Incredible open science project.

One year later: the depth of processing demo (unsurprisingly) replicated in my new intro psych cohort! The original thread contains instructions on how to implement this demo in your class—it's a crowd pleaser, and it can be a good grounding example for research methods and study designs.

Thank you @showmydata.org for creating such a valuable tool—I could get the demo results ready in 30 seconds while my TAs introduced themselves.

This week's cover @thelancet.com

Hey guys? You could help out a little more. We stopped calling it "women's work" — but we never stopped making it women's work.

The most helpful men in the world still do less unpaid labour than the vast majority of women. Yeesh.

Lots of fascinating data and charts in this one!

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NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics?
1) Write NSF
2) Write your Congressperson
3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile + follow up

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Cancer Cancers are one of the leading causes of death globally. Are we making progress against them?

(This Data Insight was written by @hannahritchie.bsky.social.)

Explore more insights and see how trends are evolving for different types of cancers: ourworldindata.org/cancer

Thank you Mathematical Association of America and Allison Henrich for letting me write this article. Our involvement is needed now more than ever.

digitaleditions.walsworthprintgroup.com/article/Inst...

Duck and Rabbit looking at offspring "really? I think he looks more like my side of the family".

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

We've hit peak Psychology Humour

Kudos to @simine.com for all the knowledge and wisdom shared here about transparency, credibility, critique, and the scientific ecosystem.

Learn more about the origins of Neurotree and how you can use it to explore trends in neuroscience.

I wrote something about publication bias at statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/11/14/t...

Behavioral data can be very detailed but are usually aggregated and normalized in ways that smother the dynamics. Ben wrote a continuous-time Markov model to improve on this, and also wrote simulations for exploring and validating pipelines. All the code is here: github.com/BenKawam/ASN...

Wrapping up the final row all at once: What papers to you are prototype examples of having huge, moderate, or minimal citation impact and also minimal actual impact, in whatever way you define actual impact?

Tversky & Kahneman (1974) wins for huge citation and actual impact: www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Now, what paper had a moderate citation impact but a huge actual impact?

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MetaROR, a platform for reviews of research on research, is a success! We have published 24 sets of reviews and have 16 submissions in process. MetaROR now has 9 partners - these are journals that agree to use our reviews when authors submit to them. metaror.org #metascience #openaccess

A table listing various article titles and their corresponding bit.ly links, sorted by publication date from August 2024 to May 2023. The table has four columns: Title, bit.ly link, Published date, and Updated (empty). Topics include 'Per Second', 'WaterWorld', several articles about plastics, 'Two Years of the Russia-Ukraine War', among others. Most links are either geni.us or Google Docs spreadsheet URLs. Dates range from most recent (01 Aug 2024) to oldest (24 May 2023)

Updated every month: Access the raw datasets behind every #dataviz we've ever released online. The IIB Data Room. 500+ sheets, 1200+ datasets. Continually updated.
informationisbeautiful.net/data/

A precious teaching resource for neuropsychology/cognition/perception: patient videos
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An inspired display of positive, patriotic civic action. The Lexington MA rally was excellent, including this inspirational speech/poem by MA poet laureate Regie O’Hare Gibson. youtu.be/GGtiPOZBaUg?...

No Kings! It Started Here · Lexington Alarm Join our No Kings! rally on the historic Lexington Battle Green sponsored by Lexington Alarm! and Indivisible LAB. The “It Started Here” rally will feature speakers, local music, and information ab...

I'm looking forward to attending the No Kings March in Lexington MA 10am-12noon today — www.mobilize.us/lexingtonala...

Economics Nobel prize won by researchers who showed how science boosts growth Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Pewter Howitt share economics prize for work that underlines the importance of investing in research and development.

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Pewter Howitt share economics prize for work that underlines the importance of investing in research and development.

go.nature.com/4hj9NNV

Dot plot of FIDE Grand Master chess ELO ratings. Most are between 2400 and 2600. Each dot is placed in the nearest stack. Source data: https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/blob/main/data/2025/2025-09-23/readme.md

Dot plot of FIDE Grand Master chess ELO ratings. Most are between 2400 and 2600. Each dot is placed in the nearest stack or the next nearest if it helps avoid spikes.

Dot plot of FIDE Grand Master chess ELO ratings. Most are between 2400 and 2600. Each dot is placed in the nearest cell of a hexagonal grid, or a nearby cell to avoid spikes in the profile.

Dot plot of FIDE Grand Master chess ELO ratings. Most are between 2400 and 2600. Each dot is placed at its true x position, adjusted vertically to avoid overlap.

Dot plot #dataviz comparison: ratings of FIDE chess Grand Masters via Tidy Tuesday.
1 Nearest stacks (Wilkinson)
2 Smoothed stacks
3 Smoothed hexagonal grid
4 Exact position (beeswarm)
Smoothing trades delta-x for spikiness (deviation from kernel density estimate).

This blog post is a nice concise articulation of how it is tempting, but incorrect, to interpret a change score in a randomized experiment as a direct estimate of the effect size of the treatment.

WOW! These demos are impressive 👍
Looking for more examples along these lines

Countrywide natural experiment links built environment to physical activity - Nature By analysing the smartphone data of 2,112,288 participants, in particular observing and comparing the activity of the same individual in two different environments, we find that increases in the walka...

"moving from a less walkable (25th percentile) city to a more walkable city (75th percentile) increased walking by 1,100 daily steps, on average. These changes hold across different genders, ages and body mass index values, and are sustained over 3 months." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

webR - R in the browser Interactive R environment running in your browser. Execute R code, create plots, and analyze data without installing anything.

PSA for anyone beginning to use #wasm #webR to share R code snippets: We have a new short URL for the webR app: webr.sh!

it finally happened

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

Reposting the below resource for educators who, like me, are still trying to figure out a good approach to AI.

Sketchnote of Nora Newcombe's Rumelhart Prize Talk, posing three questions and case studies for cognitive science: (1) innateness (with the geometric module as a case study), (2) representations (featuring cognitive maps vs. graphs), and (3) embodiment (featuring mental rotation)

Notes from @noranewcombe.bsky.social 's beautiful Rumelhart Prize "tasting menu" - congratulations Nora!!! #CogSci2025

Excellent use of shown data in a business report.