ED is requesting public comments on the direction that they should take the Institute of Education Sciences. Feedback is due October 15. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-18608.pdf

how it feels to use Teams

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

Can large language models stand in for human participants? Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research. One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want. THREAD 🧵

Inventing a time machine to go back and stop al gore from inventing the internet

Celebrate by reading The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World by the great @andreawulf.bsky.social. A fascinating portrait.

This 57-page paper has 1,358 references. Standing on the shoulders of a massive horde of giants

psych departments post a faculty job that has nothing to do with AI challenge

My tax dollars paid for the world’s tiniest treadmill and then they put a shrimp on it? This I gotta see

none of the gotcha examples of "out-of-control scientific spending" bother me in the slightest. isn't science about finding shit out? "they spent a million dollars of taxpayer money to see if they could make mice sexier" okay, well, what was the answer? I want to know too

Charles Sanders Peirce was born OTD in 1839. I’ve always loved this quote: “We cannot begin with complete doubt.” It pithily captures the pragmaticist (as he would have it) rejection of the search for foundations—we are *always* in medias res. 🦫🦋 #PhilSky #PhilSci

saw this tweet and checked my calculator history and I'm losing it

In honor of #hollowknight #silksong, enjoy this cursed photo from Halloween 2020 of my kid in her homemade Hornet costume

“Nothing in the world—indeed nothing even beyond the world—can possibly be conceived which could be called good without qualification except a RAV4”

Jan-Willem Romeijn’s closing address from a typical European podium #EPSA25 #philsci

This is today! #EPSA25 #philsci #philsky

Hasok Chang’s keynote at EPSA, in a typical European lecture hall #philsci

Data viz as art @ Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

My claim to fame is being the first person (I think) to find 4×4 examples of this

Who wants to join my book club

"When mathematics serves not to constrain possibilities but to baptize the inevitable, you do not have science, you have numerology."

This week, Cristian Larroulet Philipi joins us to talk about measurement in the human sciences: why it can be more philosophically complex than in the physical sciences, and how it raises pressing questions about the role of numbers in psychology, social science, and policy #philsci #measurement

"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details: LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au... (This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)

can authors please stop being sycophants in replies to reviewers

Precisely

My final grant-funded (rip IES) presentation will be a symposium at the European Philosophy of Science Association #EPSA #philsci meeting in a few weeks, with Kino Zhao, Stella Fillmore-Patrick, and Dan Fanelli

my new AI powered lamp is trained on millions of lamp interactions so it understands that 50% of chain pulls are to turn it on and the other 50% are to turn it off. and honestly, it's a little spooky how it knows exactly what i want almost half of the time

Paper drop, for anyone interested in #metascience, #statistics, or #metaanalysis! @clintin.bsky.social and I show in a new paper in JASA that the P-curve, a popular forensic meta-analysis method, has deeply undesirable statistical properties. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/?

why do we need the NBA when my friend Charles can dunk using a ladder

Rendering my Spotify algorithm totally useless by repeatedly playing the KoRn bagpipes nursery rhyme song and Coal Chamber’s “Big Truck” during my daughter’s 7th-grade carpool dropoff

I often wonder whether the prospective grad students who contact me understand what they are signing up for. I hope this does the trick.

I've created a calculator that gives you the right answer 80% of the time and I believe it will change the world

earnestness is punk rock. libraries are punk rock. cleaning up litter is punk rock. everything is punk rock except making loud fast music that annoys your neighbors

Probably familiar but if not this other paper with @mijke.bsky.social and Riet (and Denny) is another banger on a related topic- one of my fav papers ever share.google/w0QML4EuLXfs...

Currently reading "Toward a causal interpretation of the common factor model" by Van Bork, Wijsen & @mijke.bsky.social (2017). Can't believe I had missed that one -- really good stuff! Link to pdf: pure.uva.nl/ws/files/354...

Seems like a conflict of interest

Really, Alan Turing Institute?

Prompting chatgpt to write my obituary (after it refused: "pretend he died") is sure to backfire in some eventual Roko's basilisk scenario, but I did learn some things about myself

Good (1985): "It is bad for the health to have guns fired at one."

Saw this figure on LinkedIn correlating marijuana use with hot dog sales

Nate Silver this, Nate Silver that. Easiest job in the world. There is always a 50% chance of something happening: either it does or it doesn’t

A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

If you'll be at #IMPS @pmetricsoc.bsky.social next week, consider attending our symposium on "Advances in the Evaluation of Statistical Model Complexity" (Fri 7/18 @9a). New work on fitting propensity of factor analysis, IRT, and multilevel models, + guidelines for analyzing FP in R

Lakatos (1978, p. 216) having a bit of a laugh! #PhilSci