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Sam Bernecker @sam-bernecker.bsky.social · 15h

Yes, really! It seems that I've used your posts to date to reconstruct a model of your psyche (In Rust, probably)

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Sam Bernecker @sam-bernecker.bsky.social · 16h

Tbh I felt insecure about posting but then thought, "at least John will like it"

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Sam Bernecker @sam-bernecker.bsky.social · 23h

(Alternatively, for Tidal users: tidal.com/playlist/66d...)

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Sam Bernecker @sam-bernecker.bsky.social · 23h

Every October I painstakingly craft a spooky season playlist. This year’s may be the best yet, so I thought I'd share with the good people of the internet 🦇 open.spotify.com/playlist/5vw... Listen in order; it starts fun then becomes increasingly unnerving before ending with a "roll credits" song

open.spotify.com

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Sam Bernecker @sam-bernecker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

(Sondheim is one of the few individuals to whom I regularly refer as "genius" without hesitation) (Although maybe that's because I talk about musical theater too much) (Anyway, break a leg)

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Sam Bernecker @sam-bernecker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

But do we really deserve him? We should *aspire* to be the America represented by Ted.

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Sam Bernecker @sam-bernecker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I actually said "whoa" out loud when I read the first post in this thread. I just wanted you to know that somewhere in the world, your research produced an audible reaction

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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 · 08/09/2026

Given the number of times I've cried in cafés, I would be reluctant to claim anything about shedding no tears (Thanks for the earworm)

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Sam Bernecker @sam-bernecker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

No no no. This cannot possibly be real. But if it is, I'm kind of gratified to be living in The Absurdest Timeline.

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Sam Bernecker @sam-bernecker.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The one in the middle even has a lesbian mullet going on

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Sam Bernecker @sam-bernecker.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The color scheme is even a bit suspect if you squint

The bisexual flag, consisting of stripes of magenta, violet, and indigo

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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 · 31/08/2026

Thanks a lot, this made me laugh out loud in a coffee shop

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Sam Bernecker @sam-bernecker.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I am real curious about the composition of your dinner crowd

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Sam Bernecker @sam-bernecker.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

And then they crow about their coefficient alpha of .95

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

Anyway you should read it if (1) you're an implementation scientist and/or (2) you've ever struggled to categorize something as an intervention or implementation strategy and/or (3) you want your brain to hurt a little (it builds character!)

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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 · 03/08/2026

I wonder how much of this behavior is driven by feelings of shame and anxiety around math/stats, folks being afraid to admit they don't get it. I recently joked with someone about giving stats consultants clinical training (esp. in motivational interviewing), but maybe it shouldn't have been a joke

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Sam Bernecker @sam-bernecker.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Wait wait wait I thought of another one: Raw kale. Why?! It's so scratchy. There are other healthy foods out there. No need to eat Velcro

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Sam Bernecker @sam-bernecker.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I was just browsing your website and moments ago had decided to DM you saying, "I don't usually do this, but based on your CV I am getting the vibe that we should be friends," but now I guess I'll declare that publicly

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Sam Bernecker @sam-bernecker.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Maybe more controversial and less universally hateable than MANOVA

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Sam Bernecker @sam-bernecker.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

At this particular moment, I hate it when people imply or explicitly claim that a pilot study should be powered to detect ... anything (and/or to help determine sample size for a future study). If it's powered, then it's just a full-test study (one you're ill-prepared to conduct).

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Sam Bernecker @sam-bernecker.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Instagram keeps telling me to buy a "definitely not D&D" sourcebook called "Dungeons and Daddies," which the ad also insists is about actual dads and is not spicy

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Sam Bernecker @sam-bernecker.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Y'all have let me in on the joke and my brain STILL won't let me stop watching it

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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 · 21/07/2026

not me tearing up while reading the alt text

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Sam Bernecker @sam-bernecker.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

This comment made me do a double-take, nice work

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Sam Bernecker @sam-bernecker.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

FWIW, a close friend who worked at FB at the time says that he finds the broad strokes credible.

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Sam Bernecker @sam-bernecker.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

This was one of my favorite reads last year, and I think part of it was my gradual realization of the narrator's unreliability. I also tend to have a polyannaish view of humanity--"most people have good intentions"--and this, er, updated my beliefs in a probably-necessary direction.

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Sam Bernecker @sam-bernecker.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Wait, is news of our little legend spreading outside of Seattle?!?!

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Sam Bernecker @sam-bernecker.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Reading this while procrastinating from writing a section of a paper about how to select an estimand ... okay, I'll get back to work 😅

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Sam Bernecker @sam-bernecker.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

It turns out that yelling about how a thing is bad is only the first step in fixing it, not all of the steps

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

I mean, my *asleep* brain was convinced. My awake brain may have a more measured attitude.

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

Last weekend, on a call with my dear sweet mother, she said, "I kinda hope your [grant on substantive topic] doesn't get funded so that you can pursue your passion," which may be an indicator that the illness is terminal

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

I suspect this happened because I attended an excellent webinar yesterday by @pwgtennant.bsky.social on whether DAGs have "fulfilled their promise" ... apparently I was convinced that they have

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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 · 12/07/2026

Wow, I don't think I could produce thirty publications in a month even if I were willing to write everything with AI and commit complete fraud

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Sam Bernecker @sam-bernecker.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Spoken like someone who's never experienced the Tetris effect

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Sam Bernecker @sam-bernecker.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

😭😭😭 Okay, I'm trusting you ...

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Sam Bernecker @sam-bernecker.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I have heard that science stuff is happening on there and I still can't bring myself to look at my feed because the default faux-vulnerable self-congratulatory writing style makes me so uncomfortable ... must I???

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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 · 04/07/2026

Glad I'm not the only one who bounced off this series early. I felt no reason to be invested in the characters (or their belt buckles). Maybe I'll try again in light of some of these replies ....

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Sam Bernecker @sam-bernecker.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Seems like an unimpeachable idea to me ....

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Sam Bernecker @sam-bernecker.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I was going to comment "so gorgeous," and then I paused because I wondered if that was too frivolous to say ... until I saw multiple people I respect having the same reaction here. So: SO GORGEOUS 🤩

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Sam Bernecker @sam-bernecker.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Aggggh if the authors just THOUGHT for two seconds they'd realize how implausible these are as valid indicators of narcissism ... like, what CEO is poring over the graphic design of the annual report and demanding the enlargement of his photograph

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