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Connor Esterwood PhD
@connoresterwood.bsky.social
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A Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) scholar focused on building effective, ethical, and robust Human-Robot collaborations.

Specific foci are: Trust Management, Personality, Individual Differences, and Open Science, and Methodology in Robotics.
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There is beauty everywhere but especially in autumn in Philadelphia! 😻
November 24, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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What if the United States had high-speed rail? - CNN share.google/GfAeIAwklMlM...
What if the United States had high-speed rail?
High-speed rail is a proven alternative to gridlocked highways and overcrowded airports. CNN has reimagined a faster, more connected future for US commuters.
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November 22, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Let's have another bullet bird, this time the Sparrow!

#birds #birdphotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography
November 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Trams on grass, Rotterdam edition.
A black and silver tram glides along a grassy right-of-way lined with trees and tall buildings on a rainy autumn afternoon in Rotterdam.
November 16, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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dsquintana.bsky.social
Our paper on improving statistical reporting in psychology is now online 🎉

As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices

www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Transparent and comprehensive statistical reporting is critical for ensuring the credibility, reproducibility, and interpretability of psychological research. This paper offers a structured set of guidelines for reporting statistical analyses in quantitative psychology, emphasizing clarity at both the planning and results stages. Drawing on established recommendations and emerging best practices, we outline key decisions related to hypothesis formulation, sample size justification, preregistration, outlier and missing data handling, statistical model specification, and the interpretation of inferential outcomes. We address considerations across frequentist and Bayesian frameworks and fixed as well as sequential research designs, including guidance on effect size reporting, equivalence testing, and the appropriate treatment of null results. To facilitate implementation of these recommendations, we provide the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology (TSRP) Checklist that researchers can use to systematically evaluate and improve their statistical reporting practices (https://osf.io/t2zpq/). In addition, we provide a curated list of freely available tools, packages, and functions that researchers can use to implement transparent reporting practices in their own analyses to bridge the gap between theory and practice. To illustrate the practical application of these principles, we provide a side-by-side comparison of insufficient versus best-practice reporting using a hypothetical cognitive psychology study. By adopting transparent reporting standards, researchers can improve the robustness of individual studies and facilitate cumulative scientific progress through more reliable meta-analyses and research syntheses.
November 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Morning, up with the birds this morning to do the laundry
#Leith
#Edinburgh
Leith walk looking up to the West.
November 15, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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damnarbor.bsky.social
This is wildly weak-sauce fear mongering against the Comprehensive Land Use Plan update. What are we supposed to think? "OMG a 2.5 story house between two three story houses. Oh the Humanity!"

#a2Council
An illustration of a three story house next to a 2 story house.
November 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Proud of this one #woodworking #diy #hobbies
November 9, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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I love that the Boston cop slide never got fixed and now people just willingly go down it in tribute. It’s basically a national landmark at this point
November 8, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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I can’t believe Zohran is transing the trains already

www.mta.info/article/f-m-...
F and M trains will swap routes between Manhattan and Queens starting in December 2025 We're making this change to improve reliability. Here's what you need to know about how your trip may change. New York City Transit
November 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
connoresterwood.bsky.social
New #crokinole board is on the wall. Looking to start a gaming group in and around #AnnArbor sooner rather than later.
November 4, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Pay $500/month&request on phone app a task to be done-human virtually in your house teleops robot-sometimes succeeds. "In reality, projects like Tesla’s Optimus or 1X’s NEO are less about practical consumer robotics and more about cashing in off of technological hype." futurism.com/future-socie...
$20,000 Robot Servant Comes With a Major Catch
Owners of the NEO butler-bot from 1X will have to schedule a time for remote operators to plug in and complete tasks.
futurism.com
November 2, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Here's one for #UrbanGaze and #HumansofBluesky. What a beautiful city #Prague is! And I always love seeing local trams travelling around ❤️

📍Prague, Czech Republic

#CityPhotography #UrbanPhotography #Europe #EuropeanTravel #TravelPhotography #TravelAddicts #Wanderlust
A tram travels through the beautiful city of Prague on it's daily route.
October 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Today's tip in @eff.org's #OptOutOctober series comes from CR’s Security Planner: Tighten your account privacy settings www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Opt Out October: Daily Tips to Protect Your Privacy and Security
Trying to take control of your online privacy can feel like a full-time job. But if you break it up into small tasks and take on one project at a time it makes the process of protecting your privacy m...
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October 29, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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belisario.website
Oh wow
Mechanical turk image
October 29, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Let's Go Blue Jays.

#Toronto #Streetcar #WorldSeries #WantItAll #Photography
A Bathurst streetcar heads north on Bathurst Street in Toronto with the slogan Let's Go Blue Jays on its destination sign
October 28, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Americans deserve affordable home insurance
Fed up with skyrocketing home insurance rates? Demand home insurance companies adopt basic protections for all policyholders. Take action by signing Consumer Reports’ petition today.
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October 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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“Guys, correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe I’m sensing a lack of trust here, and frankly, it hurts my feelings.”
A dog sits near a tall shoe rack filled with various types of shoes in a room with wooden flooring. All shoes are stacked on high shelves, out of the dog’s reach.
October 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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The shrinking future of Ph.D.s in America

Attacks on science and universities

Anti-immigration wave

Visa challenges

It all adds up

www.axios.com/2025/10/26/p...
The pipeline for Ph.D.s out of U.S. universities is shrinking
America graduates more Ph.D.s than any other country. They go on to invent things, cure diseases and win Nobel Prizes. But admission slots are disappearing.
www.axios.com
October 26, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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oh man the new KC Streetcar extension looks so good
KC Streetcar- Main St. Extension Grand Opening
Some views from the Kansas City Streetcar Main St. Extension Grand Opening festivities and first two days of revenue service. Approaching the UMKC terminal.
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October 27, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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I saw this person today, too.

I thought it was funny to be biking around with a sign for a candidate who doesn’t actually support bike/ped/transit.

If I was in Ward 10 I’d have an @aishaforward10.com sign on my bike.

But I’m in Ward 8 & glad to rep @sorenwithward8.bsky.social on my bike! 🧡
Laura’s bunch bike has a soren sign on the front and many in the cargo area
October 25, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Happy with this restoration. #handtools #woodworking #handplane
October 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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October 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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"So much activity, so much enthusiasm, so little return. Why?...while some employees are using [AI] to polish good work, others use it to create content that is actually unhelpful, incomplete, or missing crucial context about the project at hand."

On AI-generated "workslop"
hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...
AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity
Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...
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October 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
connoresterwood.bsky.social
Excited to share a new pre-print by Dr. Kwame Porter Robinson and I, introducing our (very) WIP model for trust and acceptance of reconfigurable robots.

Looking forward to hearing how discussions go at #ICIS

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

#HRI #Robots #Research #Academic-Sky
papers.ssrn.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:06 PM