Gregory (GR) Samanez-Larkin
@gregoryrsl.bsky.social
Jerry G and Patricia Crawford Hubbard Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke. Droppin’ science since 2001. http://mcablab.science/
Aging, motivation, emotion, learning, decision making, health behavior change.
Surf, skate, yoga, acro, DIYer.
Aging, motivation, emotion, learning, decision making, health behavior change.
Surf, skate, yoga, acro, DIYer.
So excited to see Professor Sinclair building a new lab at Rice!
📣 It's official: I'm super excited to share that I'll be joining Rice University as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences!
Lab will launch in Summer 2026— I'll be recruiting over the next year, so please spread the word! Short thread ⤵️
Lab will launch in Summer 2026— I'll be recruiting over the next year, so please spread the word! Short thread ⤵️
May 16, 2025 at 11:34 PM
So excited to see Professor Sinclair building a new lab at Rice!
Course evaluations just dropped and I always love these 😂 “This is an unbearable subject, but Prof SL makes it as enjoyable as it can be.” #teachingstats #highered
May 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Course evaluations just dropped and I always love these 😂 “This is an unbearable subject, but Prof SL makes it as enjoyable as it can be.” #teachingstats #highered
Anyone on here teach undergrad statistics and started integrating AI both for student use and for your teaching? Planning to spend the next month retooling our undergrad stats+methods series w responsible AI use. Have lots of ideas but curious what others have done. Please share!
May 5, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Anyone on here teach undergrad statistics and started integrating AI both for student use and for your teaching? Planning to spend the next month retooling our undergrad stats+methods series w responsible AI use. Have lots of ideas but curious what others have done. Please share!
Was the point of this supposed to be that most scientists aren’t rich? Probably had to be there 🤷 There is no universe where professors are blue collar. I know plumbers who make more than some starting faculty but their jobs and access to influence are way way different. I don’t see how this helps.
“Science is a smart, low cost investment. The costs of not investing in it are higher than the risk of doing so… talk to people about science.” - @kevinochsner.bsky.social makes his case to the field #sans2025
April 28, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Was the point of this supposed to be that most scientists aren’t rich? Probably had to be there 🤷 There is no universe where professors are blue collar. I know plumbers who make more than some starting faculty but their jobs and access to influence are way way different. I don’t see how this helps.
Spent this semester experimenting on how AI could enhance my stats and methods course. Plenty of uses and also some fun. Made this AI track to explain when you need ANCOVA 😆 😆 🤓 suno.com/song/33d938c...
suno.com
April 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Spent this semester experimenting on how AI could enhance my stats and methods course. Plenty of uses and also some fun. Made this AI track to explain when you need ANCOVA 😆 😆 🤓 suno.com/song/33d938c...
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Celebrating > 15 years of @srndna.bsky.social with a special issue in JGPS co-edited by Drs. Karolina Lempert (@klempert.bsky.social), Nathan Spreng, & Debbie Yee (@debyee.bsky.social).
More info: academic.oup.com/psychsocgero...
MS submission deadline: 8/15/2025
Expected pub date: 7/2026
More info: academic.oup.com/psychsocgero...
MS submission deadline: 8/15/2025
Expected pub date: 7/2026
Call for Papers
Special Issue: Decision Neuroscience and Aging
Psychological Sciences section of The Journals of Gerontology, Series B
Guest Co-Editors: Karolina Lempert, PhD
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April 10, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Celebrating > 15 years of @srndna.bsky.social with a special issue in JGPS co-edited by Drs. Karolina Lempert (@klempert.bsky.social), Nathan Spreng, & Debbie Yee (@debyee.bsky.social).
More info: academic.oup.com/psychsocgero...
MS submission deadline: 8/15/2025
Expected pub date: 7/2026
More info: academic.oup.com/psychsocgero...
MS submission deadline: 8/15/2025
Expected pub date: 7/2026
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The same damage being done to the stock market is being done to our health, securities & environment, there just isn't a stock ticker to show how bad it is for the others.
April 7, 2025 at 10:39 AM
The same damage being done to the stock market is being done to our health, securities & environment, there just isn't a stock ticker to show how bad it is for the others.
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A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
April 7, 2025 at 4:13 AM
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Now when I say “I love you, Emme” to our 7yo, she says “okay” 🥶
March 6, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Now when I say “I love you, Emme” to our 7yo, she says “okay” 🥶
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Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.
March 4, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.
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I love how everyone comes together to rally for those last couple of runners in the distance events at high school track meets. If only the rest of life were that way.
March 2, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I love how everyone comes together to rally for those last couple of runners in the distance events at high school track meets. If only the rest of life were that way.
Same. Just had a wonderful time wandering off campus with a great group of Duke first year students
March 2, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Same. Just had a wonderful time wandering off campus with a great group of Duke first year students
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Yes
March 1, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Yes
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The accuracy.
It’s nice how they’ve replicated the middle school dynamic of the insecure bully and his sniveling sidekick picking on someone surrounded by a circle of scared little boys who also try to talk shit so the bully doesn’t come after them.
Or as the right calls it, “masculinity.”
Or as the right calls it, “masculinity.”
GLENN: Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office.
ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.
ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.
March 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The accuracy.
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DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.
February 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.
So the perception of ideological bias is being replaced by the requirement/guarantee of a different ideological bias to stay employed? Got it. Not ironic at all.
February 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
So the perception of ideological bias is being replaced by the requirement/guarantee of a different ideological bias to stay employed? Got it. Not ironic at all.
It’s almost like it was never about qualifications
So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white **retired** Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that
February 22, 2025 at 11:03 PM
It’s almost like it was never about qualifications
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NIH indirects case update:
Hearing ongoing now, and I'll try to live tweet some notable exchanges.
Prior to more detailed arguments, Judge Kelley starts off with a few point questions to both sides:
(I'm paraphrasing here)
Hearing ongoing now, and I'll try to live tweet some notable exchanges.
Prior to more detailed arguments, Judge Kelley starts off with a few point questions to both sides:
(I'm paraphrasing here)
February 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
NIH indirects case update:
Hearing ongoing now, and I'll try to live tweet some notable exchanges.
Prior to more detailed arguments, Judge Kelley starts off with a few point questions to both sides:
(I'm paraphrasing here)
Hearing ongoing now, and I'll try to live tweet some notable exchanges.
Prior to more detailed arguments, Judge Kelley starts off with a few point questions to both sides:
(I'm paraphrasing here)
What’s actually happening. Federal spending has been flat for yrs w exception of private contracts (like Elon just got for cybertrucks) which have absolutely skyrocketed. Sad that so many lower and middle income ppl are elated that civil servants who made like $200k were fired…by billionaires?? 😵💫
The guy who racked up almost $8T in debt during his first term has no interest in paying it down.
The federal purge underway is to allow for oligarchs to make trillions in privatization and run roughshod in a deregulated landscape.
Remember that in an oligarchy, everything is run by the oligarchs.
The federal purge underway is to allow for oligarchs to make trillions in privatization and run roughshod in a deregulated landscape.
Remember that in an oligarchy, everything is run by the oligarchs.
February 18, 2025 at 2:09 AM
What’s actually happening. Federal spending has been flat for yrs w exception of private contracts (like Elon just got for cybertrucks) which have absolutely skyrocketed. Sad that so many lower and middle income ppl are elated that civil servants who made like $200k were fired…by billionaires?? 😵💫
This isn’t and never was about cutting waste, fraud, and abuse. It’s a cover and the supporters have completely fallen for it
If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
February 18, 2025 at 1:55 AM
This isn’t and never was about cutting waste, fraud, and abuse. It’s a cover and the supporters have completely fallen for it
Okay I’m using this in class. Teaching interactions to undergrads rn 😆
Don't hate the player, don't hate the game, hate the significant player:game interaction
February 16, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Okay I’m using this in class. Teaching interactions to undergrads rn 😆
The “we don’t like DEI bc it puts unqualified people in charge of things” is such a WILDLY ironic perspective given just about every single appointment so far
February 14, 2025 at 12:47 AM
The “we don’t like DEI bc it puts unqualified people in charge of things” is such a WILDLY ironic perspective given just about every single appointment so far
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I have a confession
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I was an “overhead cost”.
I was a beaker washer, agar plate pourer, research secretary. I was paid by “overhead cost” fees. Loved it.
Those “overhead cost” jobs allowed this rural kid to become a physician.
Please tag how #OverheadCostJob impact u.
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I was an “overhead cost”.
I was a beaker washer, agar plate pourer, research secretary. I was paid by “overhead cost” fees. Loved it.
Those “overhead cost” jobs allowed this rural kid to become a physician.
Please tag how #OverheadCostJob impact u.
February 9, 2025 at 1:08 AM
I have a confession
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I was an “overhead cost”.
I was a beaker washer, agar plate pourer, research secretary. I was paid by “overhead cost” fees. Loved it.
Those “overhead cost” jobs allowed this rural kid to become a physician.
Please tag how #OverheadCostJob impact u.
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I was an “overhead cost”.
I was a beaker washer, agar plate pourer, research secretary. I was paid by “overhead cost” fees. Loved it.
Those “overhead cost” jobs allowed this rural kid to become a physician.
Please tag how #OverheadCostJob impact u.
Do you think DOGE realizes the Mars colony won’t save us from cancer and heart disease?
NIH doesn’t just support infectious disease research—it drives breakthroughs in cancer, childhood diseases, heart disease, diabetes & more.
Thanks to NIH, we have:
💉 Cancer immunotherapy
❤️ Cholesterol-lowering statins
🩸 Insulin for diabetes
Investing in NIH = investing in life-saving discoveries.
Thanks to NIH, we have:
💉 Cancer immunotherapy
❤️ Cholesterol-lowering statins
🩸 Insulin for diabetes
Investing in NIH = investing in life-saving discoveries.
February 9, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Do you think DOGE realizes the Mars colony won’t save us from cancer and heart disease?