🎉 Great news! Our team member Thomas Feliciani @thofel.bsky.social is one of the winners of the University of Coimbra’s 7th Seed Projects for Interdisciplinary Research. Congratulations to Thomas and to all the awardees! 👏👏 @ucoimbra.bsky.social #CiBB #CNC-UC #SantanderPortugalFoundation

Our latest article uses simulations to "explore ways in which decision reliability, bias, extent of decision randomisation and other factors interact". Reviewers consider it timely and "methodologically sound" while challenging some of the assumptions and offering suggestions. 👇 Read it here

Interesting new paper in PNAS: Kramer, B. L., & Lee, C. (2025). The rise of diversity terminology in biomedical research. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(34), e2401805122. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Meta-research: Nature Human Behavior issues a correction for a 2023 article on "corrections" -- i.e., papers that correct misinformation. ___ Funny meta-correction -> Chan & Albarracin (2025) at doi.org/10.1038/s415... Original article -> Chan & Albarracin (2023) at doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Been playing with Multiple Neighborhood Cellular Automata (#MNCA). MNCA run surprisingly smoothly in R thanks to the efficient "terra::focal()" function, useful for running sequences of convolutions. Next challenge: finding interesting areas within the infinite-dimensional paramater space of MNCA.

So it’s that time of the year again. #tulips everywhere :)

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 💀Mar 14, 1884 Adriano Balbi died in Padua, Italy 🇮🇹 1829: The first comparative choropleth thematic maps, showing crimes against persons and crimes against property (with Andre-Michel Guerry)

Nothing to see here, just Nature advocating LLM peer review. “Feed your dictated notes into an offline large language model (LLM) to clarify and organize your feedback. A simple prompt such as “Write a critical reviewer letter based on the following notes. Maintain a professional tone throughout”

Today’s been a long week

Awesome that this dataset exists! Bennett, J.S., Mutch, E., Tollefson, A. et al. Cliopatria - A geospatial database of world-wide political entities from 3400BCE to 2024CE. Scientific Data 12, 247 (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415... -- #map

I'm "strangely attracted" to these. Video and pictures show (René) Thomas' attractor emerging from the sampling of the XY plane. For these visualizations, I set b=0.19 and initialized the orbits at z=1. __ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%... #Rstats #ggplot2 #viridis #generativeArt #mathArt

Orbits: pure mathematical chaos creating organic art. Made with #python #matplotlib #numpy.

This. 👍👍 Squazzoni, F. (2025). Editorial Note: We Need to Recognise That Peer Review is Central to the 'Social Contract' of Academic Citizenship. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 28 (1) 6 doi.org/10.18564/jas... -- #peerreview #jasss

Wtf. doi.org/10.1038/d415... #nih

Today we got perfect weather. Perfect for a pensive afternoon, that is.

Any metric can and will be gamed. So we really need to think through the implications here. At first sight this is terrible: it kills replication & robustness in the cradle, pushing towards "new" stuff. Chasing the unexpected got the Gino and Ariely cases. www.nature.com/articles/d41... #EconSky

As I mentioned three weeks ago, Jevin West and I are developing a sort of followup course to Calling Bullshit. We've got the basic scrollytelling tech worked out and now need to choose a design. We're not designers and would like to simply buy an HTML5 template if only for the colors and fonts.

I found a great excuse to make a bunch of fun ggplots. As if I needed one. github.com/thomasfelici... -- #rstats #generative #ggplot #rayshader

A warning sign from a train station in Wallonia: “Tout contact avec les fils peut être mortel!” Hey, daughters can be dangerous, too!

Gender homophily in research teams, communities fosters gender citation bias. A cool new paper in Research Policy [1] also covered by Nature News [2]. — [1] Zhou et al. 2024 — doi.org/10.1016/j.re... [2] Oza 2023 — doi.org/10.1038/d415...

Found on Italian trains. This sticker forbids getting “on and off while the train is still moving”. They probably meant “on OR off”. And I get funny ideas. Train operators vs logical operators.

We’ve spent the last decade talking a lot about replications, but to what extent has this talk translated to a tangible change in how often replications are published in psychology journals? osf.io/preprints/ps... /w Katherine Lee, Sarah Schiavone, @mijke.bsky.social @simine.com (1/9)

Still not sure of the numbers of the Italian community on this platform, but here it is: I've just published a book in Italian on mechanisms and models of social networks www.mulino.it/isbn/9788815...

My dept. used to have methods groups, 'R Club', & hackathons. These were student led & vibrant. Those days are gone. Now, it's like pulling teeth to get students and faculty to even go to brown bags & once-a-term colloquia. I'm worried not just for open science but for our science across the board.

Unpopular opinion (for R coders): |> > %>% And as an addendum: = > <- I know, I know, apples and oranges. But I do prefer apples. — #r #rstats

Hello new platform, hello world! Ready to make noise. That is, Perlin noise. With R package “ambient”. And“ggplot2” for rendering. Post-processing with Snapseed. Cheers.