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.

More than 30 events registered for tomorrow in France 💪 : standupforscience.fr/tous-les-eve... @standupforscience.bsky.social, we stand for science with you ! @standupforscifr.bsky.social #StandUpForScience

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

U.S. scientists: Have you contacted Congress this week? #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #Science Here’s a guide to help: www.psychologicalscience.org/act-now

An effective example of plotting individual data. Here, in Fig 1, each gray line shows one movie (left) or song (right), and the red lines show the average.

This cool new crowdsourced paper with 5000 participants who played a game called Glyph provides evidence that visual (written) language is less efficient than auditory (spoken) language.

Interesting that different approaches to data cleaning/exclusion are the largest source of variation in reported results when different economists analyzed the same data. Also, most reported results are pretty similar, despite these variations, which is encouraging.

Always a good time to share this. How cheap does gasoline have to be before it's as cheap as an electric vehicle? #energysky

One more bonus update with two changes: 1. A diverging color palette centered at 4% lets us see which counties are doing great or doing poorly 2. That size legend was spaced funnily, but we can make it more compact with {legendry} #rstats www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...

The City of Boston is leading 40+ mayors, cities, and counties in an amicus brief against the Trump Administration's drastic and illegal cuts to federal research funding—cuts that will lead to immediate job losses nationwide.

The National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies.

Graduate admissions being put on hold because of the chaos...

This is an important point. Affirmative action + DEI were never about lowering any bars, it's that the "bars" are slanted and misshaped. It's about solving instrument failure that leaves many of the best candidates overlooked.

Apply for 1 of 12 PhD studentships in Data Visualization, start Oct 2025. diverse-cdt.ac.uk warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Diversity in Data Visualization @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social & @citystgeorges.bsky.social Funded by EPSRC @ukri.org

Good indirect costs explainer this am @dacrotty.bsky.social @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/02/18/i...

Thanks for the kind words Martin! Anyone interested can find the open access book at modernstatisticswithr.com and/or get physical copies where books are sold (the second edition, published by Chapman & Hall last year, has a different cover than the first edition seen in the image).

Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠 sciencehomecoming.com

We do this all to stay focused, not flooded. I share the sense we’ve made in a late Friday night debrief. There is a lot to feel sad & sick about. I can’t tell you things will be okay, but I can tell you A LOT about efforts to make it better. This was week 4. buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

Incredible piece by Nathan. We need more of this. The rebellious "We must go on the offense" message is key #dataViz

Update on NIH Indirect Costs: www.statnews.com/2025/02/10/n...

Here’s @lizneeley.bsky.social’s latest newsletter, documenting the ongoing attacks on science and higher ed, and figuring out what to focus on: buttondown.com/liminalcreat...