Samuel West
@sjwest.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Psychology at Virginia State University studying violence, aggression, & personality.
Website: sjwest.io
Website: sjwest.io
Is 15 points and 64/100 seats a landslide?
Asking for a friend.
Asking for a friend.
November 5, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Is 15 points and 64/100 seats a landslide?
Asking for a friend.
Asking for a friend.
Holy shit. How is this not making headlines right now?
November 3, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Holy shit. How is this not making headlines right now?
Every once in a while I boot up ye olde PROCESS in SPSS just to click the PASTE button a bunch of times before I close it again in disgust.
No software tells me what to not do when I can obviously still do it!
No software tells me what to not do when I can obviously still do it!
November 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Every once in a while I boot up ye olde PROCESS in SPSS just to click the PASTE button a bunch of times before I close it again in disgust.
No software tells me what to not do when I can obviously still do it!
No software tells me what to not do when I can obviously still do it!
Wow. Imagine being this DA and having a slam dunk case that would earn you national recognition...only to do...whatever led to this. Not what I expected lol.
BREAKING: Justice Gregory Carro has dismissed the first degree murder charge against Luigi Mangione in his state case, finding the DA put legally insufficient evidence before the grand jury. More TK.
September 17, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Wow. Imagine being this DA and having a slam dunk case that would earn you national recognition...only to do...whatever led to this. Not what I expected lol.
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Proposal for how to fix family wise error rates.
For every uncorrected p value you must add an extra letter to the claim.
“Eating chocolate maaaaaaaaay be associated with lower rates of stroke”
For every uncorrected p value you must add an extra letter to the claim.
“Eating chocolate maaaaaaaaay be associated with lower rates of stroke”
September 16, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Proposal for how to fix family wise error rates.
For every uncorrected p value you must add an extra letter to the claim.
“Eating chocolate maaaaaaaaay be associated with lower rates of stroke”
For every uncorrected p value you must add an extra letter to the claim.
“Eating chocolate maaaaaaaaay be associated with lower rates of stroke”
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Almost every single HBCU is under a bomb threat
There have been almost no announcements about civil discourse and safety regarding the students there.
There have been almost no announcements about civil discourse and safety regarding the students there.
September 11, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Almost every single HBCU is under a bomb threat
There have been almost no announcements about civil discourse and safety regarding the students there.
There have been almost no announcements about civil discourse and safety regarding the students there.
UPDATE - it is not just VSU. It appears Virginia HBCU's are being threatened systematically.
www.wtvr.com/news/local-n...
www.wtvr.com/news/local-n...
Multiple Virginia college campuses locked down, classes canceled
Virginia State University and Hampton University, both Historically Black Colleges or Universities, locked down due to campus threats.
www.wtvr.com
September 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
UPDATE - it is not just VSU. It appears Virginia HBCU's are being threatened systematically.
www.wtvr.com/news/local-n...
www.wtvr.com/news/local-n...
Virginia State University is currently on a full campus lockdown over a threat of violence to the university.
I've done all the things - closed the lab and confirmed everyone is safe. But this is horrible. Luckily I'm home sick today but many are sheltered in place. This feels awful.
I've done all the things - closed the lab and confirmed everyone is safe. But this is horrible. Luckily I'm home sick today but many are sheltered in place. This feels awful.
September 11, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Virginia State University is currently on a full campus lockdown over a threat of violence to the university.
I've done all the things - closed the lab and confirmed everyone is safe. But this is horrible. Luckily I'm home sick today but many are sheltered in place. This feels awful.
I've done all the things - closed the lab and confirmed everyone is safe. But this is horrible. Luckily I'm home sick today but many are sheltered in place. This feels awful.
Wow SPSS added this awful highlighting feature to EVERY ANALYSIS OUTPUT with no way to turn it off. Why would anyone want or need this feature? So obnoxious.
Every time I have to peek back at SPSS for something I am so glad R exists and is free lol.
Every time I have to peek back at SPSS for something I am so glad R exists and is free lol.
September 5, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Wow SPSS added this awful highlighting feature to EVERY ANALYSIS OUTPUT with no way to turn it off. Why would anyone want or need this feature? So obnoxious.
Every time I have to peek back at SPSS for something I am so glad R exists and is free lol.
Every time I have to peek back at SPSS for something I am so glad R exists and is free lol.
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If you ask me to work in Google Docs, consider yourself an opp
August 28, 2025 at 10:04 PM
If you ask me to work in Google Docs, consider yourself an opp
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Worthwhile (and moving) read on strategies for continuing to do important research under threat.
hrdag.substack.com/p/scatter-an...
hrdag.substack.com/p/scatter-an...
Scatter and Keep Working
Human rights workers and everyday citizens are asking: how do we deal with the evolving and very real threats we are facing?
hrdag.substack.com
August 22, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Worthwhile (and moving) read on strategies for continuing to do important research under threat.
hrdag.substack.com/p/scatter-an...
hrdag.substack.com/p/scatter-an...
Permission to treat Reviewer 2 as hostile your Editorship?
August 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Permission to treat Reviewer 2 as hostile your Editorship?
Man I don't even know what this means but I long for this kind of minor misreporting being a big scandal in the states. Accuracy standards? Sign me up.
“BBC Scotland breached accuracy standards, failing to disclose that Lord Haughey is a Labour peer on ‘Debate Night’ on the eve of a crucial by-election.”
“[The] BBC didn’t disclose that Haughey is a Labour peer, instead describing him as an ‘entrepreneur’ and ‘Labour donor’.”
The National, 15/8/25
“[The] BBC didn’t disclose that Haughey is a Labour peer, instead describing him as an ‘entrepreneur’ and ‘Labour donor’.”
The National, 15/8/25
BBC Scotland breached accuracy standards with Labour peer on Debate Night
BBC Scotland breached accuracy standard by failing to disclose that Lord Haughey is a Labour peer on Debate Night on the eve of a crucial…
www.thenational.scot
August 16, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Man I don't even know what this means but I long for this kind of minor misreporting being a big scandal in the states. Accuracy standards? Sign me up.
🚨New Paper Alert🚨
Just published in AJCP - one of my students and I (along with an awesome team of collaborators) explored the ostensible impact of historic redlining practices on contemporary violence exposure risk of adolescents living in those communities.
Data and code here: osf.io/ekxmf/
Just published in AJCP - one of my students and I (along with an awesome team of collaborators) explored the ostensible impact of historic redlining practices on contemporary violence exposure risk of adolescents living in those communities.
Data and code here: osf.io/ekxmf/
<em>American Journal of Community Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library
Violent injuries tend to cluster together geospatially. The discriminatory housing practice of redlining undertaken by the United States federal government in the 1930s has been repeatedly linked wit...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
🚨New Paper Alert🚨
Just published in AJCP - one of my students and I (along with an awesome team of collaborators) explored the ostensible impact of historic redlining practices on contemporary violence exposure risk of adolescents living in those communities.
Data and code here: osf.io/ekxmf/
Just published in AJCP - one of my students and I (along with an awesome team of collaborators) explored the ostensible impact of historic redlining practices on contemporary violence exposure risk of adolescents living in those communities.
Data and code here: osf.io/ekxmf/
We can now replace eyes with teeth. Sometimes I get why science scares people who don't understand it (but also this is so fucking cool).
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
A decade after losing her sight, a B.C. woman can see again — through her tooth | CBC News
A B.C. woman who was blind for a decade is now able to go for walks without a guide after having her own tooth and a special lens implanted into her eye socket.
www.cbc.ca
August 12, 2025 at 10:15 AM
We can now replace eyes with teeth. Sometimes I get why science scares people who don't understand it (but also this is so fucking cool).
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
My wife and I got together and decided life was just too easy with a toddler. It was like really nbd and too easy. We're in the middle of potty training and we're just like "double it!!!"
This is all a joke except the doubling it part: our son Merle West is due 2/20/26! 😎🎉😁💪(😮💨)
This is all a joke except the doubling it part: our son Merle West is due 2/20/26! 😎🎉😁💪(😮💨)
August 10, 2025 at 6:54 PM
My wife and I got together and decided life was just too easy with a toddler. It was like really nbd and too easy. We're in the middle of potty training and we're just like "double it!!!"
This is all a joke except the doubling it part: our son Merle West is due 2/20/26! 😎🎉😁💪(😮💨)
This is all a joke except the doubling it part: our son Merle West is due 2/20/26! 😎🎉😁💪(😮💨)
I gave chatGPT the wiring schematic for a range hood I was installing - I wanted to see what kind of advice it would give about wiring it. I gave it a very specific scenario about what I was seeing and asked it how to proceed.
The instructions it gave me would have almost definitely caused a fire.
The instructions it gave me would have almost definitely caused a fire.
August 3, 2025 at 12:35 AM
I gave chatGPT the wiring schematic for a range hood I was installing - I wanted to see what kind of advice it would give about wiring it. I gave it a very specific scenario about what I was seeing and asked it how to proceed.
The instructions it gave me would have almost definitely caused a fire.
The instructions it gave me would have almost definitely caused a fire.
My daughter is officially able to count to 10. To celebrate her advanced numeracy I gave her her first lecture on the general linear model!
July 10, 2025 at 11:01 AM
My daughter is officially able to count to 10. To celebrate her advanced numeracy I gave her her first lecture on the general linear model!
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One of the clearest examples I've seen of the need for politicians to lead the polls rather than follow them. People's opinions on policy are *highly* malleable in response to different messaging frames.
When Republican voters learn that the "Big Beautiful Bill" takes from the poor to give to the rich, they oppose it.
June 26, 2025 at 10:34 AM
One of the clearest examples I've seen of the need for politicians to lead the polls rather than follow them. People's opinions on policy are *highly* malleable in response to different messaging frames.
My wife and I live in a split home: she is a Mets fan and I am a Braves fan.
But my wife is also on every social media platform that I am...except BlueSky, making it my only safe space to say:
DAMN Y'ALL LOST 5 TIMES CONSECTUTIVELY TO THE BRAVES? HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE WHEN Y'ALL'RE SO MUCH BETTER?
But my wife is also on every social media platform that I am...except BlueSky, making it my only safe space to say:
DAMN Y'ALL LOST 5 TIMES CONSECTUTIVELY TO THE BRAVES? HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE WHEN Y'ALL'RE SO MUCH BETTER?
June 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
My wife and I live in a split home: she is a Mets fan and I am a Braves fan.
But my wife is also on every social media platform that I am...except BlueSky, making it my only safe space to say:
DAMN Y'ALL LOST 5 TIMES CONSECTUTIVELY TO THE BRAVES? HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE WHEN Y'ALL'RE SO MUCH BETTER?
But my wife is also on every social media platform that I am...except BlueSky, making it my only safe space to say:
DAMN Y'ALL LOST 5 TIMES CONSECTUTIVELY TO THE BRAVES? HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE WHEN Y'ALL'RE SO MUCH BETTER?
Roughly 28% of sports/exercise research effects replicate in a first ever attempt to quantify the replication crisis in this field.
Welcome to the party pal(s)!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Welcome to the party pal(s)!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Estimating the Replicability of Sports and Exercise Science Research - Sports Medicine
Background The replicability of sports and exercise research has not been assessed previously despite concerns about scientific practices within the field. Aim This study aims to provide an initial es...
link.springer.com
June 17, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Roughly 28% of sports/exercise research effects replicate in a first ever attempt to quantify the replication crisis in this field.
Welcome to the party pal(s)!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Welcome to the party pal(s)!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Really cool/important work on measure proliferation. I wonder what this might look like if you just examined slight variations to existing scales (e.g., short versions, "new" scales that borrow items from others).
Our paper "A fragmented field" has just been accepted at AMPPS. We find it's not just you, psychology is really getting more confusing (construct and measure fragmentation is rising).
We updated the preprint with the (substantial) revision, please check it out.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
We updated the preprint with the (substantial) revision, please check it out.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
June 13, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Really cool/important work on measure proliferation. I wonder what this might look like if you just examined slight variations to existing scales (e.g., short versions, "new" scales that borrow items from others).
Ms. Rachel over here teaching my daughter every box has a surprise present for her in it. Now instead of "Daddy" my name is "OPEN OPEN OPEN HELP ME HELP ME OPEN"
June 13, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Ms. Rachel over here teaching my daughter every box has a surprise present for her in it. Now instead of "Daddy" my name is "OPEN OPEN OPEN HELP ME HELP ME OPEN"