#statsmeme Greeks & shields

Screenshot of grid of some of my quarto extensions in a grid layout

If you are doing any #quarto slidecrafting, i have been trying really hard to keep this page updated with everything I have done
emilhvitfeldt.com/project/slid...

STAT 447 (2026) Guest Lecture by Vincent Arel-Bundock YouTube video by Dirk Eddelbuettel

The great @eddelbuettel.com invited me to his STAT447 class at the University of Illinois.

If you'd like to hear me speak about the interpretation of statistical models in #RStats, using the {marginaleffects} 📦, check out the video!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3TX...

Graph showing the proportion of clinical psychology studies that adopted four transparent research practices (preregistration and sharing of measurement instruments, data, and analysis scripts) at three time points (2012, 2018, 2024). The graph suggests adoption of these practices has increased but remains uncommon.

Graph showing the proportion of clinical psychology studies that adopted three transparent research practices (reporting guidelines and disclosure of conflicts of interest and funding) at three time points (2012, 2018, 2024). The graph suggests use of reporting guidelines has increased but remains uncommon. Conflict of interest disclosure statements have increased and are now quite common. Funding disclosure statements were relatively common across the three time points.

Has transparency improved in clinical psychology? New cross sectional study from us (Bianca Kotoulas, Justine Blackwell & me). Adoption of transparent research practices has increased between 2012, 2018, & 2024, but aside from coi and funding disclosures, they remain uncommon osf.io/preprints/ps...

Guy I’m sponsoring very quietly releases #rstats package I’ve been wanting for the last couple of years.

pkg.yihui.org/gglite/doc/g...

Guess he shut up and took my money. 🤣🤣🤣

OpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for AI-Enabled Mass Deaths or Financial Disasters The ChatGPT-maker testified in favor of an Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable—even in cases where their products cause “critical harm.”

To ensure that AI benefits all of humanity,

What’s next: Quarto 2 – Quarto We’ve started working on quarto-dev/q2, a full rewrite of Quarto in Rust.

And another Quarto announcement; I've alluded to it before, but we're making it "official".

We've started work on Quarto 2. The blog post has an overview: quarto.org/docs/blog/po...

We'll share more in future blog posts, but here's what you can expect from the Quarto 2 dev effort:

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Not sure how great it is for the state of science where rather than publishing code and working on shared libraries that make it so everyone can easily do exactly the same analysis, everyone just generates their own code privately that purports to do something and kinda looks right but not sure

Open Research Europe is re-launching with a new platform, and broader set of supporters, this fall. It uses the publish-review-curate model. "Publishing will remain completely free for both European Commission-funded researchers and authors from participating countries." home.cern/news/news/ce...

My approach too!

Editorial: What we promised, and what we delivered As we write our final editorial for European Societies, we return to the spirit of our first editorial (Präg, Ersanilli and Gugushvili, 2022) and to the question that guided our tenure: did we deliver...

The flagship journal of the European Sociological Association, European Societies, makes published articles free for everyone & does not charge authors a publication fee.

Authors of quantitative work are required to openly share data & code.

No @asanews.bsky.social journal shares all these traits.

Reading Aarons posts teach me how little I understand about searching the academic literature. That's a nice thing to learn.

One thing that really surprises me as #Reviewer & #Editor is that, given the same set of data, most researchers seem to prefer reporting a weak, confounded, positive result instead of a stronger, well-controlled, negative result.

It's a lack of bravery &/or self-awareness &/or something else?

🧪🧠⚡

Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

I made a tiny tool for quickly sharing small datasets (< ~1000 rows) without uploading any data to a server.

🔗 ziptbl.com

It compresses the data into the link itself, so there’s no account, hosting, or storage layer involved.

Here's Florence Nightingale's famous 📊 data:
ziptbl.com#d=eNpdlE-LGz...

#statistics

"In fairness, 42% of jests were spontaneous remarks relating to glitches in presentations, such as slide malfunctions..."

OA paper 🔽

Haha! Det krevde nok litt utholdenhet. 😂

Flott artikkel, Erik! Og jeg har lyst til å lage en liknende figur om norske læreplaner. Vet du hvordan dere lagde den? Masse jobbing i PowerPoint eller Inkscape eller noe slikt?

The laid-off lawyers and PhDs training AI to steal their careers Experienced white-collar workers are now part of a miserable gig economy.

AI companies are paying screenwriters, lawyers, and other white-collar professionals to produce the training data needed to automate their jobs. I spoke with more than 30 workers about conditions inside this fast-growing and extremely secretive new gig economy.

How much does it pay to publish an open access academic book? Read this thread for my story and 💲💰 amounts. 🧵

www.routledge.com/9781032908724

A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council

The Norwegian Consumer Council with an amazing video on enshittification and how to resist it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

All the wrong people have imposter syndrome.

Possible terms:
You are offering an "undercutting defeater", but they're hearing a "rebutting defeater"? Third paragraph of section 1.1: plato.stanford.edu/archives/fal...

logically, they're committing the the fallacy fallacy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumen...

Related: unjustified true beliefs

A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4,000 Developer Machines A prompt injection in a GitHub issue triggered a chain reaction that ended with 4,000 developers getting OpenClaw installed without consent. The attack composes well-understood vulnerabilities into so...

We are doomed: grith.ai/blog/clineje...

Learning From the Mess What the vitamin story tells us about reproducibility, discovery, and human nature.

What the vitamin story tells us about reproducibility, discovery, and human nature.

[133] Heterofriendly: The Intuition for Why You Always Need Robust Standard Errors - Data Colada When I taught my first PhD-level methods course, I invited students to submit questions about any topic in statistics or methodology. Six out of 10 students asked about the same topic: robust & cluste...

Answering the most popular question in a PhD methods course
datacolada.org/133

Both crosslink and ripsed look great. Ripsed meant for agents to do search and replace?

Digital products and services are getting worse – but the trend can be reversed A new report from the Norwegian Consumer Council shows how enshittification affects both consumers and society at large. Luckily, it‘s possible to turn the tide.

We just published a new report on enshittification. Pretty proud of this one!

www.forbrukerradet.no/news-in-engl...

Ah. With compaction or with a clean context? I start from a fresh context; my point was that I let Claude write a summary of what it needs after /clear.