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John Flournoy @johnflournoy.science · 30m

How can I force myself into this terrible predicament?

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John Flournoy @johnflournoy.science · 32m

I wonder how much of the big companies' r&d is going into more efficient model architectures.

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 1h

True psychopathy is rare! Basic math means that most war crimes and monstrosities are carried about people who are not psychopaths, which is why there is so much propaganda dehumanizing and othering the target group (have to blunt the empathic impulse)

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John Flournoy @johnflournoy.science · 4h

(sorry sam. Actually a very good question. There's a phil of science conf in San Diego I'm eager to crash in November)

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Seth Chagi (World of Paleoanthropology🏺) @sethchagi.bsky.social · 10h

What's your BIGGEST question about our shared #HumanOrigins?

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Marcelo Rinesi @marcelorinesi.bsky.social · 6h

I don't particularly enjoy Herzog's movies but I love reading him and about him. He's the human definition of K. A. Applegate's phrase about ruthlessness: www.tumblr.com/aniquotes/15... (Yes, it's an Animorphs quote in a Tumblr post. The world is wild and beautiful.) via @dingdingpeng.the100.ci

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John Flournoy @johnflournoy.science · 4h

Exactly why I object to the "call them weird" campaign. Like, friend, *I* am weird. My friends are weird. I'm teaching my kiddo how amazing weird is!

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 10h

🍆🍆NEW PAPER ALERT🍆🍆 in press at the Journal of Psychopathology & Clinical Science. It's on moral incongruence & problematic porn use — and it's the rare project that got genuinely better through peer review. Preprint 🧵👇 osf.io/preprints/ps...

osf.io

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John Flournoy @johnflournoy.science · 4h

Hey well then, here: really sincerely, this stuff is huge!! Nice work!! Seriously. These really are the parts of work you will look back on and think Damn I did some shit!!! You and your lab!!!!!

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John Flournoy @johnflournoy.science · 4h

I really relate to this. I call it "getting through" these days. It feels like a long walk. Kinda hard overall but not worrying. And not joyful. For me personally, I also just stay away from work that does cause me stress, so some of its selection, too.

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 10h

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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John Flournoy @johnflournoy.science · 6h

i'm a cognition person so i guess i would just love to know something more about how individuals and groups went about solving problems, comparatively (to us). And what was it like, emotionally, to be an early hominid, or homo.

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John Flournoy @johnflournoy.science · 6h

comic con and i haven't been since 1997

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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 9h

Meta-science/methods improvement people: What are your favorite conferences?

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paolo @paolopalma.bsky.social · 9h

Psych concepts through Pokemon screenshots: zero-sum thinking

Screenshot from Pokemon Masters EX depicting the Pokemon black and white villain ghetsis saying “However! The more you win, the more losers you create. Mark my words-they will all come to resent you.”

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John Flournoy @johnflournoy.science · 6h

There is always the opportunity to appreciate the beauty and mystery of existence in its simplicity and complexity, and contentment and peace is possibly close to achievable.

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Stephanie King @stephstephking.bsky.social · 8h

IT'S ALMOST TIME

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John Flournoy @johnflournoy.science · 6h

tried to tell my offline sister about this meme the other day

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John Flournoy @johnflournoy.science · 6h

when the kids talk about brain rot

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John Flournoy @johnflournoy.science · 6h

The semiotics of facial expressions is always safe for work.

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John Flournoy @johnflournoy.science · 6h

also fun fact, my sister tells me that if you stay in the hotel where they all stayed when shooting Fitzcaraldo they ask you if you want to watch the movie and if you say yes, they wheel into your room a small TV and VCR.

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John Flournoy @johnflournoy.science · 6h

what the absolute shit this is wild

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John Flournoy @johnflournoy.science · 6h

His memoir has so many lessons for how to let what is irrevocably "you" guide your choices.

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John Flournoy @johnflournoy.science · 6h

listening to him read the translation of his memoir right now and flabbergasted at all he has gone through. It's too bad you don't like his movies more! I do sort of prefer his documentaries. I go back to Happy People: A Year in the Taiga a lot.

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John Flournoy @johnflournoy.science · 30/09/2026

Seriously. Like, that level of reproducibility is fine but doesn't fix the actual problems. In my area too. I used to be a very careful methods reviewer but more and more these days it's about can someone even answer the question with the data? Does the question even make sense?

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John Flournoy @johnflournoy.science · 30/09/2026

I'm now very interested in your whole setup

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John Flournoy @johnflournoy.science · 30/09/2026

No! Pre register your SCA and put it in a container with open data!

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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 30/09/2026

Guy who thinks chi-square fit tests are liberatory because they want all parameters to be free

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John Flournoy @johnflournoy.science · 29/09/2026

the lookup function from the attr is nice tho

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John Flournoy @johnflournoy.science · 29/09/2026

A lot of these are just games I loved as a kid and teenager. that is a soul.

9 video games i loved:

Fallout 2
Quake
SimCity
Banished
SimEarth: The Living Planet
Hero's Quest: So You Want to Be a Hero
Dwarf Fortress
Disco Elysium
Wing Commander

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This child is 13 and was testifying without an attorney present. Monsters.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

swearing aside, the strategy of just making the right stand by the things they say to each other seems pretty good. that was the secret sauce behind the "weird" messaging way back when (that they abandoned for whatever reason)

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Jennifer Tackett @jnfrltackett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Very excited for this review with Michael Hallquist on adolescent personality pathology, a critically understudied topic that has only become moreso in recent years as seen by booming publication rates for depression and anxiety - PD lines at the bottom www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

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John Flournoy @johnflournoy.science · 29/09/2026

why put all letters in order when llm mash button cna unserstand anywy

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John Flournoy @johnflournoy.science · 29/09/2026

what's so bizarre about hallucinated refs is that it is so easy to get an LLM to check your refs list to make sure every ref links to a real paper. Like this is a basic proof-reading benefit of these tools.

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John Flournoy @johnflournoy.science · 29/09/2026

If one of these companies doesn't solve poverty in the next few years I'm out.

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am going to turn into a hostile goose that chases people yelling, "Improve WHAT?"

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rb @mostlyinane.quest · 29/09/2026

i am once again asking what certifications i need to become a bog body

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A common trope of tech documentation is "slot yourself into one of our badly-thought-out categories so we can provide an easy Getting Started experience for you!" because for Reasons (some that make sense, many that don't) product teams think that's better than asking people what they want to do.

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Dan Simpson @danpsimpson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Specificity gets results.

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John Flournoy @johnflournoy.science · 29/09/2026

Why did you feel like you had to take this seriously?

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