Todd D. Becker, PhD, LMSW (he/him)

Me at least 20 times per day:

So pleased to see this one published online! Thank you, @JAMANetworkOpen!

I need people to understand how difficult it is to get an NIH grant. You spend months writing a proposal, following strict guidelines that include a detailed multiyear budget, bios of everyone on your team, plans for participant safety & ethical conduct. Then you send it off -1/n

I anticipate that this article will become a mainstay when working through peer review in the future🫠

So excited to see my first dissertation paper on medical aid in dying in press! Thanks to my wonderful coauthors, @drclcain, John Cagle, @jkdavitt, @nancy_kusmaul, and Paul Sacco. doi.org/10.1177/263235…

The single greatest misunderstanding about science by the public is that scientists solve problems; in reality, scientists are primarily concerned with creating them.

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Thank you so much for having me!

When you type 3 sentences in 4 hours

When somebody asks how my research is going

🎉 We just hit 40 rejections (as a lab) which means time for our second #Rejection party! Scaling it up to a meal out this time 😋. Kudos for all the hard work submitting papers, applying to grants, and failing all the way! Only by trying can you success ✨️✨️ #AcademicChatter

@Stata PLEASE I NEED THIS I’VE BEEN USING STATA SINCE 2021

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"Dear Editor, I have incorporated all suggestions from reviewer 2, and I hope you find the changes an improvement to the manuscript as a whole."

Most psychological measurement

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@Stata Use the -test- option when recoding!

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@Stata My favorite is using scalars to create a dynamic and concrete audit trail of my sample specification while working through data cleaning!

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I sometimes say “statistics is violent” because it does this to the world. Reality presents itself to us in the form on the left and we turn it into “data” which is basically the form on the right.

@Stata I love -numlabel-, -set showbaselevels-, and -margins-!

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