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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I got a mostly really constructive set of reviews for a paper but one reviewer quibbled with my use of the term “as hypothesized” because we didn’t pre-register the analysis 🧐

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

One time I was telling a guy that I have a really bad fashion sense and he looked me up and down and said “you know the fact that your shoes are so deeply misaligned with the rest of your outfit suggests you actually have a very specific fashion sense”

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Happy National Hamburger Day @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Dumbest country in the world baby it’s not even close

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The minute I saw a fleece vest I knew it was over. The shape of a sweater vest but the functionality of a vest? I’ll take 75

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Speaking English as a second language is like using Word to collaborate with people on writing. It's not the best, but we can both use it so here we are

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sometimes I like the parts of my job that involve research so much that I forget how some of the other parts like administrative work can be enjoyable too. (Delusional cope)

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

After trying for hours I realized that if you joined the data entry and survey instances as an event, you can use the logic of Alerts plus smart variables to make this happen

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Does anyone know on RedCap how to set up a "repeating survey" that corresponds to a repeated "data entry form" so that after some time when data is entered the *survey* goes out to an email from the data entry form (but the email changes with each instance)

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

To the child in this building screaming at the top of their lungs every 10-20 minutes: keep it up don’t let the haters tame you.

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In the middle of a competition: “We don’t have to make this a competition”

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

*My inner dialogue is dualist, don't come at me

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My mind*: "I have some downtime, I could return work email." My brain: "The best I can do is cleaning up the spam on your personal account. Take it or leave it."

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Everybody shut up I think I figured something out. If you do the GenZ stare back at a Gen Zer it cancels out and they engage with you

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

(IDK how to make them don’t ask me)

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I follow all you nerds and so far nobody’s made an alluvial plot of the pod-to-altar progression of Love is Blind contestants. Why?

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Huge sign that says “restroom” after a sign that says “restroom this way” Me: “Where’s s the restroom?”

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Man drinking has or will become a hobby for the rich because with these damn prices 😱

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Even as an undergrad, my professors told me about the issue of people repackaging old ideas as new in psychology (hello Meehl). Now being mid (mid-career), it's wild to see it happen in real time

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

BlueSky: A dozen new followers 🥰 Me: “I wonder what attracted them to my BlueSky” 🤣 BlueSky: they found you on the Science Shitposter starter pack 🥲

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Marlene Berke @marleneberke.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Do non-human primates have theory of mind? My new paper takes a new computational approach to this classic question. We implemented verbal theories of primates' mental representations as computational models. These models completed classic visual perspective-taking tasks.

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Um I just found out ferral hogs are a real problem. Can someone please just give hogs the “Children of Men” illness? I just KNOW this is going to reach Indiana at some point

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I have an FAQ like “no need to write me ahead of time” and I may change that to “please don’t”

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is the politics of it. People don’t actually care about harm. If they did, they would focus on misinformation and harmful online communities.

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Another important distinction that maybe makes a survey numbers more valid, even though they have issues like only sampling online people, is that the LLN data are about CONVERSATIONS, not users

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Oh wow the 24% number is huge :S I need to read the paper in more detail but that is really scary

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

2: It's still a big number in context but I was expecting it to be much higher

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

1: It comes from the companies so grain of salt but I was happy to read that it's VERY infrequent for people to use LLM chatbots for emotional support (e.g., 0.34 - 3.73% for Claude). www.anthropic.com/news/how-peo... www.media.mit.edu/posts/openai...

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How people use Claude for support, advice, and companionship

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Oh I know this one! That was the state and other educational institutions spend the money and companies reap the benefits

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Watching the social media “Patrick Clancy did it” discourse on this trial like “this is me, at my most masochistic”

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Men’s grooming products have really doubled down on the whole “take care of your balls” angle

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I for one like the idea of Trump’s new hair. In between destroying everything he’s like “guys the look if off. Call Giorgio STAT. Tell him I need a # 10.”

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Gerogie was kind of dumb because he starts off with “I’m not supposed to take stuff from strangers” and this clown WHO LIVES IN THE SEWERS says “I’m Pennywise, you’re Georgie, now we know each others.” What does he think “knowing” means? How good was that boat

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Watching the original It just to feel something

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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Here you have it folks. I argue tor the importance of spending MORE time on social media (to counter misinformation)

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

After Trump gutted the IRS workforce — including the unit tasked with auditing billionaires — the agency's annual audit revenue plunged by 35%. Trump's attacks on the IRS were never about "efficiency." They were about making it easier for the wealthy and powerful to skirt what they owe.

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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

And yet again, for the jazillionth time, I just got f'ed over because of the rotating turnstile of my university's administration. This time, it's a huge financial hit that was completely avoidable. I wrote this a decade ago, but man it's perennial: www.chronicle.com/article/why-...

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Why Relentless Administrative Turnover Makes It Hard for Us to Do Our Jobs

Constantly shifting priorities and visions leave universities adrift. Is consistent leadership too much to ask for?

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

No starker example of the media having different rules for each political party. If the press treated Elon Musk like Hasan Piker, every Republican in America would be forced to answer questions about why their party's biggest donor espouses anti-semitic race science.

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