Jack Arnal
@jackarnal.bsky.social
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Cognitive Psychologist | Professor at McDaniel College | Lifter | Movie Lover | Semi-Professional Whisk(e)y Taster | He/Him/His
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I’m looking forward to listening to what you two thought!

I briefly considered going through the entire series, but settled on just rewatching the first one.
jackarnal.bsky.social
Night 11

A death double-feature.

Movie 2

Final Destination: Bloodlines (2025)

Watched on: HBOMax

#horror #movies #31nightsofhorror
Poster for Final Destination:Bloodlines (2025) - shows a flaming skull on top of a Space Needle-like tower
jackarnal.bsky.social
Night 11

A death double-feature.

Movie 1

Final Destination (2000)

Watched on: HBOMax

#horror #movies #31nightsofhorror
Poster for Final Destination (2000) - shows a bunch of 2000s youngsters in front of a skull
jackarnal.bsky.social
Night 10

It feels like a good night to go back to the 90s.

The Sect (1991)

Watched on: Shudder

#horror #movies #31nightsofhorror
Poster for The Sect (1991) - shows a woman attempting to remove a cloth clinging to her face
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Night 9

Let’s try something from this year.

Marshmallow (2025)

Watched on: Hoopla

#horror #movies #31nightsofhorror
Poster for Marshmallow (2025) - shows a child with an ominous person towering over him
jackarnal.bsky.social
There’s some similarities, especially in the whole 80s aesthetic.
jackarnal.bsky.social
It’s fun! It’s a mashup of a bunch of 80s tropes with a dash of 1950s sci-fi.
jackarnal.bsky.social
Night 8

Time for some Fulci eye zooms.

The Psychic (1977)

Watched on: Shudder

#horror #movies #31nightsofhorror
Poster for The Psychic (1977) - shows a giant skull with a woman hanging out of the eye hole
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Night 7

Thrill me!

Night of the Creeps (1986)

Watched on: 4k Blu-ray

#horror #movies #31nightsofhorror
Poster for Night of the Creeps (1986) - shows a zombie in a tux holding rose’s outside a window
jackarnal.bsky.social
Night 6

Let’s see what the Burgomaster is up to.

Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Watched on: Prime

#horror #movies #31nightsofhorror
Poster for Bride of Frankenstein (1935) - shows the Monster and Bride
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Night 5

Let’s see what’s happening in Maryland.

The Bay (2012)

Watched on: Tubi

#horror #movies #31nightsofhorror
Poster for The Bay (2012) - show the x-ray of a skull with the image of a bug in the mouth
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Night 4

Movie 2

It’s anthology night!

Ghost Stories (2017)

Watched on: Shudder

#horror #movies #31nightsofhorror
Poster for Ghost Stories (2017) - shows a man standing against a white background. The edges are taking the shape of ghosts
jackarnal.bsky.social
Night 4

Movie 1

It’s anthology night! Up first:

V/H/S/Halloween (2025)

Watched on: Shudder

#horror #movies #31nightsofhorror
Poster for V/H/S/Halloween (2025) - shows a blood red skull lollipop
jackarnal.bsky.social
Night 3

I haven’t revisited this since the sequels were released. I liked those, but didn’t love the original. Has my opinion changed?

Terrifier (2016)

Watched on: Prime

#horror #movies #31nightsofhorror
Poster for Terrifier (2016) - shows a demented Art the Clown
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Night 2

This one has been on my list for a while.

Onibaba (1964)

Watched on: HBOMax

#horror #movies #31nightsofhorror
Poster for Onibaba (1964) - Shows a demon samurai mask above a woman
jackarnal.bsky.social
I can’t claim they’re all great, but they make October a little more fun (between grading session).

Black Sunday is a great choice!
jackarnal.bsky.social
Night 1

I’m kicking things off with a new slasher movie.

Night of the Reaper (2025)

Watched on: Shudder

#horror #movies #31nightsofhorror
Poster for Night of the Reaper (2025) - shows a woman walking down the street with a ghostly skull floating in the sky above
jackarnal.bsky.social
This is shaping up to be the worst semester yet, so I need a distraction.

It’s time for some horror movies! My goal will be to watch one per night.

I’ll post reviews on Letterboxd as time permits (boxd.it/4WE5j).

See my previous marathons in the repost below.

#horror #movies #31nightsofhorror
jackarnal.bsky.social
This might be the first time I’ve seen someone present the base rates while directly ignoring them.
mmasnick.bsky.social
White House Deputy Press Secretary seen here posting data showing how much more prevalent right wing domestic terrorism is than left wing domestic terrorism... while thinking she's showing the reverse.

Apparently she can only read headlines, but not the actual graph with the data.
Abigail Jackson saying: Democrats, calling your political opponents Nazis has consequences. 

Study: Left-wing terrorism climbs to 30-year high

And posting a graph from Axios that shows WAY WAY WAY more right wing terrorism, and showing a very slight increase in left wing terrorism this year that would still have it lower than basically every other year of right wing terrorism.
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irahyman.bsky.social
Today I started my grad cognition class for our masters program (we’re on a quarter system).

After introductions, I start with a brief historical consideration of cognitive psychology. I note that the Gestalt school was a cognitive approach based in Germany.

We then talked about what happened. 1/
jackarnal.bsky.social
This seems like the wrong semester to be teaching research methods and statistics.
jackarnal.bsky.social
Does anyone know what the record is for the highest number of deleted social media posts in 24 hours?

Just wondering if it’s about to be broken.
jackarnal.bsky.social
Give these folks a round of applause. This was a heavy lift!

And let’s give this post at least as much engagement as the original announcement of the moderation changes.
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PsyArXiv's amazing team of 100+ moderators has now approved all preprints that meet the requirements outlined in the updated PsyArXiv policies (is.gd/paxpolicy). Thank you to everyone who volunteered, this was a true community effort! #PsychSciSky
About PsyArXiv – PsyArXiv Blog
What is PsyArXiv? PsyArXiv (psychology archive) is an open preprint archive designed to facilitate rapid dissemination of psychological research. PsyArXiv is a creation of the Society for the…
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