Melissa Kline Struhl
@mekline.bsky.social
Executive Director of childrenhelpingscience.com, Psych-DS maintainer, strong feelings about data management & collaborative science. My last name is "Kline Struhl" (she/her)
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Felicitations to all who celebrate
January 27, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Felicitations to all who celebrate
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Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out.
As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.
Here's what happened:
As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.
Here's what happened:
January 22, 2026 at 11:36 PM
Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out.
As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.
Here's what happened:
As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.
Here's what happened:
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I know I don't have a ton of media followers, but I'll put this out there anyway: if you need someone to comment/offer context on the removal of the slavery exhibit at the President's House site in Philly, get in touch. I just finished an entire book on Americans' fight over Washington and slavery.
January 23, 2026 at 12:04 AM
I know I don't have a ton of media followers, but I'll put this out there anyway: if you need someone to comment/offer context on the removal of the slavery exhibit at the President's House site in Philly, get in touch. I just finished an entire book on Americans' fight over Washington and slavery.
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I just did my first r code! Yes!
#rstats
#rstats
a man with glasses and a mustache is wearing a white shirt and says yes .
ALT: a man with glasses and a mustache is wearing a white shirt and says yes .
media.tenor.com
January 21, 2026 at 3:01 AM
I just did my first r code! Yes!
#rstats
#rstats
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COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS
Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows
Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in multiple ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees
www.theguardian.com
January 19, 2026 at 4:06 PM
COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS
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I belatedly realized that one thing I can do to help Minneapolis is connect people there who want to write about what they're experiencing, but need support, to people who can provide that.
Support can mean comments on a draft, but it can also mean listening to you talk & asking questions,
1/
Support can mean comments on a draft, but it can also mean listening to you talk & asking questions,
1/
January 15, 2026 at 3:20 PM
I belatedly realized that one thing I can do to help Minneapolis is connect people there who want to write about what they're experiencing, but need support, to people who can provide that.
Support can mean comments on a draft, but it can also mean listening to you talk & asking questions,
1/
Support can mean comments on a draft, but it can also mean listening to you talk & asking questions,
1/
Yesterday my toddler caught me looking at a graph on my laptop, demanded "blue graph", and then proceeded to sit through my not-very-detailed summary of the steps in this blog post about Tufte's data-to-ink ratio principle:
deliveringdataanalytics.com/the-data-to-...
deliveringdataanalytics.com/the-data-to-...
Data-ink Ratio Animation: How to Simplify Data Visualization
The data-to-ink ratio is the idea that we want to maximize the amount of ink used to show data versus the amount of ink used to show the visualization.
deliveringdataanalytics.com
January 12, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Yesterday my toddler caught me looking at a graph on my laptop, demanded "blue graph", and then proceeded to sit through my not-very-detailed summary of the steps in this blog post about Tufte's data-to-ink ratio principle:
deliveringdataanalytics.com/the-data-to-...
deliveringdataanalytics.com/the-data-to-...
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"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness)
As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
October 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM
"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness)
As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
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As a cognitive scientist, I'm embarrassed at how long it took me to realise that emotion matters a lot, not just for understanding humans, but for understanding any thinking agent.
Why? Because emotion is an indicator of what that agent values, and values are essential to rationality.
Examples:
Why? Because emotion is an indicator of what that agent values, and values are essential to rationality.
Examples:
There's much talk these days about what's required for "real" intelligence, such as world models and the like. One thing we know about the human evolution of it: it required/requires emotion. That may have been better appreciated in 1938 than today.
archive.org/details/in.e...
archive.org/details/in.e...
January 11, 2026 at 11:09 AM
As a cognitive scientist, I'm embarrassed at how long it took me to realise that emotion matters a lot, not just for understanding humans, but for understanding any thinking agent.
Why? Because emotion is an indicator of what that agent values, and values are essential to rationality.
Examples:
Why? Because emotion is an indicator of what that agent values, and values are essential to rationality.
Examples:
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I’ve talked this up before, but: @slacktivistfred.bsky.social’s analysis of LEFT BEHIND is one of the most formative and useful things I’ve ever encountered, as a writer
January 8, 2026 at 9:36 PM
I’ve talked this up before, but: @slacktivistfred.bsky.social’s analysis of LEFT BEHIND is one of the most formative and useful things I’ve ever encountered, as a writer
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO HORSES! IT IS HORSE BIRTHDAY! HORSE!!!!!
January 1, 2026 at 1:30 PM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO HORSES! IT IS HORSE BIRTHDAY! HORSE!!!!!
And i think you need a certain generation and level of status to pull off the raw html homepage.
Pretty wild that you have to be like, a graphic and web designer to tell your career and work story these days
I feel like we don't talk that much about the escalation of these aesthetics and expectations
I feel like we don't talk that much about the escalation of these aesthetics and expectations
December 31, 2025 at 6:03 PM
And i think you need a certain generation and level of status to pull off the raw html homepage.
On a related note, "antepenultimate" was a surprisingly useful word in my last choir, three pages is a pretty common amount of score for the last chunk of a piece you're rehearsing.
all the other germanic languages in my replies being like yeah we're still using this 😙🎶
english, we could bring overmorrow back, it used to exist and it could come back!
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/overmor...
english, we could bring overmorrow back, it used to exist and it could come back!
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/overmor...
December 31, 2025 at 5:56 PM
On a related note, "antepenultimate" was a surprisingly useful word in my last choir, three pages is a pretty common amount of score for the last chunk of a piece you're rehearsing.
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December 30, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Lo, Hrodulf the red-nosed reindeer –
That beast didn’t have unshiny nostrils!
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer in Anglo Saxon meter:
allthingslinguistic.com/post/1359368...
That beast didn’t have unshiny nostrils!
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer in Anglo Saxon meter:
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December 25, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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love that software developers are advertising AI functionality in every single app now and it's up to you to try to figure out if they mean "this has spellcheck" or "everything you create in this app will sync in real-time to sam altman's personal laptop" or something in between
December 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
love that software developers are advertising AI functionality in every single app now and it's up to you to try to figure out if they mean "this has spellcheck" or "everything you create in this app will sync in real-time to sam altman's personal laptop" or something in between
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Not now, haunted Victorian shoes
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
More than 400 leather hobnailed boots, thought to date back to the 19th Century, have been found.
www.bbc.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Not now, haunted Victorian shoes
Love 2 encounter a weird Schrodinger's login state where I can see my eRA Commons account details after supposedly not being able to log in, but not access my actual grants.
I will never not be mad at DOGE for suck-ifying login.gov. But I guess it makes sense: So infrastructure. Very security.
I will never not be mad at DOGE for suck-ifying login.gov. But I guess it makes sense: So infrastructure. Very security.
The public’s one account for government.
| Login.gov
Use one account and password for secure, private access to participating government agencies.
login.gov
December 19, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Love 2 encounter a weird Schrodinger's login state where I can see my eRA Commons account details after supposedly not being able to log in, but not access my actual grants.
I will never not be mad at DOGE for suck-ifying login.gov. But I guess it makes sense: So infrastructure. Very security.
I will never not be mad at DOGE for suck-ifying login.gov. But I guess it makes sense: So infrastructure. Very security.
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You should be able to respond to reviewer comments with memes to liven up the peer review process.
December 18, 2025 at 2:41 AM
You should be able to respond to reviewer comments with memes to liven up the peer review process.
Improbably, my career's probably going in a direction where this matters to me. Anyone have tips for twitter/bsky researchers looking to *~PiVoT tO ViDeO~*?
(Current workflow is I think something, type it, usually delete but sometimes post, and at no point did I check if my hair is brushed.)
(Current workflow is I think something, type it, usually delete but sometimes post, and at no point did I check if my hair is brushed.)
i have said this before but if you are actually interested in influencing people beyond a narrow circle of too-online journalists you will be making direct to camera videos on tiktok, instagram and youtube. if you primarily post on text-based social media then you're just dicking around.
December 16, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Improbably, my career's probably going in a direction where this matters to me. Anyone have tips for twitter/bsky researchers looking to *~PiVoT tO ViDeO~*?
(Current workflow is I think something, type it, usually delete but sometimes post, and at no point did I check if my hair is brushed.)
(Current workflow is I think something, type it, usually delete but sometimes post, and at no point did I check if my hair is brushed.)
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December 15, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Children Helping Science is a platform that lets researchers conduct studies online with kids. Incredibly important resource for psychological science. An anonymous donor is matching contributions up to 100K through the end of the year - please consider supporting this high-value system if you can!
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December 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Children Helping Science is a platform that lets researchers conduct studies online with kids. Incredibly important resource for psychological science. An anonymous donor is matching contributions up to 100K through the end of the year - please consider supporting this high-value system if you can!
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This platform is so important! It allows researchers regardless of their university prestige to do research! So important for leveling the playing field for many developmental psychologist scientist from under resourced institutions. Please consider donating - donations will be matched!
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An anonymous donor is matching contributions to Children Helping Science up to 100K through the end of the year - if it's in your giving budget, please consider supporting open science infrastructure!
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December 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
This platform is so important! It allows researchers regardless of their university prestige to do research! So important for leveling the playing field for many developmental psychologist scientist from under resourced institutions. Please consider donating - donations will be matched!