11/2024

huh, so Web of Science has been tracking some of my software citations. If only I could get it to include those in my citations metrics... #rstats

Screenshot from Web of Science showing two of Jacob's R packages, one with 322 citations and the other with 238 citations.

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Jacob Long @jacob-long.com · 11/11/2024

I started to wonder whether it was being raised by the local songbirds. Had a sibling (I think) that would usually stand by. Been a little bit since we've seen any but there's usually an adult somewhere near our house. Can hear their hilarious calls in the early evenings