Michael Mullarkey
@mcmullarkey.bsky.social
Clinical psych PhD | ML Engineer in sports analytics| he/him
My newsletter on building cool data stuff: https://buttondown.com/datadash
Personal website: mcmullarkey.github.io
Opinions are my own and don't reflect the opinions of my employer
My newsletter on building cool data stuff: https://buttondown.com/datadash
Personal website: mcmullarkey.github.io
Opinions are my own and don't reflect the opinions of my employer
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Is social media to blame for the teen mental health crisis? Listen to me, a middle-aged libertarian, tell Joe Rogan that it is.
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If Books Could Kill: The Anxious Generation on Apple Podcasts
Show If Books Could Kill, Ep The Anxious Generation - Aug 8, 2024
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Honored to play a small part in making this episode!
Thanks to @michaelhobbes.bsky.social for reaching out to me. My job was mostly starting to write down "he should also talk about this study" and then said study getting mentioned before I finished writing
Thanks to @michaelhobbes.bsky.social for reaching out to me. My job was mostly starting to write down "he should also talk about this study" and then said study getting mentioned before I finished writing
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Magnificent. Make sure you click on the "1 more reply" link to make sure you read the whole thread. You will not regret it.
It's the 3rd of January 1939, your name is professor James Smith and you are staring at a drawing of a fish. It's not a regular fish. It is a completely impossible fish.
January 10, 2026 at 10:50 AM
Magnificent. Make sure you click on the "1 more reply" link to make sure you read the whole thread. You will not regret it.
If you're also at the end of your rope emotionally, I offer this live remix of No Broke Boys featuring a guitar solo
No Broke Boys 🤑‼️ Disco Lines, Tinashe: No Broke Boys (live remix) I know I’m soooo late to this one but I had to make a remix at some point 🥹 #dj #guitar #remix #fyp @discolines @Tinashe
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January 9, 2026 at 7:51 PM
If you're also at the end of your rope emotionally, I offer this live remix of No Broke Boys featuring a guitar solo
I know I'm extremely late and it's unreal how much more I enjoy the For You feed vs Discover
January 9, 2026 at 5:30 AM
I know I'm extremely late and it's unreal how much more I enjoy the For You feed vs Discover
Reposted by Michael Mullarkey
An important tip to improve your 2026
January 9, 2026 at 1:58 AM
An important tip to improve your 2026
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I wrote a bluesky client from scratch in HTML and JS!
You can try it here: impro.social
github.com/improsocial/...
You can try it here: impro.social
github.com/improsocial/...
GitHub - improsocial/impro: A Bluesky web client
A Bluesky web client. Contribute to improsocial/impro development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
January 9, 2026 at 12:27 AM
I wrote a bluesky client from scratch in HTML and JS!
You can try it here: impro.social
github.com/improsocial/...
You can try it here: impro.social
github.com/improsocial/...
Might have to come out of (clinical psych) retirement for this one
After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data.
If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition.
eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...
If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition.
eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...
WARN-D machine learning competition is live » Eiko Fried
If you share one single thing of our team in 2026—on social media or per email with your colleagues—please let it be this machine learning competition. It was half a decade of work to get here, especi...
eiko-fried.com
January 7, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Might have to come out of (clinical psych) retirement for this one
Reposted by Michael Mullarkey
After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data.
If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition.
eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...
If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition.
eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...
WARN-D machine learning competition is live » Eiko Fried
If you share one single thing of our team in 2026—on social media or per email with your colleagues—please let it be this machine learning competition. It was half a decade of work to get here, especi...
eiko-fried.com
January 7, 2026 at 7:39 PM
After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data.
If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition.
eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...
If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition.
eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...
If you like Huberman please do yourself a favor and go listen/watch Sad Boyz instead
More insight, less self-aggrandizement, and a far better parasocial hang
More insight, less self-aggrandizement, and a far better parasocial hang
January 7, 2026 at 3:48 AM
If you like Huberman please do yourself a favor and go listen/watch Sad Boyz instead
More insight, less self-aggrandizement, and a far better parasocial hang
More insight, less self-aggrandizement, and a far better parasocial hang
Reposted by Michael Mullarkey
serious question: is anyone hiring? open to connecting. 10+ years of full stack experience plus 1 year of unhinged ai/atproto hacking
January 6, 2026 at 9:52 PM
serious question: is anyone hiring? open to connecting. 10+ years of full stack experience plus 1 year of unhinged ai/atproto hacking
The best ways to not succumb to Poster's Madness
1. Never post
2. Have a good group chat
3. Literally anything else
1. Never post
2. Have a good group chat
3. Literally anything else
January 2, 2026 at 3:29 AM
The best ways to not succumb to Poster's Madness
1. Never post
2. Have a good group chat
3. Literally anything else
1. Never post
2. Have a good group chat
3. Literally anything else
In ~half of cases this fact brings me great relief. The other half have led to some of my greatest engineering frustrations
people joke about this but honestly half the time just doing the equivalent of a "unplug and plug back in" fixes things...
December 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
In ~half of cases this fact brings me great relief. The other half have led to some of my greatest engineering frustrations
Evergreen
This is stupid. Going to the gym.
December 29, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Evergreen
My cat just set an unbreakable record for "fastest time to use the litter box after I cleaned it" by starting to use it while I was cleaning
Merry Christmas Eve everyone!
Merry Christmas Eve everyone!
December 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
My cat just set an unbreakable record for "fastest time to use the litter box after I cleaned it" by starting to use it while I was cleaning
Merry Christmas Eve everyone!
Merry Christmas Eve everyone!
"You think like a villain, because the villain in the production environment is usually yourself. With each new door, comes the possibility of falling through into a bottomless pit."
@vickiboykis.com has done it again y'all
@vickiboykis.com has done it again y'all
My 2025 in production in review
Jeune fille lisant une lettre à la bougie, Jean-Baptiste Santerre, 1700 Machine learning engineers spend their lives alternating between two states: staring...
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December 22, 2025 at 11:42 PM
"You think like a villain, because the villain in the production environment is usually yourself. With each new door, comes the possibility of falling through into a bottomless pit."
@vickiboykis.com has done it again y'all
@vickiboykis.com has done it again y'all
Someone explaining a speed run I'd never heard of until this video: If you don't want to get into the technical details go ahead and skip to this timestamp
Me: Thank you so much for considering all types of viewers, and you can pry these details from my cold, dead hands
Me: Thank you so much for considering all types of viewers, and you can pry these details from my cold, dead hands
December 21, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Someone explaining a speed run I'd never heard of until this video: If you don't want to get into the technical details go ahead and skip to this timestamp
Me: Thank you so much for considering all types of viewers, and you can pry these details from my cold, dead hands
Me: Thank you so much for considering all types of viewers, and you can pry these details from my cold, dead hands
How I feel about a lot of technical ~content~ I've almost written. Want stuff to exist as a potential resource, have no interest in endless, on-the-margins debate anymore
Every time I try to write this, I think of all the tech bros who are going to get in my notifications tab about how synthetic controls should be this or that, or all the MMM bros who will point out this or that.
Sometimes, I just wanna say "Hey, this kinda works, YMMV"
Sometimes, I just wanna say "Hey, this kinda works, YMMV"
December 20, 2025 at 7:28 PM
How I feel about a lot of technical ~content~ I've almost written. Want stuff to exist as a potential resource, have no interest in endless, on-the-margins debate anymore
Wake Up Dead Man is:
1. Fantastic
2. A minefield for someone who ended up a priest in more timelines than they'd care to admit
1. Fantastic
2. A minefield for someone who ended up a priest in more timelines than they'd care to admit
December 15, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Wake Up Dead Man is:
1. Fantastic
2. A minefield for someone who ended up a priest in more timelines than they'd care to admit
1. Fantastic
2. A minefield for someone who ended up a priest in more timelines than they'd care to admit
Way too many people doing this, good intentions are not a substitute for knowing stuff
Please could big social media accounts stop confusing their own popularity with the expertise to create clinical theories about mental health and brain health, jfc the irresponsibility
December 5, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Way too many people doing this, good intentions are not a substitute for knowing stuff
God help me I'm becoming a split keyboard person
December 4, 2025 at 3:44 AM
God help me I'm becoming a split keyboard person
Your ads algorithm getting too tame? Engage with like 13 seconds of personal finance content. Every ad will start hawking an obvious scam, Zyn, or both
December 2, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Your ads algorithm getting too tame? Engage with like 13 seconds of personal finance content. Every ad will start hawking an obvious scam, Zyn, or both
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I have a December gift for you all 🎁
I am finally able to open up a general call for ADVANCE READERS for my book: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SOFTWARE TEAMS (coming 2026). I cannot tell you how much it means to me to share this!
Indicate your interest here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
I am finally able to open up a general call for ADVANCE READERS for my book: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SOFTWARE TEAMS (coming 2026). I cannot tell you how much it means to me to share this!
Indicate your interest here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Request to be an advance reader of The Psychology of Software Teams by Cat Hicks
Thank you for your interest in being an advance reader for The Psychology of Software Teams (working title) by Cat Hicks. I am selecting some interested readers to receive a free advance copy of this ...
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December 2, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I have a December gift for you all 🎁
I am finally able to open up a general call for ADVANCE READERS for my book: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SOFTWARE TEAMS (coming 2026). I cannot tell you how much it means to me to share this!
Indicate your interest here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
I am finally able to open up a general call for ADVANCE READERS for my book: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SOFTWARE TEAMS (coming 2026). I cannot tell you how much it means to me to share this!
Indicate your interest here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
I've gotten halfway decent at making hummus, it's so over for y'all
November 30, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I've gotten halfway decent at making hummus, it's so over for y'all
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Reposted by Michael Mullarkey
🎉 Announcing surveydown v1.0.0!
surveydown is an #opensource #rstats package for building surveys with #Quarto & #Shiny. This release improves the survey design experience, including:
- Simplified YAML settings
- Auto page navigation
- Previous buttons!
More at surveydown.org/blog/2025-11...
surveydown is an #opensource #rstats package for building surveys with #Quarto & #Shiny. This release improves the survey design experience, including:
- Simplified YAML settings
- Auto page navigation
- Previous buttons!
More at surveydown.org/blog/2025-11...
Announcing surveydown v1.0.0! – surveydown.org
We are thrilled to announce the v1.0.0 release of surveydown, a stable release with improvements to YAML settings, page navigation, question creation, and a smoother overall developer experience.
surveydown.org
November 25, 2025 at 9:53 PM
🎉 Announcing surveydown v1.0.0!
surveydown is an #opensource #rstats package for building surveys with #Quarto & #Shiny. This release improves the survey design experience, including:
- Simplified YAML settings
- Auto page navigation
- Previous buttons!
More at surveydown.org/blog/2025-11...
surveydown is an #opensource #rstats package for building surveys with #Quarto & #Shiny. This release improves the survey design experience, including:
- Simplified YAML settings
- Auto page navigation
- Previous buttons!
More at surveydown.org/blog/2025-11...