Michael Mullarkey
@mcmullarkey.bsky.social
Clinical psych PhD | ML Engineer in sports analytics| he/him
My newsletter on building cool data stuff: https://buttondown.com/datadash
Personal website: mcmullarkey.github.io
Opinions are my own and don't reflect the opinions of my employer
My newsletter on building cool data stuff: https://buttondown.com/datadash
Personal website: mcmullarkey.github.io
Opinions are my own and don't reflect the opinions of my employer
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Is social media to blame for the teen mental health crisis? Listen to me, a middle-aged libertarian, tell Joe Rogan that it is.
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If Books Could Kill: The Anxious Generation on Apple Podcasts
Show If Books Could Kill, Ep The Anxious Generation - Aug 8, 2024
podcasts.apple.com
Honored to play a small part in making this episode!
Thanks to @michaelhobbes.bsky.social for reaching out to me. My job was mostly starting to write down "he should also talk about this study" and then said study getting mentioned before I finished writing
Thanks to @michaelhobbes.bsky.social for reaching out to me. My job was mostly starting to write down "he should also talk about this study" and then said study getting mentioned before I finished writing
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🎉 Announcing surveydown v1.0.0!
surveydown is an #opensource #rstats package for building surveys with #Quarto & #Shiny. This release improves the survey design experience, including:
- Simplified YAML settings
- Auto page navigation
- Previous buttons!
More at surveydown.org/blog/2025-11...
surveydown is an #opensource #rstats package for building surveys with #Quarto & #Shiny. This release improves the survey design experience, including:
- Simplified YAML settings
- Auto page navigation
- Previous buttons!
More at surveydown.org/blog/2025-11...
Announcing surveydown v1.0.0! – surveydown.org
We are thrilled to announce the v1.0.0 release of surveydown, a stable release with improvements to YAML settings, page navigation, question creation, and a smoother overall developer experience.
surveydown.org
November 25, 2025 at 9:53 PM
🎉 Announcing surveydown v1.0.0!
surveydown is an #opensource #rstats package for building surveys with #Quarto & #Shiny. This release improves the survey design experience, including:
- Simplified YAML settings
- Auto page navigation
- Previous buttons!
More at surveydown.org/blog/2025-11...
surveydown is an #opensource #rstats package for building surveys with #Quarto & #Shiny. This release improves the survey design experience, including:
- Simplified YAML settings
- Auto page navigation
- Previous buttons!
More at surveydown.org/blog/2025-11...
Tonight is a "two separate smoke alarms start chirping with low battery warnings and continue even after you replace the batteries" kind of night
November 19, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Tonight is a "two separate smoke alarms start chirping with low battery warnings and continue even after you replace the batteries" kind of night
I've been thinking about this for a while, and absent *extensive* red-teaming most online social science research could get completely cooked
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 9:39 PM
I've been thinking about this for a while, and absent *extensive* red-teaming most online social science research could get completely cooked
Cowardice is bad, actually
November 10, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Cowardice is bad, actually
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Not now, carnivorous death ball
November 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Not now, carnivorous death ball
Vaxxed, voted, and donated to my local food bank. If you're in the US and can do any of that stuff would love to have you on board
November 2, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Vaxxed, voted, and donated to my local food bank. If you're in the US and can do any of that stuff would love to have you on board
Programmers' Enemies Tier List
S Daylight savings, Themselves
A Leap years, Timezones
B Naming, Cache invalidation
C Cloud billing incomprehensibility
D Language wars
F (Scared to rank any this low)
S Daylight savings, Themselves
A Leap years, Timezones
B Naming, Cache invalidation
C Cloud billing incomprehensibility
D Language wars
F (Scared to rank any this low)
just want the programmers who had to deal with this to know that I see them
November 2, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Programmers' Enemies Tier List
S Daylight savings, Themselves
A Leap years, Timezones
B Naming, Cache invalidation
C Cloud billing incomprehensibility
D Language wars
F (Scared to rank any this low)
S Daylight savings, Themselves
A Leap years, Timezones
B Naming, Cache invalidation
C Cloud billing incomprehensibility
D Language wars
F (Scared to rank any this low)
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I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.
November 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.
Happy Halloween! My algorithm is haunting me by serving videos of someone trying to build an ML model with 100% accuracy. Time to go celebrate my friend's spooky birthday and do zero math
November 1, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Happy Halloween! My algorithm is haunting me by serving videos of someone trying to build an ML model with 100% accuracy. Time to go celebrate my friend's spooky birthday and do zero math
In the liminal space where I can't tell how much my cooking is getting better vs my standards getting worse
October 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM
In the liminal space where I can't tell how much my cooking is getting better vs my standards getting worse
Made a small React app with Typescript so friends could do a scavenger hunt during our Halloween party!
Main request was for a more extensive + harder hunt, which I'll take as a win. Time to level up my front-end game before next year!
Main request was for a more extensive + harder hunt, which I'll take as a win. Time to level up my front-end game before next year!
GitHub - mcmullarkey/jurassic-security
Contribute to mcmullarkey/jurassic-security development by creating an account on GitHub.
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October 25, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Made a small React app with Typescript so friends could do a scavenger hunt during our Halloween party!
Main request was for a more extensive + harder hunt, which I'll take as a win. Time to level up my front-end game before next year!
Main request was for a more extensive + harder hunt, which I'll take as a win. Time to level up my front-end game before next year!
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This is a good example of why I yell at people for sharing poll results as screenshots/text without linking back to the actual poll toplines. It breaks the chain of information and makes it way easier for bad actors to thrive.
This ME-Sen poll and this account are fake. No such poll on Emerson Polling's website or X feed. And take a close look at the account's handle: @PoliticPollss when the real one it's impersonating is @Politics_Polls.
October 24, 2025 at 6:18 PM
This is a good example of why I yell at people for sharing poll results as screenshots/text without linking back to the actual poll toplines. It breaks the chain of information and makes it way easier for bad actors to thrive.
This is basketball now, and it feels so good
October 23, 2025 at 3:28 AM
This is basketball now, and it feels so good
First NBA game of the season and we get free basketball? Love this energy
October 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM
First NBA game of the season and we get free basketball? Love this energy
NBA back
October 22, 2025 at 1:37 AM
NBA back
I just went on LinkedIn and immediately found a bunch of useful, interesting resources posted by thoughtful people. Should I buy a lottery ticket?
October 21, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I just went on LinkedIn and immediately found a bunch of useful, interesting resources posted by thoughtful people. Should I buy a lottery ticket?
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Issue 18 of RDM Weekly is out! 📬
- Data Skills for Reproducible Research from psyTeachR
- A Tribal Data Repository to Advance Indigenous Health and Sovereignty @nature.com
- Community Research Data Toolkit @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social
and more!
rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...
- Data Skills for Reproducible Research from psyTeachR
- A Tribal Data Repository to Advance Indigenous Health and Sovereignty @nature.com
- Community Research Data Toolkit @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social
and more!
rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...
RDM Weekly - Issue 018
A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.
rdmweekly.substack.com
October 21, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Issue 18 of RDM Weekly is out! 📬
- Data Skills for Reproducible Research from psyTeachR
- A Tribal Data Repository to Advance Indigenous Health and Sovereignty @nature.com
- Community Research Data Toolkit @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social
and more!
rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...
- Data Skills for Reproducible Research from psyTeachR
- A Tribal Data Repository to Advance Indigenous Health and Sovereignty @nature.com
- Community Research Data Toolkit @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social
and more!
rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...
I'm proud of the knowledge I've cultivated in social science methods and more tech-y stuff. This combination also threatens to make me one of the most annoying people in the world
The superpower of books like Sapiens is that they require expertise in like 12 academic fields to debunk. So you get these super detailed takedowns of small sections that look to laypeople like nitpicking.
October 21, 2025 at 6:52 AM
I'm proud of the knowledge I've cultivated in social science methods and more tech-y stuff. This combination also threatens to make me one of the most annoying people in the world
I used to go looking for The Discourse, gear up, and dive straight into the pit. Now even when I accidentally find The Discourse no I didn't
October 19, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I used to go looking for The Discourse, gear up, and dive straight into the pit. Now even when I accidentally find The Discourse no I didn't
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My favorite part about this is the camera work. Absolutely no idea where the ball is, like a guy with a flip phone trying to take a picture of Mars.
October 18, 2025 at 2:10 AM
My favorite part about this is the camera work. Absolutely no idea where the ball is, like a guy with a flip phone trying to take a picture of Mars.
Saw a video of someone earnestly trying to build an ML model with 100% accuracy and I most log off immediately
October 17, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Saw a video of someone earnestly trying to build an ML model with 100% accuracy and I most log off immediately
When I learn OU hasn't scored a touchdown against UT 3 of the last 4 years
Waka Flocka Ft. Luke Combs - No Hands In Oklahoma (SW Mashup)
YouTube video by ShawnWalka
youtu.be
October 12, 2025 at 4:53 PM
When I learn OU hasn't scored a touchdown against UT 3 of the last 4 years
I know there's so much baggage, and man I love sports
October 11, 2025 at 5:18 AM
I know there's so much baggage, and man I love sports
Why did none of y'all tell me the X Files cooked so hard?
October 10, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Why did none of y'all tell me the X Files cooked so hard?
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nice
In a first, renewables generate more power than coal globally
In a first, renewables generate more power than coal globally
Solar and wind power aren’t just keeping up with global electricity demand anymore – they’re pulling ahead. According to a new analysis from energy think tank Ember, solar and wind combined outpaced global electricity demand growth in the first half of 2025. That shift led to a drop in both coal and gas generation compared to the same period last year. For the first time ever, renewables generated more power than coal globally.
more…
electrek.co
October 7, 2025 at 3:52 AM
nice