Let’s be honest: in many of these winter Olympic “sports”, the snow is doing most of the work. An unexpected thaw would expose these so-called athletes for the frauds they are

Spotted: giraffe calves at the San Diego Zoo and Safari Park 🦒

Community Leather Coat Drive Helps Bad Boys In Need https://theonion.com/community-leather-coat-drive-helps-bad-boys-in-need/

I see that @wjakethompson.com updated the #Rstats {taylor} package with lyrics from Showgirl. taylor.wjakethompson.com. Let's do a little text mining...

"Discovering Statistics Using JASP", the first of four summer workshops, is now open for registration. Join Johnny van Doorn and myself in sunny (well, we can hope) Amsterdam or online! jasp-stats.org/2026/02/03/h...

This #MeetASAB features Madam President herself: Melissa Bateson (@melissabateson.bsky.social) Melissa was elected as ASAB president in 2024. In the past, she has also been on council as grants secretary and as an ordinary member. She has been an ASAB member since she was a PhD in the 90s… 1/6

New preprint! - Optimising Cross-Institutional Comparisons in Large-Scale Student Surveys: An Illustration with the National Student Survey (NSS) in Russell Group Institutions osf.io/preprints/ps...

The pandemic caused a lot of change. Some changes that show up in survey data result from changes in survey methods. For example, a rise in the share of Spaniards identifying with no religion coincides with a switch from in-person to phone surveys. Read more: sociologicalscience.com/download/vol...

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I'm happy to announce a new and improved version of my quarto revealjs extension that interfaces with roughnotation More annotation types, fragment support, works with flourish extension to allow for annotations of code chunks, and reverse animations are all here github.com/EmilHvitfeld... #quarto

Are the PDFs you create accessible? We built {pdfcheck}, an R package that checks PDF accessibility and gives you actionable fixes—not just technical error messages. If you make reports with R, Quarto, or typst, {pdfcheck} is something you might want to use. See demo: buff.ly/oGBSo70 #RStats

[blog] Paleontology R Packages to Benefit from Software Sustainability Institute Grant 🎉 🦴 Palaeoverse is a grassroots organization that develops R packages for paleontology (The Palaeoverse toolkit). 🐊🦕🌿🪸🦑 Will Gearty and The Palaeoverse Team are excited to announce funding from the Software […]

"(...) the whole time I've not been churning out papers, I've still been doing the work and showing up for others. Someone who spends twice as much time on research – someone who produces twice as many publications – isn't twice as valuable to the community. "

Your time for doing science waxes and wanes throughout your career. Don’t let anybody tell you that you’re doing it wrong. You get to decide what’s right for you (as long as you meet your basic commitments). 🧪

⚠️ Don't miss the deadline! ⏰ 📅 Tomorrow (February 6) is the last day to apply for 💸 funding to attend #SIPS2026! You can still apply for: ✨travel grants (for people who’d like to attend in-person) ✨internet/technology grants (for people who’d like to attend online). buff.ly/8gqQUmS

Incoming email: "I would appreciate a few minutes of your time to register to take part in the QS Global Academic Survey. The QS (Quacquarelli Symonds), is an organisation that compiles Global University rankings." My reply: "I despise university rankings, with their reaffirmation of […]

Love the research process; hate the publication process

Heads are going to explode 💥 Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third. All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit. 1/3

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🚨WINNER ANNOUNCEMET🚨 EHBEA wants to congratulate @drboothroyd.bsky.social and @sheinalew.bsky.social on earning the 2026 EHBEA Award in Excellence in Public Communication and Outreach👏 @durhampsych.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk

@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social has developed reasonable, comprehensive, and constructive counter-proposals to help resolve the dispute @northumbriauni.bsky.social regarding pay and pensions in good faith. You can see them here: www.ucu-unn.org.uk/news/319-ucu.... What do you think?

📢 Call for Hidden Papers & Data on Ingroup Favoritism in Dictator Games We look for unpublished and hard-to-access experimental studies for our meta-analysis! Inclusion criteria: no deception, adults, manipulation of group membership of dictator game recipients. All tips and data very welcome!

It's Day 10 of the #30DayMapChallenge and for the "air" prompt, I decided to look at air quality data before and after Bonfire Night in the UK 🎇 #RStats #ggplot2 #DataViz

Man Who Lost Everything In Crypto Just Wishes Several Thousand More People Had Warned Him https://theonion.com/man-who-lost-everything-in-crypto-just-wishes-several-t-1848764551/

Here’s what they found: Women are interrupted more often than men—by about 10–20% in economics seminars. Those interruptions are more likely to: - Cut women off mid-sentence - Come from men - Be adversarial rather than clarifying in nature

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Researchers often present participants with stimuli that are assumed to reliably and exclusively evoke one, and only one, emotion category. This study shows that this is rarely the case for some widely used stimuli. doi.org/10.1037/emo0...

Roses are red Wild violets are free Mind the frozen iguanas Falling from that tree www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti... By @bittelmethis.bsky.social

New imputation method just dropped

New sci-hub just dropped.

New #PhD on #bees (BeeHd?)! Despite the ad saying "UK Students only", a limited number of scholarships are available for international candidates. So please apply!

Don't you f**king dare.

Live your life so that you never have to publish an op-ed in the campus newspaper about your connection with Jeffrey Epstein dukechronicle.com/article/my-c...

RFK Jr. Demonstrates How To Remove Tapeworm By Scooting Ass Across Carpet

Today's frog is the motorbike frog.

[explaining to a child why they are living in poverty] for every hundredth pint i drink i can get one free pint

We're pleased to announce Dr Charlotte Pennington @drcpennington.bsky.social, author of "A Student’s Guide to Open Science: Using the Replication Crisis to Reform Psychology", will be a keynote speaker at the UKRN conference in July 2026! #ukrn2026joinus #OpenResearch #Research

I should go to sleep but instead I'm looking at old issues of LIFE Here's a quick thread of intriguing graphics without context, because why not (1952)

My gran who left school at 13 is in awe of academics. She thinks they are super humans, smarter than she can even imagine. So anyway I have a hobby of sending her signs from unis to show just how smart y’all are.

DOJ Releases Jeffrey Epstein Fragrance https://theonion.com/doj-releases-jeffrey-epstein-fragrance/

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Thrilled to announce the Oxford Psychological Networks Summer School (OxPNS)! This is the first-ever psychological network analysis workshop in the UK, to be held in magical Oxford from June 22-26, 2026. To apply and for more information, please visit: oxfordpns.com A brief thread 🧵

I teach my students to always start the y-axis at 0 when making a bar chart for a reason x.com/WhiteHouse/s...

"One application per year" will have massive consequences. Given the current funding rates, labs will easily be out of SNF funding for several years in a row.

"Hmm, today I will be littering in the forest while also not giving a fuck about my family" The visibly angered earth spirit (manifested through frog):

Star Wars: TIE Fighter (1994)

Leaks everywhere and finally we get an official statement, one that somehow manages to say a lot while; No timelines. No clarity. No acknowledgement of impact on ECRs whose careers depend UKRI funding. “Later this year” isn’t a plan. And the sector deserves better than reassurance without detail.

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