My Quarto #rstats tip for big/complex papers is to set up R scripts that do data processing/modeling & save plots/outputs as RDS files. The Quarto can then load the RDS file & make any modifications to the ggplot2 object before plotting. This avoids unwieldy long Quarto docs /w complex caching.

9.2% of all citations go to just 0.32% of psychology articles. To have the most impact, post-publication peer-review should focus on these influential articles with ≥30 citations per year. @error.reviews will systemically sample from such articles. Blog post: mmmdata.io/posts/2025/0...

Autofreie Quadrate & Bäume auf alle Parkplätze 💁‍♀️

Habt ihr schon vom größten Tik Tok-Datensammelprojekt in D gehört? @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social, @dizh.bsky.social, @br24.de & @stuttgarter-nachrichten.de haben For You-Page von ca. 700 Nutzer:innen ausgewertet. 📲 Spannend: Filterblasen-Theorie auch hier wiederlegt www.br.de/nachrichten/...

Attending this amazing workshop on data donations by @valeriehase.bsky.social @frodewald.bsky.social 👩🏻‍💻 #COMPTEXT2025

A stimulating morning of hands-on tutorials at #COMPTEXT2025 introduced participants to advanced techniques in digital trace data collection, visual content analysis, and Bayesian text modelling. The day is far from over — stay tuned for more cutting-edge methods in action.

holy hell this is smart

This is very interesting and more data-driven than you might think from the title. Also comes up with an actual idea what centre-left parties could do to build a new coalition. No idea if this would work, but at least it's something constructive #farright #Germany #btw25

Kick-off for our DFG project! With multimodal ML, we study 15,000h of German parliamentary speeches. Stay tuned for how MPs handle populism, how facial expressions send coalition signals and dynamics of salience. #DreamTeam #ScienceRocks #DankeDFG @pluggedchris.bsky.social @ankuepfer.bsky.social

Our systems now automatically track online ad spending on Meta and Google by 109,592 advertisers from 729 parties in 51 countries. More at trends.whotargets.me

🚨 CfA: MZES-DVPW Conference "Methods of Political Science" 🗓️ Mannheim, Mar 27-28, 2025 ⏰ Deadline: Dec 16, 2024 🔗Apply via sosci.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/mzes-dvpw-me... @gessler.bsky.social, @aleininger.bsky.social, @hannahrajski.bsky.social, Oliver Rittmann & I look forward to your submissions!

Holy crap this is an astounding piece of historical research Will post ungated link later today unless someone beats me to it www.nber.org/system/files...

We must stand against the arbitrary categorization of continuous variables! ... and that's why I'm proud to announce my support of abolishing time zones in favor of the time gradient

Gestern abend war ich ja noch sehr spät auf der Hotelterasse, um etwas den Südhimmel zu fotografieren. Bei Objekten, die sehr hoch am Himmel stehen, stößt das Seestar S50 leider an seine Grenze, und bekommt die Nachführung nicht mehr so gut hin. Während ich darauf gewartet habe, dass meine 1/

Ich finde ja, mit solchen Qualifikationstellen hat sich die Uni als Qualifikationsort disqualifiziert. #IchBinHanna

The fake data were coming from inside the lab datacolada.org/117

My PhD student, Taylor Hill, successfully defended her thesis on Tuesday! She's not here on Bluesky, but one really cool thing she did was get an infographic of her thesis drawn live from the defense. It's so cool, I had to share. Check it out, and the service she used is here: www.emmarichard.ca

Yeah, this is pretty much it for me wrt chrome.

Our "Many Voices" 75-author collaboration led by Yuto Ozaki finding global regularities in music-speech relationships is now out on the cover of Science Advances: science.org/doi/10.1126/... Full video of 18 coauthors singing/speaking in our own languages at youtu.be/a4eNNrdcfDM

New article by me: The rise in reported maternal mortality rates in the US is largely due to a change in measurement. ourworldindata.org/rise-us-mate... The change was adopted by different states at different times, resulting in what appeared to be a gradual rise in maternal mortality.

Info vom OAT #Mannheim, heute in 1 Woche isses soweit 😊👇 Am 26.April will der AfD-Kreisverband Mannheim zum nun mittlerweile dritten Mal einen Bürgerdialog im Rheinauer Nachbarschaftshaus abhalten. Wie den ersten beiden Veranstaltungen werden wir uns auch diesmal den Rechten entgegenstellen und 1/

"Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts. The cashiers were simply moved off-site, and they watched you as you shopped."

How (not) to deal with missing data: An economist’s take on a controversial study | Retraction Watch https://alecmuffett.com/article/109295 #academia #statistics

🚨New publication in Behavior Research Methods!🚨 We review outlier detection methods and how to achieve them in R using #easystats' {performance} 📦. Check it out! 📄paper: doi.org/10.3758/s134... 📃preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... 💻performance: easystats.github.io/performance/... #stats #rstats

So not only is this a privacy nightmare, but it's a privacy nightmare built on the belief that AI can do what library workers do. (For the 10,000th time, it was never just about a few books.) bookriot.com/bookmarked-o...

Today in correlation versus causation The sense-making process in this article is also very telling for how many data science teams are working: levelup.gitconnected.com/tabs-vs-spac...

Gruselig, was SPD und CDU da in Hessen an Datenausverkauf gegen die Grundrechte verbrechen :( Hessen: #Landesregierung will privaten Unternehmen erweiterte Zugänge zu Gesundheits-, Behandlungs- und genetischen Daten schaffen @Landtag_Hessen @cdu_hessen @hessenSPD ddrm.de/hessen-lande...

Can't wait for the chapter on the *FLYING DUTCHMAN*. If only they had known that *E=MC2 TROOPER* #AoE

X is in the news again because of a probe into possible violations of EU law. I am using this opportunity to share some insights from my research into what kind of keyword #targeting is possible with ads on this platform. Buckle up because this is pretty wild 🧵

Working with digital tracking data or social media and need to determine whether a set of URLs could contain news? We've compiled a list of 1,147 (mostly) German-language news domains (including hyperpartisan/alternative) from five different sources so you don't have to: osf.io/s5uhb/ 🗞️👩‍🔬🖥️🇩🇪

First new research thread on Bluesky! Leah von der Heyde's, Alexander Wenz's and my newest preprint examines the use of Large Language Models like GPT-3 in synthesizing public opinion data, focusing on German federal elections. osf.io/preprints/so...

Been laughing at this for days. Orca Mosh pit.