Leonardo DiCaprio has stopped using Wikipedia.

We're excited to share the application for the next Research Transparency and Reproducibility Training (RT2)! Join us May 19 - 21, 2026 in Berkeley for hands-on training in open science tools and methods. Apply by Feb 8: cega.submittable.com/submit/34383...

Another month of US transit data is just in, & DC's WMATA remains the fastest-growing major US transit agency, with ridership up 10% compared to last year! King County Metro (Seattle, +7%) & SEPTA (Philly, +5.3%) have performed well, while LA Metro & NJTransit have lost riders🧵

A short preprint describing our adoption of more consistent and precise use of terminology related to reproducibility, robustness, replicability, repeatability, and credibility. osf.io/preprints/me...

Como para no amargarme el domingo con la realidad nacional youtu.be/PalUsRqE5ew?...

If you want your work to be reproducible, you have to remember that others don't have the insider knowledge you have. You have to be explicit. This morning I was able to recreate a file made by someone else because they explicitly documented their definitions, calculations, and their assumptions. 🫶

Illegal operation

The detectCores() apocalypse is creeping up on us 👻🐛 As more people are getting access to 128+ CPU cores, code spinning up parallel cluster with detectCores() workers fails - not enough #RStats connections available Friends, do *not* default to detectCores(), bc www.jottr.org/2022/12/05/a...

Juan Acevedo (el cuy)

Mi padre es un gran fan de este chiste y finales alternativos al del "oso hormiguero" como pez globo serpiente cascabel o (mi favorito) bacaladilla

Meter una mujer más en al foto -- Dina Boluarte-- aunque no tenga aval popular, pesen sobre ella acusaciones serias de corrupción y no haya aportado nada ni a la democracia ni a la causa de las mujeres sencillamente no tiene ningún sentido. ONU mujerse, urge una rectificación, @unwomen.bsky.social

It’s their day today 🎶🕺🏻

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

this is a mood

Justo me preguntaba si El Rayo McQueen compraría seguro de vida o vehicular.

On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution. But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable

🤯 Conferencias sobre indigeneidad… ¿sin voces indígenas?🤔 Cuando los espacios “inclusivos” parecen cualquier cosa menos diversos. No te pierdas el Jugo de @ameriqo.bsky.social. 🧃Clic aquí: tinyurl.com/mr2npar7

Gold export data suggests that Peru, one of the world’s largest producers, mines nearly as much informally as it does formally— According to official mining output records, Peru mined about 90 tonnes of gold in 2023, far ahead of any other South American country.

Qué gusto me ha dado leer esta crítica contra un libro del "historiador" hispanista peruano más difundido. Pura destrucción. Hace tiempo, se quiere difundir el discurso de que la colonización fue un proceso de paz, amor y salvación. Toca hacerles el pare. tramacritica.pe/critica/2025...

Tolkien’s drawing of The Lonely Mountain.

Replication Crisis xkcd.com/3117/

How does unreliable urban transport disproportionately limit women’s access to higher education—and can infrastructure fixes close the gap? @falbav.bsky.social , @wakeforest.bsky.social , discusses: faculti.net/transport-ba... #economics

Here are some swiftly assembled thoughts on #Metascience2025. Congratulations to the organisers. It was an excellent, full and balanced conference, bringing together many disparate strands. They threaded a complex needle really well.

How might irrigation affect farmers’ profits? Maria Jones, Florence Kondylis, John Loeser, and J-PAL affiliate Jeremy Magruder explore the impacts of irrigation access in Rwanda: buff.ly/WbnmXtd

this is so cool

praise him!

I’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :( So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/

On the blog today, @kbeegle.bsky.social on why it is time to stop asking "who is the household head?" in surveys in developing countries. blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

🎥 Missed the 2025 BITSS Annual Meeting? The full event recordings are now on YouTube! Watch this year's presentations on research transparency and reproducibility below. www.youtube.com/@berkeleyini... @tedmiguel.bsky.social @cega-uc.bsky.social @sdellavi.bsky.social

Someone made a Wiley E. Coyote style painted wall to see if Tesla’s autopilot would detect it and well…

Latin American side of my feed right now watching as Canadians and Europeans find out the US might not be a beacon for freedom and democracy abroad

This is like the (possibly apocryphal) story about the Pinochet regime banning books on cubism because they thought they were about Cuba. www.newsweek.com/military-rem...

Look what's happening at the French Embassy in Washington DC.

#GDRI_rep Update 2: I4R sent a report to the original authors for the PLOS One article "“Food insecurity and mental health of women during COVID-19: Evidence from a developing country". All authors have now emailed PLOS One to withdraw their names. osf.io/7tzek/

After being alerted about possible misconduct, the I4R are reproducing published papers that use data from a specific NGO (GDRI). This thread releases the first 2 reports and provides more information about the work and responses/statements from authors journals and journals. 🧵

The Metascience Alliance is launching at #Metascience2025! This new cross-sector network is building collaboration to better understand & improve the research system. We want your input! Here's how to get involved (🧵)

Short note on provision of "raw" data in replication packages. "Raw" are data files exactly as downloaded from original source. Not renamed, not converted, not made prettier. All that is important, and is the next step, for which you provide code (or instructions). But "raw" is as "raw as it gets".

Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons: -We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S. -The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous. 🧵⬇️

Understanding “what works” in education is HARD and is what many of us have dedicated our professional lives to figuring out. Having some wanna-be tech bros come in and decide they know better than researchers & experts is beyond infuriating and insulting to the ed research community.

Joyita youtu.be/dv8MNJchJhg?...

Opportunities at DIME #econsky

We are seeing some impact on reproducibility efforts with the transition to the new US administration. For now, I suggest that you make backups of any data that required you to actively interact with the Federal government, as there may be a delay in response times.... #openscience

I’m amazed: On the foreign assistance freeze, I’m astonished not to see major State Dept and USAID recipients challenge the disruption in court. An injunction? Where is World Vision, SAVE, Red Cross, etc on this? Or the Beltway bandits (Chemonics etc) Is there activity happening?

como no hay nadie por aquí, quería utilizar eso para dejar constancia de un par de memes que se pasan por allí. y son memes porque son solo imágenes sin contexto (en un caso, es solo un papelito) con las que se quiere echar lodo a la chamba de La Encerrona. 👇

que quede claro que no hemos sido "financiados" por USAID. tampoco tendría nada malo. simplemente nunca les hemos tocado la puerta. pero sí trabajamos con ONGs. la lista ha sido larga y gracias a ellas hemos podido, por ejemplo, cubrir temas ambientales a profundidad. pongo un caso, de varios:

You should try DeepStata. It's the same as DeepSeek, but you need to ask it more politely and provide data in a specific way.