Great to see our new paper "Health losses attributed to anthropogenic climate change" out in print today in @natclimate.nature.com, which builds on our landscaping project on climate-health attribution a couple of years ago, funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social

For Trump and his allies, renewable energy is akin to the new Cracker Barrel logo: something they oppose largely because it’s different and seems to be forced upon them. But unlike the logo, there’s no going back on wind and solar. www.pbump.net/o/why-trump-...

Could AI slow science? Confronting the production-progress paradox #AI #GenAI #ChatGPT #Claude #Science #WCRI2026 #WCRI www.aisnakeoil.com/p/could-ai-s...

Sabine Hossenfelder: "Scientific research is broken. This has been going on for decades, and the situation is not improving. It's getting worse." youtu.be/9yPy3DeMUyI?...

Wow. Research findings with p-values marginally less than 0.05 attract 60 to 110% higher Altmetric scores than those with p-values marginally above 0.05. p-hacking means more popular attention! p-hacking FTW!

EARLY VIEW in IBIS Breeding habitat preferences and niche partitioning of insectivorous songbirds in Alpine grasslands | onlinelibrary.wiley.... Yann Rime, Pius Korner, Barbara Helm, Valentin Amrhein, Christoph M. Meier | #ornithology 🪶

In a new Perspective article, Josh Morgan discusses how progress in cell biology is hindered by significance testing and the need for a shift to effect size estimation. rupress.org/jcb/article/... #Technology #Reproducibility #CellCycle #CellDivision #Statistics

Extreme Greenland melting event right now: thawing over 80% of the surface. Seen before only once in the record melt summer 2012. See more at @polarportal.bsky.social!

Time for your yearly reminder that “We need less research, better research, and research done for the right reasons”. #OTD 1948 Douglas Altman b (d 3 June 2018) “One of the most influential medical statisticians of the past 50 years” he led reforms in medical research reliability & reporting. 1/3

"Conventional regression analysis provides inferences about the data generator, not the assumed target population" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

"Bak-Coleman ‬and others say the reformers should have seen that their claims and concerns could be weaponized by antiscience movements, and done more to prevent that." I often write about sci reform & I'm genuinely curious, how do you "prevent that"? www.science.org/content/arti...

Science-wide replication crisis? "The executive order should be a wake-up call for science reformers to communicate more carefully."

Today nearly all new car sales in Norway are electric. That’s true even in Finnmark, the northernmost region in Europe’s northernmost country. For us who live in the city, the most immediate benefit is cleaner air. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu... Copy: archive.ph/sHcnW

I could recommend these four papers of ours for starters: 1. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... 2. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1... 3. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1... 4. philsci-archive.pitt.edu/24738/

Also see philarchive.org/archive/FEEWRI by @ufeest.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... by @vamrhein.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... by @danhicks.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1... by @markrubin.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1... by Sam Fletcher

There is no "science-wide replication crisis" because every word in that phrase carries unfounded assumptions. 🧵 1. There is no evidence that progress has generally stalled in the sciences. Also, no one has actually tried to estimate replicability across fields.

I have become a bird spy, and I blame @bengoldfarb.bsky.social. www.lastwordonnothing.com/2025/05/30/h...

Opera buffa? No, actually ruff male is dead serious in attracting females flying by to land at his lek. #waders #ornithology

“Reproducibility failures are essential to scientific inquiry.”

I understand why some feel uncomfortable with AI being used by students (I do). However, for better or worse, the tech is here & now baked into everything we do. We have no choice but to embrace it www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/t... #artificialintelligence #learning #teaching #students #highschool

🧪 The peer review system is truly broken! 😵‍💫 An editor's perspective: –Ever increasing number of manuscripts submitted for publication –Authors want quick editorial decisions + fast peer review –Reviewers are "too busy" to review –Everyone wants to submit papers but no one wants to review 1/2

Things used in everyday life are the real archaeological treasures! This sewing #needle was made from animal bone some 13,000 years ago! Some designs are timeless, achieving a perfect balance of form and function from their inception. Length: 5.6cm. 📷 LMW Stuttgart 🏺 #archaeology

Since we are still talking about interactions, I worked with some ecologists a couple of years ago on measurement scale, interactions and interpretation issues. I think some problems arise from failure to distinguish prediction from inference, a chronic problem in ecology imo doi.org/10.1111/brv....

As grant money starts drying up, it's more important than ever not to waste it on paying publishers' open access "article processing fees" when we can host PDFs for free. Tom Morgan and I wrote a paper on this, forthcoming at Science and Public Policy. Accepted draft here: osf.io/preprints/os...

A variation of my 2nd reference: why you should not focus on "significant" vs. "non-significant": peerj.com/articles/3544/

Fascinating and fun little article from Psychology Today. I’ve fed a little flock kibble for years and they’re fascinating animals. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/scie....

"We find that ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude fall prey to dichotomania at the 0.05 and 0.10 thresholds commonly used to declare ‘statistical significance’." doi.org/10.1017/jdm....

We are live! Introducing the "Journal of Robustness Reports" – a Diamond Open-Access journal dedicated to publishing short reanalyses of empirical findings. Check out our website and blog post about the journal: 🌐 scipost.org/JRobustRep 📄 www.bayesianspectacles.org/introducing-...

The Global Climate Highlights 2024 report is now online. Delve in the analysis and access all the charts, information, and data on temperature, sea ice, precipitation, and greenhouse gas concentrations. Explore the data that defined 2024: https://bit.ly/40kQpcz #C3S #GCH2024

Some good ideas here on when overconfidence can fool you and what to do about it.

Egyptian Geese illustrated in the Pool of Nebamun tomb painting from Thebes, ca 1350 BC.

Happy birthday, p = 0.05! I had a short introductory lecture in statistics for biologists this morning, and then it dawned on me that p = 0.05 is celebrating its hundredth birthday this year.

The Economist, as always, nailing it.

Happy birthday, p = 0.05! I had a short introductory lecture in statistics for biologists this morning, and then it dawned on me that p = 0.05 is celebrating its hundredth birthday this year.

I had a hypothesis that vitamin D prevents cancer. I worked on this for > 10 years, had 3 NIH-funded grants, and published >30 papers on this topic. Based on our work and that of my esteemed colleagues, I concluded that the evidence does not support the hypothesis. RFK Jr., we are not the same.

THREAD The numbers are in. @bsky.app research sharing volumes vs X Formerly Twitter In March 2024, on most days, Bluesky hosts more posts linked to research published in 2025 than X. By quite a lot. Release the Kraken... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics 1/11

Rising global temperatures can influence the timing of events, such as when crops are ready to plant and harvest and when flowers and trees bloom. One example is the timing of the peak cherry tree blossom in Kyoto, Japan, where records stretch back to the ninth century — that’s over 1200 years.

New comment by @faridanvari.bsky.social and friends arguing that psychology is fragmented into the study of too many constructs and measures with too few links. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

1/ Happy birthday, Steve Kuhn! This track is from a Bob Moses album I co-produced. Incredible experience, and spectacular music. #happybirthday #music #musicsky #jazzmusic #jazzsky music.youtube.com/watch?v=EF_Q...

Here's something that would be really interesting to teach in an undergrad class, especially with lots of STEM majors: "Does counting change what counts? Quantification fixation biases decision-making" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Great read from 2019 about abandoning the use of p-values in a dichotomous way and what we can do instead. More thinking, and less relying on significance tests to decide things for us! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Open Access publishing: „Es gibt verschiedene Studien dazu, wie teuer eine Publikation sein sollte. Die DFG orientiert sich bei ihren Förderungen an einer Summe von 1.400 Euro, die wir für ausreichend halten, um einen qualitätsgesicherten Artikel zu publizieren.“ www.laborjournal.de/rubric/hinte...

Hot off the press: my review of Csaba Szabo's book Unreliable; deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/03/book...

About music, protest, and politics: www.violinist.com/blog/laurie/...

Six years ago, we published a (thus far underappreciated) study where we showed how scientific communities may generate a literature populated by irreproducible results or may converge on many perfectly reproducible yet false findings *in the absence of QRPs*, challenging popular narratives.

“Copenhagen reported that 62% of its residents are now commuting to work or school by bike — an increase from 52% in 2015 & 36% in 2012, when the City Council launched a 14-year-plan to improve the quality, safety & comfort of cycling.” #Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.

New: A NOAA lab in Hawaii that is connected to the longest-running observation of global greenhouse gas concentrations is slated for closure in August, according to a list of lease terminations Democratic members of Congress shared with @washingtonpost.com.

Mike spotted this before the rest of us. 🫡 Publications from 2025 are shared more on Bluesky than on X/Twitter.