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Joe Ketterling @jketterling.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

American Physiological Society might have the best journal submission process.

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Joe Ketterling @jketterling.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Entomology friends. Is this a shiny friend a dogbane beetle? 🪲 I’m in eastern North Dakota for context.

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Joe Ketterling @jketterling.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I can’t wait for the corporate anti-AI era. There will be corporations bragging about being “human powered.” 🫠

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Am I wrong though?

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Ben Harrap @bharrap.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Common #rstats workflows in niche meme format

The 90's 'bop it' toy with the R package dplyr's verbs filter, select, mutate, and summarise superimposed on the toy's actions

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Joe Ketterling @jketterling.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Pro Tip: Save those elaborate Google scholar search queries. And if you forget, you can find them in your browser history. 🤦 Bonus Tip: Save the queries, keywords, and phrases in a @zotero.org standalone text note. #PhD #research

The image shows a Zotero menu item that says “New Standalone Note”

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 11/02/2026

I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.

It must be very hard to publish null results
Publication practices in the social sciences act as a filter that favors statistically significant results over null findings. While the problem of selection on significance (SoS) is well-known in theory, it has been difficult to measure its scope empirically, and it has been challenging to determine how selection varies across contexts. In this article, we use large language models to extract granular and validated data on about 100,000 articles published in over 150 political science journals from 2010 to 2024. We show that fewer than 2% of articles that rely on statistical methods report null-only findings in their abstracts, while over 90% of papers highlight significant results. To put these findings in perspective, we develop and calibrate a simple model of publication bias. Across a range of plausible assumptions, we find that statistically significant results are estimated to be one to two orders of magnitude more likely to enter the published record than null results. Leveraging metadata extracted from individual articles, we show that the pattern of strong SoS holds across subfields, journals, methods, and time periods. However, a few factors such as pre-registration and randomized experiments correlate with greater acceptance of null results. We conclude by discussing implications for the field and the potential of our new dataset for investigating other questions about political science.

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Joe Ketterling @jketterling.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

My 2025 Google Search unwrapped would be mostly searches for keyboard shortcuts for Greek letters.

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

David Attenborough [whispering]: “Like a grain of sand in a vast desert, the predator blends seamlessly into its environment, nearly imperceptible to the naked eye.”

The top half of a cat is concealed behind a gold curtain, its bottom half exposed.

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Joe Ketterling @jketterling.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Alt Headline: Process focused generation mad when students become hyper focused on processes. 🙄

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Joe Ketterling @jketterling.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Today’s Side Quest: Learning how to program a microcontroller to store sensor data in a CSV file. 🤓 #arduino #microcontroller

An Arduino Sensor Kit attached to an Arduino Uno rev 3 microcontroller. Temperature, humidity, and pressure are displayed on the board’s OLED screen.

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 29/10/2025

Scientists had to change more than 700 grant titles to receive NIH funding. Health disparities researchers fear what’s next www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n...

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Joe Ketterling @jketterling.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Wild. 🤯 “More than 20% of chemistry researchers have deliberately added information they believe to be incorrect into their manuscripts during the peer review process, in order to get their papers published.” cen.acs.org/policy/publi...

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1 in 5 chemists have deliberately added errors into their papers during peer review, study finds

Conclusion is one of many in a report about how chemists handle errors in manuscripts

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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 13/10/2025

Sample size: 12 undergrads Conclusion: Humans behave this way Journal: publishes it

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Joe Ketterling @jketterling.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

IRB peer-review should always be publicly available for every published study (without requesting it). Even if it’s exempt. Transparency matters. But mostly I want to know how the hell you got that study approved. 😂

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Joe Ketterling @jketterling.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I love that the heart of this story was based on a rambunctious rescue dog. #Superman

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Joe Ketterling @jketterling.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Well, shit. Maybe computer science can solve all our life science problems. www.science.org/content/arti...

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Joe Ketterling @jketterling.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

“Doing research means discovering something no one else knows and it’s fun. It moves us forward. It reveals what’s surprising or strange in our world, and teaches us how things work.” www.inforum.com/opinion/lett...

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Letter: Support science in North Dakota

Ben Balas of Fargo writes: "If you’re not sure about the value of science to you and your community, I urge you to get in touch with a local scientist (including me) and ask questions."

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Erin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Things my PhD did not prepare me for: addressing the IRB’s concern in a full board meeting that our participants will NOT be eaten by alligators! 🐊

CAUTION
Alligators are present along the trails and waterways of this park. They usually eat fish, turtles and other small animals but may attack larger animals such as deer.
Alligators have been known to attack humans.

FOR YOUR SAFETY
Alligators are dangerous.
Do not swim with alligators.
Do not approach, frighten or feed by state law 372.667FS.
Immediately report alligator sighting in the swimming area to Park Staff.

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Joe Ketterling @jketterling.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Interesting discussion around assessment from the @timeshighered.bsky.social Campus podcast. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

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Joe Ketterling @jketterling.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

This article hits home & reflects a lot of my teaching philosophy. I’ve spent little time teaching, but I’ve spent a ton of time being a student. It wasn’t until my instructor education toward the end of my didactic career that I understood how to learn. theeffortfuleducator.com/2025/02/10/o...

theeffortfuleducator.com

Obsessions and John Hattie - The Effortful Educator

Teachers are obsessed with teaching, but are they obsessed with learning?

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Joe Ketterling @jketterling.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Fargo. 😂 “At least the people are nice.”

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Courtney (Dr. Version) @cakrolik.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Totally blew some students' minds last week with the fact that Bluetooth was named after King Harald Bluetooth who united the tribes of Denmark into a single kingdom (bc Bluetooth technology connects devices) AND the Bluetooth symbol is a bind rune that combines his initials, H (ᚼ) and B (ᛒ).

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Joe Ketterling @jketterling.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

✅ Abstract Submitted. 😤💪

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Joe Ketterling @jketterling.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

As educators, are we teaching soft skills or just facilitating environments in hopes the students will develop them? #edusky

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Joe Ketterling @jketterling.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Grant proposal submitted! 💪 🥂

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Joe Ketterling @jketterling.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Is it pronounced Likert or Likert?

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Joe Ketterling @jketterling.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Okay, #academicsky and #phd friends… leading zero or no zero on decimals? The general #APA rule is if the number can be higher than 1, use a lead zero. I imagine journal styles vary. Examples: p=.051 p<.001 ES=0.32 R^2=.29 µ=0.96

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Joe Ketterling @jketterling.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

An interesting qualitative study of Long-Term Athletic Development. Highly competitive environments too early in athletic career can have lasting negative consequences. “Learning from Youth Voice: Student Reflections on Common Approaches in Youth Sports” doi.org/10.3390/yout... #LTAD #YouthSports

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Joe Ketterling @jketterling.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

😂 www.instagram.com/sarah_keyworth #PhD

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Joe Ketterling @jketterling.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Day of growth: I created a shortcut to our IRB instead of Googling it for the 537th time. #GrowthMindset

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Joe Ketterling @jketterling.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

My opinions are my own and my opinion is heavy sigh. “The superintendent shall provide teachers with instructional materials demonstrating intelligent design is a viable scientific theory…” 🤷

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Joe Ketterling @jketterling.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

I've been asking researchers (in my small circle) how they find articles. Almost all cite Google Scholar as their primary search engine. In the age of Google Scholar, do the other databases/search engines matter? (e.g., Web of Science, Scopus, Pubmed) #AcademicSky #PhD #Research

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Joe Ketterling @jketterling.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Just taking a moment to appreciate that I live in a time when I can listen to Pearl Jam’s MTV Unplugged whenever I want. www.youtube.com/watch?v=llOp...

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Porch (Live) - MTV Unplugged - Pearl Jam

YouTube video by Pearl Jam

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Joe Ketterling @jketterling.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

No school. Ridiculous cold weather.🥶 7am. My kiddo wants to play a board game. Let's go! ☕

This image displays a lively game board of the popular board game "Ticket to Ride." The map features the United States, with cities connected by various colored train routes. Bright plastic train pieces in shades of yellow, red, and blue are placed on the board, representing the routes claimed by different players. The game box can be seen in the background, along with bags of additional game pieces on the table. The setup captures the game's strategic nature and the competition between players to complete their train routes.

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Joe Ketterling @jketterling.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I scheduled my last two PhD classes so well that I overlapped them by a half-hour. 🫠 #PhD

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Joe Ketterling @jketterling.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

An interesting narrative review of the current pedagogy of teaching undergraduate statistics. "Introductory Statistical Pedagogy Should Be Reformed: Transitioning from a Hypothesis Testing to Modeling Framework" (preprint) doi.org/10.31234/osf... #statsky #academicsky

The standard undergraduate statistics curriculum, which focuses on testing hypotheses, was first developed a century ago when hand-calculations dominated statistical analysis. While graduate training has advanced somewhat, the undergraduate curriculum has remained relatively unchanged for the last 50-100 years. This situation is particularly troubling when one considers how it fails to prepare students for advanced statistical methods, perpetuates misunderstandings, and masks the underlying logic of statistics. It also is highly limited in its application, leading researchers to shoehorn their analyses into a hypothesis-testing framework. An alternative to the hypothesis-testing framework is one that focuses on building, evaluating, and comparing models.In this paper, we argue that a modeling framework (and an extension of modeling called ‘model comparisons’) highlights the underlying logic of statistics, deepens understanding of the language of statistics, prepares students for advanced procedures, and promotes sound statistical reasoning. We argue for a pedagogical shift away from the hypothesis testing status quo and toward a modeling framework, all while discussing obstacles to such a change and how such obstacles might be (fairly) easily overcome.

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Joe Ketterling @jketterling.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

How to make money in the upper Midwest: 1) Take a handful of plain ripple potato chips. 2) Coat chips in milk chocolate. 3) Sell chocolate-coated chips at 1000% mark-up. 4) Profit.

Image of chocolate covered potato chips. Image source: https://www.thedailymeal.com/best-recipes/chippers/

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