Interesting Somethings (2023-2024), Indexed

Most-Viewed “Something Interesting” Posts from 2023-2024

NO!	Behavior, By The Numb3rs	The Most Interesting Man in the World
I Don’t Care What your Role is in Behavior Analysis. You Gotta Watch This Film.	Verbal Behavior Reconsidered: The Catania-Chomsky Interviews	The Hall of Really Good People in Behavior Analysis: Shahla Alai-Rosales
Why the #@*$ Don’t We Study Stuff Like This?	A *WIDER REACH* is Within Our Reach	“Porn,” Plungers, and Persistence at the Dawn of Human Behavioral Research
A “LOVELY” Depiction of a Terrifying Trend	Behavior Analysis Articles in the Public Eye, 2023	Top Behavior Analysis Articles for Dissemination Impact
Eclectic Reading Recommendations From a Diverse Group of Behavior Analysts	Where Some of the Most-Noticed 2023 Behavior Analysis Articles Attracted Attention	News Flash: Artificial Intelligence Discovers That Babies Can Learn Language!

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2023-2024 Posts Organized by Theme

APPLIED BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS

Access to ABA Services is Demonstrably Not Equitable	Zombie Ideas and Applied Behavior Analysis
More Concerns About Equity and Inclusion in the Science of Behavior	Why Every Practicing Applied Behavior Analyst Needs a Basic Bestie
The Long-Smoldering Problem of Burnout in Applied Behavior Analysis	The Eleanor Enigma: On the Trail of “Natural Born Clinicians”
Is Applied Behavior Analysis Research “Stuck”?	I Don’t Care What your Role is in Behavior Analysis. You Gotta Watch This Film.
	Emperor Au Naturel: Can We Talk? Because Continuing Education Is A Bit of a Mess

BOOKS AND OTHER RECOMMENDED READING

A Book about Unlawful Animal Behavior Strictly Obeying the Laws of Behavior	One Book for One Science: A Review of Roane et al.’s (2024). Behavior Analysis: Translational Perspectives and Clinical Practice
Review of Butts: A Backstory	Two Recommended Books Highlighting the Critical Importance of Broad Behavioral Repertoires
TWO BRILLIANT BASEBALL BOOKS WITH LESSONS FOR STUFFY INTELLECTUALS Part 1 • Part 2	Eclectic Reading Recommendations From a Diverse Group of Behavior Analysts
Review of Two Books that Dismantle the Myth of Society’s March Toward Egalitarianism	A Father’s Day Meditation on Expert Parenting
Behavioral “Foundations” (What if it’s Too Late to Save the World?)	TEAR IT ALL DOWN (In Praise of Hippies Steppin’ on the Flag)

BUILDING, AND BENEFITTING, FROM INTELLECTUAL BREADTH

Something Interesting This Way Comes	CONNECTIONS: An Aerial View
Parsing the Human-Neanderthal Puzzle, with Help from Hart and Risley	WHIMSY MAKES YOU WISE(?) • Serious Humor and Purposeful Preposterousness in Science • More Science Humor Exemplars to Boost Your Relational Repertoire
Two Recommended Books Highlighting the Critical Importance of Broad Behavioral Repertoires	Eclectic Reading Recommendations From a Diverse Group of Behavior Analysts
Behavior, By The Numb3rs	How Learning to Code Saved My Intellectual Soul
6 Repertoire-Stretching Talks at ABAI 2024	Why Every Practicing Applied Behavior Analyst Needs a Basic Bestie

DISSEMINATION

Reflections on Behavior Analysis and Society: Busting Out of the Utopian Ghetto	GETTING NOTICED IN THE 21ST CENTURY (SO FAR) • Top Behavior Analysis Articles for Scholarly Impact • Top Behavior Analysis Articles for Dissemination Impact
THE QUEST TO COMMUNICATE ABOUT BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS • We Need to Be More Behavioral About This • A *WIDER REACH* is Within Our Reach • No-Paragraphs Naomi and the Tyranny of Text • The Power of a Good Story • Beyond Books and Journals	WHEN OTHER PEOPLE TALK ABOUT OUR STUFF • Sometimes They Get It Right • An Object Lesson in Effective Communication • Our Revolution Has Not Yet Been Televised • A Researcher and a Public Relations Professional Dish on How One Journal Article Went Viral • Little Things To Be Thankful For: “I Taught Rats To Drive A Car”
TACTICS OF TELLING • “It’s Not What You Say, It’s What People Hear” • Zombie Ideas and Applied Behavior Analysis • Death by Operational Definition • An Intentional Approach to Getting Your Research Noticed	2022’S ATTENTION-GRABBING BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS ARTICLES • Insights from the Most-Noticed Articles in Behavior Analysis • Behavior Analysis in the News • Behavior Analysis Articles in Social Media • Greatest Hits from 2022 Behavior Analysis Journals: Future Citation Classics
2023’S ATTENTION-GRABBING BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS ARTICLES • Where Some of the Most-Noticed 2023 Behavior Analysis Articles Attracted Attention • Behavior Analysis Articles in the Public Eye, 2023	2024 IMPACT REPORTS • 2024 Dissemination Impact Report: Behavior Analysis Articles That Got Noticed During the Past Year • Future Citation Classics

INTERESTING PEOPLE & HISTORICAL MUSINGS

THE BRIEF, TUMULTUOUS TRASH-PANDA INTERLUDE IN ANIMAL LEARNING RESEARCH Part 1 • Part 2	A Quick Nod to Nat
Cumulative Graphs After and Before Skinner	On Looking Backward to Look Forward
The Case of the Kung Fu Pigeon	Bob Mager’s Abiding Impact on Instructional Design and Training
Assorted Gems and Curiosities, Courtesy of the Cambridge Center	Bill Buskist and the Coming of Age of Human Operant Research
“Porn,” Plungers, and Persistence at the Dawn of Human Behavioral Research	Matt O’Brien
Behavior Analyst Trading Cards Available Soon in the ABAI Store	Phil Hineline
I Don’t Care What your Role is in Behavior Analysis. You Gotta Watch This Film.	The Most Interesting Man in the World
B.F. Simpson	Shahla Alai-Rosales

ON BEING A HUMAN BEING
AND/OR A BEHAVIOR ANALYST

Amassing the Atoms of Happiness	Is Behavior Analysis Really BETTER?
RULES AND CONTINGENCIES THAT PUSH US TO THE BRINK • The Long-Smoldering Problem of Burnout in Applied Behavior Analysis • NO! • More on the Power of SHOULD (Olympic Edition)	AN ALTERNATIVE MANIFESTO ON PEER REVIEW, OR 21 SUBJECTIVELY IRONCLAD RULES FOR KEEPING PEER REVIEW SANE • Part 1: Rules for Reviewers • Part 2: Rules for Action Editors • Part 3: Survival Rules for All Involved
OUR DISCIPLINE’S RITUALS • What are Professional Meetings For, Anyway? • Dead Men, Sexy Blondes, and the Confirmation Bias, OR the Illogic of the “Conceptual Article” • There Are Too Many Behavior Analysis Journals. I Can Prove It. • Pay No Attention to That Self Behind the Curtain, OR the Least Behavioristic Thing About Behavior Analysts	SAUNTERING TOWARD THE SINGULARITY • What Does Artificial Intelligence Think of Behavior Analysis? • Gremlins and Pigeons and Search Engines, Oh My! • Update: AI Likes Us Better Now • How Learning to Code Saved My Intellectual Soul • Behavior Analysts and the Brain-Computer Interface
THIS N THAT • Does Psychology Really Matter? What About Behavior Analysis? • Re-homing Our Furry Lab Mates: Part 1, What’s Old is New Again! • Part 2, Beyond the Warm Fuzzies	HOW BIG IS BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS? • So You Think You Know Behavior? • Keep Calm and Enjoy the Victory Lap • The Experimental Analysis of Halloween
CUMULATIVE LOVELINESS • Cumulative Graphs After and Before Skinner •  A “LOVELY” Depiction of a Terrifying Trend • (A Lot) More Cumulative Loveliness	What Were 2024″s Top Breakthroughs in the Science of Behavior?

REFLECTIONS ON BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS AND SOCIETY

Democracy is a Reinforcer. People Forego One Reinforcer for Others All The Time.	The AJR Initiative, A Way to Practice What We Preach
Contingencies of Discord	Living in the Real World: The Achilles Heel of Behavioral-Utopian Thinking
A “LOVELY” Depiction of a Terrifying Trend	Behavioral “Foundations” (What if it’s Too Late to Save the World?)
To Vote or Not To Vote	Sustainable Fishing in French Polynesia – A Behavioral Analysis Please?

SEASONAL

7 Ways to Occupy a Behavior Analyst During the Super Bowl	Capitalizing on an Entirely Different Type of Emergence
The Experimental Analysis of Halloween	A Father’s Day Meditation on Expert Parenting
50 Things I’m Grateful for This Thanksgiving	Death by Operational Definition
Învățare Mediată de Funcție într-o Fantomă (Operant Conditioning of a Ghost)	More on the Power of SHOULD (Olympic Edition)
	Little Things To Be Thankful For: “I Taught Rats To Drive A Car”

VERBAL BEHAVIOR

Verbal Behavior Reconsidered: The Catania-Chomsky Interviews	“It’s Not What You Say, It’s What People Hear”
ACQUIRING VERBAL BEHAVIOR • News Flash: Artificial Intelligence Discovers That Babies Can Learn Language! • Hart and Risley Are Still Right, Even if Fetuses “Cry in the Accent of Their Parents”	RULES AND CONTINGENCIES THAT PUSH US TO THE BRINK • The Long-Smoldering Problem of Burnout in Applied Behavior Analysis • No! • More on the Power of SHOULD (Olympic Edition)
UNIQUELY VERBAL? • Parsing the Human-Neanderthal Puzzle, With Help From Hart and Risley • The Human-Neanderthal Bottleneck: Did Relational Capabilities Make the Difference? • Empathy From the Devil	SOME VERBAL BEHAVIOR FRONTIERS • The “Crispy R” and Form Versus Function in Verbal Behavior • Followup on Form and, um, Function in Verbal Behavior • The Beautiful Game, Magical Mands, and Divine Intercession • Why the #@*$ Don’t We Study Stuff Like This?