bsky.app/profile/anth... They talk about gametes and chromosomes because that lets them advocate for genocide while sounding civil and rational about it.

Excellent news! Nature is expanding Registered Reports to all the fields in which they publish! A great result by all those proposing this strong solution to publication bias and selective reporting (and getting expert feedback before data collection)! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Should automated tools for peer review come with a "nutritional label" for validity?🥪 And if so, what should be on it? Join my workshop on June 5th @ the META/e Conference on Transparency, Technology and AI in Peer Review in Eindhoven! Results will inform our FAIR validation framework. Details >>

Are you interested in how technology and AI are reshaping peer review and grant evaluation? You can still register for the conference Transparency, Technology & AI in Peer Review at TU/e on June 5.

That’s a fantastic illusion!

Debunking the debunking of the original debunking…. Debunkception!

"The vast majority of people will never hear the other side of the story, the factually correct side of the story, the morally decent side of the story. The side of the story that was the overwhelming consensus among politicians and the public a mere 6-7 years previously."

I assigned random gender/ethnicity labels to scientific abstracts from the literature and then asked Claude to do a thematic analysis. Claude identified a clinical versus computational split for female/male authors and a DEI focus for Black/URM authors. All in completely random data.

Here's a cool thing: This is a graph of women in computing over time. Look what happened in 1982.

If a scientist uses AI to make strong claims in public about the scientific literature, and some references do not exist, and the generated text does not correcfly reflect the findings, should we inform them privately to fix the text or should we share this information publicly?

I got Tea and skyscrapers - when words get borrowed across languages (lingthusiasm.com/post/684727483493384192/episode-68-tea-and-skyscrapers-when-words-get) and Forensic linguistics (lingthusiasm.com/post/174674994306/bonus-16-forensic-linguistics-lingthusiasm-on) uquiz.com/quiz/wfmEjw/...

Perhaps we are at the point where universities should be making themselves much less dependent on microsoft.

Perhaps we should name the miscitation database Woozle :) @lakens.bsky.social

if you're cis and you are asked by your management to police bathrooms, "can you confirm in writing that you are ordering me to approach customers to discuss their sex?" is an email no manager wants to reply to

Austin et al. (2026) advocated for AI in hypothesis-driven scale validation research. In this preprint, led by @wchiggins.bsky.social, we (@malte.the100.ci @bethclarke.bsky.social) sketch out several weaknesses in this paper, and offer recommendations for avoiding them. osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/🧵

John Ousterhout calls these people “tactical tornadoes”, in his (excellent!) book “A Philosophy of Software Design”.

A master student, Mink Veltman, is helping us to develop a miscitation detection module for Metacheck. If you want to help us to reduce miscitations, it would be great if you could take 5 minutes to fill out this survey: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/J7ugQw8mic Thanks in advance!

It is so weird seeing the reactions to this having been a teen in the 90s when anti-teen pregnancy messaging was everywhere. Why isn’t everyone celebrating? Isn’t the ideal teen fertility zero?

How else is the devil going to get dog souls?

Oh no. I am now forever going to sing this when I get logged out of my uni applications (approximately 2000 times per week)

Reviewing a paper, and it is so nice that the Metacheck R package we made allows me to download all OSF Files by just typing: metacheck::osf_file_download("2w123") (not the actual repo). All files are downloaded, maintaining the folder structure, without any hassle.

A bunch of people I suspect would be embarrassed by this still follow NG.

It makes me so happy when I see figures with open source image sets I made!

This paper has now been accepted at Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science!

I am once again begging, praying, weeping for lists of written instructions rather than videos. I do not want to watch your two minute video in the hope of catching the two seconds where you whizz past what goddamn menu the thing is under. Write. It. Down.

new blog post incoming

Thank you @natureportfolio.bsky.social for making my review of the Anxious Generation open access for parents, policy-makers, and the public. The story told in this book runs counter science and is leading to poor policy decisions that will ultimately fail our kids. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

R, Python, Stata, SPSS, SAS, Matlab

This plot really needs a third axis of absolute percent of graduates in full-time employment. Changes in tiny populations may not be meaningful. Also, how was “exposure to AI” measured? How is space engineering so much more “exposed” than civil engineering?

"OpenAlex operates on a shoestring, with institutional memberships at $5,000/year. Retraction Watch is a nonprofit that depends on donations. ORCID is sustained by member organizations. These are [the chronically underfunded] foundations on which the credibility of AI-generated science depends..."

Today I am hyperfocussing in excruciating detail on how to extract URLs from PDFs when there may be random whitespace inserted around . And - (I solved it, but broke a bunch of downstream stuff I have to fix now). (Do not tell me to use an LLM — this is a problem for regex)

We also argue that treating Open Science as merely one more “content area” to squeeze into graduate curricula is a category mistake. Transparency is to science what food safety is to culinary training: foundational hygiene, not an elective specialization. 5/8

Are you interested in Shaping an Open Science Culture? Apply for this 2 year post-doc position at UMC Amsterdam. Joeri Tijdink is the PI, but you will work in a large interdisciplinary team (including me). werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org/en/vacatures...

Every possible joke has been made about this, so I will just say: it's refreshing when a company is so transparent that it is no longer in the business of [whatever it used to do] and has instead shifted to slop production. Helps to know what to avoid.

I have a grumble about the new RStudio by @posit.co "Run Tests" at the top of a test file now runs all tests that contain the name of the test file. E.g., "test-prereg.R" also runs "test-mod-prereg.R" with: devtools::test(filter = 'prereg') It should be: devtools::test(filter = '^prereg$')

I also created a version of the 'guess the correlation' game. Students always enjoyed it, but the original website (with fun retro design) started to require a google account login. So I created my own version. Play it here: lakens.github.io/statistical_...

2️⃣ Scaling Projects Without Direct Access to Target Populations: ManyLanguages, like other Big Team Science initiatives, aims to collect data from a wide range of populations to build findings that genuinely reflect human diversity.

Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.

I mean you might build it, but you won't understand it, control it, or integrate it into your culture including economy without the humanities. AI demands huge investment in the humanities.

It exists! I interviewed backup dancers, producers, the costume designer, the song’s producers who granted the rights, and so many more who were involved: web.archive.org/web/20240227...

I'm on year 3 of saying I'll make this content into an open access book. 🫠 #rstats #datamanagement cghlewis.github.io/ncme-data-cl...

🚨 New article klaxon 🚨 Gaby Mahrholz, @emilynordmann.bsky.social and I have our article "Practice What You Preach: Designing Student Assignments That Advance Open and Reproducible Science" published in AMPPS. doi.org/10.1177/2515...

Bingo! Do I win a prize now?

I want to reply to so many people with various posts in this thread, but nearly everyone who needs it will not understand it…

Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

🚂 very cool use of #RStats!

This has to be the funniest question AND response I've ever seen in a poll. Less than half of Republican men think they could beat Trump in a fight. What a bunch of pathetic losers.

I’m at the @improvingpsych.org online conference at a session about #PsyArXiv moderation, which switched from a post-moderation system (DOI assigned before moderation) to a pre-moderation system in 2025 for reasons that should be apparent on this plot.

Interesting discussion! I’m firmly on the side of data sharing. Maybe AI can misuse your data faster than humans, but anything you share can be used in good or bad ways, and I think the benefits of transparency outweigh the costs, but it’s good to discuss both.