1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile. www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...

“What these pundits are nudging us to do, ever so politely, is accept that women, in the main, are accustomed to being a little degraded, a little underpaid and ignored and dampened in their ambitions, in ways that men are not and never will be…What a gift it is…to have no choice in the matter.” 🔥🔥🔥

I think this take on the sandwich guy trial is correct. our system is built assuming that prosecutors will show appropriate restraint. the sandwich guy case went on for way too long and that in and if itself should be raising alarm bells www.lawfaremedia.org/article/sand...

I think jobs should always list salary and that people should talk about their salaries openly. Your salary is not your worth. It's just what you get paid. This would help unite workers and reveal any nefarious pay gaps.

Your reminder that there are plenty of folks involved in research integrity that don't write racist / xenophobic click-bait.

much is made of mamdani's digital strategy, but all of that Posting went to proving that he lived in the real world, appealing to real people about real issues. this dynamic is something to watch as GOP (and center libs tbh) drift into the Posting ether of the X filter bubble

things like Jerry Falwell was hoping to end public education in the US because it is integrated really situate in context the current destruction of the department of education

3/3 Theory&Society, you'll recall, was taken over ~2 years ago by a group closely associated with 'heterodox' scholarship. The piece fits my continuing impression of much of the heterodox crowd that they're very much willing to lower standards if it fits _their_ ideological predispositions.

YES YOU SHOULD VOTE IN LOCAL ELECTIONS TOMORROW EVEN IF MAMDANI IS NOT ON THE BALLOT WHERE YOU LIVE

“Multiverse analyses require thorough, theory-based model selection. Otherwise, they become a ‘dangerous tool’ that drowns valid models in misspecified ones, needlessly eroding trust in science.” A plea for thoughtful models by @kauspurg.bsky.social #MetaSci

I’m in a room where a whole ass faculty member said “Chat GPT 5 would be able to write a better NSF proposal than me” and… well… My inside thoughts got the best of me BC I said loud as fuck “that’s unfortunate, because there’s not a machine on earth that writes better than me.”

Due to this policy, I have just applied for a visa waiver to a country of which I am a citizen. Why? Because my American passport has an X on it, and now I can only safely enter the country using my Chilean passport with a binary sex marker. www.visaverge.com/passport/cbp...

I actually think the inverse problem (positive bias for positive results) is more of an issue? With a null result, (ideal) peer reviewers are understandably thorough in checking the methodology to rule out errors that would have confounded the results. /1

In the Trump regime, every accusation is a confession. The terrorism is coming from inside the White House. www.theverge.com/policy/79051...

This is TNC, and this is the foundational difference between his politics and Kleins’s. At a basic level you either believe in the biologically deterministic myths that historically and currently animate hate and exclusion and oppression, or you fight them with everything you have.

This fall, @megstampede.bsky.social & I are collaborating to create a 2026 calendar! Each month features a different animal, facts about them, & actions we can take to help them! Sales will fund our '26 Native 🌱 Project Order before 10/1 to get a free plant sticker! www.etsy.com/listing/4366...

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

I’m sure she totally means Palestinians and their comrades speaking out against Zionism

#datalibs #medlibs NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy question - is data that was produced from grants that are now terminated still subject to the original grant terms and conditions?

Preregistration doesn't fix bad theory. But it's certainly faster and easier to do than developing good theory.

Valued users! We understand that over the past 250-odd years, you have come to rely on the services provided by the U.S. of A.: postal delivery, representative government, edible food, clean water, lifesaving vaccines, and no kings—ever, guaranteed. Well, 250 years of free is enough.

so many people are going to die because not enough people were willing to believe that RFK jr would actually try to do exactly what he has said for decades that he wanted to do

What this means in practice is that 14K trans people will have to quit their federal employee jobs and find jobs that cover gender affirming care. In other words, this is a purge of trans people from the civil service. Lavender scare. Everyone who participates is responsible

Oh good. We've reached the "I don't have to be faster than the bear, I only have to be less woke than you" stage of faculty solidarity. archive.is/wGNDr

Paper drop, for anyone interested in #metascience, #statistics, or #metaanalysis! @clintin.bsky.social and I show in a new paper in JASA that the P-curve, a popular forensic meta-analysis method, has deeply undesirable statistical properties. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/?

Some personal reflections on this post. 1. I expect some @carpentries.carpentries.org community members will not like the idea of workshops teaching the use of genAI. To them, teaching any usage of megacorp LLMs at all is equivalent to endorsement. This is not far from how I felt until recently.

"The fact is that telling a voiceless person they have free speech is like telling a poor person they have freedom of money: Nice work if you can get it!"

While visiting Great Smoky Mountains National Park, we spotted this 1-panel comic in the Summer 2025 newspaper - smokieslife.org/smokies-guid... And wow, like whoever designed this has clearly NEVER seen a city raccoon, because they fear NOTHING.

“This is what fascism does. It creates a climate of fear that leads people with a little power to abuse it, for fear of being punished themselves. It leads institutions that purport to promote “social good” to perpetrate social ills…“ l

1. Last night, Zohran Mamdani prevailed in the Democratic Primary for New York Mayor. He didn't run from trans people... He fought for them, pledging $65M to shore up care. He even spoke at rallies against hospitals like NY Langone capitulating to Trump. Subscribe to support our journalism.

I’ve given up on the possibility of having a permanent office at Penn, so I’m getting rid of 100+ 📚 — lots of art + design, mostly duplicate, pristine promo/exam copies! I’ll schlep them incrementally over to Fisher Bennett Hall — first floor, outside the English office. Free to good 🏠! First set:

I don't think I fully agree with (or at least I believe there is nuance to explore in) the first example of inappropriate use: “My hypothesis is X. What are some alternative hypotheses I should consider?” [Seems like brainstorming but outsources critical scientific thinking] /1

So, Dijkstra's run was from 1956 to 2025! What a run! arxiv.org/abs/2504.17033

Cartwright insists that no method should ever be privileged to be taken as definitive of science itself. In light of what we've observed in science reform, this is a lesson that escapes scientists time and again. We want a science that's structured, formulaic, simplistic, almost magical.

I'm late to the party, but the WH "gold standard" of science feels obviously politically-motivated to me. But, to be constructive, I really like Cook 2018's take on "gold standards", which I think does an excellent job of summarizing the challenges in RCTs and causal claims. doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

I know everyone is loving the Musk schadenfreude but we have to stay on the alert for the possibility that Musk is going to turn his sights to those centrist dem conventions going on and further entrench transphobia and anti-immigrant sentiment. And they would easily work with him.

"our society selects for the affordances of a medium—speed, ease, efficiency—not for its effects. And it is the effects of literacy that hold its civilizational value. [Those] deep cognitive and ethical capacities are not being selected for. They are not easily monetized or optimized."

It me - I'm going to do this teaching! I'm excited to demo one of our latest units, filled with expert content, interactive teaching moments, and more.

I've been looking forward to this Open Research Conversation all year and making time to think about data colonialism and extractivism, meaningful co-production, and collective benefit: 'Open data, indigenous data sovereignty and the CARE principles', 11 June, sign up details below:

📣 Calling on individuals interested in: ✨ Reinforcing the potential of preprints and expanding their uptake ✨ Role of preprints in improving trust and integrity ✨ Preprints in the Global South ✨ Institutional recognition of preprints If that's you, let us know!

“As a culture, we always want this grand arc: rags to riches, gets the girl, gets the guy. I wondered if I could write a book that didn’t have improvement arcs… I’ve been interested in this idea of kindness without hope.”

“while navigating complex ethical terrain” is doing some blocking-the-Suez-Canal heavy lifting

The worst happened. We were DOGE’d. Our NSF funding is gone. So now there’s nothing stopping me from sharing Expert Voices Together, a crisis response system for US-based researchers and journalists facing harassment. It's a true passion project. 🧵 1/ expertvoicestogether.org

"That means the developer’s estimate, while far from perfect, is also far from meaningless: it’s the scale parameter of some distribution." bit.ly/44ZdX9u bit.ly/3Z8F7XH

We tend to confirm our hypotheses. This is Confirmation bias and it can introduce error into research. Our free, online curriculum can help you learn how to reduce confirmation bias in your research through practical tools like masking 😎 Learn more at c4r.io/units

I think both the 1. U. Zurich reddit study and the 2. Fosstodon moderator situations reveal how some folks (1. the ethics committee; 2. admins) ignore the importance of trust in communities.

5 takeaways from this interview with @stone-lis.bsky.social: stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/philip-cohen... 1. The noise is all about budget cuts, but the action is all about undermining our sense of shared reality.

<3 file naming conventions!

On today of all days, with Princeton now in the Trump administration's crosshairs, I taught my undergraduates about standpoint epistemology, strong objectivity, and communities of knowledge. On how our unique perspectives as individuals don't threaten the scientific project. They strengthen it.

Hey nerds, my nerd tour continues this coming week at Penn State where I'll talk about, as usual, data science for social justice... specifically, "Race and the Criminal Legal System." Maybe I will see you there? Also doing an event on inclusive teaching! #AcademicSky ssri.psu.edu/events/data-...