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Science-ing, and trying to improve science. Cognitive and perceptual psychologist, and meta-scientist. Biases include @simine (💍), cats (🚫) Mastodon: @[email protected]
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Received invite from the @royalsociety.org for an invite-only meeting on the Future of Scientific Publishing. Will turn it down because of RSC's failure to revoke Musk's membership. I hope my colleagues do the same. Who should I cc on my rejection to send a stronger message, @scurry.bsky.social ?

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Fascinating, as this appears to mean that Republicans were pro open data before open science was even a thing?! I certainly didn't hear about open (notebook) science until around 2006 when Jean-Claude Bradley, a chemist, coined the term, only 19 years ago. And I was one of the early ones.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Complementing other communications about the "Restoring Gold Standard Science" Executive Order, here is a statement from COS. Also, see the links to stories from previous attempts to co-opt open science for policies that undermine science and evidence-based policymaking. www.cos.io/about/news/c...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

The epistemic virtue that results from thinking slowly, in particular combating confirmation bias, in Thomas More's Utopia (1516):

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Latest post. Don’t know how many I have still in me helendecruz.substack.com/p/cant-take-...

submitted 3 days ago • 56 comments

Most of you too young to know what "he hung up the phone" means

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Indeed. There is a curious reluctance to call out scurrilous behavior in science even when there seems to be no chance that there's been a misunderstanding.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

"He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are,

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

It's very depressing that test scores are declining and English majors can't understand Dickens. But those are averages; maybe the upper echelon is not declining because truly nerdy kids have so many more free edu resources now (including LLMs) that their scores are actually increasing?

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Bluesky's user base has had this pattern since its inception - a huge influx of users triggered by an external event, which then decays over time until the next influx. - There has almost never been a time when bsky's user count wasn't falling - Bsky's 'base' is bigger than it ever has been

submitted 5 days ago • 16 comments

We've been asked what the most important thing we can do to improve research culture. My answer, the only answer, is to withdraw immediately from university rankings. bsky.app/profile/stat...

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

This is really disappointing to hear. I really enjoy Ethan's posts and perspective on AI.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Researchers involved in large collaborations, how do you work out how much each person has contributed to a manuscript, through many rounds of Google Doc editing? I thought that DocuViz, the Google Chrome extension, would be the answer.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

"GBH News could not find any other examples of the Harvard Corporation stripping a tenured professor of their status." Yes, because in other fraud cases I'm familiar with, the professors eventually resigned "voluntarily", sometimes after negotiations may have led to a golden parachute.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

when trump and co say they're seizing control of research because of the reproducibility crisis, it's pretty similar to when they say they're enacting trans bathroom bans and sports bans because of violence and discrimination against women.

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

“Life is better when we leap together.” Kermit the Frog delivered a commencement speech at the University of Maryland on Thursday, the alma mater of his creator, Jim Henson. nyti.ms/4dwMuhQ

submitted 8 days ago • 343 comments

Cool! Wait. Cosmic rays are visible?

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Please spread the word! Psych Science is recruiting volunteers to help conduct computational reproducibility checks. If you have experience writing reproducible analysis scripts in psychology, and want to join the team, please apply! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

English majors can't read. Only around 5% of them at 2 regional Kansas universities could comprehend the long sentences of Dickens, with his complex and somewhat archaic vocabulary, which requires recognizing what is figurative language and what is literal. open.substack.com/pub/kittenbe...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Unlike the writers of the Constitution, for which this was a top priority, the Supreme Court shows little inclination to prevent a president from becoming a king. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Stimulant drugs work great, but how? We found no evidence that they affect the brain’s attention system, instead …👇🏼

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments