My #rstats cheat code for today is the binom.confint function in the binom package that will spit out *12* different ways of calculating a CI for a proportion. Also, this is why you use R for statistics... (and of course the correct CI method is bayes 😎)

All this chin stroking from the BMJ on how to resolve the crisis in peer review, and not once do they appear to consider paying people for this highly skilled labour as an option www.bmj.com/content/391/...

Fed up with the John Lewis's website talking to me as if I'm a naughty dog.

Confusing stats language: The "linear" is linear regression means "linear in the parameters". It does not mean "can only fit straight lines", and things like polynomials and splines can be included in linear models. online.stat.psu.edu/stat501/less... 1/2

If my myneddiad-level Welsh serves me well, BBC Radio Cymru appear to have two presenters doing 24 hour danceathon for Children In Need, like some bizarre Welsh version of They Shoot Horses, Don't They? ("Maen nhw'n saethu ceffylau, onid ydyn nhw?"?).

E.O. Fucking Wilson

science has ruined me

From “Will the Prime Minister grow a tash for Movember?” straight to “Will the Prime Minister reintroduce the Death Penalty?”. #PMQs really is a wild ride for a lunch break

oh no i just felt a bit of christmas spirit

Love these Buzzfeed investigative journalism pieces

Whoever you are, Dr Dan Chalk 🫡

English Language Stack makes programming stack look like a gentlemen’s tea party english.stackexchange.com/questions/12...

A week before his defence @rug.nl, the publication of @euantheyoung.bsky.social's chapter on the lifespan cost of reproduction in @science.org Advances - with @hannahdugdale.bsky.social, @lummaalab.bsky.social and myself - couldn't have been better timed! 👍 🥳 🥂https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adz6422

peer review is labour and it should be paid for peer review is labour and it should be paid for peer review is labour and it should be paid for peer review is labour and it should be paid for peer review is labour and it should be paid for peer review is labour and it should be paid for

Today I tried to argue for the value of a pre-registered study even with deviations, analogising that it’s easier to trust a political party that deviates from its manifesto than one that never had one. Then I realised this isn’t true and that’s why open research practices need to be mandatory.

One of my favourite things to do to entertain myself on days when doing research seems like an absolute drag is to ironically drink from this mug I found in a charity shop.

'In February, Sheffield Hallam University, home to the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice (HKC), a leading research institution focused on human rights, ordered one of its best-known professors, Laura Murphy, to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China.' 1/3

stuff of nightmares

reminder... activistchecklist.org/links/

i said to someone that talking about AI is a little like you've hired a shitty magician to perform at your kid's birthday party and also he has a gun. like many parts of his act are a fucking farce but also he might kill you and that's not because he's a fucking ✨amazing magician✨

“[Critical AI literacy] is akin to knowledge of how to properly use inferential statistics and thus avoid accidentally being fooled by the results of our experiments in a flawed search for statistical significance.”

In my gym they put videos of people doing CrossFit and Hyrox on the TV. I wouldn’t go to the pub expecting videos of people drinking pints on the TV. In the pub they put on videos of people playing sport. So it follows that in the gym they should put on videos of people drinking pints, if anything.

Oh no I’ve just found out @quiztime.bsky.social is on here and am about to revert to my unemployed 2018 self where I moved back in with my parents after a rough patch and obsessively did these geolocation puzzles instead of looking for a job 🙃

Just wait til they see my record of winning big grants and shelf I put up last week that is now firmly on the floor

lmfao

Patrick McGovern, an archaeologist who analyzed ancient cauldrons, shards of pottery and broken bottles to discover and then recreate the alcoholic beverages that intoxicated prehistoric civilizations, including booze found in the tomb of King Midas, died last month. He was 80.

Very glad to see that someone is doing the important work of aligning AI alignment. alignmentalignment.ai

Universities need to take back the means of production with regards to academic publishing. There is zero reason for this--academics/researchers do the writing,editing and reviewing--why are we a) providing free labor and b) being charged for the privilege?

wild to me that whenever Epstein is in the news, bsky science folk are up in arms about a couple of famous academics who barely knew the guy rather than Martin Nowak, who took millions of Epstein dollars to run his lab, hosted Epstein there often, and somehow is still teaching at Harvard

This Be The Systematic Review -------------------------------- They fuck you up, your included studies. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra, just for the systematic review.

Between this being part of postdoc appreciation week, the musical itself, and it’s binfire biorender logo which is actually for the wrong musical, it’s like someone created this just to make me self-combust

I don't remember typing this but it fits

Stack Overflow's new beginner-friendly chat room is going well I see

Ahhh first Sly Stone now Brian Wilson - what a week. Rest in peace, legends both. Some comic relief in honour of Brian: youtu.be/xYc4DT18EJg?...

Lil intro to our early-stage rayyanR R package, from the first day of #ESMARConf2025 (youtu.be/dmcTZ-0eC18?...). Please beta test it and find its inevitable bugs/missing features so I can fix them/incorporate them (you can help us if you like!) 🙏 @ecehh.org @eshackathon.bsky.social #medlibs

rayyanR v0.2 is out - now able to read in the full text stage of a Rayyan review, rounding off the work we did at @eshackathon.bsky.social’s ESHLondon hackathon a couple of weeks back github.com/befriendabac... #medlibs #evsynth #evidencesynthesis #systematicreview @ecehh.org

They're talking about "water based" cooking now. Cooking things in water instead of oils. It's soup. They're making soup.

Well excuuuuuuuuse me Princess!

Preprint of a systematic review and meta-analysis by amazing PhD student Ennia Bosshard - was a pleasure to supervise this with @isleconserv.bsky.social ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... @sortee.bsky.social @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social

LIBERTY DEFEATS GOVERNMENT APPEAL AS COURT RULES ANTI-PROTEST LAWS ARE UNLAWFUL This should be on every UK News channel. If they won’t report it I’ll do it myself

Data centers are the new sacrifice zones

A terrifying warning from the CEO of a consumer products company about what is about to hit the economy from Trump’s tariffs.

It was the discovery that our organisation's management training was being delivered by bullshit artists like this (Martin, not Darren) that led me to look for a scientific approach in psychology. Sadly, quite a few of the psychologists turned out to be not a whole lot more credible...

And, just like that, the top journal in the field of Environmental Health, published by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, a part of the NIH, goes dark...

I just said "you can't do three systematic reviews in a month" in a meeting and I think it's time to call it a week

Pretty sure it’s FLAVOR FLAV 👀

yo dawg i heard you like studies with ethical issues, conflicts of interest, and massively exaggerated claims for the sample size, so i fired lasers into my own and my two postdocs’ eyes, discovered a new colour, and painted your car Olo - i think you’ll agree that science has been advanced bro

I think I'll take the support from the astronauts thanks

New research from @befriendabacterium.bsky.social and colleagues, published in Nature Communications, offers new insights into how bacterial communities operate. The study could help to unlock an "array of ecosystem services..." www.ecehh.org/news/frozen-...

Oh hell yeah the best microbiology thread in the history of social media is on here (and it’s by the guy who made the Xbox)