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RFK Jr is a consequence of decades of anti-science media, promoted by both the right and left. Subtle forms of anti-sciencism like organic food or raw milk or "removing toxins" snowball over time. Calling them out in their early phases may be critical.

submitted 172 days ago • 3 comments

After spending more than an hour on the phone with Microsoft Support, I have learned: 1. It is impossible to disable Copilot in OneNote, Excel, PowerPoint, or Windows itself. 2. It will not become possible to do so for another month AT THE EARLIEST. (1/?)

submitted 125 days ago • 124 comments

Are you not a fan of journals' "enhanced online PDF viewers"? Me neither. I put together a little Firefox add-on that helps you skip the "enhanced" reader and download the PDF directly.

submitted 127 days ago • 8 comments

Check out this incredible video from 1941 that details the physics of visual perception using the mechanics of the eyeball from Karl Kurt Bosse pennstateoffice365-my.sharepoint.com/:v:/g/person...

submitted 143 days ago • 2 comments

Hey #StatsSky, what are you favorite papers to cite when you need to justify something that is obvious (I once had a reviewer ask we justify the use of logistic regression on a binary outcome) or when you need to push-back on silly reviewer requests (e.g., asking for p-values in table 1)?

submitted 144 days ago • 68 comments

Flu cases have quadrupled over the past month in hospitals in England, with NHS leaders warning that “skyrocketing” cases could make this winter “one of the worst we have ever seen”. Just published @financialtimes.com: on.ft.com/4j4g0h5

submitted 147 days ago • 6 comments

Have tried to make the dish many times, with varying success. This is an important pepe: "Finally, we present a scientifically optimized recipe based on our findings, enabling a consistently flawless execution of this classic dish."

submitted 145 days ago • 1 comment

Everyone is running away with this one, but I took the time to trace the source, and these are 80% confidence intervals, the true meta-science story (and there is one!), was written up as one about selective reporting and calibrating standard errors..

submitted 145 days ago • 4 comments

I've settled on an approach to giving up on TV shows: If a show has a serialized plot and goes more than 1 year between seasons, it's dead. It doesn't matter how much I like it, I cannot keep track of characters or follow a plot with a gap of more than one year.

submitted 146 days ago • 2 comments

Researcher: "We let the data speak for itself." Earlier that day:

submitted 148 days ago • 100 comments

How can sharing our uncertainty with others alter our confidence when we're alone? Delighted to share the lab's new paper, with Einar Andreassen and @cdfrith.bsky.social. Particularly pleased as it's Einar's first! Link: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵👇 #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence

submitted 148 days ago • 1 comment

Happy New Year

submitted 149 days ago • 0 comments

Everything is more advanced and yet shittier.

submitted 150 days ago • 1 comment

Timeline cleanse! Allow me to share with you my favorite images from the 10 billion dollar telescope JWST this year 🧵🧪 Starting off heavenly with this star forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud… 📸: NASA, ESA, CSA, O Nayak, M Meixner

submitted 151 days ago • 3 comments

How did the tech industry get so powerful? It's simple. There are major media outlets that will simply copy paste anything they say

submitted 154 days ago • 48 comments

Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!

submitted 157 days ago • 250 comments

I would love if this feature were limited to people you follow. "What are the people you follow talking about?" Otherwise, I don't find it all that useful. I suspect that'd require a lot more computational resources though.

submitted 155 days ago • 2 comments

Happy holidays! #microscopy #neurons

submitted 156 days ago • 1 comment

Psychology attaches too much prestige and credibility to formalized theories. We need more patience for incremental advances in reasoning about phenomena. doi.org/10.1111/jasp...

submitted 180 days ago • 4 comments

Oof

submitted 157 days ago • 0 comments

Today is Festivus. I look forward to your feats of strength.

submitted 157 days ago • 2 comments

Are you going to take this from him, psychologists? Show Andrew he is wrong by directing him to a conjoint experiment with open data

submitted 158 days ago • 2 comments

When news reports about scientific papers make causal claims that are not justified by the original study, the mistake often traces to a university press release. Here, observational data reveals an association. The press release asserts causality. today.ucsd.edu/story/walkab...

submitted 159 days ago • 22 comments

Stuff like this is genuinely fun as a silly game, but a reminder from your friendly neighborhood color vision scientist that it absolutely CANNOT be used to compare performance between people using different/uncalibrated displays or even the same display in different viewing environments.

submitted 159 days ago • 2 comments

What we could have had...

submitted 159 days ago • 2 comments