I am one of the co-organizers of this event, and there has been some upset about it elsewhere on Bluesky. I cannot speak from anybody's perspective other than my own about this, but will express my own position briefly here. 1/X

April 23-24: Two-day online National Academies workshop on enhancing scientific integrity in the social and behavioral sciences. The program is here (bit.ly/NASprog), including links to (free) registration.

The studies are mostly fabricated by his students. Guéguen then steals a selection of them and claims to have run the study himself, even though nobody did. See steamtraen.blogspot.com/2019/05/an-u...

Who knows? It’s been like having a succession of guys in Grim Reaper costumes show up at your door. Is it really him this time?

This may be the stupidest thing I have ever posted but I believe that if enshittification had been proposed by Max Weber instead of Cory Doctorow we would be teaching it in every sociological theory class as if it had been inspired by God.

7/ The policy impact is striking: reproducibility rises from 29.6% before Data Access and Research Transpareny (DA-RT) to 79.8% after.

“A fraudulent e-mail might look like an MDPI account” let me stop you right there

This was an issue in our recent interdisciplinary search. The lack of any evidence of interest in open science by what were probably strong sociology candidates really hurt them in the committee’s view.

TFW you are renewing your passport application and realize the time is at hand to change your hair color from “brown” to “gray.”

I am on the editorial board of three religion journals. For several years, I been working to get each of them to adopt a strong data and code sharing policy. I just sent notice of my intent to resign from each editorial board as of January 1, 2027 if such a policy is not in place.

It’s not just that there is no requirement, but ASA prohibits any requirement. This is why I am no longer an ASA member and won’t serve on ASA journal editorial boards.

Do researchers share their code upon request? Does running their orginal code on the original data produce the original results? We provide evidence in a new Royal Society Open Science publication. Studying more than 1,000 articles which use data from the European Social Survey, we find that... 🧵

Last night I had a dream that I broke the world record in the long jump. OR WAS IT A PREMONITION? #Goals

Somehow I came to be elected to the PAA Board, which just met, and it is startling what extremely functional organization and group of people it is. The high goodwill PAA has among its members is well-deserved.

Wuthering Heights was disappointing. It had 5-6 bananas moments, where it needed 20 and I was expecting 30.

Beckie and I are at an Alamo Drafthouse waiting for Wuthering F. Heights to start and I am embarrassed at how psyched I am. If Margot Robbie gets to announce “Nellie, I *am* Heathcliff!” there is no way I will be able to stop a squee.

Sometimes academia makes me feel so jaded I could be a little elephant on sale in a Taiwanese street market. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/b...

For numerous reasons, I could never be elected ASA President, but if I were my conference theme would be “Calling Out Bullshit.”

Cameo appearance by Bayes Theorem in a Super Bowl ad.

Has anyone who was rumored to maybe still be alive ever turned out to still be alive?

Los Altos has a pop-up Dark Romance bookstore.

I wonder if there are any folks at Harvard who do ungrading (a practice where students get to assign their own grades).

Got tickets to see Australia play Paraguay in the World Cup. I’ve started the lobbying for us to attend in Raygun costumes.

Every so often these days I hear someone randomly squawking the phrase “stochastic parrot.”

Not sure how we are supposed to trust Ariely’s word on this unless he signed the statement at the top.

Here at Stanford, profs are allowed to state whatever policy they want on the syllabus, but profs aren’t allowed to enforce anything about violations themselves and the only guidance about detection is a combination of discouragement and prohibition.

This is an awesome idea as long as nobody on the upper floors gets old.

I see this “If there’s money for a parade, there’s money for Medicaid!” slogan, and, while I appreciate the sentiment, logically it feels equivalent to “If you can afford a pet, you can afford a jet!”

Hard numbers on the Bluesky death spiral.

"In extremely rare move, Harvard revokes tenure and cuts ties with star business professor" Francesca Gino

The hounds have been released at the annual Hoppin’ Hounds Easter Treat Hunt.

Interesting review paper on nonprob online samples by @jeremyfreese.bsky.social and Olivia Jin www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

*raises hand*

No greater condescension.

If trends continue, it won’t be that long until the proportion of students with disability accommodations at schools like Stanford passes 50%. I feel like when it does the school should just shift to formally assuming the most common accommodations are universal.

If you have a loved one and a PS5, I cannot recommend Split Fiction highly enough if you want a fun distraction from everything else. (Does not require significant thumb capital to play successfully.)

Sure, a lot of bad stuff going on so it’s fortunate that I’m still riding this high from a couple days ago.

“Three or four land acknowledgements in ten years”? Huh. Is that others’ experience? Whether Bay Area or academia, I certainly have experienced them far more than that.

Finally exasperated enough by Google’s search engine that i am going to give going all-in on DuckDuckGo a whirl for awhile.

This is not a time for weakness. Looking at the theme when you do the NYT’s Strands puzzle is weakness. Be strong.

Stand Up for Science rallies will be held in DC and state capitals on March 7th. Share with friends. Sign-up here to get email updates with details: www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...

God help me, I have caught myself several times about to use the word “features” instead of “variables.”

Donald Trump, 2016: “Real power is — I don’t even want to use the word — fear.”

Would you still watch the halftime show if another network was simulcasting a Drake struggle session?

Western Iowans rejoice as it is revealed that Cooper DeJean’s shoes celebrate growing up in the 712.

Cooper DeJean is as small-town Iowa as it gets. Watch clips of his HS highlights—it’s like a Marvel movie.

The NFL is my main reminder the Microsoft Surface still exists.

If you are playing that drinking game where you drink every time they show Taylor Swift, you are stone cold sober.

But, Snoop: is hating Tom Brady really that irrational?