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Alex Crenshaw

@crenshaw.bsky.social

Assistant Professor of Psychology. Couples, clinical trials, stats & methods. Views my own.

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[now you’re reading this reply JUST to check, “he’s not gonna follow this up with some anti vax shit is he? Ok good”]

04.03.2026 17:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Not sure who this person is, but I’ve been thinking about him a lot. What would it be like, psychologically, to be so publicly THIS wrong…more wrong than anyone has ever been since perhaps the covid days

04.03.2026 17:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I recall someone revealing a while ago that the extra time it takes for loops is caused by expanding the object each loop, and that you can fix that by simply creating the object in advance of the necessary size

28.02.2026 15:00 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0
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Hot Robot Radio Welcome to the brand new radio show from Jamie Jones. This is Hot Robot Radio. Each week Jamie will flip between playa vibes to the more upfront club show. Syndicated worldwide by theradiodepartment.

House music sets always

on.soundcloud.com/aBWLem1WJkYA...

26.02.2026 02:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm constantly trying (/failing) to get this point across.

If you're a trained expert in a field, then it may be worthwhile to question the scientific consensus of your peers.

If you're not, the scientific consensus is absolutely the best you can do and it's arbitrary foolishness to disregard it.

24.02.2026 16:04 — 👍 3754    🔁 853    💬 54    📌 50

Immediately scrapping the “Epstein Barr and ms” data i use to teach chi-square, which I like a lot, to use this

24.02.2026 05:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Here's the floor plan for the new ICE concentration camp in Georgia. Look familiar? Let's take a look at some similar blueprints throughout history.

23.02.2026 01:07 — 👍 592    🔁 346    💬 14    📌 29

Great thread!

21.02.2026 19:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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South Korea’s former president Yoon Suk Yeol jailed for life for leading insurrection Ex-leader sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labour over failed martial law declaration in 2024

[looks at other countries punishing insurrection]
MUST BE NICE

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

20.02.2026 00:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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King says ‘law must take its course’ after Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest Former prince released under investigation as searches continue at the Royal Lodge in Windsor

[looks at other countries punishing sex trafficking]
MUST BE NICE

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

20.02.2026 00:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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"Many fall for AI-generated junk online" — youth demand social media ban for people above 40.

Excellent headline by a German satire magazine.

18.02.2026 16:57 — 👍 64    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 0
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Very good dog invades course but falls short of medal glory at Winter Olympics A local dog has missed out on a historic medal at the Winter Olympics despite a lung-bursting stretch in the homestretch

“Nazgul, who is a very good boy, is yet to comment on his performance.”

18.02.2026 17:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This part of our response essay is where I'm at. Boiling down all of politics to electoralism has been absolutely terrible for resisting rising authoritarianism.

www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

03.02.2026 23:28 — 👍 1775    🔁 566    💬 38    📌 56
Epstein doc saying paid Pinker

Epstein doc saying paid Pinker

Epstein doc saying Pinker assisted

Epstein doc saying Pinker assisted

Pinker statement re Epstein

Pinker statement re Epstein

New Epstein files say that Steven Pinker was paid $10,000 to help Epstein’s defense (even though Pinker previously said he wasn't paid).

04.02.2026 13:36 — 👍 30    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 3

I was one of those who left at Step 3

04.02.2026 17:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Interesting! I see something like this almost every time I dig deep into the methodology for a measure, metric, or procedure

25.01.2026 18:30 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

24.01.2026 19:48 — 👍 27624    🔁 9937    💬 245    📌 210
A crowd holding candles in the night

A crowd holding candles in the night

Vigil in St. Paul, Minnesota. -7 F outside. We are a peaceful, loving people, and our spirit will not be broken.

25.01.2026 01:41 — 👍 55    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 0
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Nation Yearns For Relative Calm Of ‘President A Giant Pedophile’ News Cycle WASHINGTON—Expressing deep fondness for those long-gone halcyon days, the U.S. population collectively yearned Tuesday for the relative calm of the “president is a giant pedophile” news cycle. “It was...

“It was a simpler time then, back when all people wanted to talk about was the leader of the country molesting underage girls,” said Denver resident Scott Munoz

22.01.2026 00:30 — 👍 2362    🔁 483    💬 13    📌 17
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Children recording in horror as their father is abducted/disappeared while coming home from work on his birthday (Minneapolis. 1/20/26)

20.01.2026 23:45 — 👍 640    🔁 330    💬 43    📌 25

I can’t find any flaws here

21.01.2026 03:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And an important point that should not be missed

bsky.app/profile/vict...

18.01.2026 03:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A more charitable version might be: an airplane, built by prominent plane critics who have no actual understanding of how planes or flight work, crashes

17.01.2026 14:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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They Wanted a University Without Cancel Culture. Then Dissenters Were Ousted. Inside the civil war at the anti-woke university backed by Bari Weiss.

The tl;dr: an airplane, built by donkeys who hate flight, crashes

www.politico.com/news/magazin...

17.01.2026 14:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Ouch, but also, not wrong

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www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

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