it just struck me that in French the word for an adult woman is "wife" and the word for a young girl is "daughter", whereas we have different words for men, husbands, boys, and sons. Now I'm curious to know if other languages show the same pattern
Every PI
What on earth is a cover letter? It ve never heard of such a thing
Oh, I'm a senior academic with many papers under my belt and I know many tricks 😉 the initial post was meant to be funny. but seeing the reply made me think, a bit more seriously, that perhaps many junior colleagues are not socialized into talking to editors that way
Wait really? But see, the fact that it’s not part of the official process means that you only do this if you are in the know, and people who have not been told they can do it miss out. Confidential comments to the editor are not like that
I don't understand why reviewers can send confidential comments to the editor about a paper, but authors cannot send confidential comments to the editor about the reviews. As in "look we did our best but this review reads like an entry in the dream diary of Samuel Beckett with a bad case of flu"
As a companion piece to our 'Science Fiction Science Method' article, we explore in Nautilus how we could turn a Ted Chiang story into a behavioral experiment @azimshariff.bsky.social @iyadrahwan.bsky.social
Maybe try something like "find an appropriate [Latex/R/python] package to turn this into a graph, then write the required code and produce the graph"? it'll probably work even better if you do it in codex rather than in the standard chat interface
I just confirmed my participation to a conference and meant to write "looking forward to!" but typed instead "looking forward yo!" I have turned into the academic version of Jesse Pinkman
hahaha the precise image I had in mind!
I like how typos in manuscripts are no longer considered evidence of sloppiness, and have turned instead into luxury signals of hand-crafted writing by a human master wordsmith who keeps to the traditional ways
The canvas() function from the ggview R package is very useful for previewing/tweaking a ggplot into publication-ready format: it renders a plot "as it would appear if saved to a file with the specified dimensions".
cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
#RStats #ggplot #ggview
[user] analyze and summarize the attached document
[French LLM] *Bonjour*
My zombie Prof would complain bitterly about \textit vs \emph and the use of raw text in math mode latex instead of using \text or proper operator commands. 💀💀💀
What a better way to start the day than reading the sentence “Grammarly is being accused of necromancy”. Now *that’s* my kind of news
This piece by psychologist/philosopher Brian Earp is about the differing attitudes toward AI in psychology vs. philosophy
In psych, one common attitude is; The goal is to get the right answer to fundamental questions in psychology. If AI helps us do that, well then, all the better…
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One month to wait for Trace Elements, a conversation on my favorite genres by the author of my favorite series @adapalmer.bsky.social and the person whose taste in books I admire the most @bluejo.bsky.social. I’ve not been that excited about a book for a very very long while
Also: what a missed opportunity to make us Jonathan and Jennifer
My phone decided to autocomplete “Je” (French “I”) with Jérôme and my wife’s phone decided on Jennifer. from our texts you’d think we are obsessed with these two
- Jerome will be late tonight
- it’s ok, Jennifer will be at yoga
- Jerome will stop for food on the way
- Jennifer won’t need anything
#Wilmasreview ❄️ Wilma isn't looking for a new home in the snow — but she is wondering: should AI decide who gets welfare benefits like housing support? A new study by Dong, @jfbonnefon.bsky.social & @iyadrahwan.bsky.social looked at exactly this. 1/🧵
Pixel Agents
A VS Code extension that turns your AI coding agents like Claude Code into animated pixel art characters in a virtual office. It shows what the agent is currently doing with animations. You can also customize the virtual office however you want.
Repo: github.com/pablodelucca...
I went a little overboard with this and a little bit insane. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/02/22/t...
I do it when I'm stressed, these emails have such a soothing rhythm
Join us in June at @iast.fr Toulouse for a 2-day workshop on social influence and its large scale implications!
I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center:
If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.
I saw some people calling it Rectangular February
NGL this description of Bsky in Vulture cracked me up
There are thousands and thousands of papers with an abstract that starts with the phrase
“With the rapid development of Artificial Intelligence,”
and it looks like 99% are from Chinese authors. How come? Does that sentence sound really good in Chinese? Are Chinese LLMs particularly fond of it?
