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This Thursday I will give a talk on (causal) mediation analysis -- happy to have finally worked out what I want to tell people. And happy to pilot a new mode of slide sharing: just putting them on my website (juliarohrer.com/resources/)

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New, from me: I am dorky enough to actually read (ok, skim) budgets, and have never seen anything like Trump’s, which has converted a formal and professional document into a propagandistic screed to justify draconian cuts. Lets take a look. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/budgets-as...

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🧪 What the f is going on with NSF right now??? 🚨🚨🚨 There's been so many NSF updates within the past 48 hours that it's hard to keep track. It feels like an onslaught. It is an onslaught. But it's still vital to remain focused, organized, and strategic. So here's my recap of past 48 hours...

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This is the kind of vandalism that gets easily missed in the flood of fascist stuff coming out of the US government, but it is vandalism nonetheless. And will have lasting effect on the ability of US scientists to do great social science

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Every group project in college be like

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Oh boy oh boy oh boy

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Data and Code Availability in Political Science Publications from 1995 to 2022 feat @carlislerainey.bsky.social #MetaScience doi.org/10.1017/S104... Insightful descriptive analysis showing code and data availability increases exponentially. In absolute terms, availabilty is modest at best w 31% 1/

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I'm calling for a total and complete shutdown of JAMA Pediatrics until we can figure out what is going on goodscience.substack.com/p/the-resear... I mean, come ON

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Drinking champagne could reduce risk of sudden cardiac arrest www.theguardian.com/society/2025... Now it's champagne and white wine, not red wine anymore. Even if true, maybe one should lead with the positive effects of "eating more fruit, staying slim and maintaining a positive outlook on life"

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This is a great point, and was one reason @abhsarma.bsky.social (with me + @jessicahullman.bsky.social) built a multiverse analysis tool that tries to help experts understand and evaluate the validity of subsets of a multiverse, rather than just shrugging: "enh, results vary" doi.org/10.1145/3613...

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FAIR data is really absolutely essential. .... It is great that Germany had the foresight to establish the NFDI (German Research Data Initiative)

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Write up of the Reddit debacle by @jasonkoebler.bsky.social in @404media.co. www.404media.co/researchers-...

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"A Mysterious Publication (update: Several Mysterious Publications)" that are published in the wrong journal after an incredibly fast peer-review process (possibly) dailynous.com/2025/04/25/a... I hope the publisher gets to the bottom of this bc it is difficult not to think of a foul process 1/

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Two days ago I wrote about how replication could be weaponized against vaccines, and here it is: halting a vaccine from the market awaiting an impractical and unnecessary replication. bsky.app/profile/rmca...

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People receiving an #NIH grant must now promise not to participate in #DEI programs or any boycott of #Israel or companies doing business in Israel. NIH calls this a #CivilRights condition on the grant. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... #DefendResearch #Medicine #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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We are looking for a research assistant to help us develop tools to make dashboards easier for social scientists to create 🤩 If you are really into R and passionate about data and science communication, please apply!

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I missed last week's news about what was only a matter of time: "Trump administration targets academic journals with attorney letter, proposed funding cuts" www.science.org/content/arti...

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datamethods.org is a place where methodologists meet subject matter experts for in-depth discussions + Q&A related to study design, measurement, data analysis, interpretation, and more. Now on a new server with the latest version of discourse software. Come join us there. #StatsSky

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Hive mind, please help me out! I need a more informative and explicit subtitle for my upcoming #RStats book "Model to Meaning" The premise is that analysts should often transform coefficient estimates into more meaningful / interpretable quantities like predictions, risk differences, slopes, etc.

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For the last 3 yrs, I was the director for the Science of Science program at the NSF. We funded projects on science communication - science communication to the public, communication of public priorities to scientists, citizens engagement & participation in science. 🧵

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Generative AI for Data Science 101: Coding Without Learning to Code www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... I see the value of letting students use VS Code with Copilot to produce code by prompting instead of learning to code. If one teaches intro to stats, there are no follow-up quant 1/

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Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women Unreal www.science.org/content/arti...

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Two professorships in Political Communication & Digital Media (W3 or W2-W3 tenure-track) at the newly founded University of Technology Nuremberg in Bavaria! 📣🏛️🤖 May be interesting for folks over @fgkommpol.bsky.social, @icacat.bsky.social and related fields. jobs.utn.de/jobposting/6...

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>have a preconceived hypothesis >restrict funding >limit number of researchers hopefully there aren’t any unscrupulous researchers who will p-hack for bread

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Science in survival mode. In this post I argue that unethical scientific behaviors are symptoms of triggered survival response. Scientists exposed to repeated fear stimuli believe that without sexy results & increasing status, they will be rejected/ejected from science. crowdid.hypotheses.org/1417

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Research ethics is often taught as 'bad things a few people did once that couldn't happen now'. Rather than a legacy of problems, perpetuated by people and systems, that are ongoing. Considering, also, what to do if presented with an immediate ethical dilemma. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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Monday Giggle - Easter week edition!

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Just read "Updates on NSF Priorities" www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p... Last part of the Q&A on funding for research on misinformation etc. does not read like the NSF will fund any such research anymore. One can always argue disinformation research could infringe on free-speech rights, can't one?

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This administration is brazenly corrupt and inhumane. Their targeting of international students is an attack on free speech, higher education, and innovation. But the manner in which they are doing it is really vicious. (1/5)

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I AM HIRING 2 postdocs (5 years) in my @erc.europa.eu project "The Politics of the Latent Educational Cleavage" at @goetheuni.bsky.social @infer-frankfurt.bsky.social! German call: www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/170856927.pdf English call: www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/170858269.pdf Please share

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Oof, this needs a thread. Moin argues that (contra bluskey critics) we shouldn't hold back on criticizing the state of science because no matter what we say it'll be weaponized. 1) No one is actually arguing this 2) It most certainly matters.

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Here's an update on sociology (and some demography) journal editorial polices with regard to sharing preprints before submission and after acceptance. A big improvement from the last edition of this table. With one exception.

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The Case for Preregistering Quasi-Experimental Program and Policy Evaluations journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #MetaScience It is a valid argument because why would one not preregister it when one can? I found it slightly peculiar that a credibility revolution was announced that only 1/

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🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Bremen 🚨 Open to PhD students and early career scholars Fully-funded places available for applicants, deadline 1st of May 📅 summerschoolwpm.org

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I'm gonna talk tomorrow about good dataset READMEs. Any good examples? Self-nomination welcome. Could be academic, business or fun projects. Like: (simple) gabors-data-analysis.com/datasets/hot... (paper) zenodo.org/records/4016... (@koren.mk )

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Boost your causal reasoning with both theory and practice: our short course on Directed Acyclic Graphs covers key advances in causal inference, and @p-hunermund.com shows you how to tackle common challenges like backdoor paths, bad controls & selection bias — hands-on in R. ➡️ tinyurl.com/GSS24-SCD

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