Another CREP study out in print: online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art... Congrats to all the students and dedicated faculty mentors involved, like @aggieerin.bsky.social ky.social and @jorowags.bsky.social Get your students involved in CREP: www.crep-psych.org! #stats #psychology

What We’ll Never Know thenewstatistics.com/itns/2025/09... Use these to lobby your politicians, not only if you are in the U.S. Suggest further makers of videos: [email protected]

New version of vcmeta (1.5) for R now out: github.com/dgbonett/vcm.... Some new functions and a few name changes. vcmeta provides all the tools you need for variable-coefficient meta-analysis (no assumption of effect-size homogeneity; probably the best default option?). #stats

Cool paper about JASP's raincloud plots with nice examples of how they can be used, especially for complex designs. I do wish JASP would supplement add to this visualizations of group differences and their uncertainty. #stats doi-org.proxy.cc.uic.edu/10.3758/s134...

"“I ain’t ever bought no prostitutes. I ain’t never raped nobody. I ain’t never paid anybody off. None of that stuff,” said G, a resident from one of the photographed tents. “He’s much more of a criminal than I am”" streetsensemedia.org/article/home...

Just out: JASP 0.95! With sandboxing, a new plot builder, ESCI, and more. jasp-stats.org/2025/08/02/i...

Great new review of forgetting mechanisms in C. elegans -- lots of cool research I had missed (or maybe forgotten about?) #neuroskyence www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...?

Here's a nice paper in JCB on why testing for exactly no effect is not a great idea when studying biological systems, and how putting effect sizes at the front of our thinking can help. Paper is by Josh Morgan at WashU St. Louis. #stats #neuroskyence rupress.org/jcb/article/...

Feel like an excuse to get that travel money for some sun and surf in November? Consider these two back-to-back meetings Down Under. 16-18 and 19-21 November 2025. researchintegrityconf.com aimos-inc.github.io/aimos.confer...

Look what you can find in the latest version of JASP: **esci** That's right, all your favorite estimation-focused analyses, strong hypothesis testing, and meta-analysis are available in the esci module for JASP 0.95. #stats #metascience Many thanks to the good people at @jaspstats.bsky.social

New Replication Project in sport and exercise science shares it results: Out of 25 replication studies performed, 56% yielded significant results, but only 7 (28%) revealed a similar effect size. Several problems related to the quality of are discussed. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

What stats software should you teach with? Here's a super-comprehensive review of GUI-based options from Thomas Langkamp. The winners (on very reasonable criteria)? JASP and jamovi. Strongly agree! osf.io/preprints/ps... #stats #psychology @jaspstats.bsky.social

I love this paper too! The author, Rick Born, is part of the @comm4rigor.bsky.social which is developing educational units on topics like confirmation bias! For anyone interested in learning more, check out the beta form of the unit at c4r.io (and give us feedback so we can keep improving it)!

Here's a fascinating paper on the interpretation of novel object recognition tests: scores can reflect changes in novelty-preference, not just memory performance! A nice reminder of the "neglected factors" in doing fruitful science. #neuroskyence #stats www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A depressing evaluation of RCT quality for working memory interventions: "In our sample, only an average of 11.9 out of 45 CONSORT items were fully reported per article.. 36 RCTs were deemed high risk for bias, 10 had some concerns, and 1 was rated as low risk." tinyurl.com/5647mu99 #stats

We developed CrossFilt, a read-level, cross-species filtering approach that avoids these errors without sacrificing usable data. It outperforms all existing strategies and exposes just how much signal in comparative genomics has been misread. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

The replication crisis is one of the bad faith justifications for wrecking US science. Fighting antisemitism is one of the bad faith justifications for wrecking US academia. I have no regrets for my efforts towards both these worthy causes. #metascience

Are these points useful? How can a researcher tell the right environment to use? The right appearance? Can they know with much certainty? If all these factors matter, should every conclusion be: in this type of room, with this researcher demeanor, clothing, and attractiveness?

It’s the end of the world as we know it, part 1000: AIs do about as well as medical students on neuroscience exams for med students (multiple choice). It was lovely teaching while it lasted :-( journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....

If you design a study to test a prediction, you need to be able to falsify it. In frequentist statistics this is achieved through an equivalence test. You can't have an informative test if you can't prove yourself wrong. You need to learn about equivalence testing. lakens.github.io/statistical_...

Cool new findings in Aplysia from the lab of Riccardo Mozzachiodi, showing that sensitization is a complex system of responses: it can produce both increased reflexes and decreased feeding, but these are differently sensitive to stimulation pattern and time of training. doi.org/10.1016/j.ph...

This is really important: these grants have been stolen, not cancelled. It f-ing theft.

Here's an interesting editorial on factors that can influence replication failures: psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202... @eddiehj.bsky.social There are lots of nice points here, but also some big issues lurking under the surface, I think. #stats #metascience

We just updated our preprint describing our 'ESDist' R package for calculating field-specific effect size distributions, which are useful for both interpretation & study planning. In this version we added options that can account for publication bias and effect size precision doi.org/10.31234/osf...

If a test detects an effect in one group (say, p = 0.01), but not in another group (say, p = 0.06), this does not mean that the effect differs between the two groups. In the words of Miyamoto Musashi: "You must understand this."

🚨HEY DORKS, WE NEED YOUR HELP🚨 We preparing for a BIG fight against Trump's attack on science and we won't stop until we win! We are grassroots and run on donations. Whether it's $5 or $500, every little bit counts in the fight to save science. #standupforscience actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...

Every day, neuroscience brings science fiction closer to reality. Today's example: A real-time brain-to-speech interface. Not perfect, but so exciting. Another example of the future we're losing by destroying science funding in the US. #neuroskyence pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39837322/

Sex differences are often claimed based on faulty comparison of statistical significance status rather than direct comparison. That's the upshot of an amazing talk I got to hear this week from Donna Maney @ Emory based on this paper & others: elifesciences.org/articles/70817 #stats #neuroskyence

Science might be at its most useful when it carefully explores things we already believe. In this case, a really amazing dataset is provides absolutely compelling evidence that racism is a factor in traffic enforcement (at least for Lyft drivers in Florida). www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Many animals use "adaptive control" to pursue moving objects, relying on flexible feedback loops to adjust their movement gain over time. But how do neural circuits actually implement this? Here, we show how adaptive control in Drosophila pursuit involves two specialized parallel feedback loops.

New RRR examining terror-management theory: doi.org/10.1177/2515... Excited to have been part of this great project, captained by Sean Rife at Murray State. Thoughts from Trafimow are here: doi.org/10.1177/2515...

Here's a cool editorial on better statistical training and thinking in Archeology by @petravaiglova.bsky.social Outlines 4 broad ideas that should be part of stats training; useful for any field; great discussion and loads of good references! #stats www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

When your job is opening the door at the Tesla showroom you have plenty of time for Snapchat! #teslatakedown

Getting ready to give a workshop on estimation for complex designs at #MPA2025. If you're interested, slides are here: osf.io/muy6u/wiki/W... #stats

What happens when scientists discuss mistakes they've made? Here's a lovely paper about developing of a conference series normalizing errors ("Oh Sh*t: Great Scientists Tell Stories About Their Greatest Failures"). #stats #neuroscience #metascience #neuroskyence tinyurl.com/5n96e5em

Today. Find the location nearest you and join everyone.

A *very* comprehensive ShinyApp for effect-sizes and confidence intervals for 2-group designs and RCTs. Really cool work, but doesn't report *raw score* effect sizes and CIs for means or medians... arguably the most important/interpretable. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Today, I am calling on Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and other top officials in the Trump administration to resign immediately due to their reckless and unlawful disclosure of national security secrets. Their actions have put our country at risk, and immediate accountability is necessary

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

Knocking down statues of racists? Erasing our history. Actually erasing our history while casting slurs at our veterans? MAGA baby!

Spent some time this afternoon protesting outside the Chicago Tesla store. Lots and lots and lots of drunk St. Patrick’s revelers seem to agree that Musk and DOGE must go. Let’s go!

🧪 The NSF director is lying to you. Let’s fact check 7 claims from yesterday’s letter to the community, while pointing out 3 critical omissions. 🧵

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

The latest on the iniquities of the p value, from the International Society for Neurochemistry. See pp. 18-20 in their newsletter: www.neurochemistry.org/isn-news-03/ @thenewstats.bsky.social

An exciting addition to my “to read” pile: Unreliable by @csabaszabo.bsky.social . What’s the word for when you are reading about problems in science and feel angry, appalled, sad and amazed all at once? By this time next year will there even be any science to fix in the US? #stats #metascience

Every single university president should be protesting out in the streets. You can turn over students to ICE and it won’t matter. Nothing you can do will stop this. Time to stop pretending.

The ad-hoc termination of training grants, PhD fellowships, and center grants at Columbia is catastrophic and sends a message. The WH will: * Seek revenge at all costs * Destroy science & higher ed, if it can * Risk lives, careers and the economy. Rest assured: they will not stop w/Columbia

Are we really going to let these psychopaths wreck our country? Call your reps, go to a protest, help your friends and family understand what is happening here.

Just got my copy of Multiverse Analysis by Cristobal Young and Erin Cumberworth. Excited to dig in; wish they were on Bluesky. #stats