Almost 7 yrs in Germany, and these are nigh impossible to find here…

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Reliable research in the social and behavioural and sciences Sweeping new investigations probe the replication, robustness and reproducibility of results across the behavioural and social sciences.

The SCORE investigation of repeatability and credibility is a lot. There are a few ways to get your head around it.

1: The Nature collection includes 3 papers from SCORE, an amazing paper from @i4replication.bsky.social and several commentaries about the work.

www.nature.com/collections/...

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Flying dolphins??

youtu.be/YP7p2k678tQ?...

Happy that I contributed to this, hopefully influencing, project. Double happy that it was built upon ARIADNE framework!

Comic. [Small panel overlaying large panel.] PERSON 1: What’s up with this weird landscape? PERSON 2 with ponytail: Oh, it was caused by… [Large panel is map of the United States with with red overlays denoting landscape phenomena. Mega-floods in the northwest, a plate tectonics speedrun on the west coast, volcanoes next to the west coast, water and time in the southwest, geology in the west, a supervolcano within the west, glaciers in the north, farming in the middle, rivers in the mideast, geology in between rivers and farming, ??? toward the northeast, farming on the east coast, continents colliding next to the east coast, ongoing disputes between limestone and water in the south of Florida, volcanoes in Hawaii, geology in Alaska with volcanoes and glaciers below.]

Landscape Features

xkcd.com/3221/

News Flash: Learning things changes your brain's chemistry and physiology. Protect your brain; stop learning anything new.

The Rise of Null Hypothesis Significance Testing (NHST): Institutional Massification and the Emergence of a Procedural Epistemology It has long been a puzzle why, despite sustained reform efforts, many applied scientific fields remain dominated by Null Hypothesis Significance Testing (NHST), a framework that dichotomizes study res...

"There are signs that the Bayes Factor is increasingly taking on a role analogous to that of the p-value, serving as a device for the automation of decisions rather than as a tool for substantive inference."

Excellent new preprint by Carol Ting on the rise of NHST.

#Methodology #stats

Another point for human-in-the-loop systems!

Everytime I receive a "resource add" issue on ARIADNE's GitHub repo, I feel a tiny accomplishment baloon just floating up to the sky.

Guys, a bunch of you are opposed to Elon Musk saying weird stuff, but did you know that every time he does so I get a bump in sales for A City on Mars? And much of that increased revenue supports the local Taco Bell. Think about it.

Zotero 8 is out (www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-8/). If you're not already using, highly recommended!

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Python Software Foundation News

@anthropic.com is investing $1.5 million in the PSF, focused on security. These funds will make an enormous impact on the PSF and the security of millions of #Python and @pypi.org users. Please join us in thanking Anthropic for this landmark gift!

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Amazinggggg, 10000x congratss!!! 🤩

Yeah you're right, as if Google was not a search engine some 20 years ago...

Figure 1: The important dimensions of CAILs across research and education; clockwise from 12 o’clock: Con- ceptual Clarity is the idea that terms should refer. Critical Thinking is deep engagement with the relationships between statements about the world. Decoloniality is the process of de-centring and addressing dominant harmful views and practices. Respecting Expertise is the epistemic compact between professionals and society. Slow Science is a disposition towards preferring psychologically, techno-socially, and epistemically healthy practices. The lines between dimensions represent how they are interwoven both directly and indirectly.

New preprint! @marentierra.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I have been working on what CAIL means to showcase & propagate the idea of thinking very differently to tech industry norms on "artificial intelligence"

Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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Ugh! I hope they have made it in a way that this AI is a seperate product than the core of the Scholar. Please please please!!

Another good reason to use and help grow ARIADNE! We will never incorporate LLMs in it!

igor-biodgps.github.io/ARIADNE/grap...

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#universität #heidelberg #uniheidelberg #forschung #zellbiologie #neurowissenschaft

Cool, shame that I can’t join the colloquium!

Do the dashed lines mean anything? Or is it just a design choice?

Thanks for sharing Henning! This nudges me to finally finish reading Gödel, Escher, Bach.

Ten Simple Rules for AI-Assisted Coding in Science While AI coding tools have demonstrated potential to accelerate software development, their use in scientific computing raises critical questions about code quality and scientific validity. In this pa...

Ten Simple Rules for AI-Assisted Coding in Science arxiv.org/abs/2510.22254 - our latest, led by @ericwbridgeford.bsky.social

Universities are embracing AI: will students get smarter or stop thinking? Millions of students arriving at campuses are now using artificial intelligence. Worries abound.

Skip the whole article, and focus on the last two paragraphs:

^Universities are “literally sitting, fish in a barrel, waiting for these very well-funded organizations to come knocking” and then signing million-dollar contracts with them, he says. “It is an absolute abdication of leadership.”^

I wish Graeber was alive, and wrote a piece about the current AI shenanigans. What a shame that he died just before this era.