Mapping the ecology of risk: 100 risky choices of modern life: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/a2kfs

#30DayMapChallenge Day1 Points – slow start this year with a remake. Birthplaces of UK prime ministers (did you know Boris was born in New York?) This was the first python map in 2022, now my first one in #Svelte + maplibre. Interactive version here 30-day-map-challenge-2025.netlify.app//day1

Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp.... genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.

Put more accurately - it is pension cuts or pay cuts. That's the 'choice'.

Remember: Wealth cannot be separated from power. We've seen how the extreme concentration of wealth is distorting our politics, rigging our markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of billionaires. Be warned.

just....enjoy this

Ouch

Interesting & nice chart!. Similar idea to what I use in #rstats vcd::fourfold() - but uses quarter circles, with CI rings for the odds ratio. - signif OR !=1 \equiv quarter circles DON'T OVERLAP

Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time

Suicidal for centrists to be begging for moderation when now would be a great time to pass some big, ambitious policies and remind people why Democrats are better than Republicans.

Wrote a little interactive webapp for creating psyarxiv coauthorship networks, try it out: vuorre.com/psyarxiv-das... Feedback welcome: github.com/mvuorre/psya...

Look at how ratings of Israeli restaurants in the U.S. declined as Israel’s ground invasion in Gaza intensified.

My latest piece for @puddingviz.bsky.social: In pursuit of democracy pudding.cool/2025/11/demo...

How did the movement against COVID-19 containment measures take shape? The newly released Telegram COVID-19 Protest Dataset provides a unique digital lens on this question. It documents 5.6 million public messages posted across 943 Telegram channels between 2020 and 2022. dprex.hypotheses.org...

🔔 Registration for the European Conference on Personality in Edinburgh, Scotland is now open! Join us for #ECP22 and connect with researchers from around the world! More information: www.ecp22edinburgh.org Register here: www.epay.ed.ac.uk/conferences-... #PersonalityPsychology #eapp

lol; as statistical power goes up, effect sizes go down

The 21st Century version of corvée work for academics is reviewing papers or grants, writing letters of recommendation, giving public outreach lectures.

Interesting results from Germany shows that the political content consumed on TikTok tends to skew conservative.

Interesting. "Grokipedia’s generation process elaborates on existing material...rather than producing substantively new or more rigorously sourced knowledge" "[Grokipedia] mirrors Wikipedia’s informational scope but... favor[s] narrative expansion over citation-based verification"

"Expanded access to legal cannabis has not worsened respiratory health overall"

Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

New preprint w/ @fbartos.bsky.social , Ben Jones, and @tvpollet.bsky.social . Our reanalyses found *little* evidence that sexual orientation is associated with 2D:4D ratios after accounting for publication bias. 🧵1/7 osf.io/preprints/ps...

Bats are the primary pollinators for agave plants. Commercial agave, used to create tequila & mezcal, is increasingly being propagated via clonal "pups", because the flowering stalk is cut to increase the rate at which the "heart" (piña) grows. This decreases genetic diversity....

Sources confirm Optimus Prime, aging leader of the Autobots, recently fucked his back all up transforming from his truck form into his person form. paletteswap.site/dif...

Very excited to have been awarded a BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant for a project where we'll be investigating facial shape changes, parent-child facial resemblance, and face preferences across puberty. Together with @drboothroyd.bsky.social, Elizabeth Meins, and @irisholzleitner.bsky.social 🤩

Who did this?!

Research funds are scarce & competition is fierce. A recent paper by @andreasdeblock.bsky.social & colleagues explores how this competition shapes science—its practices, risks & ethics—and proposes ways to make funding fairer & more effective👇 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #AcademicSky #HPS #scipol 🧪

In this commentary, I argue that student-based teaching evaluations are problematic bc ✳️ systematic biases (e.g., racism, sexism) ✳️ poor construct validity ✳️ undermine standards and learning We should evaluate teaching as seriously as we do research. Or don't do teaching evaluations.

Relatable

Fatal flaws in "The relationship between personality traits and marital satisfaction: a systematic review and meta-analysis": https://osf.io/t8kzm

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE SECOND INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE OVER ZOOM TO MEET MORE OF THE TEAM UNFORTUNATELY, YOU HAVE NOT BEEN SUCCESSFUL ON THIS OCCASION, BUT WE HOPE YOU'LL APPLY FOR FUTURE POSITIONS WITH THE VAMPIRE

At no point can you accurately predict what will happen. I love it.

Hehe. Cartoon from @skullpizza.bsky.social

library(dplyr) Haul %>% group_by(candy) %>% arrange()

Man Wouldn't Have Worn Costume To Work If He'd Known He Was Getting Laid Off

If every zombie bit one new person a day, starting with one zombie, the whole world would be zombified in 34 days.

In our new study we were the first to experimentally simulate the origin of sociality! By controlling how many wasp 🐝daughters could help their mom, we found that early helpers don't just add to colony success—they multiply it!

Sheep, goats, pigs, birds, and many other animals love pumpkin! If you have intact pumpkins after Halloween or jack o'lanterns that are carved but not painted or rotting and don't have candle wax inside, contact your local farm sanctuary to see if they would like them as donations!

Art.

Headless bird thread for Halloween! 🪶

my knowledge of Hume has unexpectedly come in handy for my fire safety training test

#dataviz Tracking the coffee preferences at @iast.fr through the wear and scuff of the coffee machine buttons. Many people seem to go either for the nondescript, default "Café", or the fancier "Espresso". Zero love for the single or double Ristretto

Some @theguardian.com coverage! Women use exclamation marks 3x more than men—not from extra joy, but to avoid sounding unfriendly 😬 Online, neutrality reads as hostility, so warmth is outsourced to punctuation!! BUT it boosts likability and can hurt credibility www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

📊 #dataviz ⚠️PSA: Time to issue the annual Halloween _Axes of Evil_ Warning. 👹 Don't let any of these cross your threshold.