Jakob Gowell
@gowellja.bsky.social
Ph.D. student studying motivation (Self-Determination Theory) at OU. Former Peace Corps volunteer.
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new paper by Sean Westwood:
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
November 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
new paper by Sean Westwood:
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
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she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October
November 13, 2025 at 8:08 AM
she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October
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Attention any neurodivergent adults who received IEP or 504 support in Pk-12, if you are open to talking about your experiences of “inclusion” let me know. I’m on a dissertation committee for a student doing qualitative research
November 14, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Attention any neurodivergent adults who received IEP or 504 support in Pk-12, if you are open to talking about your experiences of “inclusion” let me know. I’m on a dissertation committee for a student doing qualitative research
Bands paper airplaning their setlists should be standard practice.
November 12, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Bands paper airplaning their setlists should be standard practice.
To pay the cost and not receive something of value in return is anathema to a sense of competence and efficacy.
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 5:23 AM
To pay the cost and not receive something of value in return is anathema to a sense of competence and efficacy.
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Next in our Creatively Critical Tech virtual speaker series is Audrey Watters @audreywatters.bsky.social on "AI Grief Observed: On the Death of Education."
Don't miss it on November 12, 2025, @ 6:30 pm CT!
Register today at tinyurl.com/CreativelyCr...
Don't miss it on November 12, 2025, @ 6:30 pm CT!
Register today at tinyurl.com/CreativelyCr...
October 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Next in our Creatively Critical Tech virtual speaker series is Audrey Watters @audreywatters.bsky.social on "AI Grief Observed: On the Death of Education."
Don't miss it on November 12, 2025, @ 6:30 pm CT!
Register today at tinyurl.com/CreativelyCr...
Don't miss it on November 12, 2025, @ 6:30 pm CT!
Register today at tinyurl.com/CreativelyCr...
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It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.
Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent
www.nytimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.
There’s an idea from one of Daniel Quinn’s book (Ishmael?) about the law of life as adherence by a species to whatever behaviors sustain life, and that deviations from that behavioral set eliminate that species—not immediately, but eventually.
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The result? A fragmented public consciousness where competing realities coexist, each self-reinforcing and resistant to correction. When truth is no longer a shared foundation, power shifts to those who control the most compelling narrative - no matter how detached from reality it is.
October 30, 2025 at 7:54 PM
There’s an idea from one of Daniel Quinn’s book (Ishmael?) about the law of life as adherence by a species to whatever behaviors sustain life, and that deviations from that behavioral set eliminate that species—not immediately, but eventually.
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Every time I hear about this kind of injury, I think back to my training to perform physical restraints, which emphasized the dangers of positional asphyxiation and how to de-escalate while still recognizing the dignity of the person being restrained.
"According to his running club, the man, who is a U.S. citizen, was returning from a team run when agents pulled him out of his vehicle, tackled him to the ground and kneeled on top of him, allegedly breaking six ribs and causing internal bleeding"
US citizen, 67, ‘has six ribs broken’ by Border Patrol agents, his running club says
The incident unfolded Saturday in Chicago’s Old Irving Park neighborhood, where residents say federal agents disrupted a children’s Halloween parade
www.independent.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Every time I hear about this kind of injury, I think back to my training to perform physical restraints, which emphasized the dangers of positional asphyxiation and how to de-escalate while still recognizing the dignity of the person being restrained.
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GOOD NEWS! A new cancer vaccine has shown progress in triggering POWERFUL and LASTING immune responses in patients with pancreatic AND colorectal cancer. The vaccine, known as ELI-002 2P, targets mutant KRAS proteins AND had a huge impact on PREVENTING or DELAYING cancer recurrence in patients.
October 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
GOOD NEWS! A new cancer vaccine has shown progress in triggering POWERFUL and LASTING immune responses in patients with pancreatic AND colorectal cancer. The vaccine, known as ELI-002 2P, targets mutant KRAS proteins AND had a huge impact on PREVENTING or DELAYING cancer recurrence in patients.
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The trend is real, but this NYT analysis at the Congressional district level has big ecological bias
Poor *areas* vote Republican, but it's often the richer *individuals* within those poorer areas that are most Republican
And many poor *individuals* rich blue urban *areas* vote Dem
Poor *areas* vote Republican, but it's often the richer *individuals* within those poorer areas that are most Republican
And many poor *individuals* rich blue urban *areas* vote Dem
October 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The trend is real, but this NYT analysis at the Congressional district level has big ecological bias
Poor *areas* vote Republican, but it's often the richer *individuals* within those poorer areas that are most Republican
And many poor *individuals* rich blue urban *areas* vote Dem
Poor *areas* vote Republican, but it's often the richer *individuals* within those poorer areas that are most Republican
And many poor *individuals* rich blue urban *areas* vote Dem
Seems like there is also the broken wing.
The West Wing is now just the Wing.
October 22, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Seems like there is also the broken wing.
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SCIENCE POLICY NEWS:
During Yom Kippur, all the members of the High Energy Physics Advisory Committee (HEPAP), myself included, received a letter thanking us for our service and telling us essentially that the almost 40 yo standing federal advisory committee was no more. ⚛️🧪🔭
Why that matters 🧵
During Yom Kippur, all the members of the High Energy Physics Advisory Committee (HEPAP), myself included, received a letter thanking us for our service and telling us essentially that the almost 40 yo standing federal advisory committee was no more. ⚛️🧪🔭
Why that matters 🧵
DOE Consolidates Office of Science Advisory Committees
Six long-standing committees advising the Department of Energy’s Office of Science have been rolled into one.
www.aip.org
October 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
SCIENCE POLICY NEWS:
During Yom Kippur, all the members of the High Energy Physics Advisory Committee (HEPAP), myself included, received a letter thanking us for our service and telling us essentially that the almost 40 yo standing federal advisory committee was no more. ⚛️🧪🔭
Why that matters 🧵
During Yom Kippur, all the members of the High Energy Physics Advisory Committee (HEPAP), myself included, received a letter thanking us for our service and telling us essentially that the almost 40 yo standing federal advisory committee was no more. ⚛️🧪🔭
Why that matters 🧵
New publication! 🤓 This experience sampling study examines how motivational regulation and cost predict students’ momentary motivational conflicts and emotions.
October 14, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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F12 will also lock you out of a Proctorio exam. Miss the backspace key and you're screwed.
Just learned that CTRL+F will lock you out of a Proctorio exam. That's an accessibility barrier.
October 11, 2025 at 1:13 AM
F12 will also lock you out of a Proctorio exam. Miss the backspace key and you're screwed.
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Join our writing groups on Tuesdays and Wednesdays every week!
October 7, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Join our writing groups on Tuesdays and Wednesdays every week!
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Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
October 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
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Hatch Act experts might we trouble you for your thoughts on this? Seems to me government workers are also (mostly) voters, and they are being campaigned to. But maybe there are nuances here I'm not seeing.
September 30, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Hatch Act experts might we trouble you for your thoughts on this? Seems to me government workers are also (mostly) voters, and they are being campaigned to. But maybe there are nuances here I'm not seeing.
I always liked the quip, “Those who do not ‘do’ politics will have politics done to them.”
“I don’t do politics“. Well, politics has no problem doin’ the bending with you; so you better look alive, darling.
September 29, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I always liked the quip, “Those who do not ‘do’ politics will have politics done to them.”
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"There are no grades and no hard deadlines, just the pleasure and satisfaction that comes with enriching your mind. "
You do not know how badly professors would love to do away with grades and just focus on the love of learning.
You do not know how badly professors would love to do away with grades and just focus on the love of learning.
People are coming up with their own “personal curriculums” to combat brain rot, improve their attention spans and enrich their minds. https://cnn.it/4gkALEh
September 13, 2025 at 11:56 PM
"There are no grades and no hard deadlines, just the pleasure and satisfaction that comes with enriching your mind. "
You do not know how badly professors would love to do away with grades and just focus on the love of learning.
You do not know how badly professors would love to do away with grades and just focus on the love of learning.
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I am glad someone is saying this. To the extent google search is worse now it's due mostly to digital retrenchment. The world you long for is one where blogs, newspaper articles, magazines and the like were ad-funded and not paywalled on hit #1.
this is more or less a conspiracy theory. it is parasite load and the fact that there are not websites anymore. there just more or less not any websites, and those that exist, exist solely to trick google into serving them to you.
I worked on search engine optimization back in the days when there were 10-20 search engines and then Google just wiped them all out by being so much better.
Is there some financial advantage to them for making search useless at this point?
Is there some financial advantage to them for making search useless at this point?
September 13, 2025 at 2:23 AM
I am glad someone is saying this. To the extent google search is worse now it's due mostly to digital retrenchment. The world you long for is one where blogs, newspaper articles, magazines and the like were ad-funded and not paywalled on hit #1.
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This is an inevitable byproduct of automation. The AI boosters have been selling us that deskilling in some areas will result in upskilling in others, but we have no evidence of this. We don't even have a particularly good theory. We have salesmanship B.S.
Physicians are using A.I. for diagnoses and more. But a new study found evidence that relying on A.I. tools might erode a doctor’s ability to perform fundamental skills without the technology, a phenomenon known as “deskilling.”
Are A.I. Tools Making Doctors Worse at Their Jobs?
Physicians are using the technology for diagnoses and more — but may be losing skills in the process.
nyti.ms
August 28, 2025 at 8:10 PM
This is an inevitable byproduct of automation. The AI boosters have been selling us that deskilling in some areas will result in upskilling in others, but we have no evidence of this. We don't even have a particularly good theory. We have salesmanship B.S.
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My department is hiring an assistant professor of educational psychology who researches and teaches motivation in schools! My contact info is in the job posting, please reach out if you have any questions. www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/440...
Assistant Professor (Applied Cognition and Development)
The Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Georgia invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Applied Cognition and Development Program to begin August 2026....
www.ugajobsearch.com
August 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
My department is hiring an assistant professor of educational psychology who researches and teaches motivation in schools! My contact info is in the job posting, please reach out if you have any questions. www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/440...
Some (technical, self-determination theory based) thoughts on why this playground feature is a great idea:
1. Cooperation is inherent to the structure (architecturally and socially).
2. It promotes exercise *through* a sense of connection and belonging, enhancing physical and social well-being. 1/
1. Cooperation is inherent to the structure (architecturally and socially).
2. It promotes exercise *through* a sense of connection and belonging, enhancing physical and social well-being. 1/
July 31, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Some (technical, self-determination theory based) thoughts on why this playground feature is a great idea:
1. Cooperation is inherent to the structure (architecturally and socially).
2. It promotes exercise *through* a sense of connection and belonging, enhancing physical and social well-being. 1/
1. Cooperation is inherent to the structure (architecturally and socially).
2. It promotes exercise *through* a sense of connection and belonging, enhancing physical and social well-being. 1/
ETA on an OK copycat bill?
This is amazing. Under this bill you can't, for example, WRITE A PAPER between 10pm and 8am. You might think this could help students strike a better study/life balance, but you can't talk to friends either. Nor can you evade this law by e.g. signing: it bans "expressive activity", not just speech.
I thought the headline was exaggerating but it’s not. This is legitimately insane www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...
July 16, 2025 at 12:54 PM
ETA on an OK copycat bill?