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When you put together a kickass plot with color following all the accessibility guidelines only to find out the journal charges extra for color… #ggplot2 #rstats

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Pro Tip: Save those elaborate Google scholar search queries.

And if you forget, you can find them in your browser history. 🤦

Bonus Tip: Save the queries, keywords, and phrases in a @zotero.org standalone text note.

#PhD #research

Must be in the 30s 😂

It must be very hard to publish null results Publication practices in the social sciences act as a filter that favors statistically significant results over null findings. While the problem of selection on significance (SoS) is well-known in theory, it has been difficult to measure its scope empirically, and it has been challenging to determine how selection varies across contexts. In this article, we use large language models to extract granular and validated data on about 100,000 articles published in over 150 political science journals from 2010 to 2024. We show that fewer than 2% of articles that rely on statistical methods report null-only findings in their abstracts, while over 90% of papers highlight significant results. To put these findings in perspective, we develop and calibrate a simple model of publication bias. Across a range of plausible assumptions, we find that statistically significant results are estimated to be one to two orders of magnitude more likely to enter the published record than null results. Leveraging metadata extracted from individual articles, we show that the pattern of strong SoS holds across subfields, journals, methods, and time periods. However, a few factors such as pre-registration and randomized experiments correlate with greater acceptance of null results. We conclude by discussing implications for the field and the potential of our new dataset for investigating other questions about political science.

I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.

My 2025 Google Search unwrapped would be mostly searches for keyboard shortcuts for Greek letters.

The top half of a cat is concealed behind a gold curtain, its bottom half exposed.

David Attenborough [whispering]:

“Like a grain of sand in a vast desert, the predator blends seamlessly into its environment, nearly imperceptible to the naked eye.”

p-Valorum Reducio! 🪄

Alt Headline: Process focused generation mad when students become hyper focused on processes. 🙄

An Arduino Sensor Kit attached to an Arduino Uno rev 3 microcontroller. Temperature, humidity, and pressure are displayed on the board’s OLED screen.

Today’s Side Quest: Learning how to program a microcontroller to store sensor data in a CSV file. 🤓
#arduino #microcontroller

Scientists had to change more than 700 grant titles to receive NIH funding. Health disparities researchers fear what’s next www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n...

1 in 5 chemists have deliberately added errors into their papers during peer review, study finds Conclusion is one of many in a report about how chemists handle errors in manuscripts

Wild. 🤯

“More than 20% of chemistry researchers have deliberately added information they believe to be incorrect into their manuscripts during the peer review process, in order to get their papers published.”

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Just some clarity: Are the GLP-1 interventions associated with Kieser? For instance Kieser contracted or employed providers that prescribe GLP1.

For example, in the U.S., many gyms are now contracting weight management providers and referring members to these providers (likely for profit).

Sample size: 12 undergrads
Conclusion: Humans behave this way
Journal: publishes it

IRB peer-review should always be publicly available for every published study (without requesting it). Even if it’s exempt.

Transparency matters.

But mostly I want to know how the hell you got that study approved. 😂

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I love that the heart of this story was based on a rambunctious rescue dog. #Superman

Well, shit. Maybe computer science can solve all our life science problems.

www.science.org/content/arti...

The more you know. 🌈

Letter: Support science in North Dakota Ben Balas of Fargo writes: "If you’re not sure about the value of science to you and your community, I urge you to get in touch with a local scientist (including me) and ask questions."

“Doing research means discovering something no one else knows and it’s fun. It moves us forward. It reveals what’s surprising or strange in our world, and teaches us how things work.”

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This is straight out of the Microsoft playbook from the 90s and early 2000s. Get a generation of students trained (also dependent) on your product so that the next wave of the workforce integrates it into industry.

A “Students Don’t Read” Rant Yes, some discrete “students don’t read” observations are true. And, this discourse is easily weaponized with harmful implications.Perpetuating “students don’t read” amplifies deficit narratives ab…

remikalir.com/blog/a-stude...

CAUTION Alligators are present along the trails and waterways of this park. They usually eat fish, turtles and other small animals but may attack larger animals such as deer. Alligators have been known to attack humans. FOR YOUR SAFETY Alligators are dangerous. Do not swim with alligators. Do not approach, frighten or feed by state law 372.667FS. Immediately report alligator sighting in the swimming area to Park Staff.

Things my PhD did not prepare me for: addressing the IRB’s concern in a full board meeting that our participants will NOT be eaten by alligators! 🐊

Let’s collect some data! #research #phd

Interesting discussion around assessment from the @timeshighered.bsky.social Campus podcast.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Obsessions and John Hattie - The Effortful Educator Teachers are obsessed with teaching, but are they obsessed with learning?

This article hits home & reflects a lot of my teaching philosophy. I’ve spent little time teaching, but I’ve spent a ton of time being a student. It wasn’t until my instructor education toward the end of my didactic career that I understood how to learn.

theeffortfuleducator.com/2025/02/10/o...

Fargo. 😂
“At least the people are nice.”

Totally blew some students' minds last week with the fact that Bluetooth was named after King Harald Bluetooth who united the tribes of Denmark into a single kingdom (bc Bluetooth technology connects devices) AND the Bluetooth symbol is a bind rune that combines his initials, H (ᚼ) and B (ᛒ).

✅ Abstract Submitted. 😤💪

As educators, are we teaching soft skills or just facilitating environments in hopes the students will develop them? #edusky

I would say more important for CP/MLSS. Especially for tests specific to CP like the all out tests. CP testing is easy to integrate into programming. VO2 max might be less important to verify when a good ramp test is done. What do you think?