Pre-registered RCT showing secondary students achieved higher reading comprehension scores when taking notes compared to using an LLM and to a lesser extent LLM+Note-taking > LLM (comparisons of Note-taking v. Notes+LLM are somewhat wonky). #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

Always good advice, below. In addition, I've seen my papers cited for claims that are only tangentially related to the paper's main point(s). I'd like to see a "Highlights" type feature, for every paper, that is simply: "Here are the claims this paper can support."

Have read lots of books and papers on the topics contained in “What Is Intelligence” by @blaiseaguera.bsky.social, and by some distance this is my favourite in terms of breadth, depth, practical examples, and a writing style that is immediately accessible. Can’t recommend highly enough.

Some pics from a long weekend trip, walking in Crickhowell, Wales.

Reinstate Sarah Kendzior

Free Sarah Kendzior.

I agree with this bit at least: "Everyone else is racing as fast as possible to publish a Nature paper and get their next short-term contract. There’s no time to learn how to do science!"

The editors of Neurology have allowed the authors of this paper to make a "correction", stating: "there were errors in the CIs for some estimates presented in the article". How many CIs must be wrong before a journal loses confidence in a paper? (Answer: more than 73, apparently!)

Oops. Ooooooooooooops. I do hope that nobody has been given or denied a job/promotion based on their SpringerNature citation counts in the past 15 years. arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01675 h/t @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social

Overshooting 1.5°C wasn't 'inevitable.' We've been pushed by fossil fuel giants & governments that pander to them. Every delay, every oil field, every broken promise made this crisis worse. Keir Starmer, will you promise to leave Rosebank undeveloped? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Open science people: This is the kind of thing some researchers are up against. 😬

Could never get bored of playing Parkstone GC, one of the best in the country.

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

What @zackpolanski.bsky.social is saying is simply what anyone who pays attention to politics is witnessing Starmer has played a key role in mainstreaming far-right politics, enabled by a mainstream media which still tiptoes around this terrible state of affairs

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

Pretty excited about this one. In this paper, we discuss the replication/credibility crisis, the factors that contribute to it, and clinical psychology's slow (really slow) progress in dealing with it. We offer a competency-based fraemwork for improving our training of future scholars. 1/2

“The University of Miami School of Law’s new essay requires applicants to submit a detailed prompt for a generative AI large language model like ChatGPT to generate a ‘comprehensive analysis’ that will help them make an informed decision about which law school to attend.”

Charts I don't like:

Predicted it before KO, was so obvious Henderson would dominate our midfield today, largely by himself. He’s the player Amorim thinks Bruno is.

Remember that clip of Rooney saying that when he started training with the Everton first team at 15 he couldn’t believe how bad the players were, and how much better he was than all of them. That must be how Mainoo feels every day in training at United.

I wonder why far-right leaders and their mainstream enablers are not targeting this minority which plays a key part in deciding the plight of the left behind... It is a real mystery... www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Education is the enemy of fascism.

My University has decided to close the #Statistics department along with several others. The public comment form opened up today: apc.unl.edu/fall-2025-bu... Please feel free to explain how problematic it is to close a department teaching #datascience #rstats #python in this day and age.

I’m going to suggest a more efficient business model for @crosscountryuk.bsky.social. If my train arrives at the destination (at all, or on time), THEN I’ll pay you. Save us both the deliberately tortuous system of me paying upfront then claiming a delay refund every single time.

Instead of a public retraction, the Wall Street Journal quietly adjusted its headline. Neither Emma Tucker, the editor-in-chief, nor the two reporters who wrote the original piece responded to my requests for comment. www.advocate.com/news/wall-st...

When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.

Vitamine D as antidepressant - a meta-analysis with the "standard error". Fun fact: today I commented on PubPeer about a recent Vitamine D study with implausible results (SMD 2.9). So I searched for a meta-analysis and found also issues. And there would be another meta-analysis. It never ends.

Concerns posted on PubPeer

Also applies to climate migration and stopping devastating climate change

If the administration releases the data for the causes-of-autism study that is supposed to be reported this month, then it could be useful to have a crowdsourced many analyst/multiverse investigation ready to go that leans-in on pre-commitment to analysis plans. Interested? Alternatives?

I can

Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):

Favourite reads from the last couple of months: God Human Animal Machine - Meghan O’Gieblyn Incompleteness - Rebecca Goldstein 2084 - John C. Lennox Superbloom - Nicholas Carr These Strange New Minds - Christopher Summerfield From Bacteria to Bach and Back - Daniel C. Dennett

I knew someone who was a CEO’s executive assistant. Dude just had a dumb phone and never used a computer. The CEO got their EA to print out important emails and they would either write their response in pen or record a response via dictaphone

Once upon a time, two science journalists had an idea for a blog about retractions. And on Aug. 3, 2010, Retraction Watch launched. And now, 15 years and 6,700 posts later, that work seems more important than ever. Happy 15th anniversary, Retraction Watch.

Wish we had polls here

Good thread from Sarah as always. Read the books!!

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

Universities - "staff you must tackle student disengagement" Also universities - "here's a 4pm lecture on a Friday, good luck with that"

How it started .............................................. how it's going

For researchers with limited background in statistics, we have written this gentle introduction to simulation studies (with @timpmorris.bsky.social and other people from the STRATOS initiative): bmjopen.bmj.com/content/10/1...

This is one of the most energetic and rewarding groups I’ve given a workshop to, and the keynotes will be amazing. I’d recommend any ECR to attend.

“[Of] 25 replication studies, 7 (28%) studies demonstrated robust replicability, meeting all three validation criteria: achieving statistical significance (p < 0.05) in the same direction as the original study and showing compatible effect size magnitudes as per the Z test (p > 0.05).”

New Replication Project in sport and exercise science shares it results: Out of 25 replication studies performed, 56% yielded significant results, but only 7 (28%) revealed a similar effect size. Several problems related to the quality of are discussed. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Incredible effort here from the team led by @jennymurphy2.bsky.social and everyone involved in conducting the replications. Glad I could help facilitate our team contributing one of them whilst I was at Solent University. #metascience #sportscience

Congrats @jennymurphy2.bsky.social on this one! A huge effort and vitally important rdcu.be/errSv

Jesus Christ this graph. Total and utter political failure.