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Our 13th annual Africa Evidence Summit is underway in Nairobi, Kenya! With over 500 attendees, this annual convening is the largest on the African continent focused on impact evaluation and global development. #AES2025 You can still join us via livestream: go.cega.org/AESliveDay1

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A long while ago, w/ @yuqingc.bsky.social @psforscher.bsky.social @eikofried.bsky.social I registered a meta-research to study how socio-economic status (SES) was measured in cognitive neuroscience (osf.io/hwtxq) & we posted some very interesting (or alarming?) figure on X.

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Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

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this wonderful piece from @profmsinha.bsky.social gets to what was truly great about lincoln — his open mind and great capacity for moral growth www.theunpopulist.net/p/abraham-li...

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🎉 After 2 years of work, our #OpenScience guide for researchers in developing countries is LIVE! Check out our new preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... We map the opportunities 🌟 + barriers 🧱 facing Global South researchers. (1/4)

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Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

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"Simpson's gender-equality paradox" surely deserve some award for best title 👑 The gender-equality paradox seems really central to some narrative people have constructed (and successfully sold). I absolutely wouldn't be surprised if it turned out 100% confounding.> www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Happy 18th birthday ggplot2! #rstats

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$900,000 grant to Retraction Watch’s parent organization will fund forensic analysis of articles that affect human health, directed by @jamesheathers.bsky.social

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How should development practice (and institutions) approach the coming reforms in the aid sector? www.africanistperspective.com/p/how-should...

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From @cos.io "Rigor and reproducibility should not be weaponized to gatekeep certain fields or findings. Instead, they must serve as tools to make science more inclusive, accountable, and impactful for society." www-cos-io.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.cos....

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I am a complete doomer about cooptation, ftr. I more or less just think you should say and advocate for what you think is true, and can defend on good grounds, and never bother trying to hedge against people coopting your ideas. Ideas can always be coopted, there is no defence against that.

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There are deep problems with the system of evidence-based policymaking and development. Yet we should not let those problems be used as a pretext to dismantle the system. Instead, we should use these moments of crisis to tackle these problems as a community busara.global/blog/theres-...

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Researchers used to talk about priming effects and framing effects as two pieces of evidence for the same larger claim: that people’s judgments are easily pushed around With the spectacular collapse of priming research, perhaps we should rethink the core lesson of framing xphi.net/2025/05/23/p...

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There are deep problems with the system of evidence-based policymaking and development. Yet we should not let those problems be used as a pretext to dismantle the system. Instead, we should use these moments of crisis to tackle these problems as a community busara.global/blog/theres-...

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New article by @cathleenogrady.bsky.social on the social media 'consensus' characterises the preprint as a failure of science communication — because many got the impression the consensus was much stronger than it is. www.science.org/content/arti...

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As someone who is actually on this paper, this critique (and many others) is absolutely spot-on. I can't speak for other authors, but this process has left me with far more questions than answers. The gap between what the data say and how it's being framed publicly is...notable to say the least.

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New post: I was curious about the consensus statement on social media effect and wondered how the sausage gets made. rubenarslan.github.io/posts/2025-0...

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My organization @busaracenter.bsky.social is now on Bluesky! Give them a follow if you wanna know more about applied behavioral science in the Global South. We are the premier organizations doing this, and one of a vanishingly small number headquartered there (we are headquartered in Nairobi)

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Not to gate keep, but if you haven't taught a 200+ person class post-2023 when ChatGPT took off, I don't really know if you should be speaking on how it's the professor's fault for not adapting.

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My organization @busaracenter.bsky.social is now on Bluesky! Give them a follow if you wanna know more about applied behavioral science in the Global South. We are the premier organizations doing this, and one of a vanishingly small number headquartered there (we are headquartered in Nairobi)

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In PLOS 🧪, discover AI-based data dredging, and health science paper mills fueled by on-demand misleading results at an industrial scale. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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New from me: Everything feels overwhelming. But here is a tangible thing you can do: write a comment to oppose Trump's plan to convert 50,000 career civil servants into political appointees. Deadline is May 23. Please share! donmoynihan.substack.com/p/here-is-a-...

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Affirmative action bans in the public sector decrease Black men's wages in the public sector by a lot! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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New working paper from my team: "Citizen ethnography: co-producing evidence for development" Mario Schmidt and our colleague, Ben Eyre, have been developing a participatory research method in which citizens are trained as ethnographic researchers. Curious? busara.global/our-works/ci...

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New working paper from my team: "Citizen ethnography: co-producing evidence for development" Mario Schmidt and our colleague, Ben Eyre, have been developing a participatory research method in which citizens are trained as ethnographic researchers. Curious? busara.global/our-works/ci...

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Open repositories are being profoundly impacted by AI bots and other crawlers: Results of a COAR (Confederation of open access repositories) Survey

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Unique opportunity: Professorship for Governance in Global Land Use Transformation Apply by May 14 #AgSky #Sustainability

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If you want scholarly publishing to be more aligned with scholarly values, then try out Lifecycle Journal. If you embrace transparency, then you can do your research in the Lifecycle Journal without risking publishing in the existing system if you later decide to do so. A🧵 lifecyclejournal.org

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This is viral on the other site and I've genuinely had great conversations about it

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Check out Scihub's creator Alexandra Elbakyan's new platform Sci-Net (sci-net.xyz). It's a community sharing platform where researchers help each other by providing paywalled papers.

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