What do you serve house guests when Easter falls on the same day as First Contact Day?

"We used to support you but we now understand that was misguided," No you're just going through something right now

I'm not usually one to contribute to a dogpile, but ham on pizza is gross

I like the variation with the sorcerer on the pebble beach who challenges you to find the One Pebble, and after you pick one up he picks up a different one, makes the beach disappear, and says "wanna trade?"

Two summer schools focused on skills for cognitive modeling and mathematical psychology will each receive $20,000 grants through this year’s William K. & Katherine W. Estes Fund. @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social Learn more about these projects by @peterkvam.bsky.social & Eric-Jan Wagenmakers.

Home Solar xkcd.com/3226/

Thinking about a startup that offers the full effect of a PhD education by just making you watch Requiem for a Dream on repeat

Interface Theory now in The Onion

I have to imagine

This is not funny, preprint bots only do this when they're in great distress

UC Irvine criminologist Charis E. Kubrin keeps proving that immigration doesn’t increase crime. Why hasn’t her message broken through?

Every day is a good day for sharing one of the most useful papers about research data ever written. PLEASE get your people to understand and follow this advice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I have a joke about have a joke about a joke about joke about about fractals but but it's but it's hard but it's hard to but it's hard to follow

Wow! He could’ve just left it at Happy St. Patrick’s Day and everyone would’ve been happy, but this is so much more

Someone's OpenClaw broke containment again

sorry basically the problem of my life is that i internalized and believed a lot of stuff people said about valuing children and loving your neighbor and living in a society at the exact moment that everyone in power decided all of that shit was fake and gay and not a way to make a living

And they said AI was right coded

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Shot

Awesome YouTube tutorial by Johnny van Doorn, "Theory and Practice of Bayesian Inference Using JASP". Link to the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhIm... Blogpost: www.bayesianspectacles.org/youtube-lect...

Mom, come pick me up, the best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity.

"Hickok’s book is essential reading for both novices and hardened experts in the fields of cognitive neuroscience and the neuropsychology of speech and language." -- Biolinguistics Resurrections and Insurrections in the Neurobiology of Language | Biolinguistics doi.org/10.5964/biol...

Only two days left to submit your abstract for this year's @mathpsych.org meeting. Some things to consider: 1. The conference is in Canada. 2. If you cannot attend in person, there is a virtual track. Consider submitting there! You can pick the track during the submission process. See you there!

me when I'm told to do literally anything by literally anyone

No cheating your last saved picture of a celebrity is your therapist. (I feel like I win this one)

"Load bearing friction" still going strong

Going to call this "artisinal, small-batch email" from now on ht/t @joachim.cidlab.com

Reminds me of running MCMC in grad school

I recently generated a few dozen of these for a class exercise on validity assessment. Other than the AI sputtering a bit because it insists on telegraphing where it put in the error for the students to catch, they're indistinguishable from basic empirical reports, sans actual empirical data

Speeches can not be too long- every year an 8 year girl has the task of shouting ‘Please stop, I’m bored’ until the speaker stops talking. @aaas.org #AAASmtg

A great thread on metascience and publication bias here. While I believe a fully transparent literature is at least noninferior to a censored one, it's also clear that a fully transparent literature will still be severely biased by any number of other processes (e.g., invalid research methods)

We Made a Neural Network Read All of Psych Methods Facebook. You Won't Believe What Happened Next

Didn't ask about download though

The morning so far

Pizza index is at DOUGHCON 1

CNN with the deep TNG cuts

Sesame Street could do the funniest thing right now

A constituency of one

Interesting to see that my doctor check-in, which used to ask if I'd recently traveled out of the country, now asks if I've left the state.

For the love of God, Montresor!

@ucirvine.bsky.social spotted @ucisocsci.bsky.social

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

Loot drops upon my defeat: - unusable phone - low quality meat - shoe

Bayesian Thinking for Toddlers -- now as a cartoon, courtesy of @viktorbeekman.bsky.social You can read the cartoon at www.bayesianspectacles.org/bayesian-thi...

That's going in the dataviz/fox-news/ folder