New hobby: Remaking article abstracts as movie trailers to expose hype and fearmongering.

True story. Many years ago, I ran into the back of Don McNicol's car.

If my experience in academia has taught me anything it's that logging in to my same account on my same computer requires 2FA *every time* lest someone hack in and see my course schedule, but the forgery-proof method for approving things is to paste in a JPG of one's signature into a Word document.

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Tried SO hard to avoid eurovision spoilers all day only to be thwarted by @spotify putting the winner on the damn playlist. #spotifyspoilers

Poor Antony, nothing is working for him tonight! #auspol

@greens.org.au It's really disappointing that your election spruikers in Franklin can't provide any answers as to what the point of voting green is when the candidate has been disqualified

Are you a researcher or clinician with experience in psilocybin assisted psychotherapy? Swinburne University are conducting a Delphi study to inform the best practices in psilocybin assisted psychotherapy. Please head here: swinuw.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... to find out more about the study!

Together with 29 addiction and drug policy journal Editors, we are calling for action to resist anti-scientific attacks of the Trump administration: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This is heartbreaking even for those of us that aren't in the US

This is fantastic! This website allows you to watch TV stations from around the world. I just watched 2 minutes of Afghan volleyball. All the small regional TV stations from Germany are here too. Spread the word! Source: tv.garden

I understand why this is a path that was chosen, but it doesn’t stop it from being disappointing and embarrassing for ‘the profession’ www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/h...

ABC news just talked about 'bluetoothing' on people who use meth in Fiji- injecting then drawing back and passing the syringe on - surely this is urban myth? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...

🔓Risk communication about high-dose MDMA: Impact of a hypothetical drug alert on future MDMA use Joel Keygan, Breanna Willoughby, @psychopharmres.bsky.social @monicabarratt.bsky.social, Amy Peacock @latrobeuni.bsky.social @alcoholandmedia.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/boring

Thrilled to have our systematic review of the differences in the way women and men have been studied in alcohol research over the past decade up online at IJDP - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti....

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬

Should we be freaking out that pubmed is currently offline?????

1x spare ticket to the sold out SUN RA ARKESTRA show on Friday Mar 7 in Melbourne available - face value, resold via the legitimate moshtix resale process (they handle everything). #sunra #spaceistheplace www.moshtix.com.au/v2/event/sun...

A preliminary brief version of the HiTOP self-report measure (“B-HiTOP”) is now available on our website: www.hitop-system.org/measurement-... 1/2

Friends, I have written you a book on forensic metascience. It is free. You can have it. Happy St. Valentine's Day. If you wish to give me a gift back, you can use it to cause trouble - the greatest gift of all. open.substack.com/pub/jamescla...

Still time to participate in the research priority setting exercise for Addictions in the UK. Open to those working in the sector as well as family and people lived/living experience. link below southampton.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Expanded starter pack (remember them?!)

I have a fully blind 3rd year psychology student coming to do advanced statistics this year. I've been using #jamovi but happy to be flexible. Do any #psychology #statistics lecturers know a stats package that works with screen readers? @jaspstats.bsky.social ? Please don't make me go back to SPSS!

A group of scientists who are experts at spotting fraudulent research outline five essential steps to combat industrialized scientific misconduct https://go.nature.com/4h78aSw

Hot off the press! 📣📣In this tutorial we illustrate available multiple imputation approaches for handling longitudinal data including when they are clustered within higher level clusters. A reproducible example with R and Stata code provided! #OpenAccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Some of my brilliant colleagues developed a new tool for contextualizing effect sizes for social & behavioral outcomes! ebcontextualizer.shinyapps.io/EmpBench/ described in this article www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🧪 How to construct a summary paragraph (abstract) This is a super guide from #Nature and potentially applicable to most disciplines. More in ALT text. Source: www.nature.com/documents/na... #science #academia #publishing #medicine #biology #chemistry #physics #biomaterials #biomedical #writing

Well, this made me run to the donate button…

Graph. Crime.

To give a sense of the scale of citation market - how many people are paying brokers to get their shabby papers cited (& to elevate their academic metrics) - here's a review paper where the last *4½ pages* are a stream of absurd, irrelevant references. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This is not a parody.

Thanks to the spirit of COVID, I missed doing my annual funky Xmas special on my radio show, so here is the set that would have been! open.spotify.com/playlist/1mg...

I hate every single thing said here. This is great for his voters, completely ineffective to the key audience, and worse still creates a stigmatising barrier to seeking help. #ifyouonlyhaveahammer

Could come in handy for lectures!

🌟A new blog post 🌟 *Rotate the damn plot* ikashnitsky.phd/2024/rotate-... in which I discuss a very simple trick that improves a super common fallacy of popular academic plots 🤩 #dataviz #rstats #AcademicSky I also plan to revive an old idea of a dataviz rules account @damnplot.ikashnitsky.phd

This is definitely going in my ‘awful charts’ lecture hall of shame

Absolutely jawdropping read and outstanding journalism

What an absolute nightmare for the US research environment

Ouch

This is a friendly explanation of something that many people get wrong (and I've seen journal articles from the 80s on stats methods / tutorials also getting this wrong!)

Suddenly, *professor* !!!!

That is a significant blow - and a really short-sighted focus on "economic benefit" in an already too tight funding landscape

Another sad tale for the teaching pile

I didn’t know that this existed but dollars to doughnuts this will be a good list!

Are we ready to start rewarding researchers for Open data? www.openresearch.wtf/are-we-ready...