Someone at a Russell Group university was moved to almost-poetry by their Faculty Meeting… Can anyone do better?

Finnur Dellsén got a nice pic of me on my standard Q&A slide, so now I have a stock reply to any time anyone disagrees with me.

I am honestly sick of being told — at a university FFS — that we need to ‘embrace’ this profoundly unethical and irresponsible technology.

🚨🚨🚨 The jury has reached a verdict. Sean Dunn, aka the DC Sandwich Guy, has been found NOT GUILTY of assault.

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

NEW: Footage of a US citizen in Chicago being rammed then dragged from her car on her way to work. Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours. She was later released with NO CHARGE. A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”. You decide…

time travel assassination targets normal people: Hitler, Stalin, Leopold II data analysts: whoever invented dates

If you want to understand the emotional end intellectual malaise of British politics, this piece by @mjrobbins.com is a pretty good place to start. It effectively describes a country that has gone mad. open.substack.com/pub/martinro...

I feel like it would be more fun if the Uni turned mandatory training imto "achievements" and let me track them on Steam

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

Jake, what is happening on twitter dot com?? I could have sworn the #numbers guys used to have a little more heft…

There's not much in the blog post I disagree with, but I do want to clarify why a request for vetting by statisticians is not an invitation to "arguments from authority". When we "vet" something, we do more than ask someone what they think. Obviously if we just asked for a statistician's 1/x

This honestly should be required reading for anyone undertaking (or evaluating) exploratory studies... ⬇️👍 (It's proper funny too 😅)

"All those barely literate rubes using ChatGPT are merely being played like a fiddle by the corporations, and producing worthless slop. Only I, with my towering intellect, have figured out how to make it generate greatness." —every GenAI-using asshole out there

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

New blogpost on @elife.bsky.social's new Replication study type deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/10/prob.... tldr = I think it's doomed. #Replication #Publishing #Reproducibility

Look. At. Him. Look at him!!!!

Find a principle and stick to it. That’s my advice. Find a principle you won’t have to abandon because the politician with whom you’re in a very committed parasocial relationship said something dumb again

This is how UK politics has felt to me for a while now. A group of sensible centrists sitting round like the aristocrat and the tourist in that Bavarian cafe, sure they can control this whole mess as ever more of the country gets up and starts singing along around them. Tomorrow Belongs To Me indeed

This thread is plenty technical for me but I think it is useful to repost it.

this thread nicely describes the epistemology of a decent portion of modern meta-science, and i think also explains why it lost steam

This is some of the hardest shit I've seen in my life

I'm raising money for @mind.org.uk mental health charity as part of my entry to the Cardiff Half Marathon next year - if you have a spare minute and some spare dollars/pounds/euros, you can sponsor me and help a vital UK charity at the same time! cardiffhalf26.enthuse.com/pf/richard-m...

New blogpost on my concerns about Wellcome LEAP new $50m program on autism/microbiome links. deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-le... #autism #microbiome #biomarkers #diagnostic

Additionally, my hot take is demarcation criteria were first conceived as a tool to be wielded against fascism and are inherently antifascist from the root on up. And furthermore, Church’s objection is narrow in scope, as was Quine’s, and demarcation criteria survive them unscathed

Don't look away, America. This is your country now.

this is what it takes. we're here now folks, there is not a "if the nazis came" it's "they're here and your mettle will be tested now"

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

I will never not repost this (Sound on for maximum effect)

yup! if anybody reading or otherwise needs a primer Guest, O. & Martin, A. E. (2021). How Computational Modeling Can Force Theory Building in Psychological Science. Perspectives on Psychological Science. doi.org/10.1177/1745... bsky.app/profile/oliv...

Also - contrast b/w the response when I advocate teaching R instead of SPSS -- "No hurry, let's not rush into it" (still waiting) -- & others re: use of LLMs -- "It's inevitable, we're behind; need it implement it ASAP!" -- is telling. Learning to code is freeing. Overhyped LLMs create dependency.

For me this is a hard red line in psychological science. If you advocate the use of "silicon samples" you do not understand what it is we're supposed to be doing (and likely don't understand LLMs, or are a grifter). Luckily I haven't seen much of this among people I'd consider my peer group.

The most important and clarifying thing here is a literal definition of “loser shit”: "the dysfunctions that bad leadership is prone to, particularly an obsession with rules and norms: 'If I follow the rules, at least I can't be blamed when we lose.’"

see lots of folks talking up Scylla and the Sirens, but the real stuff is the crazy flute solo while fighting Polyphemus

"People don't necessarily realize this because if you try to explain to someone how AT Proto works, they immediately go to sleep, but let's try anyway." 🥲 azhdarchid.com/delusions-of...

Ptero

A wild exchange with Gemini Pro 2.5. In preparing some examples for my seminar (cogsci-llms.netlify.app) I remembered @randomwalker.bsky.social old tweet about playing Rock paper scissors with LLMs. Decided to see what it's like now ....

My first attempt to dispel concern with this kind of naive correlation filtering: It can arise from different causes and vanish in a properly specified model. Example: Data generated by this DAG X –> Z –> Y can have highly correlated X and Z. But in model Y ~ X + Z it won't show any "collinearity"

While going through text messages from Kaleb—insert an image of Charlie Brown saying “sigh” here—I found this, from about a year ago. The point he was making applies to all of us.

Another awesome video from Numberphile. I’m not going to spoil it, but I will say it is very relevant if you teach research methods (it not just statistical in a narrow sense) youtu.be/VwIKKBL4ldQ?...

A few words on survey weights, why I'm embarrassed to have forgotten to take them into account in the past, and how I got lucky because I personally didn't get burned. Not a mistake I intend to repeat in the future blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2025-0...

Report on Australian Higher Education finds: 🔹️ Council members have no lived experience of universities 🔹️ Council members have COIs with consultancy firms 🔹️ Council meetings are closed affairs that lack transparency 🔹️ Leaders' exorbitant salaries could not be justified

A great post from @djnavarro.net, providing an accessible explanation of why statistics that can appear to reveal our ignorance may actually do the opposite. Makes excellent use of #datavis to provide visual support for the argument. blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2025-0...

There is absolutely no good faith reason to use the term “AI” for any technology one is selling. It serves only for dazzling people into thinking the technology has capabilities that it doesn’t. If one wants a technology to be trustworthy, just use a transparent, informative term without hype.

If I was a tutoring company and I wanted to convince you that I could teach your kids maths, I would probably not have an advert that said “3=2” on it! That’s just me though.

yeah we're into LLMs (Large Lamb-bridge Models)

you know how sometimes you watch a video and think hard about your career choices?

"Alumnus" refers to er, "alum"? "alumni"? and "alumna" refers I mean, "alumnae"? I actually have no idea