Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
😂 fair - I shall look into this weaselly race
There's a nice Gladwell podcast about the 1910 race to the south pole
Excellent news!
"PLOS Biology will formally consider meta-research articles that are peer-reviewed on the MetaROR platform, collaborating with RoRI and AIMOS to improve the transparency of peer review in the field of meta-research."
theplosblog.plos.org/2025/08/plos...
In which a Yale prof calls for jettisoning humanities to make way for science-only universities.
“scientists… are being punished for the sins of [humanities scholars] because we all live under one roof. I cannot see a compelling reason for our continued cohabitation.”
Cover page for the manuscript: Morey, R. D., & Davis-Stober, C. P. (2025). On the poor statistical properties of the P-curve meta-analytic procedure. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2025.2544397
Abstract for the paper: The P-curve (Simonsohn, Nelson, & Simmons, 2014; Simonsohn, Simmons, & Nelson, 2015) is a widely-used suite of meta-analytic tests advertised for detecting problems in sets of studies. They are based on nonparametric combinations of p values (e.g., Marden, 1985) across significant (p < .05) studies and are variously claimed to detect “evidential value”, “lack of evidential value”, and “left skew” in p values. We show that these tests do not have the properties ascribed to them. Moreover, they fail basic desiderata for tests, including admissibility and monotonicity. In light of these serious problems, we recommend against the use of the P-curve tests.
Paper drop, for anyone interested in #metascience, #statistics, or #metaanalysis! @clintin.bsky.social and I show in a new paper in JASA that the P-curve, a popular forensic meta-analysis method, has deeply undesirable statistical properties. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/?
The link unfortunately doesn't work @peaseroland.bsky.social could you bu any chance post it again?
Authorship Changes as an Indicator of Research Integrity Concerns in Submissions to Academic Journals
from @coropower.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
is part of Day 1’s Authorship and Integrity Issues session.
Learn more and register at peerreviewcongress.org!
#metaresearch
People’s trust in experts is decreasing. Why?
— Steven Hales offers a perfect-if-true answer: because the people don’t know even know what expertise is open.substack.com/pub/hilarius... #expertise #PhilSky #PhilSci
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NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
For today’s episode in the history of bad ideas David talks to philosopher @shannonvallor.bsky.social about the myth that technology can be value free. Why do we let Silicon Valley get away with the idea that it’s never the fault of the tech?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
💥We're very excited to share that we have launched a new free training course! Explore our #OpenAccess in the #Humanities training course on RESHAPED, a new learning platform developed by the School of Advanced Study @uolondon.bsky.social.
Details here:
uolpress.co.uk/2025/06/new-...
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Genuinely interested to know if anyone answers yes
Yes I too prefer balsamic for this - but the sugar things is just what the Nona's say
Something to do with the acidity
Where are these?!
Bad women - the ripper retold. Tells the story of the women murdered by jack the ripper
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The newest and most powerful A.I. technologies — so-called reasoning systems from companies like OpenAI, Google and the Chinese start-up DeepSeek — are generating more errors, not fewer. As their math skills have notably improved, their handle on facts has gotten shakier.
Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
email starting, "The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has undertaken a review of its award portfolio. Each award was carefully and individually reviewed, and the agency has determined that termination of certain awards is necessary because they are not in alignment with current NSF priorites."
yesterday, my postdoc funding (salary and research funds) was cancelled by the National Science Foundation, effective immediately. I received the same generic, vaguely threatening, typo-ridden email as many of my colleagues who have had their awards terminated recently. (1/n)
Mis/disinformation research officially cancelled.
Understanding the creation, content, distribution, and susceptibility is one of today’s key scientific and societal challenges.
Researching this is not free speech infringement. Such a claim is intentionally misleading.
www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
Recently, the U.S. Department of Justice sent letters to scholarly journals inquiring about their process and principles. As an organization, we respect and support the CHEST journal's editorial leadership and long-standing reputation. Read more here: www.chestnet.org/newsroom/che...
"When a US Attorney wields the power of his office to target medical journals bc of their content & editorial processes, he isn't doing his job. He's abusing his authority to try to chill protected speech." #saveourscience This is such bullshit.
This is the literal destruction of knowledge.
Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...
“Literature is dangerous: it awakens a rebellious attitude in us.”
—Mario Vargas Llosa
#BookSky
#MomSky
#AcademicSky
On today of all days, with Princeton now in the Trump administration's crosshairs, I taught my undergraduates about standpoint epistemology, strong objectivity, and communities of knowledge.
On how our unique perspectives as individuals don't threaten the scientific project. They strengthen it.
