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Past security in an airport is probably the *safest* place to find an unattended bag. We should not let the airport voice tell us otherwise.

Just woke from a coma I entered in 2007. To celebrate, I've started a blog. The first post is about research--specifically, star ratings.
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UPDATE: We just received word that federal workers are attempting to shut down the stream at the NASA GISS building. Stay tuned as our scientists try to relocate: www.youtube.com/@wclivestrea...

Live from NASA GISS, kicking-off the Weather and Climate 100-hour livestream YouTube video by The Weather & Climate Livestream

Weather and climate research makes a big difference in our lives--day-to-day and big picture. We all benefit from this research, but often do not know how.

Some folks have organized a 100-hour live stream to talk about their research and impact. Tune in!

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In addition to our keynotes, the Weather & Climate Livestream will feature 💯 hours of accessible, 20 minute virtual talks by early career climate scientists and meteorologists eager to share their research with the public!

Tune in tomorrow (5/28), starting at 1 PM EDT: wclivestream.com/watch/

Pierre Poilievre attends Speech From The Throne with face pressed against Senate window OTTAWA – As King Charles read the Speech From The Throne Conservative Party of Canada leader and not MP Pierre Poilievre was seen outside the Senate with his face pressed against the window. The unemp...

Pierre Poilievre attends Speech From The Throne with face pressed against Senate window

The Weather & Climate Livestream | Speakers Information for potential speakers at the Weather & Climate Livestream

Our schedule is filling up 🎉, but we're still looking for US-based meteorlogists and climate scientists to speak, especially people who can talk on Sunday June 1st, or any night during the 2-7am ET/11pm-4am PT window between May 28th and June 1st. Learn more here: wclivestream.com/speakers

Data Colada has submitted a motion for sanction against Francesca Gino and her former lawyer team.

I hope the court rules in their favor. It will be a powerful message that sleuths can expose fake research without fearing legal consequences.

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Who knew that all we had to do to fix sexism was get men to wear pink headphones. Damn.

“I don’t want foreigners bringing their weird traditions to my country,” says man hiding chocolate eggs to honour dead deity ARBORG, MB – Local man, Edgar Harris, 42,  took time out of his annual Easter holiday traditions today to clarify his stance on Canada’s immigration policy, stating that foreigners are ruining this na...

“I don’t want foreigners bringing their weird traditions to my country,” says man hiding chocolate eggs to honour dead deity

Absolutely damning indictment of a Haverford College education

Shameless self promotion: I am happy to have learned that my paper (with Nicholas Reinholtz) has been officially accepted at Journal of Consumer Research!

The gist: online ratings are influenced by things consumers do not anticipate or understand.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

To be clear, neither should work

Do any R users know why “sum(vec, na.rm = t)” removes NAs, but “mean(vec, na.rm = t)” does not?

Excited that my paper "Ownership, Learning, and Beliefs" with @aleximas.bsky.social and Sam Hartzmark got honorable mention for best JDM paper of 2021 at SJDM 2024.

TLDR: People have more extreme reactions to information owned goods compared with the same information about a nonowned good

The original study is actually still live: psych.fullerton.edu/mbirnbaum/do...

It’s even more demand-y

Huge week for all of us who waited a year and a half between blog posts from you

Power for N, conduct an interim analysis with a liberal correction (e.g., Pocock) at N/3?

Nick Reinholtz and I have a tutorial paper (currently under review at a marketing journal) on running pre-registered sequential analysis.

Super excited about this opportunity to present my research (with Bart de Langhe and Phil Fernbach) on the risks of using marketing personas in segmentation analysis!

Join us on Jan 9th at 12PM ET, register here: www.msi.org/events/msi-w...