I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.

There's a great new archaeological exhibition at #Berlin​'s James-Simon-Gallery just opened, showing our finds from #GöbekliTepe and other #TasTepeler sites never before seen outside Urfa officially opened tonight - and it's spectacularly well worth the visit: www.smb.museum/en/exhibitio...

Post a banger not in English (one more, can't resist) www.youtube.com/watch?v=el93...

Post a banger, not in English www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kh5...

This looks like a half-assed attempt to "strengthen the results" by duplicating some of the data. Whenever I see something like that I ask myself - would anyone spot it if the person who duplicated the data bothered to think for a few seconds and added some random noise?

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "P value is not the probability that there is no difference between groups"

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OK, this are not the best photographs, but the birds were really far away. These are (in total) three white-tail eagles, photographed near Kamień Pomorski, eating something on the ice covering the Zalew Kamieński. Crows for scale. First time I could photograph them at all in all my life! #birds

Mewy-snieżki #ptaki #birds #kamien-pomorski

koszmar. #satyra #koszmar #zakupy #sobota #ikea

Szymborska o jeleniach - i myśliwych

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

If you're a doctoral student or early career researcher in the social/behavioral sciences and would like some free, collegial advice from a retired stats professor about research methods/design, statistics, mixed methods, or research ideas, let's chat. #PhDChat

CDU Justizsenatorin will gegen Antifa vorgehen... im Kontext des Anschlags auf Stromversorgung in Berlin (auch wenn es Hinweise gibt, dass es keine Linksextremisten waren).

Want to get the data out of a PDF figure? As in, the actual data – not a rough trace-along-the-lines version? I made an app you might like: adamkucharski.github.io/pdf2plot/ It all started a few years ago... 🧵

What famous scientists do you know who had little or no actual impact on science? I know two: Weinberg (of Hardy-Weinberg fame) and Gregor Mendel. Weinberg was unknown until 1943; Mendel was rediscovered at a time when his laws were independently discovered by de Vries, Morgan and others. 🧪

I talk to student about Weinberg and Mendel, claiming that their impact on science was negligible. Weinberg published his equation in "Jahreshefte des Vereins für Vaterländische Naturkunde in Württemberg", whereas Hardy published in Nature. Mendel's work was rediscovered by de Vries and Correns.

What a cool article. The world would be a better place with more stuff about dinosaurs.

I created a small package for ggplot2 called gghotelling - hotelling ellipses, robust and otherwise, bag plots and more. I would be interested in any comments. github.com/january3/ggh... #rstats

One of the most interesting articles I read recently. It appears that careful examination of available data shows that peaceful protests are powerful, and if they manage to engage more than 3-4% of a population, they almost always succeed. Looking forward to read the book!

I am convinced that the aquatic ape hypothesis was conceived by someone sitting in a hot tub on a cold winter day

Polecam tego allegrowicza

Can anyone help me with this R6 problem? I have a clunky, but functional (clunctional) implementation of a vector-linked list hybrid, but I think I should try to implement it in R6. #rstats stackoverflow.com/questions/79...

While on my way to work I just heard one of the most amazing pieces of music I have ever heard in my life. Paganini Variations by Lutosławski, played by Gloria Campaner and Leszek Możdżer. I am mesmerized. #music #classicalmusic #paganini #dwojka www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i2L...

Eurasian coot / łyska – in Potsdam on Saturday. #birds #photography #potsdam

I rather fancy this photograph (even though you can see the dirty smudges on my cameras sensor...). European herring gull. #birds #photography

There were few famous scientists that I liked reading and talking to as much as Sydney Brenner. He never seemed arrogant, he was full of humor and irony, and never seemed to take himself too serious. This sets him quite apart from many with much lesser achievements.

Two weeks ago I was sitting on a bench enjoying my lunch when all of sudden I saw these cranes flying overhead. Right here, in the middle of Berlin, just next to the Hauptbahnhof. (Sorry about the quality of the photographs, I grabbed the camera without looking at the settings). #birds #berlin

I was just looking at some old photographs and found this one from 2008. Meet Uncle Willy, a street musician from Münster, Germany. In the little university town of Münster he was well known, and we used to spend some time listening to him every now and then. #photography #münster

Och, jak smutno.

This day didn't start well. I hate computers. Computing, programming and bioinformatics would all be so much nicer if we didn't have to actually use computers (thinking of The Patrician from Terry Pratchett).

At least sometimes I have something common with Darwin

Jejku, jak ja lubię takie kawałki. Tutaj jest link do miejsca gdzie zaczynają grać "naprawdę". youtu.be/3pYHCGYJbw0?... #jazz #nirvana

Jejku, Sękowski, jeden z najważniejszych autorów mojego dzieciństwa

Cool, you can use radian with nvim-R! #rstats github.com/randy3k/radi...

I really like this thread by @drjr.bsky.social. There are many anthropomorphic, sugary claims like that one out there. In this thread, Jack takes a closer look at one of these. #science #wildlife #evolution #zoology

Please, let me make a coup... Please, come on, just one coup, it won't take long, did it?

I would go so far as to say "we need Slow Science movement". #science

White-naped crane (Antigone vipio, żuraw białoszyi) from the Berlin Tierpark (2023). In Berlin, many things are double: there were the two airports (East and West), and there are two ZOOs: West ("Zoo") and East ("Tierpark"). I like the east one much more, it is large and spacy. #birds #zoo #berlin

This is hilarious. BG: Elizabeth Bik uncovered manipulated images in papers of one Didier Raoult. He wasn't happy.

Here is my wish for Christmas: that `list(a, b,)` works just like `list(a, b)` instead of complaining "argument 3 is empty". Because where's the problem? #rstats

Question about #bioinformatics: what do the cool kids use for analysis of microRNA sequencing data these days? Cause I still use mirdeep2 to get the counts and DESeq2 to do the analysis. 🧬 🖥️ www.mdc-berlin.de/content/mird...

I recommend this feed. Like "following", it features those who you follow, but only those who post rarely - "quiet posters". #BlueSky bsky.app/profile/did:...

Post a ship that's not star wars or star trek

People of Blue Sky, post one of your favorite movies. One gif only!

A stunning paper on dinosaur poo. Scientists analysed fossil poo from late Triassic / early Jurassic period found in the Polish Basin using methods that allowed them even to visualize preserved beetles (photograph). They show an expanding and changing dinosaur diet. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

easySCF: A Tool for Enhancing Interoperability Between R and Python for Efficient Single-Cell Data Analysis https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/advance-article/doi/10.1093/bioinformatics/btae710/7908354 🧬🖥️🧪 https://github.com/xleizi/easySCF

Interesting paper, but not an evidence against RNA world. It shows that we cannot say that all rybozymes prefer L-amino acids, which is very interesting. However, there is little doubt about existence of *a* RNA world before DNA-RNA-protein 1/

Super lista angielskojęzycznych książek o klimacie, przyrodzie, zmieniającym się świecie. Niestety, jeśli chodzi o polskie nie bardzo jest co wymienić, bo wychodzi ich bardzo mało i rzadko. Wydawcy uznają, że się nie opłaca bo temat klimatu w większości irytuje Polaków.