NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics? 1) Write NSF 2) Write your Congressperson 3) CC us at [email protected] so we can compile + follow up Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter

(This Data Insight was written by @hannahritchie.bsky.social.) Explore more insights and see how trends are evolving for different types of cancers: ourworldindata.org/cancer

Thank you Mathematical Association of America and Allison Henrich for letting me write this article. Our involvement is needed now more than ever. digitaleditions.walsworthprintgroup.com/article/Inst...

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky We've hit peak Psychology Humour

Kudos to @simine.com for all the knowledge and wisdom shared here about transparency, credibility, critique, and the scientific ecosystem.

Learn more about the origins of Neurotree and how you can use it to explore trends in neuroscience.

I wrote something about publication bias at statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/11/14/t...

Behavioral data can be very detailed but are usually aggregated and normalized in ways that smother the dynamics. Ben wrote a continuous-time Markov model to improve on this, and also wrote simulations for exploring and validating pipelines. All the code is here: github.com/BenKawam/ASN...

Wrapping up the final row all at once: What papers to you are prototype examples of having huge, moderate, or minimal citation impact and also minimal actual impact, in whatever way you define actual impact?

Tversky & Kahneman (1974) wins for huge citation and actual impact: www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1... Now, what paper had a moderate citation impact but a huge actual impact?

MetaROR, a platform for reviews of research on research, is a success! We have published 24 sets of reviews and have 16 submissions in process. MetaROR now has 9 partners - these are journals that agree to use our reviews when authors submit to them. metaror.org #metascience #openaccess

Updated every month: Access the raw datasets behind every #dataviz we've ever released online. The IIB Data Room. 500+ sheets, 1200+ datasets. Continually updated. informationisbeautiful.net/data/

A precious teaching resource for neuropsychology/cognition/perception: patient videos .

An inspired display of positive, patriotic civic action. The Lexington MA rally was excellent, including this inspirational speech/poem by MA poet laureate Regie O’Hare Gibson. youtu.be/GGtiPOZBaUg?...

I'm looking forward to attending the No Kings March in Lexington MA 10am-12noon today — www.mobilize.us/lexingtonala...

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Pewter Howitt share economics prize for work that underlines the importance of investing in research and development. go.nature.com/4hj9NNV

Dot plot #dataviz comparison: ratings of FIDE chess Grand Masters via Tidy Tuesday. 1 Nearest stacks (Wilkinson) 2 Smoothed stacks 3 Smoothed hexagonal grid 4 Exact position (beeswarm) Smoothing trades delta-x for spikiness (deviation from kernel density estimate).

This blog post is a nice concise articulation of how it is tempting, but incorrect, to interpret a change score in a randomized experiment as a direct estimate of the effect size of the treatment.

WOW! These demos are impressive 👍 Looking for more examples along these lines

"moving from a less walkable (25th percentile) city to a more walkable city (75th percentile) increased walking by 1,100 daily steps, on average. These changes hold across different genders, ages and body mass index values, and are sustained over 3 months." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

PSA for anyone beginning to use #wasm #webR to share R code snippets: We have a new short URL for the webR app: webr.sh!

it finally happened www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

Reposting the below resource for educators who, like me, are still trying to figure out a good approach to AI.

Notes from @noranewcombe.bsky.social 's beautiful Rumelhart Prize "tasting menu" - congratulations Nora!!! #CogSci2025

Excellent use of shown data in a business report.

If you're heading to @cogscisociety.bsky.social, come to our symposium “Perception as a Foundation for Common‑Sense Theories of the World” 📅 August 1 • 9 AM 📍 Salon 2 With @thiskevinsmith.bsky.social @shariliu.bsky.social @judithfan.bsky.social @ardeeb.bsky.social — See you there! #CogSci2025

What is #dataviz animation good for? An updated thread with examples.

Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

Strong turnout for the #NoKings rally in Lexington MA, where the fight for U.S. democracy began. @standupforscience.bsky.social

This detailed map shows economic costs of just the first round of attempted cuts to science funding through the National Institutes of Health.

A beautiful post here by @lizneeley.bsky.social and co that explains the harm that the current administration is doing to present and future scientific medical research expertise and infrastructure in our country: unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

ummmmm...fake sources, mischaracterization of findings, made up research studies doesn't sound like "Gold Standard Science" to us. But what do we know? We are just a lowly, grassroots community of the world's leading scientists. 🐸☕ #foolsgoldscience #standupforsciece www.notus.org/health-scien...

Two Harvard economists forecast the impact of the administration’s proposed NIH budget cuts- stunning losses in new therapies, life expectancy, and economic output with a “social cost 16 times greater than the savings the administration is attempting to achieve." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Ready for Summer? 🌞

Our goal is to have 1000 SUFS Teach Ins across the US, by 9/30. *GASP* 😮 We know, it's a big goal. If you've received tax dollars for your science, you have a responsibility to inform *your* community what is at stake: public health, the economy, innovation, and America's global leadership.

A single dose cuts the chances of measles by about 95% — a second dose reduces the risk further. How effective and safe are measles vaccines? In her new article, my colleague @scientificdiscovery.dev summarized the findings of a Cochrane meta-analysis. ourworldindata.org/measles-vacc...

I get a huge kick out of this idea…

See related preprints here (osf.io/preprints/ps... ) and here (osf.io/ymb7g/files/...) for papers forthcoming in CogSci25 proceedings.

Very excited about this cool how-graphs-are-really-interpreted project with Yang Wang and @sarahkerns.bsky.social

Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale

The thing about going after universities is that you are going to find people who are experts in what you're doing

NIH research grants produce an immediate (not distant future) economic return of 256%. Quote: “$36.94 billion in external grants to researchers … supported 407,782 jobs and $94.58 billion in **new** economic activity nationwide … a return on investment of $2.56 for every $1 in awards.” (I added **)

Strong Boston showing for stand Up For Science rally. Lots of energy and passion.

My signs.

Great series charts by Saloni. My favorite is the baby boomers one with its "mountain range" of birth rates.

Remember the old #Twitter and when you decided to migrate? How important were your peers for your decision? In our current study, we use data from 250k researchers during the 2022 migration to #Mastodon to examine #socialinfluence within the research community. 👉 doi.org/10.23668/psy... 🧵1/4

A cool visual approach to demonstrate the scale of detected likely/possible voting fraud in 2020, versus the scale that would have been required to have changed the results of the 2020 election.

WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!? Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one! #standupforscience2025