36 years ago today, ‘The Simpsons’ premiered on FOX.

Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!

does anyone know of cool open access datasets that would have variables relevant to fashion? people's impressions of or engagements with fashion, media, etc. any and all tips in this general area appreciated! it's for a student project

We're looking for an Election Researcher to help prepare election materials & cover election results. You’ll help manage key databases, produce research materials, and dive into electoral research. This is a unique elections and data role at ABC News Full details: careers.abc.net.au/en/job/50515...

it's happening!!! from now until the end of the day on Friday, November 28th (if it’s Friday anywhere, the sale’s still on!), all my pdf zines are 50% off, and print zines are 30% off! wizardzines.com

Job opportunity — Junior Professorship in Psychological Metascience @zpid.bsky.social leibniz-psychology.onlyfy.jobs/job/10kku5n7 h/t @bethclarke.bsky.social

I think it's hard to overstate how much Simine has changed research practices and standards in psychology for the better, despite at times massive resistance from powerful parties with a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. Very well deserved award imho 🥳

Congratulations to @simine.com well deserved winner of the Einstein Foundation Individual Award for Promoting Quality in Research 2025 🎉 www.einsteinfoundation.de/en/media/pre...

The 2025 AAHPSSS conference starts Wednesday, December 3rd. That's just over a week away! There's still time to register for both in-person and remote attendance! For details and to register, see: aahpsss.net.au/conference/2...

It's my favorite day! It's the 38th anniversary of the Max Headroom signal broadcast intrusion! 1st incident lasted 25s during the 9PM news on WGN-TV in Chicago; The 2nd, 2hrs later, lasted ~90s on PBS affiliate WTTW during Dr. Who. You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqge...

A question for scientists (construed as broadly as you like) of BlueSky: What makes something data? (Question inspired by a talk I listened to this morning, and of course I have thoughts, but I wanted to throw this out there first.)

Make a joke map. #fake #30DayMapChallenge #rstats

My #rstats cheat code for today is the binom.confint function in the binom package that will spit out *12* different ways of calculating a CI for a proportion. Also, this is why you use R for statistics... (and of course the correct CI method is bayes 😎)

I think this is an overly pessimistic take from the @bmj.com. Sharing data does not inherently increase trust, rather it enables verification which allows for trust calibration. This example is a win. Serious issues were rapidly detected that would not have been without mandatory data sharing.

If you are interested in the problem of conflicts of interest, in any scientific field, please consider filling in this survey: erasmusuniversity.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... (and please repost this for a snowball effect!)

A new 'left turn hold' at the start of the traffic signal phase to protect the busy bicycle movement towards Melbourne CBD on Rathdowne Street at Victoria Street.

When I was on @looksunfamiliar.bsky.social I chose this sequence from a 1979 Sesame Street episode - probably the first time I ever heard Philip Glass was this exclusive piece he wrote for this animated sequence, Geometry of Circles. It's never appeared anywhere else. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JWw...

Hey #rstats, Are there any good tricks for deciding on sensible dimensions for a plot when saving it? Or does everyone just tweak the dimensions in ggsave() until it looks right?

🚨new shape just dropped🚨 (by @dodecalemma.bsky.social with graphics by me) www.scientificamerican.com/article/math...

The DVD (1996) is now as old as the original 8-inch floppy disk (1967) was when the DVD came out.

Exciting new metascience project just funded, led by AIMOS founder @fidlerfm.bsky.social, Kate Williams, and James Wilsdon.

With only about 10 spots left, #AIMOS2025 will almost surely sell out this year. Register now to make sure you don't miss out! aimos-inc.github.io/aimos.confer...

We need to have a conversation about random seeds. Don't use 42. blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/if-your-ra...

How FAIR is shared data in psychology? We analyzed 11,384 datasets (2013–2024): They're findable, but less reusable! What relates most to differences in FAIRness? #Repository choice. 👉 Preprint: doi.org/10.23668/psy... @mariogollwitzer.bsky.social @kaisassenberg.bsky.social #metascience #SciSci

A great job, application due November 17th. Please spread and help me with the right hashtags

yeah, look .... not sure who needs to hear this (actually, everyone does), but turn off the stupid AI suggestions in your search results, and def. go and use @wikipedia.org a lot more. I use it as my first-go-to knowledge base resource. Follow the trail of citations to primary sources. It's good.

Unexpectedly, there's an 'education focused' job in HPS at Sydney! At snr lecturer/assoc prof level, which means associate professor in US terms. You'll need to scan down below ruminant science etc to see it, though (perhaps a message there?): #STS #bioethics #histstm #histsci #histmed

We're in the home stretch now, #SHOT2025! For this penultimate session, I'm in Auditorium 3.350 for a panel on Computers in Cartoons! (Will #WileECoyote make an appearance? We shall see...) For now, I'm enjoying Dick van Lente's theoretical introduction to the analysis of computer iconography.

So much this!! Code is so valuable and literally the thing that creates your results. When you include it in your paper it can be such a valuable resource to everyone (plus earn you a couple more citations).

My friend Todd’s paper on cassowary casques was published in @amornith.bsky.social’s journal Ornithology, “Species-specific casque shapes in the genus Casuarius and implications for visual display.” He had me do the scientific illustrations for the paper 😊 academic.oup.com/auk/advance-...

That's German for "The p-value, The The The"

Students in maths/stats/physics/astronomy at Macquarie - I'm looking for a summer intern to work on a project about solar history: "What can ancient auroral records tell us about the Sun?" mquni.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

got old issues of APC magazine lying around? give them to me so I can scan them for the internet archive - I made a list of the issues currently missing, share this post and maybe we can find them and complete the set blog.decryption.net.au/posts/apc-ca...

I will never apologize for a post

Yikes. My blog is on Typepad. I have one month to rescue it. Any tips on what I should do? I’d like to keep it active (not just back it up, but host it somewhere else in case I ever get around to writing more posts). I’d love recommendations, esp ones that require little/no technical skills 😂

Don't miss out!

What I would like to see more of, seriously, is literate/reproducible data analysis reports where reading and cleaning the data is in an appendix (Highly Unpleasant Things it is Sometimes Necessary to Know) rather than at the top of the report.

Why it’s a mistake to ask chatbots about their mistakes arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/w...

Hi folks 👋 Come to WOMBAT 2025, my favourite conference! Day 1: affordable tutorials Day 2: single-stream talks Max 100 ppl: actually meet and interact with everyone And (!!) I'll be running a half-day intro to R packages, aimed at new/intermediate #rstats users. wombat2025.numbat.space

Pls retweet. For many years Open Australia Foundation ran electionleaflets.org.au It takes time and dedication to run projects. We want to know: *Should @oaf.org.au continue to put resources into providing this service?*

This week's HPS Seminar we had A/Prof. Kristian Camilleri present some of his work on the problematic role that the idea of “orthodoxy” and dissent play in histories of quantum mechanics (& science generally). Really great stuff. Always nice to hear from your supervisor! #histsci #hps

YouTube is the new agora

Nerdy joke warning. 😁 I've been planning this since I first saw the Newton for Hyde sign.

📷 The 2025 SORTEE conference program is now online! Visit sortee.org/upcoming/ to register and explore the exciting lineup of various sessions. #SORTEE2025 If you know a great open science project, now is the time to nominate it for a SORTEE Award www.sortee.org/awards/

Submissions for the AAHPSSS 2025 conference close on August 8th! The 2025 AAHPSSS conference will be held in a hybrid format at the University of Queensland from Wednesday 3rd December to Friday 5th December. Further details can be found on our website: aahpsss.net.au/conference/2...

The call for proposals is now up for our long awaited #AIMOS2025 conference in Sydney this November: aimos-inc.github.io/aimos.confer...

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

"If, after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend, or perhaps to strike a loved one, it will all have been worth the while." Hold all the elements (of which the news has come to Harvard) close to you today.

The University extended this by another few weeks. You can email me at [email protected] for application instructions. There's no publicly-available information, somehow