Caleb Carr

That's the last time I take my meteorological advice from a groundhog. 🤬

Unexpected teaching moment. In class today, we had to stop to teach college students how to insert and save to a USB drive.

That was...unexpected. I didn't expect everyone to be cloud-based so quickly.

Want Safer Passwords? Don't Change Them So Often The tyranny of mandatory password resets only makes security weaker.

My employer forced me to update my password today, as they do every six months. And so, as I do every six months they make me do this stupid thing, I share this @wired.com article reminding them their stupid policy actually makes accounts less secure.
www.wired.com/2016/03/want...

My Oklahoma feed today is great. It snowed in Norman--measurably--but since few students down there have snow attire, most of the photos are students walking around in blankets and snuggies.

YouTube video by Entertainment Tonight Masters of the Universe | Official Trailer (Nicholas Galitzine & Camila Mendes, 2026)

So much of this looks amazing; but that MGM didn't trade out the lion in their title card for Battle Cat is a travesty of a wasted opportunity.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs2m...

This is a more accurate metric of impending bad weather than the Waffle House Index

I received some really good rejections from @icacat.bsky.social. Like, yeah, I wish those work had been accepted; but the reviews were detailed, long, topical, and mostly all provided constructive points on how to improve the works. Thanks, good reviewers! And see y'all in #CapeTown #ICA26

My new retirement strategy may be my 2nd grade book order.

Waffle House in the snow

Have you ever seen such a beautiful sight

I always love Coffee Hound; but their seasonal sleeve is wonderful.

SNL predicted it:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=veMi...

cartoon stegosaurus dinosaur saying, "You're doing a good job and your hair looks nice" from @dinosandcomics

That's it! Deadline for #ICA26 submissions are closed.

For those scholars who made the deadline, those who missed it, and those who didn't even know it was happening: You're doing a good job and your hair looks nice.

Looking forward to seeing you all at @icahdq.bsky.social in Cape Town!

Frontiers | Detecting jingle and jangle fallacies by identifying consistencies and variabilities in study specifications – a call for research Over the past few years, more attention has been paid to jingle and jangle fallacies in psychological science. Jingle fallacies arise when two or more distin...

@adrianmeier.bsky.social turned me on to "jingle" and "jangle" fallacies while at #MediaPsych, giving me some verbiage for things we talk about more frequently. There's a fuller look at these phenomena here:

www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

Americans will go to any lengths to have to avoid using the metric system.

"How big is Hurricane Melissa? Well, it's approximately one central-Illinois wide."

TIL the word "tsundere," meaning someone who initially presents a harsh, cold, or hostile exterior but gradually reveals a warmer, softer side over time.

This felt like it would have been a useful word to know long ago.

Periodic reminder of the Media Bias Chart; and the importance of not using non-news sources to consider the news. Thanks, @adfontesmedia.bsky.social!

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Please join the Communication & Technology Division for the #ICA26 Welcome Meeting and Q&A. If you have questions about submitting to #ICA26 or just want to meet members of the executive committee, please join us! Wed Oct 15, 1400 UTC or Fri Oct 17, 0800 UTC tinyurl.com/CATOct2025 to join

a group of transformers are standing around a robot laying on a bed . ALT: a group of transformers are standing around a robot laying on a bed .

"Amazon" Prime Day isn't a holiday; but I'll go to my grave celebrating the real holiday: Prime Day.

He died and rose again--that warrants a celebration!

This seems like a big pile of bullpucky, administrative nonsense, and possibly retributional action on behalf of Cleveland State University.

3/3: ...conservative ideas aren't relevant. Unis do not need to entertain or discourse with flat-earth theories (and theorists), those that don't accept evolution, and those pedaling quack medicine. They're opinions, not evidenced discussion points; and they don't foster scholarly dialogue.

2/3: What science (and thus Universities) DO NOT rely on is opining. You're having an opinion about an area of study is great; but not important or relevant. Even MY *opinion* isn't relevant. Just what I can substantiate. This is why this premise is unfaithful. Liberal ideas aren't relevant, and...

1/3: Here's the thing that's too nuanced to be discussed in the agora. Science relies on open dialogue and rigorous testing of ideas. You have an alternate hypothesis? Great! Test it and show the evidence to peers. That can be paradigm shifting, and adds to our intellectual diversity.

A chart of "Major concerns of PhD candidates." The top text says, "Financial pressures top the list of concerns faced by PhD candidates, but concerns differ among the sexes. Those studying in the United States rank the political landscape as their main worry." The chart shows that in the full survey, political landscape is the biggest concern for about 20% of students (a bit higher for women than men) but there's an annotation saying "In US PhD students, this rose to 64%". Overall, the highest-rated concern was financial pressures at around 40%.

That's quite the chart annotation.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"a growing trend of young women writing frustrated pop hits about love and dating."

Ah yes. "Young women" pop artists have long been known for the absence of songs about love and dating in their discographies. Thank heavens the drought is over.

Seriously, @npr.org ?

"[W]e felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive."

But which ones, Disney? Which specific ones were insensitive, and in what ways? Without being specific, the statement here is toothless and inept.

@icamobile.bsky.social always does such a tremendous job of adding value and going beyond the 5 days of the convention to help its members. Good details on their division's activities in the upcoming months.

I listen to this A LOT, but it never struck me. Now I'll listen with a new ear. Tha ns!

Is this the Buffett song?

YouTube video by Jenna Davis Jenna Davis - FBI (Official Lyric Video)

I'm not much into country music; but Jenna Davis' "FBI" isn't a terrible summation of my research agenda:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=thn7...

Other airports offer museums, gaming stations, butterfly gardens, arboretums, or even just pleasant places to sit out of the way. #ATL has grossly overpopulated cafeteria dining, and seating at gates. For so much space and so many people, there's little to do beyond get in each other's way. 2/2