Ed Hagen

Academic papers should become Bluesky accounts (yes, really)

I agree academic publishing is broken, and to fix it, we should go even further: leaflet.pub/p/did:plc:wa...

Good advice. Thanks!

I see I misread "replies" as reposts.

Not sure. Here's the advice I got bsky.app/profile/tyna...

It turns out I can edit my post on pds.ls to switch the link to the non-editable one (at the cost of losing the likes but keeping the reposts). I'll do that a bit later today.

Also, I plan to convert my existing blog to standard.site, so that's why I didn't create a publication.

Me, teaching this part of the class with my screen projected, googling chimp brain testicles, and praying whatever comes up ain't too bad:

Aretha Franklin singing

Just to clarify: I would edit this uri to be the uri of the published version instead of the draft version, correct? Or should I change a different field?

Thanks again!

Thanks. I think I'll risk trusting folks for now, and then lock it down later.

Sam, the idea would be to rebuild academic publishing on ATProto. Peer-review is built into @chive.pub: docs.chive.pub/user-guide/p...

Various types of curation would be possible, including a system that looks virtually identical to the current one, but totally open, and/or new models could evolve.

Do you know if there is a way to fix that without deleting the post?

Dang! Still learning the system. Do you know if there is a way to fix that without deleting the post?

Wish there was a better academic publishing system? Bluesky and its underlying ATProto technology, along with services like @chive.pub and the broader @atproto.science ecosystem, could do the job. #AcademicSky 🧪 leaflet.pub/2f431faf-c12...

Each academic paper should have its own Bluesky account By @edhagen.net

The best solution, imo, would be for existing paper archiving services like Zenodo.org and @arxiv.bsky.social and osf.io to create a PDS api so that each repo/paper would also be an atproto account with its own DID and DOI. leaflet.pub/2f431faf-c12...

What Chive is - Chive A decentralized eprint service on AT Protocol where your papers, reviews, endorsements, annotations, and collections live in your PDS.

We're ramping up our alpha, and we'd love for you to join at chive.pub!

Since we launched back in January, we've been adding a ton of fun features; and to introduce them, we're going to be doing a series of deep dives over the next couple weeks on chive.leaflet.pub.

Survival curves for Ache, Hadza, and !Kung hunter-gatherers showing steep drop in infancy, and then a slower but steady decline with age

Survival curves for some hunter-gatherer populations:

Simulate Data from a (Time-Dependent) Causal DAG Simulate complex data from a given directed acyclic graph and information about each individual node. Root nodes are simply sampled from the specified distribution. Child Nodes are simulated according...

In case you don't know this package: robindenz1.github.io/simDAG/

#1218 Edward Hagen: Is Sex Binary? YouTube video by The Dissenter

New episode (1218), with Dr. Edward Hagen. We discuss whether sex is binary, the distinction between sex and gender, and more. #Anthropology #Biology #Science

YouTube: youtu.be/DjIqDREBOqI
Podcast: bit.ly/4avxMHW

- RStudio vs Positron

Basketball legend Michael Jordan dressed in a suit and holding a Nike Air Jordan athletic shoe

I've been using this image for years to illustrate prestige bias in my lecture on cultural evolution, assuming everyone would recognize him. This year I asked the class if they knew who this was, and the only student who did was the one black student. He was shocked that no one else did. 🧪 #BioAnth

VC isn't going to realize much return from only 40M users, esp. when those users can switch to X or Threads. The $ valuation requires the atproto ecosystem to grow a lot, & that'll probably only happen if independent apps succeed, & ind devs will only invest if they're confident in the ecosystem.

The behavioral matches my expectations, but not yours?

Fuentes kicks off chapter 5 of his new book, Sex is a Spectrum, with that figure:

Addendum: I can't rule out that Iris Vander Pluym got the figure from somewhere else, but she writes as if it's her figure, and it seems to be the earliest one in my google image search. I'll update if an earlier source crops up.

Review of Sex Is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary by Agustín Fuentes – Grasshoppermouse Does Sex is a Spectrum offer a bold new paradigm for understanding the biology of sex?

7. Here is my review of the book Sex is a Spectrum: blog.edhagen.net/posts/2025-0...

6. The general point made by Fuentes, Fausto-Sterling, & Iris Vander Pluym is correct: the distributions of female & male heights overlap, & many women are taller than many men. But Fuentes' figure misleadingly suggests greater overlap than actually exists, & should be corrected in future printings.

5. Here is the Vander Pluym figure (compare w/ Fuentes):

"Let’s pretend we are doing a Super Secret Scientific Study of human height. For an entire day we surreptitiously shoot giant laser beams from the Palace turrets at every adult walking on Perry Street, and our badass ray guns measure...."

On gender essentialism in public schools, bell curves and CPD. During the dog-forsaken Bush years, the world’s most infamous C student’s Department of Education issued new regulations, under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, clearing th…

4. Using google image search I think I found the source of the height figure: it's from this 2012 blogpost where the author, Iris Vander Pluym, is completely transparent that the data are made up (e.g., "I am seriously that good with imaginary data!"): perrystreetpalace.wordpress.com/2012/09/06/o...

The Science of Difference: Let's Do It Right! In Nature, Janine Clayton and Francis Collins call for efforts to ensure that preclinical studies include both male and female cells and animals. We worry, however, that this timely call will reinforc...

3. So where did Fuentes' figure come from? Fuentes cites an old blogpost by @birdlady.bsky.social as the source for his figure, but she doesn't provide her source for the figure (no mention of the CDC): www.huffpost.com/entry/the-sc...