Even better still, just asking where the data is from exactly, who takes responsibility for its integrity, and how was it validated, before you use it to validate something else are all a good start #ScientificPublishing #ResearchIntegrity #AImess 15/15
Oh, these will be so useful
New day, new presentations!
Today, @crist14n.bsky.social will present his work on reproducible study selection for meta-analyses and @leungyianna.bsky.social will present her Shiny app to explore terminology variations in psychology and metascience!
Join us at 12:00 (CEST): tinyurl.com/22v38up2
The more and more I talk to people I realize: Git is one of the best things ever invented, and we should always encourage everyone in research who uses a computer, especially students, to adopt it
the fact that people are allowed to repeat that 70IQ thing without a giant air horn going off directly in their ear is evidence that the PC cancel culture mobs were not nearly ruthless enough
retractionwatch.com/2025/11/25/m...
Based on Richard Lynn’s dodgy data, of course. This was the purpose of its creation, to masquerade racism as ‘science’ & thereby infiltrate mainstream politics. This is one reason why Co-authors & I have called for retractions of scientific articles that use this data - it’s effectively propaganda.
Ooh, looking forward to new records in the office when I visit in May!
"Birds see fast enough that TV is a just slideshow of still images but slow enough they can see which direction the stars are moving" is really doing a number on me
Sometimes I wish I could do a PhD again. This will be an awesome group to work with.
Bluesky folks! Popping in here for a hot minute, I'm trying to look for this particular blog post before (by Thomas? Tom?) it used to be posted on twitter.
Basically the main claim is: X is X because target population Y said so (I think his example here was the concept of a game). Ring any bells?
One of the most productive coding experiences I have is in the shower, just musing on a problem until a solution comes to me.
Rubberducking is an excellent practice too, but literal rubber ducks work just fine for this and use very little water per query unless you’re in the tub.
Unit tests (which I’ve become evangelical about) could have headed off some of this, but the repeating code was just sloppy in a way I’d expect anyone to catch.
Like handling vectors with lengths of 1 and >1 separately, repeating dozens of lines of code, when the vectorised code already handles L=1
This is the crux of it.
I spent much of today fixing something a collaborator vibecoded. It did something that could never work, and repeated that code 4 times in slightly different ways, so I had to hunt them all down, figure out what they meant to do, and redirect them to a working function.
the great thing about vibe coding is you can't just revert to "last known good" after an error because you don't necessarily know when that is.
you outsourced your unknown unknowns.
We are inviting applications for a two-year postdoctoral position in a collaborative meta-science project on the effectiveness of data and code sharing policies in research-performing organizations. www.tue.nl/en/working-a...
Im just never gonna get over an economist basically constructing a panel that is analogous inviting the most prolific arsonist of all time, someone who thinks some arson is pretty good sometimes actually, and two leading firefighting experts to discuss how to reform the fire code
Results and discussion This part show how change in number make line in graph up or down for speed, spin, hot, and mix in layer. Solve in MATLAB BVP4C and get line and table for skin friction, Nusselt, Sherwood. Magnetic M make speed small, spin more near wall, and hot more because electric hot. Micro N change spin and speed near sheet. Light heat R make hot layer thick and more hot in flow. Soret Sr make mix from hot change, Dufour Du make hot from mix change and less near wall. Chemical Kr eat mix near sheet. Ohmic hot from M and σ put more hot inside, viscous warm Ec make more hot from speed change. When hole in medium big (φ), speed go small, hot and mix go more. Permeability K change how easy flow go in hole. All show in figure line go up down, use in filter, oil take, heat machine, and many place in work.
This doesn’t really make me want to “Sign up for Nature Briefing: AI and Robotics”
(I think Nature Scientific Reports might be best classified as an unreliable low-quality journal now.)
This work look for Soret and Dufour thing on MHD flow for micropolar fluid on sheet with hole stretch, also see hot from electric and warm from move, which old study no much talk. These hot and mix change speed, hot, spin, and mix of fluid in layer. The big math changes to small math by same change and solve in MATLAB BVP4C. Picture line and table show number for skin friction, Nusselt, Sherwood. We see more M make slow speed, light heat make thick hot layer, more micro make more spin near wall. Also, hot from electric and warm from move make more hot, so need in work like earth heat take, oil get, and hot change machine in hole thing.
A friend sent me this and said the abstract reads like it was written by a dog with those talking buttons. And OMG she was right! 🐶🔘
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Let’s discuss adding a module to metacheck that detects if this is done and helps people do this if it isn’t!
Three concrete recommendations that we make in our manuscript (osf.io/preprints/me...) on Acknowledgment sections:
1. Include ORCID numbers in parentheses after names of individuals in Acknowledgments. This will disambiguate their identities so that scholarly databases can index them.
Yeah, when people tell me “we need to teach them how to use chatbots” I ask them what precisely is the skill involved that isn’t critical thinking? The chat interface is *specifically* designed for fluency. Imagine if we had invented courses to teach using touchscreens when they came out.
I assumed it was an insecticon.
"Preprinting Does Not Meet Science’s Duty of Care Responsibility to Society" raises questions such as "why do they talk of science as a monolithic thing but only discuss a narrow corner of it?" and "what the hell?" journal.trialanderror.org/pub/preprint...
And I guess also depends on whether you can be sure that the objects your function works on will always have the right class.
Thanks, no idea why I had that in my head. I’ve written plenty of extensions to print (I think I was perceiving base R functions as an exception).
• Delivering single-sex spaces on the basis of biological sex, in NHS wards, schools, sport and everyday life by upholding the Equality Act and delivering clear instructions to public services on how to comply with their legal obligations to women and to trans people. • Keeping women's prisons for women, instructing the Scottish Prison Service to remove all biologically male prisoners from women's prisons within days of the election. • Recommit the NHS to delivering single sex wards on the basis of biological sex, and ensuring patients can request same sex provision wherever possible.
Scottish Labour manifesto is out, don’t vote for them
I’d love to see a minimal reprex for that!
