Joe Gitchell

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Anakin-Padme meme. Anakin: Additionally, we considered the confounders c1, c2 and c3. Padme: And you included all of them in a single model, right? Padme: And you included all of them in a single model, right?

Psychologists following a third-variable control strategy that may be best described as "sequential."

I hope @helenalb.bsky.social sees this and maybe @clairezagorski.bsky.social could make use of "hemogoblin"?!?

And people say that James is just good at "difficult"!

It is good to have primaries. I think we all agree on that.

As such!

When we have primaries, we need to stop getting upset that candidate A *dares* to challenge candidate B. That’s what primaries are for. Simply vote for your preferred candidate.

This is about Talarico/Crockett.

#PickOnGitch (@joegitchell) 🙏❤️

Hope-booster!

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I at least I seem to be blocked from experiencing their oddness.

#SmallFavors

University of Iowa letter jacket; black with gold I.

And to pat myself on the back for my grace, below is the jacket I'm wearing today!

#GoHawks

a man wearing headphones is sitting in front of a crowd and says ouchtown population you bro ! Alt: Dodgeball: ouchtown population you bro !

You just renamed Iowa City to #Ouchtown!

USS Infrequently Intrepid

Make a warship mid:

HMS Strategic Victory

USS Meh-homme Richard

If you're not following @clairezagorski.bsky.social, please fix that damage.

Not OK.

#DayJob

The Wreck of the Memphis (Classics of Naval Literature) A vivid account of the tsunami waves that demolished th…

You likely have read this, but I was grateful that my father in law is such a military history buff that I read this on a long ago visit to him.

Tragic in many ways but so many important lessons (particularly "ignore the admiral and burn the coal!").

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A black cat meme-ified to ask "Can I Haz yellow wether warnings pleze"

A bearded dragon called Indy implores you to check the bloody Met Office

SJA tonight and the cadets were asked to come up with posters or social media content around their current topic of emergency planning (in this case weather warnings).

Pretty pleased with their efforts, tbh...

Love this.

To get the full effect, you may have to say things ou-tloud.

#DayJob

Follow @dingdingpeng.the100.ci to get less wrong and to chuckle!

#MakeNewMistakes

#DiscomfortOfThought required to #RethinkNicotine.

And there's plenty to be uncomfortable about.

But I do believe we all have to get more comfortable with being uncomfortable. I am grateful that @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social agrees on that point.

#respect

#InGroupDissent

The Merseyside Experiment: Will UK Recall Its Heroin-Prescribing History? - Filter “The war on drugs has failed,” Zack Polanski told reporters in October 2025. The new leader of the Green Party ...

#MakeNewMistakes, eh?

Did you see this recent @filtermag.bsky.social article, Alex?

filtermag.org/merseyside-u...

#TiredOfWinning

a sign for talladega nights hangs on a wall Alt: Ricky Bobby rolling down the race track attempting to put out the imaginary fire.

Well, you're the proper methodologist!!!

Do you think you've assessed an adequate sample? Based on what estimate for IMV?

Have you EVER had a honeydew you enjoy?

While I can accurately be called a propagandist for some commercial interests, I have no Big Melon disclosure.

a man holding a microphone with the words if you ain t first you 're last on the bottom ALT: a man holding a microphone with the words if you ain t first you 're last on the bottom

My experience with this fruit is that it presents substantial inter-melon variability (IMV), perhaps the most for any fruit (asserting without evidence beyond my own experience!).

Bad honeydew is cardboard-adjacent, but good honeydew is dew-licious.

#StayCurious
#StaySkeptical

Eyes now turn to @nejm.org's NEJM Evidence journal for what they will do with the "contested meta-analysis" mentioned in the @retractionwatch.com coverage.

Why Don’t People Return Their Shopping Carts? A (Somewhat) Scientific Investigation - by Hannah B. Waldfogel - Behavioral Scientist For reasons I can’t fully explain, people’s failure to return their carts bothers me more than it probably should. But then I realized I can do something about it.

CartNarcs don't seem to be on blewski, but I found this article humorous and informative.

behavioralscientist.org/why-dont-peo...

Opening Substack post: an interview with me This is my introductory Substack post. I hope this interview will help readers see where I am coming from and why I hold the views I do. I hope it may even persuade those who disagree to engage.

2/2

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The Shaping Vaping Podcast YouTube video by American Vapor Manufacturers

As Ferris Bueller noted, life moves pretty fast, & it makes no exceptions for the #ShapingVaping cast!

Still on for tomorrow, Thurs, 15 Jan, at 11:30am ET, but now with @clivebates.bsky.social joining me and Jim McCarthy.

And read Clive's 'stack in next skeet. 1/2

www.youtube.com/live/srvQaUJ...

The Shaping Vaping Podcast YouTube video by American Vapor Manufacturers

🤩Special Guest - #ShapingVaping🤠
Thursday, 1/15 - 11:30AM EST
Jim McCarthy and @jgitchell.bsky.social welcome Cliff Douglas on:
- State of the internecine war over vaping.
- Role of the press.
- Making sense of HHS/FDA policy.
- Where can advocacy go from here?

www.youtube.com/live/srvQaUJ...

Joe Gitchell (@joegitchell) Such important stuff, and I do appreciate how this episode builds more towards potential solutions for us to get less wrong, together.

Latest Science Fictions 'cast from @stuartjritchie.bsky.social & @tomchivers.bsky.social with bigly implications for getting less wrong.

Includes h/t to @dingdingpeng.the100.ci.

#AdCollab discussion at the end. 💪

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#InGroupDissent FTW!