Connor Leshner
@leshner.bsky.social
PhD candidate. #socialpsyc. Digital identity. Student at Trent University, and explicitly not endorsed by it. Pfp by Yan nucleose.bsky.social. he/him
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Connor Leshner
@leshner.bsky.social
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Connor Leshner
Trent University - Cited by 67 - Close Relationships - Virtual Reality - Self and Identity - Cosplay
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For any academics following me, here’s some of my research. Focusing primarily on human-computer interaction and the interpersonal relationships contained therein.
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I follow some conservatives who do polling and data analysis because I’m fascinated with how they interpret their numbers and the only thing more fascinating than their policy positions is how all the data interpretations they use to justify their positions are wrong.
November 8, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I follow some conservatives who do polling and data analysis because I’m fascinated with how they interpret their numbers and the only thing more fascinating than their policy positions is how all the data interpretations they use to justify their positions are wrong.
Financial decision of “video game where the main selling point is ‘player makes decisions’ is now immutable tv show” shows how amazing the media market is at this time.
BioWare shares details on the live-action ‘Mass Effect’ series at Amazon
• Will be an original story
• Takes place after the game trilogy
• Now being written
• Will be an original story
• Takes place after the game trilogy
• Now being written
November 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Financial decision of “video game where the main selling point is ‘player makes decisions’ is now immutable tv show” shows how amazing the media market is at this time.
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I spoke extensively with the Crimson reporter. She understood the strength of the evidence, and it shows.
Odds ratios can be eye-glazing, but let's just say that when 2.5 million kids are studied, and it's still not possible to detect added risk from taking acetaminophen...there's no added risk.
Odds ratios can be eye-glazing, but let's just say that when 2.5 million kids are studied, and it's still not possible to detect added risk from taking acetaminophen...there's no added risk.
September 25, 2025 at 2:51 AM
I spoke extensively with the Crimson reporter. She understood the strength of the evidence, and it shows.
Odds ratios can be eye-glazing, but let's just say that when 2.5 million kids are studied, and it's still not possible to detect added risk from taking acetaminophen...there's no added risk.
Odds ratios can be eye-glazing, but let's just say that when 2.5 million kids are studied, and it's still not possible to detect added risk from taking acetaminophen...there's no added risk.
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The eye exam is the perfect game design. That big E is a great tutorial that teaches you the basic mechanic. But it doesn't baby you and quickly gets hard as they introduce the small and blurry enemies.
September 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
The eye exam is the perfect game design. That big E is a great tutorial that teaches you the basic mechanic. But it doesn't baby you and quickly gets hard as they introduce the small and blurry enemies.
Why, because it’s lame and overwritten?
August 23, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Why, because it’s lame and overwritten?
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When the dust settles, and if universities have meaningfully survived, it will be worth asking how institutions usually so resistant to thoroughgoing change chose to leap with both feet into an untested technology they didn't understand and didn't know how to use.
Universities doubling down as public sentiment shifts away from dependence upon AI. This is the problem with the buy-in.
The University of Michigan is now claiming that students have an ‘ethical responsibility’ to use AI.
August 21, 2025 at 6:51 AM
When the dust settles, and if universities have meaningfully survived, it will be worth asking how institutions usually so resistant to thoroughgoing change chose to leap with both feet into an untested technology they didn't understand and didn't know how to use.
Does anyone know how to use index match in excel
July 17, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Does anyone know how to use index match in excel
The creation of Adam
July 15, 2025 at 10:38 PM
The creation of Adam
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I get this question a lot. I don't have strong views on how transmasc people should dress, but since I often get the question, I've thought about it a bit. Will share some thoughts in this thread. 🧵
May 20, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I get this question a lot. I don't have strong views on how transmasc people should dress, but since I often get the question, I've thought about it a bit. Will share some thoughts in this thread. 🧵
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Really incredible story unraveling in this thread, where Amazon and other sites have seemingly been able to sell an academic textbook that was withdrawn in 2021 and never actually printed or published, without the knowledge of the press, editors or contributors. Something has gone deeply wrong!
Hi Chloe,
This is news to me (and to my editor at Routledge.) I'm shocked to find this out. I assume that this is somehow a pirated edition. Does it include the section on Neurodiversity? Part VIII?
This is news to me (and to my editor at Routledge.) I'm shocked to find this out. I assume that this is somehow a pirated edition. Does it include the section on Neurodiversity? Part VIII?
May 12, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Really incredible story unraveling in this thread, where Amazon and other sites have seemingly been able to sell an academic textbook that was withdrawn in 2021 and never actually printed or published, without the knowledge of the press, editors or contributors. Something has gone deeply wrong!
Surely we’ll hear something from sshrc doctoral tomorrow… right???
April 29, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Surely we’ll hear something from sshrc doctoral tomorrow… right???
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hits a little different this morning
April 29, 2025 at 12:55 PM
hits a little different this morning
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A key difference here is that while either can be incorrect, the structure of Wikipedia *creates context* and the structure of LLMs *destroys context*
Wikipedia has linked sources and an edit history showing where information came from and who added it when
An LLM just generates text
Wikipedia has linked sources and an edit history showing where information came from and who added it when
An LLM just generates text
Some of the anti-AI stuff feels a bit like when people would say "don't use Wikipedia as a source." It's just like anything else, a piece of information that you weigh against multiple sources and your own understanding of its likely failure modes
April 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
A key difference here is that while either can be incorrect, the structure of Wikipedia *creates context* and the structure of LLMs *destroys context*
Wikipedia has linked sources and an edit history showing where information came from and who added it when
An LLM just generates text
Wikipedia has linked sources and an edit history showing where information came from and who added it when
An LLM just generates text
The next pope needs to reply to every email like Chomsky used to.
April 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The next pope needs to reply to every email like Chomsky used to.
The Wikipedia for papabile (candidates for the next pope) has betting odds for who will become the next pope on it. All I can say is JFC.
![Betting odds for the next pope.
As with any race, contest or election that can be predicted, including papal elections, there will be a betting market.
In fact, it is reported that speculating on who will become the next Pope is a centuries-old practice, betting records on the outcome of papal elections going back more than 500 years. [44]
In 2025, following news of Pope Francis's passing, several sites were actively offering betting odds on potential candidates to be the next Pope. An example of the odds on 4/21/2025. This is only a snapshot, as it is a dynamic race. [45]
Luis Antonio Tagle: Even
Pietro Parolin: +150
Mark Ouellet: +500
Fridolin Ambongo Besungu: +500
Francis Arinze: +600
Peter Turkson: +800
Peter Erdo: +800
'Wim Eijk: +900](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4i6pxk7mndjfu4nrolkhr4g4/bafkreifmiwz5mtxdujrtab7v4uithmn76uczgry4xdu7rxjsge2d5vzjnu@jpeg)
April 21, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The Wikipedia for papabile (candidates for the next pope) has betting odds for who will become the next pope on it. All I can say is JFC.
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I’m sorry but if your students use AI to write papers and you use AI to grade them zero school is happening. You are running together on a hamster wheel
Why even have a brain, any ideas, any ability to express them, any kind of communication with other people, any desire to solve problems or invent anything, any reason to learn, any use for your eyes or your heart, or any reason to teach or create
April 15, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I’m sorry but if your students use AI to write papers and you use AI to grade them zero school is happening. You are running together on a hamster wheel
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+alt because this is A M A Z I N G
April 11, 2025 at 1:15 PM
+alt because this is A M A Z I N G
This one is stressing me out.
March 31, 2025 at 4:04 PM
This one is stressing me out.
Growing up, we were explicitly told not to cite directly from Wikipedia because we didn’t know where the info was coming from. Now that we have an actual black box disinformation machine, everyone is suddenly gung-ho on information gathering.
I really don't understand Wikipedia or calculator comparisons to AI. I don't remember either of them being pushed into my face from all directions. They're just there. It's okay to use or not. We're good. AI is being shoved into my throat and it's making me feel nauseous. Please just chill down.
March 22, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Growing up, we were explicitly told not to cite directly from Wikipedia because we didn’t know where the info was coming from. Now that we have an actual black box disinformation machine, everyone is suddenly gung-ho on information gathering.
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I’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :(
So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/
So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/
March 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :(
So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/
So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/
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I suppose if a Texas state legislator wanted to know more about the behavior of furries they could ask the Texas A&M professor who wrote a book on it www.tamuc.edu/news/tamuc-f...
TAMUC Faculty Co-Edits Award-Winning Book on Furry Fandom
“Furscience,” a book co-edited by A&M-Commerce faculty Dr. Stephen Reysen, has been selected for the 2023 Ursa Major Award for “Best Non-Fiction
www.tamuc.edu
March 13, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I suppose if a Texas state legislator wanted to know more about the behavior of furries they could ask the Texas A&M professor who wrote a book on it www.tamuc.edu/news/tamuc-f...
Does anyone have a good paper that reports chi-squares? I need some inspiration for formatting.
March 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Does anyone have a good paper that reports chi-squares? I need some inspiration for formatting.