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"Orange you glad we didn't maintain a data column labeled 'methamphetamine'?"

You could say that scientists have a compulsion to fold things, but that would be unfair. Scientists have a compulsion to fold things a specified number of times. (Screenshot: quasirandom selection from papers I've recently read.)

"Convenience sample" is such a sneering term for something that's often excruciatingly effortful. I hear it in Dana Carvey's Church Lady voice.

"Did you come up with a snappy title for our paper?" "I sure did!" "Great! And you checked to make sure it hasn't been used before?" "Oh, this is guaranteed fresh."

HELP, I'M BEING OPPRESSED. I didn't actually put up a fight about this one.

New from Jack Henningfield, @kirstenelins, Oliver Grundmann, and Marilyn Huestis. Consumer protections and quality assurance need not be only for drugs that are enriching a sole, proprietary manufacturer. frontiersin.org/journals/pharm…

Regression to the mean baffles me--unless it works like this. People with the most extreme values at Time X will usually have less-extreme values at Time X+1, but others, initially less extreme, will drift out and replace them. So it's more like "shuffling at the extremes"?

One of my postbac mentees found a term for (and a literature on) that thing whereby people say, "My parents had AUD, so I don't drink." (Could apply to other drug use, too.) Aversive transmission. Surely complicates heritability estimates. People behave purposefully.

I remember when the M stood only for "momentary."

I think this is the first year we've ever created a pumpkin situation here. Jack o'liberty. Treats were issued a moment ago to a smol RBG.

I've transitioned, more or less. To Bluesky. I'll still look in on some of your doings here, for now, but I'll do my interacting on Bluesky. I would love to see you there.