Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD

my child just told me her roommate from SWITZERLAND flew home this week so they could VOTE in ELECTIONS our elections may be hanging by a gd thread, but PLEASE VOTE

Oh god there’s going to be a Glee plotline about AI

It’s homophobic that Siri takes “Britney” in voice dictation as “Brittany.” I promise you I am not talking about Brittany.

When you take ALL the trouble to collect the data but it goes against your predictions

Come be my colleague!

“So with Fall coming we have to adjust the heating right? Probably just a couple of degrees, nothing crazy.” Every building manager: “Way ahead of you.”

When I record myself looking at my hair in the mirror to track my hair loss, and then I look at that recording, that’s me being inspired by Nathan Fielder

Daniel Pemberton and David Byrne wrote a song about Elon Musk for Alex Gibney's documentary. TikTok took it down and canceled the entire account for the film. So Pemberton encouraged those of us lucky enough to see him perform today to share it. youtu.be/WAvdN-JSUFU?...

“Yes honey it’s terrible news… 11 years… yes in a month and a half I turn myself… no I’m devastated … you know that guy from Nathan For You?”

The team that worked on DK Bananza should pair with the Wolverine team and make a linear game with slightly worse graphics but where you can cut everything

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

I know the NYT gets a lot of criticism for its headlines but you have to admit that this one is amazing www.nytimes.com/2026/10/17/u...

They “Kardashian pumpkin spiced” Mr. Clean

Honestly yeah this week

I just booted up the Roomba after 4 years of not using and my husband is talking to it like it’s an excitable puppy. “No Roomba, you don’t go there, go back to your home”

“A dichotomy we absolutely made up: Bridging the gap by thinking for 5 minutes”

By far, the best Puerto Rican burn is “un zero a la izquierda” (a zero to the left) which plays off of the fact that “1” is equal to “01” is equal to “001” is equal to “0001,” essentially saying a person is useless

After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

He basically learned that he can get support by SAYING what people want to hear but either not doing it or doing the opposite

I got a mostly really constructive set of reviews for a paper but one reviewer quibbled with my use of the term “as hypothesized” because we didn’t pre-register the analysis 🧐

One time I was telling a guy that I have a really bad fashion sense and he looked me up and down and said “you know the fact that your shoes are so deeply misaligned with the rest of your outfit suggests you actually have a very specific fashion sense”

Come be my colleague! We have a cluster hire including a Tenure-Track Assistant Prof Hire: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/34485 and an Associate/Full hire: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/34486, and a non-tenure track teaching hire (ad incoming). Please share, I'm happy to answer questions!

The minute I saw a fleece vest I knew it was over. The shape of a sweater vest but the functionality of a vest? I’ll take 75

Speaking English as a second language is like using Word to collaborate with people on writing. It's not the best, but we can both use it so here we are

Sometimes I like the parts of my job that involve research so much that I forget how some of the other parts like administrative work can be enjoyable too. (Delusional cope)

After trying for hours I realized that if you joined the data entry and survey instances as an event, you can use the logic of Alerts plus smart variables to make this happen

Does anyone know on RedCap how to set up a "repeating survey" that corresponds to a repeated "data entry form" so that after some time when data is entered the *survey* goes out to an email from the data entry form (but the email changes with each instance)

To the child in this building screaming at the top of their lungs every 10-20 minutes: keep it up don’t let the haters tame you.

In the middle of a competition: “We don’t have to make this a competition”

Avengers: Endgame Encore Viewers Shocked To Find Out One Scene Teasing Doomsday Was Exclusive To IMAX https://kotaku.com/avengers-endgame-encore-viewers-shocked-to-find-out-one-scene-teasing-doomsday-was-exclusive-to-imax-2000738063

Everybody shut up I think I figured something out. If you do the GenZ stare back at a Gen Zer it cancels out and they engage with you

Clown school admission officers right now

Literally any time I make a call