TIL there are "two ways" to calculate percentages.
#statssky

Models as Prediction Machines: How to Convert Confusing Coefficients Into Clear Quantities - Julia M. Rohrer, Vincent Arel-Bundock, 2026 Psychological researchers usually make sense of regression models by interpreting coefficient estimates directly. This works well enough for simple linear model...

Good news everyone 🥳 Our (w @vincentab.bsky.social) primer on models as prediction machines (with the marginaleffects package) is finally officially published!>

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The problem isn't the clipart. It's the PowerPoint slides. Bring back overhead projectors and chalkboards.

"...to STUDY IT LATER?!?"

This is it. This is the most important part of my job as a professor.

New Research Shows Many Social-Science Papers Lean Left. Does That Mean Bias? A study used AI to analyze hundreds of thousands of abstracts published over the past 64 years.

No, it does not.

Faculty Council passes resolutions urging release of SCiLL report and increase in shared governance The second of two resolutions passed calls for the University to release a redacted version of the recent investigation into the School of Civic Life and Leadership, which was initiated after reports ...

“liberal arts engineering”

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www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

Despite the enormous body of literature generated (1,727 studies of 1,008 genes), ultimately no unequivocal associations emerged for either positional or functional candidate genes. -- adapted from Lege et al., 2025

Up to 2008 there were over 1700 published gene/schizophrenia association studies implicating over 1000 genes. Now none of these studies are viewed as useful. -- Legge et al., 2025

What a fascinating post-mortem this would make for a meta-science project.

#neuroscience #stats #metascience

Sinclair Lab The Learning & Behavior Change Lab at Rice University, directed by Dr. Sinclair

I'm thrilled to introduce the inaugural cohort of my lab, the Learning & Behavior Change Lab at Rice!! 🤩 I'm so excited to have the opportunity to work with these stellar budding scientists. As a team, we'll bridge basic cognitive neuroscience with real-world applications. 🧵
www.sinclairlab-rice.com

A syllabus is not a contract. Where did that idea come from? Because it's literally not.
#academicsky #edusky

Try not staying on top of your inbox.

I made a custom t-shirt based on this movie. ("I see structure", but with EEG)

Hmmm... a militaristic manifesto railing against the post-war neutering of Germany and promoting the cultural superiority of White People. Where have I seen this before?

All the cute animal videos are AI now. 😭

It’s funny that every school is convinced that dumping area studies and student organizations for Black students is the path to “regaining trust”

New research out in @nature.com provides insight into the sleep-dependent clearance of brain lipids by peripheral blood cells ft. Bumsik Cho, Diane Youngstrom, Samantha Killiany, Camilo Guevara & Amita Sehgal (Sleep Medicine/ @hhmi-science.bsky.social) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Lol. Papers with reviews this scathing can get into Nature? I should submit there more often. 🙄

And they are not even reading the books!

Cool. I myself have a "draw a realistic pig using ggplot2 in R" benchmark.

Today is a great day to remind colleagues that "Viewpoint Diversity" is a MAGA plot.

The cynical connection to "diversity" is just cover for attempts to ideologically control universities for political ends. And it's working.

Harvard is now trying to top-down engineer the politics of its faculty.

‘Heartbreaking reality’: Hampshire College announces transition to closure - The Boston Globe The announcement marks the end of another tumultuous chapter in the ongoing saga of the liberal arts school.

Anyone else clock that a tiny progressive liberal arts college that faught trump in his first term and auto-accepted students from florida college shuttered from anti-DEI is shutting down a year into trump's 2nd term and project 2025?

it's more than the finances

www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/14/m...

Oh wait, this is Australians actually, not Americans. But still a problem.

If your data collection methodology results in estimates that 1 in 10 Americans believe:

“The Canadian Armed Forces have been secretly developing an elite army of genetically engineered, super intelligent, giant raccoons to invade nearby countries”

You have a problem.

#psychscisky

Best scientific paper footnote ever.

Psych book series idea:

"What We REALLY Know About __________"

[insert: memory, dreaming, attention, depression, ADHD, tDCS, the brain, emotion...]

Summarizes ONLY the really solid, highly replicated, semi-consensus facts in a field, assuming all else is speculation.

#psychscisky 🟦🧠 #sleeppeeps

South Carolina’s push for Turning Point USA clubs in schools sparks backlash A state proclamation aimed at expanding Turning Point USA clubs in South Carolina high schools is drawing criticism from both supporters and opponents.

Oh yay. South Carolina public schools are 'partnering' with TPUSA to bring a 'Club America' chapter to every public high school.
#edusky

"We should believe the students who say they feel free to express themselves, not pundits who are paid to gin up disdain for higher education."

#HigherEd
#AcademicFreedom

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Beefy GI Joe Statue of Liberty!

The point of the university as a concept is that it's been here for a thousand years and meant to be here another thousand. Turning education over to producing what the market needed five years ago is never going to work well.

In general, (re)orienting education wholly or chiefly to specific perceived market needs is always going to produce disaster once the near term passes. It also eviscerates institutions that might otherwise help people weather change, intellectually and in other ways