it is the responsibility of every man who interacts with him (and his ilk) to tell and show him that this isn't at all how men behave but it sure is how creeps, abusers, rapists behave. he unmistakably needs to be made to feel like a creep no one wants to have anything to do with.

the other day i decided to do some workout i hadn't done in ages: pull-ups and deadlifts. so anyhow last night i slept for 11 hours and now my eyes seem to have forgotten what it is that they do at daytime. idk that i understand how aging works.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

been eating a very low sodium diet lately but felt like having some salt and vinegar chips with my blackened fish sandwich tonight. now i feel like i just had a quadruple-espresso. i can feel the salt crystals coming out of my eyes like lightning bolts. this is so weird.

I see many folks generate hypotheses exactly in this manner (w or w/o the AI) and design whole studies around something they came up with as they scroll the TL, and it's treated as standard scientific practice. We should be able to do better than this crackpot when it comes to hypothesis generation.

The stories we tell build our world, so we should be careful about the stories we tell ourselves and we should be wary of the stories that others tell. This goes for politics and for science alike.

A correction for the ages (from The Guardian's review of 'Melania'):

imagine

Bottom line: Economics seminar culture isn’t gender-neutral. In elite research settings, women face systematically different treatment that could affect their evaluation, visibility, and career trajectories.

Here’s what they found: Women are interrupted more often than men—by about 10–20% in economics seminars. Those interruptions are more likely to: - Cut women off mid-sentence - Come from men - Be adversarial rather than clarifying in nature

Snark as self-expression can be cathartic and even bonding on social media but wish I had the ability to mute or block it in real-life meetings (in academia). Not just toxic but useless, counterproductive and a waste of everyone's time.

Here’s What the Latest Epstein Files Say About His Ties to Higher Ed: Collectively, the files underscore how deeply Epstein remained embedded in academic and intellectual circles even after his criminal history became public. www.chronicle.com/article/here...

Thinking of Giselle Pellicot today and her assertion that “shame must change sides.” Our society MUST do more to ostracize abusers instead of the victims who are made to feel like the only way forward is alone and in silence.

such disingenuous, shallow bs. fraud as a researcher, fraud as a human being.

The things this guy thinks to be exculpatory are themselves profoundly damning of his entire intellectual enterprise & standing as a morally reasoning person. It’s amazing to read stuff like this: a dispatch from another academic world that is, darkly, also the one my friends & I must live in too

I have stopped my thread at 20 for now. Thanks to all who contributed. The focus is on academics who sought promotion by, accepted money from, maintained direct interaction with Jeffrey Epstein well after his 2008 conviction. External link—shareable & easier to read: skyview.social?url=https%3A...

In Woke 2, I'll make being an (ex-)muslim Middle Eastern immigrant woman my whole identity so you won't be able to criticize anything I say without being a xenophobe, islamophobe, and misogynist all at once. Go at it until then. Countdown starts now! (Sorry it's Monday evening and I had a drink)

As far as I'm aware, this is the first time anyone has shown that innocuous data-dependent reporting practices can bias meta-analyses (please let know if I'm wrong!), so we should be very careful interpreting big metascientific meta-analyses going forward. 9/x

The issue what I call "sign-alignment" (also sometimes called "coining") where the sign of all initial studies are "flipped" to be positive, and all replications are interpreted relative to that flipped effect size. For instance, the text in the image is from the 2015 Open Science Collaboration. 2/x

New draft: "Decline effects, statistical artifacts, and a meta-analytic paradox". In this manuscript I show how a common practice in meta-analysis (eg the 2015 Open Science Collaboration) creates artifactual signatures of poor scientific behavior. PDF: raw.githubusercontent.com/richarddmore... 1/x

It seems we're meant to respect the guys who were invited into Epstein's orbit but maintained distance (beyond the odd dinner). But not engaging in paedophilia is an *exceptionally low bar* for respect. If these guys were wary of Epstein, what did they do to reduce his influence & the harms he did?

a 100K account telling me to fuck myself wasn't on my bingo card today. for blocking them?? ofc i did because she tried to dunk on me to her massive followers with a qt. a "fuck you" though? nice! never did that to anyone myself.

If anyone's going through these files, I'm curious if there are any men who firmly stood up to Epstein. I don't mean kindly turning down his invitations. I mean, did anyone tell him outright that the way he treated and talked about women was despicable? Was there a single true ally among these men?

Please do not let all the focus on the funding environment in academia distract us from the real victims of these crimes and their enablers. Please do not look away from the misogyny. Please notice the gender differential. Please pay attention to how women are talked about in these emails.

I've blabbered a ton in threads about this, but I have to unpack what this actually means, because what I'm going to call "Academic Culture" normalizes sexual exploitation and regards it as, at worst, a petty crime akin to doing cocaine or public urination. 🧵

i'll allow myself a contrived rhetoric for this once academics: p-hacking should be criminalized. p-hackers should be jailed. also academics: what if these men weren't pedos themselves but selflessly befriended and took money from one for the benefit of their labs?

i honestly can't understand why any of you would spend mental energy on coming up with charitable excuses and defenses for why these names are in these files but sadly it is something so many people do in every individual sexual harassment case as well. so much cope, so much rationalization.

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

Probably the only reform science needs is to dethrone its gods and heroes, and abolish and purge all elite (and otherwise) boys clubs. I strongly suspect everything else would start falling into place after that.

We need a bigger and better and stronger #MeTwo

Relatedly I wonder what are the current elite boys club networks still in existence in academia? Being a woman in this environment de facto feels like a virtue and a curse at once. The lightness of being unaware and untainted by such depravity; the alienation of always being the outsider looking in.

Every time more Epstein files are released, I wonder who the "Epstein" is today because all of these billionaires and elite assholes can't have stopped abusing girls just because one guy died. Someone must have walked right in and filled that gap.

gosh, you all! how do you remember so many college classes? i can name five jobs i worked at while in college. or five mountains i climbed. or five things i had stolen from my dorm. or five friends i lost contact with. classes though? i got not much memory of them. now grad school otoh... ama.

Noooooo 😞

I am even warier than the authors about the broad-brush applications of the QRP label. However, I stand firmly against classifying data dredging/fishing expeditions as responsible research practice and as exploratory research. Science reform has distorted our understanding of scientific exploration.

Did I talk to my students about ICE and immigration policies? Yes. Did it make me feel ultra self-conscious and somewhat apprehensive as an immigrant speaking to many first-gen college students, in rural Idaho, of all places? Yes, it very much did.

Keep thinking about this and the core problem, of course, isn't the use of AI tools for science. It's the fact that we have established such a system of scientific norms and incentives that generated literatures-full of junk science that we're scared of a tech capable of scaling that up real fast.

received an ai-generated cover letter using keywords from all my pubs in one ridiculous paragraph but the student forgets to spell out what it is they're asking from me/what they're applying for. mindless, wasteful use of chatbots is making email even more intolerable. never knew that was possible!

this is what happens when you get life advice from ChudGPT

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

I struggle every day to figure out what my role in this new hellscape is. I’ve dove much harder into teaching, and trying to teach philosophy as lifecraft and world building. But I have no idea whether it will ever feel worthwhile to write again.

You may be interested in this paper that I have not read: bsky.app/profile/arno...

REAKING: A federal judge in Minnesota has barred the Trump administration from arresting / detaining the state's 5,600 refugees while they await lawful permanent resident status. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

It turns out that the information economy is just a continuous firesale of everything that made us informed in the first place, from journalism to science.

some people can be so casually cruel that mere exposure to it leaves me emotionally drained. it's one thing to experience that online or indirectly but witnessing it irl just sucks all life right out of me. i feel so aggravated

Just like democracies are being put to the test around the world (and succumbing sooner than we hoped), our ideals of research integrity and scientific rigor are being tested by ever-invasive AI tools. I am not hopeful science will survive this unscathed. We'll need to rethink a lot of what we do.

First post of the year, new paper out today: we present possibly the biggest case of systematic Measurement Schmeasurement in tech use. It seems that most studies on gaming (videogame) addiction/disorder haven't measured gaming after all. This research took years, so long 🧵 doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

relics from more peaceful online times: several years ago @devezer.bsky.social tweeted about Jazz24 (www.jazz24.org) and to this day it's been improving my work mood :)

Wittgenstein's hot take on psychological science remains accurate, timely, and unparalleled

Great thread! Also works as a metaphor for science. This is the reason why overzealous attempts to automate broad processes in science are bound to fail. Scientists need to actively engage with their science to make the right calls at every step.