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Benjamin Douglas
@bendouglas.bsky.social
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I am an assistant professor of psychology at Ohio Wesleyan University, currently finishing my PhD at UW-Madison. I study social norms and persuasive messaging, particularly in the context of sustainability. 🏳️‍🌈

Website: https://benjaminddouglas.com
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Posted in the vicinity of one large sink (and 0 other sinks)
Paper sign (white with black text) reading: THE SAME RULE APPLIES WITH THE SMALL SINK. PLEASE WASH YOUR DIRTY DISHES!
September 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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A few small edits for later this week, but as of this morning, I have passed my PhD defense!

Huge thanks to @markusbrauer.bsky.social
Five people stand in a room with white walls and a projection screen. The screen has nothing displayed. In front are (from left to right): Dr. Bret Shaw, Dr. Morgan Jerald, me (now Dr. Ben Douglas), Dr. Shawn Green, and Dr. Markus Brauer
June 30, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Pretty typical landing into Boston

(Everyone around us on the plane was safe)

More at: abcnews.go.com/amp/US/jetbl...
Image of passenger aircraft on grass field next to runway. There are large divots in the grass and black skid lines from tires Passengers are emerging from the back of the plane via portable stairs with assistance from the fire department Underside of plane in grass next to runway. Image clearly shows large visits and skid marks from when the plane landed Image of firefighter next to plane that is sitting in grass beside runway Image from above wing from inside of plane, in the background busses and emergency vehicles are pulling up to the scene
June 12, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Another tough day of data collection
Image of lake Mendota in Madison, WI. The image features a white boat on the water, a peninsula sticking into the water from the left and hills on the far side of the lake. The picture is framed by bright green foliage in the foreground
May 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Blue shell from Mario Kart Picture found from Google images
May 7, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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Happy April Wisconsin
April 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Looking to create a series of examples of normal or skewed distributions found in art and nature for a stats class

Here is an art piece by Roman Ondak featuring the height of people in a college town who participated in the art piece

Any come to mind?
Three white walls with height recordings on them. Most recordings fall within a five inch range, creating a band around the room in a normal or skewed distribution
March 28, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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A nice warm day in Madison
Weather app screenshot. Temperature from 9 am say -12, feels like -20
January 21, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Happy Hanukkah! 🕎
5 latkahs (potato pancakes) siting in oil in a cast iron pan
December 30, 2024 at 12:42 AM
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Made a pizza, came out pretty well

Happy with the selection of mushrooms for this one
Pizza with mushrooms, shallots, and (turkey) pepperoni on a pizza pan
December 16, 2024 at 1:36 AM
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Ended up doing our thanksgiving meal on Sunday this year
Pecan pies (each the size of a muffin) paced on a tray. The pies are each topped with two pecan halves A table prepared for a thanksgiving meal. There are four places visible on this end of the table. At each place is a pastel-colored round plate, a knife, fork, and napkin. Some places also have water and/or a water glass. Also on the table is a white bowl with sweet potatoes and pecans, a green bowl with acorn squash, a green bowl with cranberry sauce that has been topped with pistachio and orange zest, and a casserole dish with Brussels sprouts
December 2, 2024 at 1:14 PM
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This was from a few weeks back. Made for the Jewish high holidays. A lamb and beat meatball with a parsley and apple salad
A large dinner plate sits on a green and white table cloth. On the plate are beat and lamb meatballs served over rice. To the side is a parsley and apple salad
November 17, 2024 at 5:35 PM
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Did I make picked ground cherries?

Why yes I did
A mason jar full of yellow-brown liquid at the top and ground cherries (yellow berry with the same texture of a cherry tomato but a bit smaller and with a sweeter taste like that of a cherry). The jar sits on a counter top in front of a kettle and various species.
November 2, 2024 at 12:57 AM
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Can anyone on here help identify this skull I found at my parents’ home? They live in MA in case that helps narrow down the species
Small (possibly rodent) skull sitting on rusty metal grate
October 6, 2024 at 3:12 PM
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Happy Purim
A plate of home made hamentashin (triangle-shaped cookies traditional to the Jewish holiday Purim).
March 25, 2024 at 3:25 AM
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Reposting cause of a typo and the picture I uploaded did not appear:

Congrats to Cassie Liu, one of my students, for her fantastic work on her project about data quality comparing in-person to online samples

#SPSP2024
February 10, 2024 at 4:51 PM
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Happening now: two of my students, Blanca Montoya and Ian Burton, are presenting their work on social referent groups, norms, and misinformation

#SPSP2024
February 9, 2024 at 4:31 PM
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I'll be posting throughout the day covering SPSP's Sustainability Preconference #SP3

Thanks to the organizing committee (names and photos attached)!
Poster with photos and names of 2024 Preconference Organizing Committee: Stylianos Syropoulos Danielle Goldwert Rainer Romero-Canyas Kristin Hurst Sara Constantino Atar Herzinger Benjamin Douglas Sarah Gonzales Coffin Cari Pick
February 7, 2024 at 4:46 PM
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I’m genuinely so touched. A student just gifted me a mug as a thank for helping them in a stats class, featuring quotes from the R lab I teach
Mug with quote: “Turns out it was a math class all along” -Ben Mug with quote: “People don’t always behave in a straight line, so inconvenient” -Ben The quote is posted above a graph of a polynomial regression (the data was simulated for pedagogical purposes)
January 26, 2024 at 5:28 PM
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It was hard to capture on my phone, but the construction workers next to my office had a snow ball fight on the roof they are building. They seem to be having a great time
Four construction workers throwing a snowball while standing on a snow covered roof Four construction workers stand at different sections of snow-covered roof
January 11, 2024 at 7:24 PM
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Possible good omen for the badgers this weekend?
Sunlight breaking through clouds and shining into UW-Madison’s football stadium
October 24, 2023 at 9:57 PM
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Every day I watch them build this new academic building and I am no closer to understanding how construction works. An entire skill set I know next to nothing about
Image of large crane over partially constructed building
September 7, 2023 at 2:15 PM