📖 “We are facing an increased risk of avoidable illusions as more research activities are delegated to large language models (LMM) (…) Thinking for ourselves is hard and error prone but worthwhile - and there are no shortcuts to understanding.” — Nicole Cruz (2026). 2/🧵

New preprint from the work of my placement and final year of undergrad! 🚨 We investigated the applicability of normative modelling to large-scale, gamified cognitive data, and explored how corresponding extreme deviations from the norm relate to transdiagnostic compulsivity. osf.io/preprints/ps...

@posit.co this fundamentally undermines me using your products as a teaching tool. Will this be in posit cloud too? If so, instructors need to be able to switch this off in module workspaces.

UPDATE: The publisher intends to retract the paper, but insists it went through two rounds of review from two independent peer reviewers: nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the... by @jacksonwryan.com. No word on how they will make sure this sort of thing never happens again.

WANTED! Collaborators for a Big Team Science Systematic Review on Statistical Software in #StatsEd, led by @alyssacounsell.bsky.social (RoSE Statistics Software SIG Lead), @maddipow.bsky.social (@forrt.bsky.social rt.bsky.social Director of Education & Pedagogy), & @richharrisleeds.bsky.social. 1/2

AI "is a thieving, hallucinating, biased, data-scraping, ecо-destroying, surveillance bot that will never be able to reconcile the receipts of its unethical origins." —A Psalm for the Analog @melaniedusseau.bsky.social LOOMING: drive.proton.me/urls/JE8JPJR... www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...

I clearly had a lot of thoughts/feelings from reading Terry's blog post, so I wrote one of my own It ended up being a bit of a stream-of-thought post but I think it captures some of my worries benharrap.com/post/2025-10... #statssky #episky #academicsky

Now out in PeerJ 🎉 peerj.com/articles/200... Chapters 3 & 4 from the thesis coming soon bsky.app/profile/mart...

The idea that we have to "encourage responsible AI usage" is a core part of the inevitability narrative driving the institutional adoption that makes people think it's worth trying out. it contributes to the very problem it supposedly tries to solve. we can't let it go unchallenged.

I did hear a bit doing the traditional "Open access publishing is now so expensive no-one can afford to do it". And I mostly want to stand up and scream Green. I seem to spend my life wanting to stand up and scream green.

Our review paper with @profandyfield.com just got accepted to PeerJ 🎉 osf.io/preprints/ps... We review OLS models and their assumptions, discuss statistical practice, and offer some practical tips on how to use robust methods with preregistration to reduce unnecessary analytic degrees of freedom.

Out today in Teaching Statistics! Our paper on getting started in (statistics) education research, inspired by our 2024 @ukcots.bsky.social panel on the same. #StatsEd onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

PsyArXiv is seeking new moderators to help combat an increase in AI submissions! If you've ever posted a preprint to PsyArXiv, please consider joining. Minimum commitment 1h/month, there's a training session this Monday @ 1pm ET. More info here: forms.gle/9LB1rEtxHAeZ... #PsychSciSky

Excited for our #StatsEd conference on July 31st? You can register to attend for ✨ free ✨ by clicking here: bit.ly/roseconferen... - Don't miss a chance to connect with other statistics education researchers from around the world!

Psych Stats Instructors: please consider participating in a 15-min anonymous survey about best practice and teaching methods. Closes May 31st. For details see: ryersonpsych.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Sharing appreciated!

Why even have a brain, any ideas, any ability to express them, any kind of communication with other people, any desire to solve problems or invent anything, any reason to learn, any use for your eyes or your heart, or any reason to teach or create

Post a photo you took with no context to bring some zen to the timeline.

There’s still time to sign the open letter docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Parallelization just landed in the dev version of purrr: purrr.tidyverse.org/dev/referenc... Really pleased that the mirai framework makes this possible. Huge credit to the tidyverse maintainers @hadley.nz @lionelhenry.bsky.social and @davisvaughan.bsky.social ! #rstats #tidyverse

Trying to compile a list of people with active pedagogic interests in teaching statistics go.bsky.app/Qg6YSq6

What's the moment of luck that's had the biggest impact for your academic career? For me, it was how I wouldn't have gotten a PhD fellowship if it wasn't for the 1st-ranked person declining, which meant that I was awarded the fellowship as 2nd-ranked applicant. That was my last shot at a PhD.

Brute-forcing my way through Day 7 of #AdventOfCode with #rstats: github.com/martinaslade...

Day 6 - part 1 only ⭐ 🏳️ github.com/martinaslade... Part 2 will need to wait until my end-of-term broken brain recovers some capacity to function (or not) #AdventOfCode

Day 5 #AdventOfCode using #rstats: github.com/martinaslade... It doesn't count as an explicit loop if it's wrapped in a function, right...?

Day 4 #AdventOfCode, this time combining #rstats and chaos (and some purrr again): github.com/martinaslade...

#AdventOfCode Day 3: github.com/martinaslade... Reluctantly grappling (grepling?😏) with REGEX using #rstats and #tidyverse.

Happy to have been a small part of this NEW PAPER by @beccalouisedean.bsky.social✨ She synthesised evidence to find out whether young people's self-perceptions change in response to treatment for depression. Check it out here 👉 authors.elsevier.com/c/1kBub~0r1w3cL

Day 2 of #AdventOfCode using #rstats and #tidyverse, this time full of (possibly unnecessary) purrrmagedon: github.com/martinaslade...

My #AdventOfCode Day 1 solutions with a chaotic combination of tidyverse and base R: github.com/martinaslade... Last time I attempted these was 3 years ago and rage-quitted about half-way through. I look forward to questioning my competence daily over the next three weeks 🔥👨‍💻🎄

Full version with linking chapters now available: sussex.figshare.com/articles/the... If you find typos... don't tell me.

#PhDone #PhDSky - I have successfully defended my PhD thesis yesterday. I’m incredibly grateful to everyone who supported me along the way, especially to @profandyfield.bsky.social who’s been a wonderful supervisor and a mentor throughout the process. 🧵 A brief thread on the topic 👇