Keanan Joyner
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Assistant professor of psychology @UCBerkeley. FSU Psych PhD. Half personal half professional page. Views my own #BlackandSTEM
Joined April 2013
Absolutely devastated to learn that if I want my to-do list to get smaller, I have to actually do things on my to-do list.
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Now that it’s official, I’m extremely excited to share that I will be joining the faculty at @UCBerkeley @BerkeleyPsych as a tenure track Assistant Professor of Psychology in the clinical area in Jan 2022!!.
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Overheard at the bar: “Academia is just a bunch of hardheaded people who just want to work on what they want to work on and don’t want to work for a company.” … this is just accurate, we have been seen 😅.
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Come work with me at @BerkeleyPsych next year! I’m accepting a graduate student this cycle, and would love someone interested in addiction, EEG/ERPs, and/or ambulatory assessment to come work with me in the C.R.E.A.M. Lab!
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Another day, another hour wasted dealing with academia's inane reimbursement culture.
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Honestly, I’ll never forgive social psychology for pushing implicit bias training as a method for reducing racism. Not sorry bout it either 🤷🏽♂️.
This is EXACTLY why I don't ever want y'all to sit through another implicit bias training. It doesn't work.
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A little delayed in sharing the life update, but on Friday I successfully defended my dissertation and am finally #PhDone!
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I really can’t sufficiently explain how utterly exhausting it is to wake up, check twitter, see news of a black man shot 7 times in his back by police, and then need to get ready for work because you have a long to-do list today. Man. I’m tired.
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Imagine hating masks so much you won’t wear one while committing a felony.
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#BlackInNeuroRollCall hi y’all 👋🏽 I’m an incoming asst prof at UC Berkeley starting up a clinical science lab focused on addiction. I use EEG/ERPs in relation to constructs like cognitive control, reward sensitivity, and incentive salience. Looking forward to this week!.
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This Kendrick diss got me out here wanting to start academic beef. Who wants to write some commentaries back and forth?.
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Extremely excited to share that I received my official Notice of Award for my R36 grant from @NIDAnews today! I’m looking forward to collaborating with @aidangcw, @JgmurphyJim, @trulllab, and my twitterless advisor Chris Patrick on this project focused on EMA and EEG.
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Hi y’all 👋🏽 Keanan Joyner, clinical psychology, research on the etiology of addiction. Currently finishing my PhD at Florida State and will be starting as an Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley in Jan 2022. #BlackinPsychRollCall.
We're kicking off #BlackinPsychWeek with #BlackinPsychRollCall!!. Introduce yourself: . 1️⃣ Tell us your name, sub-field, area of research, and highlight if you’re from an HBCU (share some photos, if you'd like!). 2️⃣ Use the hashtag #BlackinPsychRollCall so we can RT
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Undergrads of color! Come work at Berkeley for a *FUNDED* summer of research! Research, professional development, networking - and we pay YOU to do it! Applications deadline is approaching, 2/15:
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Y’all I love my little lab group 🥹 feeling much appreciation for what we’ve built after a couple challenging years!
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Alright everyone, my amazing RA has worked with me to create our initial lab logo for the C.R.E.A.M. Lab! We will most definitely be doing merch 💯 let me know if you want a shirt or mug!
This made my day today very fun! Cool to be officially part of the group 🙂 allow me to now introduce my lab name! We will be the C.R.E.A.M. Lab - the Clinical Research on Externalizing and Addiction Mechanisms lab.
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@eugenejohnson_ I’m pursuing my PhD in Clinical Psychology at Florida State. I do work on the etiology of drug addiction primarily using EEG/ERPs, and a bit of an interest in behavioral genetics. Always happy to collaborate!.
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Time really flies - it’s my last day in Tallahassee! New chapter starts out on the west coast tomorrow. Can’t wait to see what new adventures the Bay Area brings!.
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@aaronjfisher @michaelharriot When you hear that kind of cheering when you’re in the lead it is the worst feeling knowing what’s about to happen to you and there’s nothing you can do about it 😂.
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@EstOdek 👋🏽 I’m Keanan. Clinical Psychology PhD candidate at Florida State studying drug and alcohol addiction and broader psychopathology primarily using EEG/ERPs.
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So excited to have @mmartinlopez2 and twitterless Leighann Ashlock joining my lab in the fall! 🎊 and they’re already rocking the lab merch, embracing the C.R.E.A.M. Lab style!
It has been a long (longgg) journey and an extremely difficult decision in the end, but I’m excited to announce I will be joining @keanan_joyner at @BerkeleyPsych to finally begin my PhD! Eternally grateful for my support network and all my mentors along the way.
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Happy Juneteenth everyone! All y’all academics owe some Black people (especially Black women) some citations, pay up.
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Me to all my coauthors during this pandemic.
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Very glad for a guilty verdict. It was the only right and just outcome for this trial. Now. Start changing systems that led to this horrific loss of life in the first place.
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My only feelings about this case.
He was literally caught on camera murdering someone. It’s asinine as hell that this trial is lasting any longer than 5 seconds.
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Time for a new paper 🧵! Just published at Psychological Assessment, in collaboration with @RLatzman @AllisonDaurio @emilyrperkins, "The difference between trait disinhibition and impulsivity - And why it matters for clinical psychological science."
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Past Keanan told a collaborator that he would add in the requested exploratory analyses “on the next round of edits.” Past Keanan knew exactly how much coding was involved for those analyses, but past Keanan said that anyway. Current Keanan thinks past Keanan is a jerk.
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I don’t understand why people are annoyed with folks posting their wordles each day, it’s not like people are posting quality content on this hellsite that we’re missing out on otherwise 😂.
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This👇🏾 Of course the system needs reform. But don’t blame us for trying to get jobs and feed our families while y’all are the ones with the power to change systems and all you do instead is try to dunk on us on twitter 🤷🏽♂️.
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There are significant issues with the push to adopt the EPPP-2 by ASPPB. Please consider emailing your state licensing board to let them know that this is not what will benefit our field; you can find more information here, as well as a template email:
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If Georgia goes blue, I will listen to literally nothing but Outkast for the next week.
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Can’t wait for Sebastian to join us in the C.R.E.A.M. Lab this fall!.
This is pretty cool for a first post! I am beyond excited to announce that after spending one year at @Yale @YalePsychology under the mentorship of @dylanggee, I will be joining @keanan_joyner as a PhD student in Clinical Science in Psychology at @UCBerkeley @BerkeleyPsych!
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My productivity has approximately quadrupled since our lab group being all vaccinated and back in the office finally. My goodness what a difference having people around makes for us extraverted folks!.
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This is exactly how I’ve felt reviewing grad apps this year 😩.
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This made my day today very fun! Cool to be officially part of the group 🙂 allow me to now introduce my lab name! We will be the C.R.E.A.M. Lab - the Clinical Research on Externalizing and Addiction Mechanisms lab.
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Am I the only academic that doesn’t work. like at all. doing the ‘pomodoro’ technique? Ya boy be out here trying to get lost in a whole album while writing, not stop every like 20 mins. If I stop that often, I’m not starting back up! Lol.
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Today starts my last year of being in my 20s, so pretending “I’m not a real adult yet” isn’t going to work for much longer. People 30+, what lie do you tell yourselves that I can start practicing?.
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Was putting finishing touches on a paper with @Neooology and @JgmurphyJim this morning, and was thinking about how low-stress + enjoyable it’s been pulling together a paper under a tight timeline with them. Turns out, academia is just like way better if you work with nice people.
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There are definite pros to doing a postdoc (and relatedly, a clinical internship), but this👇🏽 hugely factored into my decision to skip it. Quite literally, it was a $200,000 difference in total salary to stay in grad school + clinical internship vs go straight to faculty for me.
Why I didn’t do a post-doc (and why you should think about it, too). You have to figure if it’s really worth the sacrifice for you, and also make sure you know all other options, based on your field.
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Y’all ever thought about how bananas-wild it is that we have commercials for different medications on tv?.
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Instead of excluding participants with hairstyles that preclude electrodes being placed, you can schedule them on days they plan to take hair down and they are often happy to schedule on those days if you just train your RAs to be sensitive and ask about this ahead of time!.
Kudos from this EEGer. I recently had a pt who had a new glued-in weave. I felt bad that the electrodes could not be placed and offered her to reschedule. She decided to stay and took her weave out. However, I've had other #epilepsy pts defer EEG because of hair. #neurotwitter.
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#BIMHRollCall #BlackInMentalHealth Hi y’all, I’m Keanan 👋🏽 I’m a sixth-year clinical psych PhD student at Florida State. I study the etiology of alcohol and drug addiction, and their co-occurrence with other forms of psychopathology. Tagging in @PhD_Banks @HeyArtez @gmalvarez12.
We're kicking off #BlackInMentalHealthWeek with #BIMHRollCall 🙌🏾👏🏾👋🏾. Introduce yourself with a tweet: . 1️⃣ Tell us what makes you #BlackInMH (include pictures 📸 and emojis that represent you). 2️⃣ Tag others and add #BIMHRollCall so we can RT 🗣️ and add you to our list 📃!
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It’s that they don’t care. I continue to be wildly frustrated that my cost-neutral proposal at my current institution to modulate pay schedules for first-year grad students to front-load pay to allow lower-income students to be able to afford initial moving costs was denied bc.
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Did they really say *80* like we weren’t going to notice?.
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This is unequivocally the right thing to do, and I will absolutely die on this hill. The fact that ANY children have a lunch “debt” is horrifying. I hope every state follows California’s lead here!.
California will permanently begin providing free school meals for all public school students this fall, regardless of their family's income.
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First day of year 2 on the job! Time flies… terrifying really.
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Just saw a commercial for locking up your gun for suicide safety during a college football game. Love it! More of this please!.
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#BeingAPsychologistWhileBlack means being expected to be an expert on minority health disparities even if it isn’t your research area, then deciding you’ll gain that expertise on top of your other research lines anyway because no one else will do the hard work that’s needed.
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Words can’t express how humbled I was to get to speak on a panel and spend time with Julian Thayer and Jules Harrell at SPR this year. Watching the OGs who lived the life you hope for, overcoming so many obstacles, fighting to lay the groundwork for you to walk in…it’s humbling.
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This is so nerdy and I am absolutely here for it.
Simone Biles is now the most decorated US Olympics gymnast, so here is a thread of her as functions. y = x
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Y’all I am legit tripping over this, I never stopped to think about it in these terms. What happens during your PhD is so important, it’s such a big chunk of your life. We’ve got to build a system where people thrive, not just get by.
It just hit me that, by the end this year, I will have spent damn near a quarter of my life in a PhD program and I tell you I did not breathe for at least 20 seconds.
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1. Give me a break. But 2. If you can’t tell the difference in weight distribution, grip, and feel of a gun in your hand vs a taser, you aren’t qualified to be using a gun. And any dept giving someone that unqualified a gun should be held liable for public endangerment. Period.
Brooklyn Center Police Chief says the officer drew her gun instead of the taser. He says the officer meant to deploy her taser. Calls it an accidental discharge.
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The speed at which I’m able to work in this pandemic has just slowed down so much. It’s so frustrating to take multiple hours on a task that would have taken me like 45 minutes pre-pandemic.
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Hi everyone! @dylanggee and I are co-moderating a 'Reimagining Clinical Science Training' panel at @srp_science and we want to include as many discussion topics as possible. There will be live Q&A too, but you can also ask your question in advance here:
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This. Is. So. Helpful.
Here is one quick method for drawing a curved double-sided arrow in Powerpoint (for SEM diagrams)!
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Me celebrating every academic friend’s paper acceptance, grant, or personal accomplishment. I love to see it!.
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Absolute 🗑 get out of here with this mess.
.@SpeakerPelosi speaking at presser with CBC: Thank you George Floyd for sacrificing your life for justice. Because of you and because of thousands, millions of people around the world who came out for justice, your name will always be synonymous for justice.
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And I’m not trying to act like I have it bad. I’m so undeservingly privileged in so many ways. But even for privileged black folk, this is the burden that is carried. Degrees, money, jobs don’t matter. Wondering if it will be you or your cousin or your kinfolk next time. Tiring.
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I’ve been working with a 2.5 y/o in the house for less than 48 hours and it is truly remarkable you parents have gotten ANY academic work done at all during this pandemic. Not that I didn’t think it wasn’t hard before, but now that I have a small inkling of experience. yikes 😅.
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I was at Moe’s today and laughed at this sign, and then realized this is about the same level of logical flow in a lot of introductions in the literature 🥴
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Point. Zero. Seven. “We value diversity and equity, but a tenth of a percent is asking too much” 🤦🏽♂️.
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This should bother us deep in our souls. Unconscionable. Our freedoms are so deeply restricted by our justice system.
Hey maybe our justice system is completely terrible and unjust and inhumane
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First stop after picking up keys to the new place - the soul food restaurant one block away. Moving from the south…this better not disappoint!.
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There are _many_ reasons to support cannabis legalization, but its therapeutic effects on anxiety, PTSD, sleep, etc., are not on the list.
First randomised place-controlled trial of cannabis for PTSD. One THC, one CBD, one THC + CBD variety of cannabis compared to placebo. None of the cannabis varieties improved symptom compared to placebo.
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This is super generous! I’ll match this offer - first 3 underrepresented racial minority, first-gen college, or low-income students who applied this cycle or are a current first or second year PhD students to DM me, I’ll send you a copy. DMs are open! @PsychinOut.
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Young PI’s managing their start-ups:.
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This is one of my literal biggest data management pet peeves! I can think of zero instances in which 1/2 makes more sense than 0/1 for a binary variable, ever. WHY.
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*narrowly for only the tenure track academic job environment. PI’s should be fully ready and willing to train and prepare students for both academic and industry careers. Both are good, successful, complementary career directions.
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The absolute courage and grace Dr. Chaudhri shows every day is so inspiring, it’s brought tears to my eyes so many times over the past few weeks. What a life to live, what a gift to give to the world. Truly in awe.
I am not afraid.
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Y’all. So many people are waiting on me for so many things. So many.
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My only wish is that we would stop scanning people who use drugs and people who don’t and concluding differences in structure or function is caused by drug use. *~sighs in dispositional liabilities research~*.
First, this study looked at relationships between variables. That is, certain patterns of brain characteristics were related to higher levels of alcohol use that people reported. There is no way of telling whether the brain differences came before or after the alcohol use.
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This. Of course the GRE is ‘biased’ towards wealthier, white students, but that’s not the point. The important question is whether it is *more* biased than the other pieces of a grad school application. I think it is nowhere close.
@more_coral Without the GRE, programs rely even more on things like (unpaid) research experience or institution prestige. The GRE is among the only indicators that doesn’t rely on students having the resources to work for free.
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No resources but I’ll do a mini 🧵. This is not to say I *dislike* fMRI, but things I particularly like about EEG is 1) the temporal resolution - instantaneous capture of brain activity at millisecond precision. If you are interested in overlapping (in time) neural processes like.
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Man, today’s a beautiful day to arrest Breonna Taylor’s murderers ☀️.
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This is my only goal in life. Shave my head bald, keep my beard, have this fit.
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The irony of listening to music about selling drugs during the writing process of papers on the etiology of addiction will never get old 🙃.
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In addition to presenting stellar work at #CPA2022, @Neooology @tfrohe @HannahCarlon @victoriavotaw @MarilynPicciri1 rocked the karaoke stage last night! Was such a fun way to end the weekend. New conference tradition? 👀.
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Bookmark this thread for the next time someone tells you twitter is a waste of time. Several profs sharing details of the weird academic system we all exist in on a public forum, actively reducing gatekeeping for those who may or may not have access to this info otherwise.
@ashleylwatts @keanan_joyner @ianagutierrez @rachel__walsh @kph3k @BrownClinPsych I don’t know if that’s true, although I can see why it feels that way. I got tenure without PI grant. I mention bc sr faculty in dept were worked up about it, mostly bc they were worried how I’d fare at college and university level evals. So there’s a weird trickle down.
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Been considering getting rid of email on my phone - for folks who have, did you find it helped you keep up worse or better? I feel like I’ve started a bad avoidance habit of too many emails lately. .
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All I’m saying is when I was waiting for my R36 score and I tweeted about it, @saraannhart told me her score once appeared between refreshes of the page, so then I started doing it…and mine did on one of the refreshes too. It’s a causal relationship, no further research needed.
Did you know that there are people who do NOT check for scores on eRA commons the day of their grant review? They wait for the email. They just wait. 🤯.
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Had a dream last night about an in-person conference and I miss my science friends so much 😭.
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It is I. I will accept twitter’s public shaming accordingly.
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Fellas, is it gay to be proud of your wife’s historic accomplishments?.
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None of us will literally ever be this cool.
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As a result, I will be forgoing clinical internship and license eligibility. This was a difficult decision to make, but @rewjoyner and I decided that it was what was right for us! I would be happy to talk about the pros/cons with anyone considering this path.
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Y’all I’m getting old, I’m legitimately enjoying my seltzer water as I watch game shows and answer emails. How did this happen.
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I teared up. The things his mother has seen, and to see her son become a senator. Wow.
Warnock delivering remarks virtually: "The other day, because this is America, the 82 year old hands that used to pick somebody else's cotton went to the polls and picked her youngest son to be a United States senator.".
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Obligatory “we voted!” selfie. Y’all. Please go vote. I’m begging you.
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Co-signing this 100%. Researchers who believe that several African countries have mean IQs ~70 - I actively think you personally, individually, specifically, are not smart and if you kindly will identify yourselves, I will come tell you this to your face the next time I see you.
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This (free flow back and forth between academia and industry) would be an enormous benefit to our field, and I genuinely hope it comes to be normalized.
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I don’t think I’m ever going to get tired of taking my niece to the park, no matter how much dirt it means I have to play in. She’s growing up way too fast!
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