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edouardmachery.bsky.social
History and Philosophy of Science, Cognitive Science,Experimental Philosophy, distinguished Prof at Pitt, Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science
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A very useful thread

My coauthor presents our work at the online meeting of the American Philosophical Association

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You wanna keep the Steelers players on the field - lost of important concussion research happens to improve assessment and recovery!

Never forget the role of the Democratic Party in the genocide in Palestine and in the ascendance of trump.

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Week 7 of my Bayes stats course, now deep in multilevel models, correlated effects, centered and non-centered parameterizations, diag(σ)LZ ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn (link to lectures: github.com/rmcelreath/s...)

Gov. Mills showed precisely the sort of integrity in the face of political pressure that the majority of the party currently lacks. More importantly, she did so extemporaneously and without hesitation from a purple state where this isn't a universally popular position. www.maine.gov/governor/mil...

Pour les lecteurs français

We want “see you in court” t-shirts and hats

Mmmmh. More information soon if you have applied to HPS. We hope for good news.

Good job!

Final CFP for a special issue of @jgps.bsky.social "Towards Comparative Philosophy of Science" philevents.org/event/show/1... Submission deadline: *March 31* for #philsci approaches comparing scientific disciplines.

Good story up on funding lag from WESA, an NPR station in Pittsburgh. www.wesa.fm/health-scien... 1/2

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) makes recommendations that determine access to vaccines in the US. The ACIP meeting scheduled for next week is now delayed. This is how RFK Jr will administratively destroy vaccination programs. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

I am surprised Fetterman was not at CPAC. Seems like his new crowd now

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Musk's wealth in 2012: $2 Billion Musk's wealth in 2024: $447 Billion Bezos's wealth in 2012: $18 Billion Bezos's wealth in 2024: $249 Billion Zuckerberg's wealth in 2012: $44 Billion Zuckerberg's wealth in 2024: $224 Billion Minimum wage in 2012: $7.25 Minimum wage in 2024: $7.25

Pittsburghers support this referendum

The morally right thing to do.

Tomorrow! Livestream: pitt.zoom.us/j/93433720100

That should be very good. Carl is a great philosopher.

Wrote Scientific Reports February 8 2024 that a newly published meta-analysis on mindfulness & brain morphology excluded all null-findings and therefore ... by definition found a relationship. Still no proper response from the journal (other then many "we'll look into it"). It's been a year now.

PA let's get rid of this "useful idiot" next year: "“This is a guy who, since Trump won, is for lack of better word basically a useful idiot for Republicans. He’s supporting stuff and it gives them cover to say, ‘Look it’s bipartisan, we got Fetterman.’”

Brilliant piece, @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social . There is a whole education here. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

Support pro Palestinian militants harassed by the police in Montreal

So first who knew Mapquest was still alive and second yeah!

To the surprise of exactly no one ice employees are white supremacists.

“It’s tempting to think about whether differences are related to varying incentives for researchers in different institutions,” says Ivan Oransky. Sure it’s tempting but is there any evidence for this just so story?

Husam Abu Safiya is a hero. Greater than all the IDF criminals.

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The Pitt?!?

Coming up on 5th March, our Open Research Conversation on Open Research across different epistemic cultures. We ask: How applicable are the accepted tenets of ‘open science’ to a broader range of research types? Featuring @penders.bsky.social, @annayahprosser.bsky.social & Pieter Huistra

My new article "On Consistently Assessing Alleged Mnemonic Systems (or, why isn’t Immune Memory “really” Memory?)" is now out (open access): link.springer.com/article/10.1...

How long will it take opponents of scientific reform to blame those concerned with poor replication, p hacking, fraud, closed science for trump’s attack on science?

They are the new IG Farben.

AP finds that the Israeli military stored 13.6 petabytes of data on Microsoft servers, and usage of OpenAI/Microsoft tools was 200x higher than the week before Oct. 7. If there was any doubt of US tech companies and complicity in Israeli apartheid. apnews.com/article/isra...

This Friday!