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Stefanie, PhD

@stanc1ss.bsky.social
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Radical behaviorist. Italian American. Feminist. Mountaineering and snowboarding enthusiast. Opinions are mine. (She/her)

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Stefanie, PhD @stanc1ss.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The political equivalent of my two-year-old saying “no hitting” while actively hitting is watching Republicans condemn the very behavior they engage in themselves. At some point, repeating the rule while simultaneously breaking it doesn’t make the hypocrisy any less obvious—it just makes it louder.
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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 26/09/2026
I worked with Jake on this story for months, and it’s truly one of the best deep dives into how online sports gambling works that I’ve ever seen
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Have you ever tried to read a scientific journal article and been told “you don’t have access, pay to download this article?” Did you know that the author of that article gets $0 if you pay? Instead, you can email the author and ask for a free copy! I’d be delighted to help and answer questions!
Screenshot of a scientific journal paywall
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
DAVE MATTHEWS: “I said it last night, but I’ll say it again - man, I’m so tired of this fuckin’ President.”
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Stefanie, PhD @stanc1ss.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Nothing says good morning quite like an email with the words “accepted for publication.” ☕️📚
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Brian Kerg @briankerg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
My latest in @usniproceedings.bsky.social: "The warrior ethos is no longer a useful philosophy... While once that spirit offered some utility... the warrior ethos now is largely a stumbling block to the professional and ethical development of soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines."
usni.org
Where Exactly Has the Warrior Ethos Gotten Us?
The Marine Corps should revive its traditional ethos, emphasizing professional competence, readiness, honor, courage, and commitment for the demands of modern warfare.
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Stefanie, PhD @stanc1ss.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I find it incredibly sad that women in my family used to look up to me, until they started dating those MAGA men. Now they’re about that trad wife life and the household vote.
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Lake Michigan @lakemichigan13.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Lake Ontario forever 🌊🌊
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Brandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Once again feeling annoyed that a huge part of adult life is just figuring out what's for dinner.
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Stefanie, PhD @stanc1ss.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Last night I woke around 0200 and couldn’t get back to sleep. Decided if I was still awake at 0300 I would just go into the office. Then my cat came and snuggled next to me. And you don’t move a sleeping cat.
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Lake Michigan @lakemichigan13.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Vote tomorrow Humans of Michigan! Clean water is life. Vote for it. 🌊🌊
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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Turns out that food companies were only checking their food because the government told them to, which is exactly why we need government regulations.
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Stefanie, PhD @stanc1ss.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
You would think that instead of scolding Canada for their wildfires, the right thing to do would be to offer them help. #wildfires
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I'm never going to get over the fact that the president of the United States paid a woman more than $5 million after a jury found him liable for raping her. And he's still president. And people still support him. Never. Get. Over. It.
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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 15/07/2026
We’ve reached a point where any historical advantage of testosterone in a war setting is completely irrelevant (pure physical size, speed, strength don’t help much against projectiles generally and not at all against drones), so it’s consistent with his intelligence that he’s implementing this now
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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 15/07/2026
People are always talking about the things we have today that our ancestors didn't, but nobody wants to look at the things our ancestors had that we've lost. Like community, and free time, and environmental sustainability, and a collective that cares whether we live or die
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Guy on the radio earlier saying we should all save our shower water and use that to flush the toilet. Around 60 companies are responsible for 80% of all global carbon emissions; telling us as individuals to do something without addressing that is just gaslighting and guilt tripping.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
It feels ridiculous to be told my entire life the importance of reducing my energy usage and switching to stuff like LED bulbs and then read reports of energy prices spiking in many US communities due to data centers.
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Stefanie, PhD @stanc1ss.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
“I’ll be very upset if you get pregnant while in this program.” -My first doctoral advisor.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I am once again yelling from the rooftops that this man is a eugenicist. He fundamentally believes that he and his ilk are "superior" and anyone who needs extra support isn't worthy of life. Miller is the one who put RFK Jr. in place. Miller has a LONG and loud history of this behavior.
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Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
"We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading." ~ B. F. Skinner
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 16/06/2026
How good is it when you get that perfect intellectual impedance match with someone and conversation feels like a mind-meld? I swear I could chase that feeling like it’s a solar eclipse.
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
So this confession by an Epstein victim actually naming Trump as one of her rapists is why we are back at war with Iran…funny how war works
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
If we’re allowed to build houses that could collapse on top of you, we can build a lot more houses!
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
They’re right to worry. Hegseth is clearly resegregating the military by race and sex.
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Stefanie, PhD @stanc1ss.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
My word of advice to doctoral candidates on defense day: do NOT get on social media. Stay in the headspace of your defense. Don’t be distracted with the craziness.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Clinical psychologist here! That’s the MoCA—it’s not an IQ test or a diagnostic tool, it’s a cognitive functioning screener. It’s used to monitor cognitive decline and test functioning after strokes. (Practice effects are a consideration…four times in a year is a lot.)
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
It's been said a billion times already, and it still can't be said enough: I don't see how US democracy survives if blatant, intentional lying remains cost-free
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/05/2026
Memorial Day asks something simple of us: remember. Remember the service members who lost their lives, the families who carry that loss every day, and the responsibility we all share to never treat that sacrifice lightly.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Fascinating thread, and study, about the relationship between age and academic creativity www.science.org/eprint/BWAPG...
science.org
Aging and the narrowing of scientific innovation
Aging researchers and the removal of retirement policies yield decreased disruptive innovation in science
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Stefanie, PhD @stanc1ss.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
May the 4th be with you 🛸
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
When I was seeing patients in a treatment resistant depression clinic, easily 70% of my consult reports explicitly said something like “stable housing/healthcare/living wage/nutrition would significantly alleviate depressive symptoms…” You can’t out-therapy hunger, poverty, and instability.
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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Selecting an effect size for power analysis is hard. Many researchers fall back on Cohen's thresholds, but they have no empirical basis and vary wildly by field. Our new paper offers a better option: field-specific effect size distributions built from meta-analytic data doi.org/10.3758/s134...
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Effect sizes are useful for understanding the magnitude of study results and for planning new studies via power analysis.
However, despite their wide usage, effect sizes are often misinterpreted. This is mostly due to an over-reliance on general
effect size benchmarks that were not intended for broad application across diverse research fields. Inaccurate effect size
interpretations can lead to incorrect conclusions about the magnitude of study results and incorrect sample size estimates,
thereby increasing the likelihood of false-positive results. This article introduces the ESDist R package, which is designed
to calculate empirically derived effect-size benchmarks or a range of reliably detectable empirical effect sizes for a specific
research question or field of interest by computing effect size distributions (ESDs). This package can be used on data that
can be easily extracted from pre-existing meta-analyses to help researchers more accurately plan new studies or to better
understand how an individual study might relate to other studies in their field. ESDist includes a set of features that make it
easy to use in a priori power analysis. Moreover, the package includes a feature for estimating effect size benchmarks that
account for publication bias and are weighted by effect sizes' variances, which addresses existing limitations of using ESDs
for study planning or interpretation.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 20/04/2026
There’s no routine screening for pancreatic cancer, most cases aren’t operable, and the five year survival rate after diagnosis is around 13%. It’s a traumatic news. But new personalized mRNA immunotherapy is showing encouraging results in Phase 1 clinical trials. Keep funding science!
nbcnews.com
Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial
Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.
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Stefanie, PhD @stanc1ss.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
I take off for my son, but not myself.
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Stefanie, PhD @stanc1ss.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I had no idea you could “recall” emails in Outlook until today, when an email disappeared from my inbox. What is this sorcery?!?
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Kurt Bradley @kurtbradley.co · 08/04/2026
Pet your dogs, everyone, and appreciate that they have no idea what is happening in this fucked up world.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Anyway, let’s all send our little emails and teach our classes and parent our children and cook dinner and drive around like the President didn’t just threaten to annihilate an entire civilization thus cutting off all diplomatic talks. *turns on Ms. Rachel* *fills up water bottle for the day*
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Stefanie, PhD @stanc1ss.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
As a trained behavioral psychologist, putting my manuscript in Chicago Style Manual is one of the most painful tasks I’ve ever had to do.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/04/2026
In honor of (hopefully) today's launch of NASA's Artemis II mission, the first crewed mission to orbit the Moon in more than 50 years, here is a to-scale graphic of exactly how far away the Moon actually is. (Click image to expand.) You could fit about 30 Earths between the Earth and the Moon!
A scale illustration of the Earth and the Moon, with the Earth on the far left, lots of black, and then the Moon on the far right, about 30 Earth diameters away.
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Maryanne Chisholm 🌊 💙 @maryannechisholm.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
A view of the night sky from Mars. (Yes, really)
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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 23/03/2026
I was spanked as a kid and I turned out fine and also I do not spank my kids and think it’s morally wrong to spank children, ultimately it’s lazy parenting because hitting them is quicker and easier than teaching natural consequences
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
The greatest sickness in modern life is the rise of performative cruelty. Many no longer hide their sadism but revel in it. It’s not hard to trace the root cause. The book is an empathy machine. It’s no surprise the decline in reading has been accompanied by a spike in inhumanity. It’s hand in glove
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Stefanie, PhD @stanc1ss.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
I have an R-squared joke, but it only explains part of it.
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Dr. Matt Schabath (he/him/his) @mattschabathphd.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
🧪🧪 Did anyone else notice their publication count change on Pubmed? Last week I had 275 publications indexed and today it is 237.
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 05/03/2026
Find someone who believes in you like researchers believe in pre-post differences as valid treatment effect estimates.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
This is insane. Trying to convince these young people to embrace becoming cannon fodder. www.rawstory.com/military-267...
rawstory.com
Military leaders pushing 'Armageddon views' on troops as Iran war begins: complaint
A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers Monday that the Iran war was part of God's plan to usher in the End Times and bring about Jesus Christ's second coming, according to a complaint ...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else. We mustn’t let this war do so.
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