One unintended skill I developed from posting too much is that I am now very comfortable editing my papers on my phone.

Writing is thinking. It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.

thinking about the advice of "treat academia like a job" as a postdoc working for a university that can't decide if i'm an employee or a student

giving stats advice: *ina garten voice* if you can't {run complex statistical analysis} t-test is fine

this is the adult version of writing to santa for gifts

Oh you mean President Pedo's Secret Police are sex trafficking little girls? Gosh, what an unforeseeable surprise!

Important pasta news: Most boxes recommend cooking times that are longer than necessary by one to three minutes.

just saw some of the talks at SPSP, sad to be missing it 🙂

⚠️ Despite all the hype, chatbots still make terrible doctors. Out today is the largest user study of language models for medical self-diagnosis. We found that chatbots provide inaccurate and inconsistent answers, and that people are better off using online searches or their own judgment.

New from Alistair Nightingale and Sarah Jay of @ulpsych.bsky.social . A nuanced examination of the rhetorical justifications used by protestors against the accommodation of asylum seekers at a rural Irish hotel, and how such protesters seek to inoculate themselves against accusations of prejudice.

Unfortunately, I am addicted to grant writing.

Hello. Do you know that African Asylum seekers - two of whom are people I know, one who escaped enslavement and the other saw her father killed in front of her - are being told in court that they will be sent to Uganda for processing? And now their attorneys have to fight that?

Very unrepresentative image here, the economist has actually put his hand up rather than just starting to speak

Are female economists treated differently than males in academic seminars? These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research. So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023...

There's something to be written (and maybe someone already has) on how the democratization of statistical analysis out of the academy has coincided with the rise of stats as a rhetorical tool representing scientific certainty – exactly the opposite of what they are. See it a lot in sports, for ex.

Interested in doing a postdoc on misinfo/belief change with me and @gordpennycook.bsky.social? We are looking for candidates to apply for a Connected Minds Postdoctoral Fellowship, based at York University. Contact me for more details! #PsychJobs

has anyone cross-referenced public intellectuals in [redacted] who were also very publicly anti-cancel culture

haters getting a lot of vindication

I mean are we actually surprised that the culture currently curated by Nick Fuentes et al was literally spawned by the pedo cabal lead by Jeffrey Epstein?

is the coping behavior unhealthy if it works

Mark Carney can date Katy Perry but Justin Trudeau could never hug Hudson Williams

crashing out bc linkedin told me i was a postdoc for 3 years and 5 months

pronouncing vignette like "beignet"

IT'S ALREADY FUCKING ILLEGAL. Arguing for a legal ban on something that is already illegal for an agency that ignores the law is going to do what? I mean, at least acknowledge that it's already illegal and demand immediate and harsh consequences for any person who participates or abets it.

A reminder that how we talk about empathy, how to use it and expand it for those in need, can often matter at the level of policy and may shape what kinds of empathic choices seem possible. We discuss a recursive loop between policymaking and citizen reaction, as mutual motivated empathy regulation

Talk with your family, friends, colleagues about why empathy and kindness are important. Because active choices to not care are being rewarded, and empathy as an ideal is at stake. Advice to mind one's business is a recipe for a callous default that most of us wouldn't want our own kids to embody.

Ever read a post and think "you sound like an item in a racism scale someone wrote in the 1960s"

The Iowa Gambling Task is an extreme example of Jingle Fallacy and schmeasurement. In 100 articles we found 244 different ways of scoring it, 177 were never reused. Correlations between them range -.99 to .99. At the same time, we show meta-analyses combine these results as if they’re equivalent.

this is what they mean by big tent politics

🎥 ICE in Minneapolis is "the model" Historian Robert Kagan tells @carolecadwalla.bsky.social that the Trump administration is deliberately provoking people so they can invoke Insurrection Act & not hold midterms - & just four Rep senators could stop it all youtube.com/shorts/d3lsO...

I'm just going to keep saying this until I die: In a white supremacist patriarchy, you have value only insofar as you serve the white supremacist patriarchy. Kyle Rittenhouse & Ashli Babbitt did. Renee Good & Alex Pretti didn't. On Jan 6, the insurrectionists did. The cops didn't. Rinse, repeat.

I actually think it's pretty easy to explain. Younger people didn't buy into an older neoliberal elite's prejudices, the older neoliberal elite absolutely lost their shit at the notion that they might be called on to change, and fascists exploited that reactionary moment

“I want my death to be as strong a statement as my life continues to be. I want my own funeral to be fierce and defiant, to make the public statement that my death from AIDS is a form of political assassination.” — Mark Lowe Fisher, 1992 actupny.org/diva/polfuns...

The regime and many of its supporters are surprised to see so many people in America define "Us" as "my neighbors, my city, my state, my country," rather than as "my race and gender." And they seem to have real trouble processing the idea of taking risks to help others and stand on principle.

This is a white supremacist paramilitary operation. Their goal—their stated goal!—is to force America to submit to the President's racist domineering vision for the country. The sooner everybody starts confronting it on the terms that they themselves have stated, the better.

the extent to which this administration is out of control is really summed up by the fact that they immediately went with “this was an armed terrorist there to kill law enforcement” knowing that video from multiple angles completely disproving them was out there and would be seen by everyone

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

they summarily executed a fucking nurse in the street and the best i’m hearing from our senators is “get ICE in check”

We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.

Maybe instead of identifying specific ICE agents who do particularly heinous things, we could just penalize everyone who was on payroll at the agency starting by a certain date.

concept: feeling thermometer scale except it uses Celsius

Pushing back is ALWAYS the answer to bullies, because all bullies are cowards. ALL bullies are cowards. ALL BULLIES ARE COWARDS.

News cycles move fast, but it’s sometimes worth slowing down to reckon with what this government is doing. In service of its racial project, it is willing to beat, kill, and subordinate anyone it deems a threat. This is a violent white nationalist project.

I am not being snarky. I need my colleagues who wrote on covid school lockdowns to engage with this. To be as loud as they have been about prior "learning loss." Hell, you can cite Tom & Mark's AERJ paper so you feel better that there's some econ somewhere in your argument.

New blog! Have you ever wondered whether you should allow your direct effect to be moderated in a conditional process analysis? @jessicalfossum.bsky.social's recently accepted paper speaks to this exact issue, and much more! www.akmontoya.com/post/should-...

Here's a quick little example showing off tidy() vs. model_parameters(): andrewheiss.quarto.pub/parameters-v... Maybe someday I'll make a longer, more official blog post showing glance() vs. model_performance() and augment() vs. marginaleffects::predictions() 🤷‍♂️ #rstats #easystats

too bad so many institutions have already gutted themselves in the rush to comply

Please help us bring Liam Adrian Cornejo Ramos (he’s only 5 years of age and is currently in pre-K. Yesterday, he and his father were kidnapped by ICE. This will help the family with legal services to help reunite Liam and his dad with their family. gofund.me/be8a1b2ab

*filling out roles and responsibilities section* this is my emotional support collaborator

starting my annual ritual of "do i apply for this grant when i don't know if i'll be in this job next year" despite continually being at this job