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jbakcoleman.bsky.social
NGO Consultant for a stint. Prev. Associate Research Scientist at Columbia journalism. Harvard BKC affiliate. Comp. soc. science, collective behavior, stats
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Sometimes you snap a photo and you debate whether to share it for hours. 🪶

submitted 22 hours ago • 45 comments

Violet sabrewing from today, these dudes are huge🪶

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Grateful for the chance to share my thoughts on responsible use of LLMs in psychology research @spspnews.bsky.social #spsp2025. Here's a summary of my presentation for those who missed it. Thanks to @ashwinia.bsky.social for organizing this panel! How should LLMs be used in psychology research? 🧵

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Oof what a lifer. Quetzal in Monteverde 🪶

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Every time I try one of these tools for science I increasingly feel like people who are stoked about them are just telling on themselves. “It’s good at data analysis” Well, alternatively…

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

I appreciate the work of Retraction Watch—but their Atlantic piece strikes me as misguided. In any case, science is not well served right now by the old canard about never-cited papers. Left: the Atlantic story. Right: first paragraph of the link. In a section about cherry-picking no less.

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

That thread resulted in some pretty gnarly dynamics for OP, so I pulled it down. I don't think it's necessary to have that pile-on to get the point across that numbers like "85% of science is waste" are meaningless and dangerous framings in the current environment.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Just clarifying these absurd stats are *not* in the atlantic article. Give it a read y'all. The atlantic article has its own problems!

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments