James Steele
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That's a wrap... Finished up with 495.1 miles covered according to my Apple Health app and with Snowdon today. The support from all quarters has been amazing and we've raised an incredible total raised (over £3500!).
about 2 months ago
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Honestly, might have to just start using github directly for pre-registration as OSF just seems to continually crash on me lately. Every project is in a github repo nowadays anyway and I only link it to an OSF project to utilise the registration.
2 days ago
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Updated version available on ResearchGate (will be up on sportrxiv shortly) addressing typos, adding missing demographics and dropout reasons (my bad for missing them), and also adding reference lines to the figures for the theory predictions as in the figure shared above.
tinyurl.com/y39b3355
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13 days ago
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#philsci
#metascience
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14 days ago
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Trying something out here I'd be interested in peoples thoughts on... Marrying Meehl's distinction of the theoreticians/statisticians problem with Dubin's ontologically agnostic framing of theoretical hypotheses. An idea for explaining the difference between theoretical and statistical hypotheses.
14 days ago
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Trying something out here I'd be interested in peoples thoughts on... Marrying Meehl's distinction of the theoreticians/statisticians problem with Dubin's ontologically agnostic framing of theoretical hypotheses. An idea for explaining the difference between theoretical and statistical hypotheses.
14 days ago
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📣 New preprint! Our latest Project Discover conducted in collaboration with the fantastic team at Discover Strength with delivery led by David Gschneidner and Luke Carlson and of course with the inimitable James Fisher PhD. 1/6
15 days ago
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That feeling when the time investment to try to automate data wrangling and cleaning (even with some assistance from an LLM) isn't worth it relative to just doing the wrangling bit manually because the excel spreadsheet you've been given is so ghastly it hurts your soul 🙃
21 days ago
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Anyone have access to this?
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3436839/
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Nutrition and energy balance on the 'Footsteps of Scott' expedition 1984-86 - PubMed
Nineteen-Eighty-Seven marks the 75th anniversary of the expedition to the South Pole led by Captain R.F. Scott, during which he and his party died. Between November 1985 and January 1986, three men manhauled sledges 875 miles, following Scott's original route to the South Pole. They consumed an ener …
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3436839/
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Anyone have access to this?
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3436839/
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Nutrition and energy balance on the 'Footsteps of Scott' expedition 1984-86 - PubMed
Nineteen-Eighty-Seven marks the 75th anniversary of the expedition to the South Pole led by Captain R.F. Scott, during which he and his party died. Between November 1985 and January 1986, three men manhauled sledges 875 miles, following Scott's original route to the South Pole. They consumed an ener …
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3436839/
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Anyone have access to this and happy to share?
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Ultra-endurance athletes and the metabolic ceiling
Endurance limits, measured as the maximum sustainable rate of caloric expenditure, constrain human performance from athletics to manual labor. Early w…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0960982225011297
28 days ago
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If anyone is interested, I have preprinted with SportRxiv a short summary of my talk delivered at the conference on Inter-Individual Variation in Resistance Training Responses (
www.jyu.fi/en/events/in...
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sportrxiv.org/index.php/se...
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Meta-analytic methods for exploring intervention effect heterogeneity: Summary of presentation at the conference on Inter-Individual Variation in Resistance Training Responses | SportRxiv ...
https://sportrxiv.org/index.php/server/preprint/view/783
30 days ago
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jfc... working through a paper that did performed a quantitative synthesis (badly) at the moment attempting to re-extract data from the underlying studies and it's honestly a mess. I have no idea where the authors got some of their values from... methods are utterly unclear.
30 days ago
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Anyone have access to this? Multiplicative Treatment Effects in Randomized Pretest-Posttest Experimental Designs
psycnet.apa.org/buy/2019-312...
about 1 month ago
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Darren Dahly
about 1 month ago
Every day is a good day for sharing one of the most useful papers about research data ever written. PLEASE get your people to understand and follow this advice.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Nathaniel Haines
about 1 month ago
New blog just dropped! This one is all about estimators—we cover James-Stein, classical test theory, empirical Bayes, penalized regression, and hierarchical models, showing how they all can be used to do a better job than sample stats alone 🤓
haines-lab.com/post/how-to-...
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How to Estimate a Mean, and What It Means for Science | Computational Psychology
Introduction If I asked you to estimate 30 means, you would probably compute 30 sample means. And you would be provably wrong (well.. maybe not wrong, but at least provably inefficient).
https://haines-lab.com/post/how-to-estimate-a-mean-and-what-it-means-for-science/
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📣Hey all! We're looking for collaborating labs with DEXA access to collaborate with us here at MacroFactor on a funded longitudinal study of body composition measurement methods. If your lab has access and you may be interested in working with us then get in contact:
[email protected]
about 1 month ago
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Magnus Johansson
about 2 months ago
Any good papers on the problems with meta-analysis when the outcome variable's data generating process is (zero-inflated) negative binomial and not well represented by mean/SD? Suggested solutions also appreciated
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English breakfast tea tastes like the texture of caramel.
about 1 month ago
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Every. Damned. Time.
about 1 month ago
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Dammit... Looks like I'm Iearning Stan.
about 2 months ago
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Matthieu Boisgontier
about 2 months ago
Publishing in a journal means endorsing it. Where you publish reflects your values. Choose wisely.
doi.org/10.52057/erj...
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That's a wrap... Finished up with 495.1 miles covered according to my Apple Health app and with Snowdon today. The support from all quarters has been amazing and we've raised an incredible total raised (over £3500!).
about 2 months ago
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Day 27... The penultimate day. Weather was pretty grim today but still got most of this done outside before the 400 mile drive to North Wales. Finishing off with Snowdon tomorrow and look at the amazing t shirt my wife made for me to wear! Donate to support here:
www.justgiving.com/page/james-s...
about 2 months ago
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Day 26 down... Bit of a weird one today with some miles on treadmill and outside AM, treadmill at lunch, then outside evening. Trying to see if I can get to 500 miles Saturday... It's gonna be close. Also kitty spotted. Donate here:
www.justgiving.com/page/james-s...
about 2 months ago
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I wonder if there are strong Humeans in the "Causal Inference" world who prefer to call it "Constant Conjunction of Events Inference" behind closed doors 😂
about 2 months ago
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Julia M. Rohrer
about 2 months ago
This also contains the causal inference meta-take I’ve converged to: randomization definitely the closest thing to magic in causal inference, but it doesn’t always work out like we want it to, so you still gotta have that whole toolkit available to you.
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Day 25 done... So close to the finish line. Stopped this evening for a quick outdoor workout with a view too. Close to the target donations too... Help us get there!
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about 2 months ago
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Day 24... Donations slowly still trickling in but if you haven't donated yet what are you waiting for 😻
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about 2 months ago
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Anyone have full text and supplementary access to this they can share? Thanks!
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The evidence for constrained total energy expenditure in humans and other animals
Energy is a limited resource for living organisms, with trade-offs in expenditure evident among physiological tasks. The impact of physical activity o…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0960982226000643
about 2 months ago
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That's day 23... might get close to 500 miles by the end of the month after all. While I'm walking Kiki's enjoying her naps. Been slow on donations past few days... C'mon folks, keep the support coming!
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2 months ago
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Day 22 down... We're up to 371.4 miles covered so far heading into final week of February. Feels like this week is the final sprint! Donate here and let's see if we can get to the £2000 target!
www.justgiving.com/page/james-s...
2 months ago
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猫の日おめでとう (Happy Cat Day 22/2) Nyan Nyan Nyan!
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2 months ago
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Day 21 down... Ended up running late with monthly Geek Day so not wanting to spend 3 hours walking home at 11pm in the rain opted for a lift home. Donate here:
www.justgiving.com/page/james-s...
2 months ago
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Day 20 and we're back baby! 😻 Throat is a little tickly still but otherwise feel great (the contrast from being unwell and going back to normal always makes normal feel so nice 😅). Got some good mileage today walking back into my old university to deliver a guest session for the masters students.
2 months ago
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Nice succinct pre-print from a stellar cast: "The state and status of theory in psychological science"
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/2fjx4_v2
2 months ago
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FYI
#PSE8
folks... will likely get to this next month after all the walking and fundraising for Cats Protection is finished up and I have a bit of free time!
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2 months ago
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Day 19... And at least we got a few miles in as compared to yesterday. Feeling alot better and hopefully another good night sleep and will be back near enough to 100% tomorrow 🙏
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2 months ago
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Ended up taking all of yesterday to rest... Still feeling rough today, albeit maybe a little bit better. Will see how the day goes as to whether I'll walk later on but don't want to make things worse 🥲
2 months ago
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Day 17 down and hit the 300 mile mark yesterday! Donate here:
www.justgiving.com/page/james-s...
2 months ago
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Day 16... Back to the long ones! Please keep the support for me and
@catsprotection.bsky.social
coming 🙏
www.justgiving.com/page/james-s...
2 months ago
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Mattan S. Ben-Shachar
2 months ago
In this post, Gelman gives 4 "sources" or "types" of priors. Can anyone shed some light in the 4th type? "Prior as unconditional distribution"
#stats
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/05/21/p...
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Prior as data, prior as belief, prior as soft constraint, prior as unconditional distribution in a generative model | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/05/21/prior-as-data-prior-as-belief-prior-as-soft-constraint-prior-as-unconditional-distribution-in-a-generative-model/
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I was reminded last week whilst chatting at
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OSF
https://osf.io/387hk/overview
2 months ago
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Anton Gerashchenko
2 months ago
"What cat were you provided with in the Armed Forces of Ukraine?" Ukrainian Defenders share photos with their cats on the front line 📷: hermano.dh_ /fanatic_oleg / sylenko_ju / dr_karpiuk /nemetz_82 /leonia_veremeyenko / markus_panda / shwainokaras /viktortrofymenko / stalnytskanata /edelweiss_ua/
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Day 15... Apple Health definitely shafted me today... Morning walk alone was 7.3 miles when I mapped it out (from Trinity College to Papal Cross and back). Been the most obvious discrepancy in distance covered Vs recorded (others have been maybe up to a mile but today I think I'm missing 3-4 miles).
2 months ago
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2 months ago
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Day 14 down... We just tipped over the halfway point to 500 miles today bang on time. At a total of 252.3 miles now. Donate here for the kitties:
www.justgiving.com/page/james-s...
@catsprotection.bsky.social
2 months ago
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Marek Vranka
2 months ago
he is also literally walking the walk... for cats!
www.justgiving.com/page/james-s...
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Daniel Lakens
2 months ago
What I find so impressive about
@jamessteeleii.bsky.social
is that he practices what he preaches. How many metascientists say 'we need better theory' without ever having improved a theory? How many say 'there is not one way to do good science' without showing us any way to do good science?
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Day 13... Back from conference and now in Dublin for the weekend where hopefully I'll be getting the miles back up. Not far to go for £2000 target. Keep the donations coming please everyone!
www.justgiving.com/page/james-s...
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I'm taking on the Big Winter Roam 2026 for Cats Protection!
Help James Steele raise money to support Cats Protection
https://www.justgiving.com/page/james-steele-big-roam
2 months ago
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POV: some exercise science bro is lecturing you on philosophy of science
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