No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?

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The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.

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What expert editors do is they assess information and critically discard* bad information. They can get it wrong, sure. But they're a hell of a lot better than the average take on a scientific study. Their value proposition is clear, and we need journals. They should just be non-profit. 7.5/n

The one thing journals can do to add to scientific conversation is to provide expert assessment. I'm really not sure when AI will be able to meaninfully contribute to that conversation. It sure ain't now, and intrinsic limits of how we train AI, and what we train it on, make me skeptical. 7.4/n

But let's make sure those journals are owned by and serve the interests of the scientific community and funding bodies paying for the research. One thing AI can do is copyediting. If @openrxiv.bsky.social added a glossy PDF generator, journals are left with one job: quality control. 7.3/n

We authors all have nuanced views on this topic. A tangent: journals DO add value to the system. But there is absolutely no reason that for-profit journals should exist. You can already pay EiCs $500k salaries at non-profits. Why would we allow journals to skim even more off the top? 7.1/n

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I'd like to re-up this paper we published last year bec I believe it makes a fundamental contribution to theoretical metascience but it is woefully underappreciated. We address a key challenge in estimating the reproducibility of a result: The distance of a replication study from the original. 1/n

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Note to folks getting into meta-analysis... when extracting data from studies extract it EXACTLY as reported by the authors. Don't do any calculations outside of analysis scripts. This means have a column for units, mean/median/SD/SE/IQR/lower range/upper range or whatever else you might need...

1-11% success rates for arts, humanities, and social science grant applications in the UK. What a monumental waste of time and energy.

Interesting webinar this afternoon from @sortee.bsky.social! Still time to register!!!

Happy to announce the next edition of the @sortee.bsky.social Workshop & Webinar series on October 27 at 16:00UTC, ‘The Risks and Rewards of Large Language Models in (open) Scientific Research’ with @tanyadoesscience.bsky.social !! Sign up here: events.humanitix.com/sortee-webin...

Simple maternal effect animal models may provide biased estimates of additive genetic and maternal variation: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... @joelpick.bsky.social et al. 2025

I’m seeing some misinformation about pseudo-random number generator best practices going around the internets. Let’s talk about why the pseudo-random number generator seed you use shouldn’t actually have any impact on your results and, consequently, you can choose whatever seed you damn well please.

I’m drinking the gorgeous coffee and it occurred to me that my grinder is a decent metaphor for multiverse analyses and theory. It has a bunch of letters and numbers, which we’ll pretend correspond to predictors we can include in a model. Coffee are the data. Hypothesis: the coffee is good.

When there is a random way to do something, there is a less random way that is better but requires more thought. In this case, regression models that make no sense don't belong in a multiverse analysis. An inferential regression without a causal justification is like an opinion without reasons.

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Great piece on the absurdity of brute force multiverse analyses. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT

His comment doesn't even work on its own terms. AI can't do everything and what it can do it does unreliably. So you have to develop skills and knowledge yourself. Those have to be tested. And one way to test them is to use them in isolation from AI. Hence excluding AI from certain assessments.

Kind reminder: data driven variable selection (e.g. forward/stepwise/univariable screening) makes things *worse* for most analytical goals

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So much this!! Code is so valuable and literally the thing that creates your results. When you include it in your paper it can be such a valuable resource to everyone (plus earn you a couple more citations).

As a primatologist, Jane Goodall was a huge inspiration to me. I admired the way she describes chimpanzee behavior with such detail and empathy, and she’s inspired so many people and advocated for chimpanzee conservation and welfare. However, I'm dismayed at what her narrative leaves out (1/10)

A serious failure case is that many biologists seem to have been taught that they should inspect bivariate correlations between predictors and not include pairs with high correlations. That is not even "collinearity" as statisticians define it (where is about joint info in additive model).

Was asked about collinearity again, so here's Vahove's 2019 post on why it isn't a problem that needs a solution. Design the model(s) to answer a formal question and free your mind janhove.github.io/posts/2019-0...

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Simonsohn has now posted a blog response to our recent paper about the poor statistical properties of the P curve. @clintin.bsky.social and I are finishing up a less-technical paper that will serve as a response. But I wanted to address a meta-issue *around* this that may clarify some things. 1/x

Sport and exercise science doesn't need papers telling researchers how to "make the most" of their small samples. The field needs to either grow the fuck up and collect sufficient data for adequate power/precision, or continue with their small samples but shut the fuck up and wait for a decent meta.

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Women, non-native English speakers & those form low-income countries are disadvantaged in science but by how much? We found that women with non-English first languages from low-income countries publish up to 70% fewer in English than their counterparts. 1/5 doi.org/10.1371/jour... #languagebarriers

Open data & code make science better. That means sharing data, & code with published research AND during peer review. But even at the better journals, submitting a manuscript is often confusing and tedious. 🧵1/3 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Our latest #SORTEE-led paper is out now in #ProcB! We reviewed data/code-sharing policy clarity, strictness & timing across 275 EcoEvo journals We also worked with #ProcB & #EcologyLetters to assess initial compliance with sharing mandates. Huge team effort! 👉 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Great to see this out! Only ~23% of psychology journals have a post-publication critique format (e.g., letter to the editor). Some impose strict limits (e.g., 400 words & 4 weeks to submit). Critiques are rarely published — in two random samples of 101 empirical articles we found only 1 critique.

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Only 38% of ecology and evolution journals mandate data sharing and just 27% mandate code sharing New paper out today on how to fix this! Thnx to @eivimeycook.bsky.social @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social @nickmoran-sci.bsky.social @royalsocietypublishing.org 👉 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....