"One longtime colleague and friend, [John Ioannidis] who has kept in touch with [Bhattacharya], pleads for scientists—and reporters—to give him a chance. " Ioannidis is part of the COVID contrarian crew. Of course he says that. It's like a Big Oil exec asking to give EPA head Lee Zeldin a chance.

Tidal playlist went from Beastie Boys “Intergalactic” to Radiohead “Let down”, and…yes, I like both of these songs very much but

“I think there’s an argument to be made that much meta-scientific work is a kind of mirror image of the empirical work it critiques” statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/12/21/i...

Agree with the quoted statement by @richarddmorey.bsky.social and disagree with Gelman on that point of asymmetry. Much of what we call metascience today has gained popularity and momentum from scientists/policy makers/funders is by making major positive claims about how science works/doesn't work.

What I don't get about this is that in the journals where I publish, copy editors will catch errors in citations (e.g., "This citation has the wrong year; please fix") in the proof phase. Is this really a story about the publishers gutting copy editing? >

Sentences I never thought I’d utter: “I’m loving all this new Jake Paul content”

someday I'm going to have the guts to select a different title than "Dr." on one of these forms

"Well that sounds stupid, you must be explaining it wrong." Readers, they were not.

If we accede to the demand that political appointees can decide what is worthwhile to study and what isn't, we've lost universities as institutions of knowledge, innovation, and progress. This is why academic freedom and tenure are so important.

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

Tested grok in response to the story about it leaking personal addresses. No home address for me, but grok was happy to make up an entire branch of research that I had nothing to do with…

The pensive squirrel. Maybe pondering deep thoughts. Or just plain tired. #SquirrelHaiku Fox Squirrels in Ann Arbor at the University of Michigan on December 10th, 2025 #flickr #Squirrels #SquirrelOfTheDay #SquirrelWisdom #Michigan #SquirrelDude #sqrlpix #squirrelsofbluesky flic.kr/p/2rL2wqr

For the record, I will be swearing in on Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower after I’m elected.

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

I like how they just come right out and say you don’t have to do any research for tenure, just offer courses that pass our ideological litmus test.

Obviously, I argued that the answer is "no." The Harris County District Attorney's Office argued that such a comment is perfectly fine, so here we are.

Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

The November monthly temperatures have been released and 2025 looks set to be the 2nd hottest year on record. Remember when warming apparently stopped in 1997? That is more than 0.5C ago.

Relatable Corvid

Day 2 of #ArtAdventCalendar & I'm going with a piece that still makes me go 'blimey did I actually do that', created as part of BirbFest this year in Jan. It's one of those ones where you loose time while making and then surprise yourself when it's finished! #BirdArt #SciArt #Cassowary #Procreate

Works the other way around too. “If I was Jonathan Haidt, how would I destroy the next generation?”

can someone please create a cam filter that hides the fact that you're eating...?

Every ad now

There is interest in a print version of this illustration. However I will not send it to a printer until everything has been proofread. If you can proofread it, I'll send you a free copy of it in the mail. The listed texts are in the alt of the "Key" image. Who can please help me?

"AI" - dashare.zone ADMIN

My University is moving to a “two-lane” system for assessments. The two lanes are 1) secure, in-person assessments, and 2) open assignments that where we’re supposed to “support[] students to develop AI-ready skills.” The Uni doesn’t have the facilities to do much of #1 & there’s no middle ground. >

thinking about the “we have enough hot takes” lady for some reason lately

Anyone have experience analysing periodicity (eg with Fourier) in data with gaps/missings (eg weekends, holidays) - this is in a health context if it helps? Looking for guides to pitfalls, etc

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

poisoning Adobe's AI assistant by having it summarize a 1968 cookbook that exclusively contains hot dog recipes

evergreen

(character in a netflix show) well here we are, at the abandoned mall. if that mysterious phone call we got earlier was right, we'll find the key that opens that safe we found out contains a map we need, in order to locate a device which, you'll recall, could be the cause of recent events, such as t

Jennifer English realizing she's a lesbian and falling in love with one of her mocap directors (Aliona Baranova) over the course of making BG3 and seeing all the queer folks embracing Shadowheart and the impact the game had is genuinely one of the best stories in game production in a long time

ok, maybe segways *are* cool

we’re nearing “as popular as food poisoning” levels here

For fans of law and statistics, this decision includes some simulation-based logic about gerrymandered districts and box plots.

just me googling how to quit vi again

My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books pages.

@merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social Thanks for the postcard!

"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.

Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

Mattias Krantz bought an octopus from the fish market and taught it how to play piano. [youtube.com]

"are children small...or just far away?"

"It’s ironic, of course, that much of the research driving our understanding of AI is produced by universities themselves." Yeah, maybe think about that one for a minute...?

OHO. BIRD ART, YOU SAY?? i don't even know where to begin #art #🪶

OutKast is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: “We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”

Managers cite concern for students in everything they do, but never actually prioritise student opinion or voices in any of their decision making. They do irreparable harm to student courses and turn around to staff and ask: ‘right: how can we improve student satisfaction and recruitment?’