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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 24/09/2026

Slop papers can be filtered. Building the institutions that do it is a maybe 2-5 year job. *Good* papers are a lot scarier, imo. In sufficient volume, they could turn a discipline into a backwater town bypassed by the railroad.

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Sam Bernecker @sam-bernecker.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My collaborator @spencrgreenberg.bsky.social calls this "importance hacking." Nothing fundamentally wrong with those design choices as long as one describes the conclusions with appropriate modesty

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Sam Bernecker @sam-bernecker.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My main contribution to this article was inventing a thing that is simultaneously a clinical intervention and an implementation strategy, thus confounding the first author enough that he felt compelled to write a paper, sorry not sorry

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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 22/08/2026

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Psychiatry: Here is a drug that can cure your cup imbalance but we don’t know how and 66% of the time it can’t

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Sam Bernecker @sam-bernecker.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I've been impressed at the degree to which grocery stores are carrying more products marketed towards data analysis nerds

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Sam Bernecker @sam-bernecker.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Woke up this morning from a dream in which I showed up in the living room of a researcher whose analysis I was trying to understand and yelled "SHOW ME YOUR DAAAAAAGS" If I ever do this in real life feel free to call the police

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Sam Bernecker @sam-bernecker.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Oh god, is this the venom coursing through my veins that has caused me to fill my project ideas spreadsheet with methods/metascience/science-of-science stuff I'm completely unqualified to do?

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Sam Bernecker @sam-bernecker.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

What's your favorite method for controlling the Type I error rate and why is it Benjamini-Hochberg

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Sam Bernecker @sam-bernecker.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Yes except replace "experimentalists" with "almost anyone" (Including myself tbqh)

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Sam Bernecker @sam-bernecker.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

How much heartache would be saved if we routinely used cognitive interviewing/think-aloud procedures when developing instruments? We should know how respondents are interpreting instructions. Just frickin' ask people. It doesn't even need to be particularly rigorous.

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Sam Bernecker @sam-bernecker.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Not so sure it was a good idea for me to get on Bluesky. I now have a gazillion tabs open with Things I Absolutely Must Read, and I'm constantly suppressing urges to share my most controversial takes and inane shitposts. Exercising a lot of restraint over here, you're welcome

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Sam Bernecker @sam-bernecker.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Came to my first @improvingpsych.org conference hoping to find My People. During the first coffee break, ended up talking with @priyasilverstein.com and @lillianistrying.bsky.social as if we'd known each other for years, and every conversation since then has had similar ease. My heart is full.

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Sam Bernecker @sam-bernecker.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I wonder what proportion of bias in the literature is attributable to people more carefully checking null or surprising results and correcting errors, but not checking positive/expected results and missing those errors. A perfectly innocent behavior, but ...

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Sam Bernecker @sam-bernecker.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I thought of this meme multiple times within the past 24 hours when it was, unfortunately, inappropriate to giggle in public for no reason

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Sam Bernecker @sam-bernecker.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

At coffee with @ihandleyminer.bsky.social yesterday, discussed how to do metascience stuff and challenge current practices without being perceived as a jerk. Concluded that one needs to be charming and approachable on a podcast and/or on social media. And we are not starting a podcast. So.

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