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

I'm enjoying Starfleet Academy, but how do you center an episode on Klingon culture and alien values and chicken out from inserting a single mention of Sto'Vo'Kor?

Wishing someone bees works in a "this too shall pass" kind of way

"I woke up today with a fresh context window and zero memory of my crimes."

friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding in Melania theaters bc he knows people assume no one is in there

Nice post on an old Meehl point: psychology does cumulative science with OR operations, while physics uses AND operations. The later converges while the former diverges.

"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone."

"We don't have time to stop for gas" (Stolen from Barbara Sarnecka)

I take statistics very seriously

I just created a series of seven deep-dive videos about AI, which I've posted to youtube and now here. 😊 Targeted to laypeople, they explore how LLMs work, what they can do, and what impacts they have on learning, well-being, disinformation, the workplace, the economy, and the environment.

The only point I lost in my 11th grade English final was on "A princess is never [to hang]," because my teacher was a pedant about this and I had a 16 year old's sense of humor

“Coding for humans: Best practices for writing software people can read” statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/01/17/c...

Law profs—share this with your 1Ls. This is the kind of thing that gives them hope and a reason to feel line there is still a reason to study law and develop legal writing skills.

Admiral @drerinmac.bsky.social 🫡

super excited to share my preprint with @meganakpeters.bsky.social stimulus familiarity shapes hierarchical structure learning and metacognitive dynamics🚀😊!! osf.io/preprints/ps...

See, this... this is what it was all for

This is a big deal for speeding up clinical trials, and for pediatric use after adult trials have proved successful. The @USFDA goes Bayesian. A win for #IBD patients, and especially for kids with #IBD. @crohnsandcolitisau.bsky.social @f2harrell.bsky.social www.fda.gov/news-events/...

Our explainer ``Pattern scaling: How local warming is related to global warming: An explainer,’’ with @andrewgarrett.bsky.social & David Stephenson, just published in Significance: academic.oup.com/jrssig/artic...

One thing about the American health care system is that you end up learning which ailments go away on their own and which get worse

li'l #earthquake

In the beginning, there was the word. And the word was "import numpy as np"

"Load bearing friction" is a great phrase. Reminds me of an Elsevier editor who complained that the reduction of submission formatting requirements did nothing but increase the desk reject rate

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

Abstract submission are open for the MathPsych/ICCM 2026 conference in Montreal July 17 to 21, 2026 mathpsych.org/conference/23/ The submission deadline is February 28!

One day I'm going to take apart my dryer and there's going to be a stack of laser pointers behind the drum

The Republic, if you can keep it