A tool that is impossible to educate people about has a tool problem.

🎉 Finally out in Journal of Phonetics, tutorial with @paulbuerkner.com 📖 "Bayesian beta regressions with brms in R: A tutorial for phoneticians" Accepted manuscript here: doi.org/10.31219/osf... Repo: github.com/stefanocoret... Publisher link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The period where the IDF were firing machine guns at people trying to pick up bags of flour was one of the most despicable things I’ve seen in this country: every day for weeks, people behaving like something confusing and hard to understand was happening, because they couldn’t say what they saw.

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You don’t raze entire towns and cities street by street with controlled demolitions and bulldozers for any military objective. You do it because the aim is to wipe those places out of existence forever, and it’s not like they’ve been hiding this.

i have no expertise in your field which is why i am confident that AI can replace you and your work

🚀 Talk Announcement for BHD25 When defaults return gibberish. Exploring different approaches to fitting models with categorical predictors (in R) by @urrestarazu.bsky.social . He will be sharing insights about how to better understand statistical models with categorical predictors at BHD25! 🌐💡

We love a good 'association as as fluid' metaphor, but this guy takes it to the next level. 12/10 for the reminder that conditioning on a collider doesn't just mess with your identification; it can also flood your basement.

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"Academic freedom supports methodological pluralism and critical debate which are the most important drivers of scientific progress. When dissent is permitted and diverse viewpoints can be openly discussed, the self-correcting mechanisms of science become more effective." doi.org/10.1016/j.ij... 🧪

His goal has always been genocide. With full US backing and an international community that refuses to take action

It’s astonishing how many researchers seem to believe that a cluster analysis is such a sensible analysis that it needn’t even be justified through a coherent research question. Just cluster analysis go brrrrr

👻 linguists

Pretty wild to me how many people when realizing their linear mixed effects models do not converge with appropriate random effect structures, reduce the random effect structure until convergence and then very confidently use the inferential results to make far-reaching claims about nature.

This is such a great reminder of how much iteration goes into creating a great visualization. Also, how you often get to a good general form quickly, and then spend a lot of time polishing...

When I say replication crisis is rhetoric, this is what I mean. It uses scientific resources and tools for rhetorical purposes, not scientific. Many do this knowingly, intentionally bec they believe it is necessary and no other approach will fix science. That's too cynical and hubristic for me.

I talked about why the replication/reproducibility crisis is, and has always been, rhetoric, rather than fact. Masking scientific progress in general in favor of a simplified crisis narrative has caused a lot of epistemic, ethical, and practical harms so far. We can and we must stop feeding it.

I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭

It's not a ceasefire if they're sending air attacks. What is wrong with everyone

>> an obsession to correct the literature real time, an insistence on making up our minds prematurely based on limited evidence/experience/understanding, and an overall implicit but firm resistance to pluralism in science.

All of this is so much at odds with how science is commonly viewed and judged today: Focusing too much on individual papers, immediately wanting to classify results as true/ false and performing research activities we think will help us do so (e.g., replications), >>

I've received an 'exclusive' invite to try Nature's new 'research assistant', which will burn down a forest to provide a 'summary of the paper' I'm reading and I have SUCH exciting news for them, that's called an 'abstract' and the actual authors already wrote it for me, no forest-burning required.

male professors, let's NOT write recommendation letters mentioning our women students "pleasant personality" please. smdh

This quick, mindless labeling has become a way of signaling moral and/or intellectual superiority without doing any moral or intellectual work.

This is actually what is going to happen. That’s already what’s happening in Lebanon. Israel kills regularly, violates the ceasefire agreement on an hourly basis. It’s just not on the news anymore. This is why pressure against Israel mustn’t just continue, but increase.

WE have GOT TO START differentiating between things that are Bayesian “culturally” and things that are Bayesian in principle. I keep seeing people claim “only Bayesian models XYZ” but it’s not inherently true, it’s just easy to implement in bayesian software and harder in frequentist software

The whole world watched Britain pretending to believe the UN aid agency was a terrorist organisation, then we all watched as UNRWA was replaced by criminals firing machine guns at starving people trying to get bags of flour, while press and politicians pretended not to understand what was happening.

🔴 La Flotilla de la Libertad (Thousand Madleens Flotilla) ha sido atacada e interceptada esta noche por Israel. En sus nueve barcos viajaban 150 personas, siete de ellas con nacionalidad española, que han sido secuestradas, tal y como ocurrió hace una semana con la #GlobalSumudFlotilla.

I guess because software allows it, ppl keep trying to estimate diversification rates on phylogenies. This is not in principle possible, because infinite combinations of diversification and extinction rates can explain almost any tree. Short, clear recent-ish paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

My friend’s dad Malcolm Ducker, former RAF pilot, dad & grandad, is among those still being held in a maximum security Israeli prison for the crime of trying to bring food & medicine to Gaza with the Global Sumud Flotilla. Read: www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-and-...

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The infantilisation of Greta Thunberg is ableist. AND people not accounting for her Autism is reductive and disingenuous. What happened to her and others from the flotilla is atrocious, clearly illegal, demonstrative of Israel as a terrorist state.

It is a deliberate policy: for two years now, Berlin’s mayor has chosen not de-escalation units but riot police – officers known for routinely unleashing extreme levels of violence against anti-genocide protesters; week after week, day after day.

🔴30 barcos siguen navegando hacia Gaza y al menos diez ya han sido asaltados. www.elsaltodiario.com/palestina/ba...

Israelgo armada Gazarako flotillako ontziak atzematen hasi da. Ontzidiko ekintzaileak esperoan daude, Israelgo militarrek noiz atxilotuko. Albanesek ohartarazi du Israelek nazioarteko zuzenbidea urratuko lukeela flotilla atzemanez gero.

Was asked about collinearity again, so here's Vahove's 2019 post on why it isn't a problem that needs a solution. Design the model(s) to answer a formal question and free your mind janhove.github.io/posts/2019-0...

Felicísima por poder decir que me han dado un premio a la mejor comunicación en Artes y Humanidades en las IV Jornadas Internacionales de Jóvenes Investigadores INNOVA. Roro, ¡va por ti!

🚨 ÚLTIMA HORA: Hemos suspendido nuestras actividades médicas en Ciudad de Gaza. Nuestros centros están rodeados por tanques y bajo ataques aéreos. Pedimos protección inmediata y cese de la violencia. #Gaza

Lol this will sound snarky and useless but I mean it sincerely: Less hypothesis testing and less faith in the implications of reported hypothesis tests. And more programmatic, systematic exploratory research. We must change our ways both as practicing researchers and consumers of research.

It’s kinda funny when you go to publish because you try to be a good Bayesian and then the reviewers are like “well is it or isn’t it”

Good excuse to share this

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Ever run `install.packages()` and wish it were faster, smarter, and more reliable? The {pak} package speeds things up with parallel downloads, dependency solving, and reproducible installs. 📦 pak.r-lib.org #RStats

Question for all #syntax lovers out there: 🧐 Do you know of any specific resourcers that people with #visualimpairment may use to read and create syntactic trees? Thanks a lot!!!!

This is utterly grotesque. Free Palestine! Free Palestinians! Free the land from this horrible devastation! Free Palestine! “Israel says 'Gaza is burning' as it launches huge ground assault“

Die Regierungen, die Menschen im Meer ertrinken lassen, sind mitschuldig am Massaker in #Gaza. Die Drohnen, die eingesetzt werden, um Menschen zurück in die libyschen Folterlager zu drängen, werden an Palästinenser:innen getestet. Hände weg von der #Sumudflotilla.

Y no pasaron. Los manifestantes gallegos han paralizado la Vuelta en solidaridad con el pueblo de Palestina. Viva Galiza.

#FreePalestine #StopGenocide

Or maybe it just means that if we combine forces, either we stop believing anything, or end up being wrong about everything.

Maybe this is some sort of natural experiment on how the requirements of predominant methods shape which assumptions are taken for granted and which are debated more.