#TidyTuesday Week 38 - FIDE Took what I know about ELO ratings and made a beeswarm 🐝 to compare Masters and players (like me) near the 1000 ELO mark. Also added a reference section to my script to 'cite' what scripts I looked at. Maybe it'll catch on #Rstats #dataviz Code github.com/nvietto/Tidy...

First Slice Of Orange Suggests Eating Rest Of Orange Gonna Be Real Fucking Slog

Tippy tap tippy tap! 🪶

"I'm cancelling your show ... for a week!"

Is it really *that hard* to say that it is totally morally wrong to say to people who have come here legally, worked, paid taxes, built their lives here, contributed to Britain, that they have to fuck off now, rather than "unfunded".

🚀 Just released **ggbranding** (v1) – a tiny R package that lets you brand `ggplot2` charts with Font Awesome 7 icons. 📝 Blog: gnoblet.github.io/blog/ggbrand... 💻 Code: github.com/gnoblet/ggbr... #opensource #branding #package #rstats #dataviz #ggplot2

Time for our annual update of "Open Research across disciplines". pdf: www.ukrn.org/disciplines/ K Reproducibility Network (UKRN) webpages: www.ukrn.org/disciplines/ Resources to add, please use (by 30/09/25): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @camillakgilmore.bsky.social @priyasilverstein.com

Rufous-throated Tanager at La Minga Ecolodge #Colombia #birds #nature

Small boats: TV coverage - day after day after day after day.... PPE scandal: TV coverage - let's stick this powerful, enraging documentary on at quarter past ten on a Sunday night.

Jesus wept. Some stuff in here is grim.

The ITV exposé on COVID now turns its sights on testing. I was stunned in 2020 when Sir Paul Nurse - Director of the Francis Crick Institute - told me he’d written to the government to offer the services of the Crick (the biggest biomeolecular lab in the country) - and never got a reply…

Yet again, machine learning — even gussied up via the transformer architecture — encodes and reinforces societal biases. This study reveals that LLM-based peer review relies heavily on author institution in its decisions. arxiv.org/abs/2509.15122

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This does not look like “impartiality”. It looks like propaganda. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...

That we continue to persist at all is a testament to our faith in one another.

Collaborative Registered Replication of Griskevicius et al. (2010): Can Pro-environmental Behavior Be Promoted by Priming Status Motivation? a #CREP project with 24 student teams, 6 countries, N~4,000 is now out in @collabrapsychology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1525/coll... #OpenScience #Metascience

Cyberpunk 1977

LOGIC - Sometimes a kebab is just a kebab.

You're looking at a Morelet's Tree Frog (Agalychnis moreletii), and more importantly, she's looking at you. 🐸 They're also known as "Black-eyed Tree Frogs", for obvious reasons. Those big eyes collect light without acting like reflectors, allowing them to hunt at night.

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BattleTech (1994) #MegaDrive #Genesis

Question Mark xkcd.com/3143/

Submissions are now open for 22nd European Conference on Personality (Edinburgh, 2026); deadline 7/12/25. Keynote speakers and pre-conference workshops have also been confirmed. www.ecp22edinburgh.org/submission

New research with Mhairi Gibson, Eshetu Gurmu, @alexalvergne.bsky.social @danielredhead.bsky.social & Arsi Oromo participants! @bristolantharch.bsky.social @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ad...

In a new paper, my colleagues and I set out to demonstrate how method biases can create spurious findings in relationship science, by using a seemingly meaningless scale (e.g., "My relationship has very good Saturn") to predict relationship outcomes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

in case anyone wants to embark on this learning journey with me, I used Claude to help me make a cheatsheet of methodologies and best use cases.

learning about different string matching methodologies today - Levenshtein, q-gram, cosine, Jaro... data people who wrangle text data for a living are truly the unsung heroes of our data community.

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An interesting paper that reminds us that psychometric standards in psychology are often not up to the task. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Random note: the term "metacognition" is typically attributed to John Flavell (1976). As I just found out, this is not true. It was likely first coined by Lila Gleitman et al (1972), as seen in this beautiful quote:

Just to add to the discourse: academia dot edu is a garbage website that adds no value. I deleted my account a decade ago and never once even remotely regretted it. You can get the same experience but better elsewhere.

Very happy to see this out. Use of LLMs to simulate study participants is something we'll see increasingly, if we want it or not. This paper is a super helpful guide to understand the impact of seemingly minor or unimportant decisions while doing so!

how it feels to contribute to an edited volume

Much needed leadership from another uni. www.sorbonne-universite.fr/en/news/sorb...

Relevant XKCD. I think humans have done about as well with flying as the fundamental laws of physics allow us tbh. xkcd.com/1623/

ze zijn vergelijkbaar met de hotelreviewer die slechts een ster geeft omdat het de hele tijd regende (of vijf sterren omdat het mooi weer was).

studenten zijn in een bepaalde zin consumenten, niet van entertainment, maar van onderwijs. Dat begrijpen ze zelf maar half, met als resultaat dat ze hun tevredenheid als consument doorgaans meer laten afhangen van amusementswaarde dan van leerwinst.

It is written in the ancient texts, perhaps the Annals of the Four Masters, or hewn into the rocks at Newgrange...THE UNIVERSITY HEATING SYSTEM SHALL NOT BE SWITCHED ON UNTIL OCTOBER

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Off we go into the wild pale yonder.

Science: only when you write up the manuscript, you realize what you should have done.

'Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has told analysts that people without smart glasses may one day be at a "significant cognitive disadvantage" compared to those who do use the tech'

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YOU - (Look at your wrist.) “It's apocalypse o' clock. Time to commence the Gloaming.”

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My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com p.s. this week I am on a USA/Canada tour with my new book. Details and preorder links at tomgauld.com

New paper out! 🤩 "Shrinking to bird size with dinosaur-level cancer defences: Evolution of cancer suppression over macroevolutionary time" with @kokkonut.bsky.social and @marcanthonytollis.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1371/jour... A short thread:

OK this title is absolutely wild, but half way in I've got say I'm kind of digging the paper. At the very least I need to go read Serres. philpapers.org/archive/OTTA...