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Nick Seewald

@nickseewald.com
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Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at Penn. Views are my own.

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Nick Seewald @nickseewald.com · 30/09/2026
Also, I don't think you cried? And neither did I?? Congratulations to us both
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Nick Seewald @nickseewald.com · 20/09/2026
"I applied for a grant from the NIH and all I got was this dumb T-shirt!"
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Pregame Empire @pregameempire.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Michigan storming the field against Western Michigan is worse than losing lol
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Nick Seewald @nickseewald.com · 26/08/2026
My husband appears to have no awareness of the drug Skyrizi. He is either a liar (unlikely) or he lives in a mental utopia so beautiful, so unaffected by ad breaks and jingles, that, in his world, perhaps nothing IS everything. In this dissertation I
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Nick Seewald @nickseewald.com · 22/08/2026
Instant hall of fame post
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Nick Seewald @nickseewald.com · 03/08/2026
Help I can't figure out how to turn off motion smoothing on this hotel tv, is this hell
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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Bluesky is both the sports app and the Catholic schism app, everything you’d need in one place
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Nick Seewald @nickseewald.com · 30/06/2026
I always wear compression socks on long flights! We don't fuck with DVT in my house.
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Nick Seewald @nickseewald.com · 20/06/2026
I felt like I was actively frowning while taking my passport photo
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Nick Seewald @nickseewald.com · 18/06/2026
Unfortunately Miscast could never give us something like this
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Nick Seewald @nickseewald.com · 18/06/2026
Man of La Mancha fans, NOW IS OUR TIME youtube.com/shorts/Iiul7...
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Jennifer Hudson sings rendition of "The Impossible Dream" from Broadway musical "Man of La Mancha."
YouTube video by ABC 7 Chicago
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Nick Seewald @nickseewald.com · 03/06/2026
I'd be crying lol
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Nick Seewald @nickseewald.com · 03/06/2026
At the gym?!
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Nick Seewald @nickseewald.com · 01/05/2026
Sickos: Yes... Ha ha ha... YES!
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Raysident Evil @sireviscerate.myatproto.social · 30/04/2026
(has a headache from being dehydrated) must be a caffeine withdrawal headache. I'll just have 7 coffees, that'll fix it
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Nice dissonance. Let me guess, cognitive?
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Nick Seewald @nickseewald.com · 15/04/2026
Oh man does it feel good to have a degree from a Catholic university right now (while also having been raised Lutheran). Heresies abound!!
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Nick Seewald @nickseewald.com · 02/04/2026
No! No!!
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The Verge @theverge.com · 29/03/2026
There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
by signal boosting queer voices
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Nick Seewald @nickseewald.com · 05/03/2026
If you told me that Ziwe and Isaac Chotiner were best friends I would believe you no questions asked. Our greatest living interviewers, imho.
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Elizabeth Stuart @lizstuart.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Looking forward to this; the next in our series on methods for mental health services research! Join us for free!
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Nick Seewald @nickseewald.com · 27/02/2026
Yay, Penn vindicated! But also... Dammit.
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a man in a hospital gown sits at a desk in front of a poster that says prevent malaria
ALT: a man in a hospital gown sits at a desk in front of a poster that says prevent malaria
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Nick Seewald @nickseewald.com · 24/02/2026
Also, in my experience, it's pretty rare that academics give a lot of thought to copyright in the first place! I always try to negotiate copyright transfer agreements but it's hard because my mentors have no experience with it, and so I don't really know what I should want in those negotiations.
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Nick Seewald @nickseewald.com · 16/02/2026
TIL that R documentation gets philosophical
A screenshot of the R help page for the any() function, titled "Are Some Values True?"
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Nick Seewald @nickseewald.com · 10/02/2026
Spectacular, I'll see it 4 times. www.vulture.com/article/revi...
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Finally, a Smooth-Brained Wuthering Heights
Emerald Fennell’s Emily Brontë adaptation is brave enough to just be about two messy bitches.
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Nick Seewald @nickseewald.com · 05/02/2026
Trying to use my Platform for good
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Nick Seewald @nickseewald.com · 05/02/2026
My most old-man opinion is that QR codes at restaurants are dumb and bad. Just give me a menu and let me talk to a human being!
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Nick Seewald @nickseewald.com · 30/01/2026
Leap Day William came a few years too soon
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Nick Seewald @nickseewald.com · 16/01/2026
There's a specific joy only a statistician feels when we get a survey in the mail. This one is second only to when I was selected for the ACS!
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Nick Seewald @nickseewald.com · 25/12/2025
Also every knife will be as sharp as a wooden spoon.
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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 26/11/2025
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
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Nick Seewald @nickseewald.com · 20/11/2025
Our timeline is rapidly converging with the one where I'm an English major and I'm so excited
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Nick Seewald @nickseewald.com · 19/10/2025
youtu.be/jnvgq8STMGM?...
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The Fate of Ophelia - SASSY GAY FRIEND
YouTube video by The Second City
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Nick Seewald @nickseewald.com · 24/08/2025
Don't make me tap the sign!
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Nick Seewald @nickseewald.com · 20/08/2025
This is my "don't make me tap the sign" sign 😩
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Nick Seewald @nickseewald.com · 12/08/2025
I have reached the age where I do NOT want to use your cute calendar interface or drop-down menus to enter my date of birth. Let me type it in. Making me scroll that far back to pick the year is an act of violence and I will not stand for it.
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Nick Seewald @nickseewald.com · 24/07/2025
If anybody ever said that I have "marooned (my)self on an island of vacuity" I think I would immediately walk into the ocean, The Awakening-style.
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AAUP–Penn @aaup-penn.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Hell yeah @rapup-uaw.bsky.social!!! Congrats on an incredible win and solidarity forever! ✊❤️
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Nick Seewald @nickseewald.com · 16/07/2025
This is called "preparing your dissertation defense" in my line of work
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Nick Seewald @nickseewald.com · 15/07/2025
Hanging out at the gay bar* this morning! *Airport lounge
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Nick Seewald @nickseewald.com · 21/06/2025
Now tell me why Wells Fargo Arena wasn't lit up like this for the Sweat Tour
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Statistical Horizons @stathorizons.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Join @nickseewald.com on July 8-11 for "SMART Designs for Adaptive Interventions". Gain insights into the design, implementation, and analysis of sequential multiple assignment randomized trials (SMARTs). Acquire the skills needed to propose and implement a SMART in your own research.
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SMART Designs | Online Workshop | Statistical Horizons
This online seminar taught by Nicholas Seewald, Ph.D., explores the design, implementation, & analysis of SMARTs.
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Nick Seewald @nickseewald.com · 03/06/2025
Oopsies!
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Nick Seewald @nickseewald.com · 28/05/2025
Oh no I'm reading my dissertation and finding typos why am I doing this to myself
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Nick Seewald @nickseewald.com · 20/05/2025
Not trying to brag but this is a new PR for me and I'm proud of it. Where else am I going to put this, LinkedIn? Come on now.
A screenshot of the Monday crossword completion screen of the NY Times Games app. The time is 03:48 with a 19 day streak and 04:43 faster than my average time.
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Statistical Horizons @stathorizons.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Now on YouTube: Watch the 1st hour of "SMART Designs for Developing Adaptive Interventions" w/ @nickseewald.com. The July 8–11 seminar covers how to build, analyze, & apply sequential, multiple-assignment, randomized trials (SMARTs) to create dynamic interventions.
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Adaptive Interventions and SMART Designs: An Introduction with Nicholas Seewald
YouTube video by Statistical Horizons
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Nick Seewald @nickseewald.com · 07/05/2025
It's probably not quite right because I think it's more for PDFs but maybe LiquidText? It definitely does the pin and string thing!
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