Steven L. Lancaster

Grandmaster, Popular Commentator Daniel Naroditsky Tragically Passes Away At 29 GM Daniel Naroditsky, the popular U.S. grandmaster, commentator, creator, educator, and author, unexpectedly passed away on Sunday at the age of only 29.

My week has been deeply affected by the death of Daniel. More than a chess streamer/commentator he was a lifeline during many dark times and I spent hundreds (thousands?) of hours 'with' him over the years. I will miss his humor, his passion, his joy. RIP Danya. www.chess.com/news/view/gr...

I am seeing so much of the same. The number of posts I have drafted and then deleted before sending is approaching dissertation length...

Very generous of a journal to give me 48 hours to return a proof when the clock started on a Saturday!

Twins/Yankees games are what broke me. Stopped watching the Twins and basically following baseball at all, just couldn't do it anymore.

Smartwatches offer little insight into stress levels, researchers find Academic study suggests devices cannot differentiate between someone being overworked and being excited

New paper by @bsiepe.bsky.social & WARN-D team out now in JoPACS, on the (lack of) relation between EMA selfreport and Garmin passive data.

Guardian @theguardian.com coverage:
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🧪 #PsychSciSky #StatsSky #EpiSky

Given that people are using LLMs as therapists (even though they should not, of course), it has made me wonder if trained clinicians would use these tools differently than the general public? That is, would they ask different questions, better prompts, etc? Free research idea!

If I was still a college professor, I would assign my students this thread and have them each pick one topic to explore and then do a brief presentation on what the problem is and why it affects the field. Of course, then I would have to grade it...

Will share it with her!

My wife loves her smartwatch, but I am always at a loss to respond when she wakes up and says "I slept so well but my watch says I got a poor night of sleep." I mean, what to do with that?

A million years ago I reviewed a paper that was qualitative and, if I recall correctly, focused on how Black Americans interpreted anxiety related self-report items. I remember it being accepted, but I cannot seem to track it down. Such valuable work!

I mean Gawker played a pretty central role in that... I loved that website but pretty hard to defend them on this one.

That song is still stuck in my head two years after watching that film.

Strongly agree! The vast majority of psychologists are very pro-psychiatry.

It's fake.

If you read my thread, make sure to read the retracted paper’s last author’s response. As I highlighted on pubpeer & my thread, authors have been very responsive, transparent & collegial all the way through. I was surprised myself seeing a retraction as I had asked for a correction.

Hi I’m the last author of the retracted study; the first author is my PhD student. I don’t disagree with the retraction note. However, it missed out on some important context that I had written in my author’s response, which was not published with the retraction note. Here’s my side of the story

Came across one of my fav lines from all of literature today: "They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried." Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

Teenage Dream by Katy Perry. "Let's go all the way tonight, no regrets." That is going to get the audience very interested in what the heck is about to happen.

A consulting service where I read your applied methods book and just mark all the paragraphs that are so mathematically complex that if the reader had the stats background required to understand them, they wouldn’t need your book.

Image is of an email asking the receiver to complete a survey about their experience with a journal submission process.

Journal publishers have guts, I will give them that. I spent 5-6 hours formatting an article to meet the criteria for a particular journal, it sat on the editors desk for a month and was desk rejected. Now they want me to complete a survey about it, but fear not, it will only use 10 min of my time!

Milkjam for sure.

Sure looks like it!

Brasa. Would have said Young Joni but recent events suggest owner shady.

Lost in the mall again: a preregistered replication and extension of Loftus & Pickrell (1995) The seminal Lost in the Mall study has been enormously influential in psychology and is still cited in legal cases. The current study directly replicated this paper, addressing methodological weakn...

Replicated finding: people can be convinced by suggestion that they got lost in a shopping mall as a child. These suggestions appear real and convincing to those affected.

Very interesting work, thanks for sharing!

In January, @ctlee.bsky.social put out a preprint on our work developing an ML model predicting response to internet-CBT 📑 vs antidepressant medication 💊 in depression using a real 🌎 observational design. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Can we get some clarification? Is that a normal really big Dorito or a really big Flaming Hot Dorito?