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Maria Diaz Mize

@msmariadiaz.bsky.social
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🇩🇴 Non-traditional Doctoral student in criminology at Florida State University. Interests: community corrections, courts, jails, crime and the media, pretrial justice, AI and surveillance. Mixed methods kinda gal.

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Maria Diaz Mize @msmariadiaz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My husband has a rare medical event, i'm on google scholar, you're on cleveland clinic, we are not the same.
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Maria Diaz Mize @msmariadiaz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
me running descriptives: oh, cool i have an interesting finding, let me tell someone. me again running sensitivity checks before emailing them...nvm
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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 14/09/2026
A psychology journal has retracted a paper on how using generative AI can affect confidence in work tasks after its sole author refused to share data with the editors.
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CEO of AI company loses paper on cognitive impact of generative AI
A psychology journal has retracted a paper on how using generative AI can affect confidence in work tasks after its sole author refused to share data with the editors.  The April paper, publis…
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Maria Diaz Mize @msmariadiaz.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Love to use the web these days, where every single page on earth wants your email address
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Maria Diaz Mize @msmariadiaz.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
producing a CSV file of random likert scores is not "violating confidentiality" let's be so for real right now
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christhomas.bsky.social @christhomas.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Excited to share new study in Criminology (open access) on GLP-1s & violence: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Among current GLP-1 users, the link b/t impulsivity and violence was flat across impulsivity levels. Similar story w/alcohol use. More to come from me & @daniel-semenza.bsky.social
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Maria Diaz Mize @msmariadiaz.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
So the one thing we learned is that there WAS ethics board approval, but still so many questions... retractionwatch.com/2026/06/16/t...
retractionwatch.com
Journal investigating paper on cognitive impact of generative AI
A paper about the effects of generative AI use on confidence in work tasks is under investigation after critics raised questions about the study design, data analysis and ethics approval for the re…
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Maria Diaz Mize @msmariadiaz.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
NGL I love a Waymo. Felt much safer in them as a woman.
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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Peak San Francisco www.sfchronicle.com/crime/articl...
Photo of a white Waymo robotaxi in San Francisco. 

Headline: Get-a-Waymo: How a burglar used a robotaxi to flee the scene in a first-of-its kind S.F. case

Sub-head: After breaking into a yoga studio in San Francisco and stealing activewear, a burglar made his getaway in an autonomous Waymo in what police said was a novel case in the city.
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Maria Diaz Mize @msmariadiaz.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Vibe coded for the first time yesterday with Claude Code. It was cool, but a lot of back and forth as I set up Claude to ask me for permission at every change (which I probably didn't need, this was a simple Python script). Anyway, feel free to call me a woman in tech now.
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Maria Diaz Mize @msmariadiaz.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
One of the ways I'm prepping for my methods comps in the fall is going through methods sections on papers. This one was a good exercise in thinking about mediation. It also reminded me what a Sobel test is (which I learned fall semester and promptly forgot).
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Maria Diaz Mize @msmariadiaz.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Notes from the transcription trenches: Whisper transcription tool is utter garbage, I spend so much time fixing the errors. Still better than transcribing entirely by hand but I'm actually shocked that it's this bad
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Maria Diaz Mize @msmariadiaz.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Meanwhile on threads everyones favorite AI researcher is talking about not violating confidentiality. Not sure how releasing full regression output or a CSV of random likert scores violates confidentiality but okay go off I guess
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Maria Diaz Mize @msmariadiaz.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
very cool use of claude code!
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Maria Diaz Mize @msmariadiaz.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
very cool to see online sentiment in all kinds of online corners
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Maria Diaz Mize @msmariadiaz.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
People really are just posting the AI output huh. We are done as a society, wrap it up
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Maria Diaz Mize @msmariadiaz.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
the most adorable retraction ever
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Maria Diaz Mize @msmariadiaz.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
i'm 95% done with my PhD. I still have to pass comps and write/defend my dissertation but I'm just about there.
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Maria Diaz Mize @msmariadiaz.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
When you know even a little about methods, it's hard to get excited about clinical trial press releases, esp for GLP1s. Show me the receipts!!! We need critical reviews of these trials that are accessible to the layperson and that aren't driven by activism.
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Maria Diaz Mize @msmariadiaz.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Allowing students to only use LLMs for finding sources, which it is known to be incredibly bad at, is an interesting policy choice
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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Sometimes you have to break stuff even more before you fix it 📊 #AccidentalArt #RStats
Very spiky polygons arranged in a sort of circular shape, with shades of blue, purple, and orange.
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Matt Ashby @mattashby.com · 21/05/2026
This review finds the evidence on the effectiveness of offender-based interventions (eg using cognitive behavioural therapy) to prevent repeat domestic abuse is weak. Lots of places are spending money on this, so we really need better evidence. doi.org/10.1007/s108...
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The Effectiveness of Intervention with Intimate Partner Violence Perpetrators: An Umbrella Review - Journal of Family Violence
Purpose To advance knowledge on effective interventions for intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetrators, it is essential to synthesize evidence from meta-analyses evaluating the effectiveness of…
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Maria Diaz Mize @msmariadiaz.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
She's never had to evaluate model fit
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Mattan S. Ben-Shachar @mattansb.msbstats.info · 20/05/2026
#statsmeme
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Maria Diaz Mize @msmariadiaz.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
If you want to join a criminology program, know you're not going to spend your time profiling killers, you're going to spend it reading dense sociology and learning statistics.
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Maria Diaz Mize @msmariadiaz.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Brown suggests that maybe it's best if analysis is left to statisticians and not subject matter experts. Interesting idea, but then it totally lacks context/theory.
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Maria Diaz Mize @msmariadiaz.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
"Using an AI tool can generate qualitative data, but it is not the same as conducting qualitative inquiry"
theconversation.com
AI interviewers can’t connect with people the way human researchers can – they can produce only data, not meaning
Anthropic developed an AI interviewer it claims can help social scientists conduct research at scale. But AI models lack the human qualities that make qualitative research unique.
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Maria Diaz Mize @msmariadiaz.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I don't want to be dropped into an "interactive AI experience", I want you to give me a list of links like I asked
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Maria Diaz Mize @msmariadiaz.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Do not disrespect qualitative methods in my presence, please. You can get so much more from interviews. #PhDSky
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Maria Diaz Mize @msmariadiaz.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Three specialists on meta analysis on your PubPeer thread and you're going on about haters on your socials? Just issue the retraction and let's wrap this up bc it's getting embarrassing #AcademicSky #ScienceSky
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Maria Diaz Mize @msmariadiaz.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Where were you the first time you learned what a comprehensive exam was? #PhDSky #AcademicSky
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Maria Diaz Mize @msmariadiaz.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
This last year of coursework I had two professors who did in person exams and honestly, I preferred it to a take home. No endless opportunities to ruminate and fall down literature rabbit holes. You know it or you don't. #PHDsky
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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
How much does it cost to buy your way onto a scientific paper? To answer this question (and better understand the global market for academic reputation manipulation), we compiled BuyTheBy, a massive dataset of thousands of advertisements from paper mills in seven different countries. Link below!
A boxplot with authorship slot (1st author through 5th author) on the x axis and price in USD on the y axis. Prices are split by paper mill of origin.
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Maria Diaz Mize @msmariadiaz.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
It took me less than 5 minutes to make a fake dataset in Claude for testing purposes. It even asked how the variables should be correlated. What a helpful guy.
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Maria Diaz Mize @msmariadiaz.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
I read an article that was highly methodologically suspect. I asked the author what I thought was an easy question and she was unable to give me a real answer. The article has now made it to pubpeer with tons of complaints. Feeling validated, especially as I prep for methods comps in a few months.
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Maria Diaz Mize @msmariadiaz.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
So I've been trying Threads and it can be fun (sue me, I like the algorithmic view at times) but it has gotten progressively worse this past week. Showing me dating content (don't care), rage bait (ugh), and endless gym-bros giving weight loss advice. I think the internet is done.
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Maria Diaz Mize @msmariadiaz.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Today's coffee: 1. two nespresso double chiaro pods 2. 1/2 cup of fairlife 2% 3. splash of chobani cinnamon coffee cake creamer 4. demure amount of reddi-whip Thanksgiving week in full effect.
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Maria Diaz Mize @msmariadiaz.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
The other sites were either too rage-baity (X/Twitter) or too random/mundane (Threads) so I'm hoping this will be the place to meet other folks in crim and academia.
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