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drlynam.bsky.social
Professor of Psychological Sciences / Music, cocktails, personality, & open science / Perpetually disappointed in the field / Opinions are often strongly stated https://sites.google.com/view/donald-lynam/home ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8306-498
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What is is with passcodes for Zoom meetings? May be my meetings are not interesting enough for anyone to crash, but I never use passcodes.

"A serious scientific literature should use serious scientific language that has clear referents, conveys information, avoids sensationalism, and minimizes harm."

I think the current state of social science research is pretty bad and I wrote something for @asteriskmag.bsky.social about it. asteriskmag.com/issues/10/ca...

Huge CONGRATULATIONS to @caroballing.bsky.social on the successful defense of her Dissertation this morning!!! 🥳🍾🎉🥂 Thank you to her committee members @drlynam.bsky.social @lensimms.bsky.social @jennybrownphd.bsky.social! @purduepsych.bsky.social @purduehhs.bsky.social

If you pay any attention to my music posts, you know I love this album. I think the song, "Come Away with Me”, is one of the most alluring, inviting, romantic songs I’ve ever heard. I really do want to go away with her.

I love that moment — the slight hesitation in his eyes right before he does something he knows, at least a little, that he shouldn’t do. “I know you don’t want me to do this thing... but I’m still going to do this thing.” I don't really love it, but you know what I mean.

If you want to watch, up close, the process of socialization and the interplay of impulse and constraint, get a puppy.

If you haven't used Claude Code yet, you should - it's absolutely amazing! Yesterday I built an app that uses 4 LLM APIs (openai, anthropic, google, and together.ai) to perform an automated meta-review of a paper - using only the Claude interface, never touching code! github.com/poldrack/ai-...

📚 De-Identification When Making Data Sets Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR): Two Worked Examples From the Behavioral and Social Sciences journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Out now: our paper on how to deidentify data sets in the social sciences while navigating privacy concerns. The paper includes a step-by-step de-identification guide and two worked examples, with tons of accompanying material on OSF. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

What does replicability look like across a national sample of biomedical research? Join us on 5/30 for a webinar ft. members of the Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative—a large, multicenter effort to systematically assess replicability of biomedical experiments. 💻 Register: cos-io.zoom.us/webin...

Gotta love AI: "Its" does not have an apostrophe, while "it's" does.

I think every one knows, but for those in the back: If your work can stand transparency and scrutiny, you should be as transparent as you possibly can. You should do all that you can to let your work stand naked in front of everyone.

The Episcopal Church is ending its refugee resettlement partnership with the federal government over the Trump administration’s “preferential treatment” of white South Africans.

BREAKING: The Episcopal Church has announced it will end its decades-old partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as refugees by the Trump admin. religionnews.com/2025/05/12/e...

This one is great. Ultimately, a tale of revenge. Great premise and story arc--cursed child slays demons to regain parts of himself. Grest style. Grim but not hopeless. Muted, washed-out palette. And a great genki character (comic foil).

Patterson says the best part of every dog toy is the tag.

In a little over a week, Patrick Curran and Dan Bauer will livestream their ***FREE*** structural equation modeling workshop - May 19, 21, 23. Learn about covariance structure, path tracing, model fit, and the key statistical concept of Whack-A-Mole. #academicsky #StatsEd #stats centerstat.org

Well said, @simine.com! This is what has to happen. I look forward to the time when journal "quality" and prestige align with transparency. When only transparent research is eligible for publication in those journals and non-transparent research is relegated elsewhere.

Found my new anime binge. Great action. Cool style. Man left for dead is out for revenge. What more do you need?

Food banks can do so much more with the money you would spend to buy food to make a food donation to the food bank. Give $$$ not food.

There is still good in the world.

"I know the word 'vegan' is still recovering from years of bad P.R., but please trust me when I say this bowl of bouncy noodles in a spicy sesame broth is so hearty and satisfying." nyti.ms/3Y96nFe

Say hello to my little friend. Patterson the Portuguese Water Dog puppy.

This is a turntable weight. It does what it says--places weight on the vinyl you are spinning. I’ve had mine for almost a month. I think it improves the sound—deeper, more grounded. (For reference, my setup is a good mid-level system.) Make sure to buy the right one for your set up.

A small paper supporting the trifurcated model of narcissism by Melissa PAcker WEst, @jdmiller.bsky.social and myself. This one recovers the trifurcated model from a much smaller item pool taken from narcissism short forms. Free to good homes (and bad ones): link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I think I am finally fed up with battling ChatGPT's relational nonsense. Any preferred AI systems out there?

This is my favorite Felice Brothers album: From Dreams to Dust. Ibt has several of my favorite songs: Jazz on the Autobahn, Be at Rest, and Valium. And the vinyl is very pretty.

well said, @jdmiller.bsky.social. I find the resistance to transparency the most disturbing and damning thing about our field. I get the feeling that we can have your undisclosed researcher degrees of freedom only when we pry them from your cold dead fingers.

Last trickle of birthday vinyl: Life in the Dark by the Felice Brothers. It was enough to knock Margo Cilkers off the turntable: and she is the real deal. But so are these guys. Great voice, sharp lyrics, solid players, and plenty of raucous. They are the Replacements of Americana.

The gin and soda with a twist has become my go to at home or when I'm out. I love the Terroir but any gin that you like can work. The soda adds nothing but bubbles, allowing the gin to suffuse throughout. And no one can really mess the recipe up or tweak it enough that it feels unfamiliar.

Stage 2 manuscript under review now!