Nearly all instances of "multiverse analysis" should have been a well-defined sensitivity analysis that interrogates a specific assumption or set of assumptions we have reason to believe may not be reliable.

Hadn’t read this before. @emilymbender.bsky.social reminds us that scholarship is conversation and presents convincing reasons for doing science slowly. An additional thought is that making science into any kind of competition is the opposite of doing science slowly.

cannot believe on some level I & my colleagues have turned the tide on this, but also it was in some senses inevitable as why not! Humans can do anything; we still have a way to go however of course, but: banning AI in the classroom should be as uncontroversial as banning calculators in early maths

The brutality. The corruption. The lies. Everything is on full display — and many Americans are beginning to learn an important lesson. Watch.

This is how many conspiracy theories work, by exploiting real anger from legitimate grievances (often downstream from complex, unjust systems) and redirecting it onto scapegoats through simplified “conspiracy” narratives.

HEI NORGE, øynene opp! Det er vårt alles ansvar å sikre levekår og verdighet for alle, fordi det er det riktige å gjøre. Men det er også lurt fordi det demmer opp for høyreekstremisme. Alle som vil seg selv vel bør passe på at ingen får kake før alle har fått brød. Norge svikter også på dette.

"Mosquitoes have been found in Iceland for the first time as global heating makes the country more hospitable for insects. The country was until this month one of the only places in the world that did not have a mosquito population. The other is Antarctica."

Sometimes I feel the discussion on AI use devolves into: A: I'm allowed to use copy-paste! You use it all the time, right? B: I don't use it to plagiarise, reproduce sexism, or pollute the environment. A: OK, but it's useful & fast for me! And um, that's really degraded thinking on A's part.

Study after study shows that it's remarkably cheap and easy to solve the problems of homelessness and poverty with low-barrier supportive housing and universal basic income, but our own fear that someone, somewhere will get something they didn't "earn" keeps us looking for other (punitive) options.

Den er grei, NRK. Nå kan dere forklare hvorfor dere ikke dekker #Nokings. Bruk samme logikk som sist og ta den tiden dere trenger, vi venter.

#statssky #rstats #datascience

Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.

Dette er vel ca det eg skreiv her på skya også

Foggy morning.

Against Publishing: universonline.nl/nieuws/2025/... Preprints are read, shared, and cited, yet still dismissed as incomplete until blessed by a publisher. I argue that the true measure of scholarship lies in open exchange, not in the industry’s gatekeeping of what counts as published.

The United States is no longer a democracy.

You shouldn't use change scores in randomised controlled trials. And you really shouldn't use them in observational studies. So please please don't use them in target trial emulations! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

FFI-forsker Eskil Grendahl Sivertsen sier at russisk propaganda ikke handler om å få oss til å tro på løgner, men om å få oss til å tvile på alt. – Den skumleste formen for manipulasjon er den langsiktige strategien for å gradvis svekke tillit og forsterke konflikt.

Box breakers live outside the narrow demands of gender, sex and sexuality categories. They are the residue of design practices – the people left behind after everyone else has been organised into neat, tidy boxes.

My quote of the day Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality. Linus Pauling

Bloomberg analysis reveals that electricity in areas near data centers has risen, a lot: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202... Energy is up to 267% costlier in areas w/ a data center nearby:

A new take on the limitations of "psychometric networks" now out in Nature Human Behavior. You don't want to put too much confidence in individual edges. Something we cautioned against in 2017. 1/2 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Well done Shafaq Aftab. When a reviewer stole her work and published it under his own name, she fought for a YEAR to get the journal to retract the paper. Just wondering why it took Wiley a YEAR to do this. 🧪 #academicsky retractionwatch.com/2025/10/03/w...

They wanted the House. They wanted the Senate. They wanted the White House. They got it. All of it. It's all theirs. And it's shut down. They can lie They can troll They can "own the libs" But. They. Cannot. Govern. This is all you need to hold in mind when you're looking to assign blame.

"What is the scientific ‘self’ that will do the correcting?" New Cultures of Trial and Error post by Sergio Sismondo

S-Values are much more interpretable than P-values, yet adoption seems near impossible. I wonder what it would take to make the leap? #statssky #episky #rstats #statistics

This! There are certainly contexts in science wherein it’s fine to search for confirmatory evidence and disregard anything else. You can even claim it’s correct based on a single confirmatory piece of evidence, depending on the claim. A Simple case is proving a species still exists in the wild.

New graphic on test/criteria on autism prevalence. See reference 4 in graphics credit. I am working on an update. real-psychiatry.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...

Tidligere i år meldte vi et forskningsprosjekt til redelighetsutvalget ved OUS og UiO. Nå er forskerne felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.

"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” ― Hannah Arendt,

The only acceptable computer age verification is quiz in Leisure Suit Larry 1.

In some parallel universe, researchers in Rorschachiana, the Journal of the International Society for the Rorschach, highlight that future research should validate Rorschach scores against ICD-11 diagnostic features.

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Great read on nosology, psychometrics, Meehl, and the category-dimension debate. “Subjectively, the surface of human behavior is phenomenology; objectively it is meaning. Commitment to phenomenology and meaning, despite their scientific impenetrability, is the indelible mark of a human science.”

Aktuell debatt: Hvordan sikre at psykologer er kompetente i psykoterapi? For min del er det fortsatt en gåte at denne kompetansen ikke er bedre sikret i psykologers mangeårige grunnutdanning.

John Stuart Mill failed to consider that creepy loser men would not react well to other people's liberty.

For all the knucklehead reviewers out there. Principles for proper peer review - Earl K. Miller jocnf.pubpub.org/pub/qag76ip8... #neuroscience

I always wondered if there was a shorthand for summation similar to factorials #math #mathsky #statssky #statistics

So, to no surprise, 'brand new ABA' is still barely considering whether its goals are relevant to autistic people. Sigh.

MBTI but for shoe sizes.

Happy to announce that I'll give a talk on how we can make rigorous causal inference more mainstream 📈 You can sign up for the Zoom link here: tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRo...

Har NRK skrevet noe i det hele tatt om at Greta Thunberg er kidnappet og torturert av Israel?

happy sunday, remember that you are completely expendable to your employer and that when you die they will forget you ever existed within weeks and easily replace you

PCI Psychology! psych.peercommunityin.org

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

I've said it before but the main reason why democracy is the superior system is that, while the average person is a moron, the average elite is even more moronic

Amen. I tell my students that I'm not willing to outsource the activities that I can do with my organic portable. 🧠

Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.

Time to repost this evidence pyramid from @statsepi.bsky.social again. (statsepi.substack.com/p/the-cluele...)