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Conservatives' efforts to "fix" academia has much in common with Elon Musk's attempt to "fix" Twitter. Please stay with me 🧵/1 www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

Here's a recurring favorite:

One must imagine Sisyphus thinking, “I have a good feeling about this year's grant applications!”

Figure showing the proliferation of methods used in NBER and CEPR working papers. Instrumental variables (IV) peak around 2010, twoway fixed effects (TWFE) five years later.

The rise and fall of instrumental variables and twoway fixed effects. From: arxiv.org/abs/2501.06873

Fantastic thread about experimental methodology!

The search for meaningful hypotheses by exploratory experimentation isn't automatic or haphazard. Most experiments aren't driven by given hypotheses but they are aimed at identifying them instead. But they're not obtained by any process resembling a fishing expedition (like post hoc data dredging).

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Geometrical psychology, or, The science of representation (1887) The theories and diagrams of Benjamin Betts detailing his remarkable attempts to mathematically model human consciousness through geometric forms.

broke: citing work from 2027

woke: citing work from 1987

BESPOKE: citing work from 1887

Louisa S. Cook's Geometrical psychology, or, The Science of Representation: An Abstract of the Theories and Diagrams of B. W. Betts @publicdomainrev.bsky.social

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There's possible reverse causality, there's potential reverse causality, and then there's the fear that young people living with their parents will hurt their job prospects.

Rikard Hjorth Warlenius: Därför tvingas svenska forskare ägna sig åt bortkastat arbete Systemet med forskningsanslag leder till att tusentals timmar ägnas åt bortkastat arbete, skriver Rikard Hjorth Warlenius.

(Ännu) Ett nyliberalt skitsystem som kostar fläsk

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The European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS) invites submissions to its 15th Conference at the University of Helsinki, 26-28 August 2026. blogs.helsinki.fi/enposshel/

Deadline for submission: 1 March, 2026

There's exactly one normal man left on planet Earth.

Science Is Drowning in AI Slop Peer review has met its match.

Science Is Drowning in AI Slop | Peer review has met its match. | By Ross Andersen www.theatlantic.com/science/2026... #AI #PeerReview #science #philscience #philsky #sciencesky #PhilosophySky

Cool study! I wonder: Which distribution of exp, CI, obs, and theory is the sign of a "healthy" or "vital" discipline?

I’m going to halve my publication output. You should consider slow science, too If we don’t slow down, the research enterprise is going to crash, argues Adrian Barnett.

Less is more. This aphorism is constantly on my mind. The scientific publication system is under tremendous strain, the last thing it needs is a massive dump of LLM generated/aided papers. If you love science, then show it some love. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Evolution of "word I need to use at least once in every seminar, no matter what the seminar is about", from phd to today:

1) Structures
2) Mechanisms
3) Heuristics
4) (Maybe soon) Affordances

Det handlar till stor del om möjligheten att välja bort klasskompisar, inte att välja bort skolor eller pedagogik. Vi vet att det är så. Centerpartiet vet att det är så. Centerpartiets väljare gillar det inte men ju högre upp i leden man kommer desto mer verkar det vara viktigt.

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Anecdote: In my group of 🇮🇹 high-school friends, 5/11 emigrated.

Of these, 4/5 have established a family with kids, with a total of 8 kids across.

Of those remaining in Italy, only 1/6 has (2) kids.

We’ll be 40 this year.

Varför vill Trump ha Grönland?

Den senaste veckan har Vita husets retorik mot Danmark trappats upp igen. Men det har varit tydligt för alla som studerar USA mer noggrant att det inte bara handlar om retorik. Trump tillsatte ett särskilt sändebud till Grönland i december.

The problem of induction: my robot vacuum can't clean its loading station.

Coherentist epistemology: I need a vacuum cleaner to keep my robot vacuum clean.

I collected some materials on critical AI from my perspective; hope it's useful: olivia.science/ai

"CAIL is as an umbrella for all the prerequisite knowledge required to have an expert-level critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims"

Regeringen: inför vinstbegränsningar på gangsterrap!

Också regeringen: that’s just the price of doing business 🤷‍♀️

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Kulturkanon – här är hela listan - Kulturnytt Nu har hela listan på en svensk kulturkanon presenterats.Bland det utvalda finns bland annat “Pippi Långstrump” av Astrid Lindgren, Gripsholms slott med ...

Meshuggahs "Destroy Erase Improve" och Dag Prawitz general proof theory är inte med, så det är inget vi kan ta på allvar, verkar det som.

I just watched your keynote — such an engaging and thought-provoking talk, with so many crucial questions!

GUNNAR WETTERBERG: Grattis, vaccinskeptiker och klimatförnekare Mutor, plagiat och fejkade artiklar hotar vetenskapen. Men det kan bli ännu värre.

Ett förslag till lösning: Antal publikationer och publikationslista får inte längre inkluderas i ansökningar om anställningar, meriteringar eller anslag. Ange enbart de 3 publikationer som tydligast visar ditt bidrag till fältet. Då försvinner incitamentet till artikelfabrikerna.

Kursen går igenom både grundläggande begrepp och mer avancerade statistiska modeller, med fokus på praktisk tillämpning och forskningsanknytning. Den ges på campus i Växjö, men kan även följas på distans vid behov.

Sprid gärna i era nätverk!