New publication alert! "Beyond Representation: Epistemic Justice in Science Education through the Historical Sciences and Indigenous Knowledge" in Science & Education. Limited free copies here: rdcu.be/e7jPw
The Norwegian Consumer Council with an amazing video on enshittification and how to resist it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...
Baturday
Bat World Sanctuary
Screenshot of my username and handle. The domain is eurosky.social.
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my course notes on a bayesian workflow for (single agent) cognitive modeling are now fully revised and online: fusaroli.github.io/AdvancedCogn...
Predictive checks, updating checks, sensitivity analyses and simulation based calibration in @mc-stan.org
Feedback is very welcome!
Can AI actually help us understand controversial topics, or is it just making things harder? I'm joined by learning expert @galesinatra.bsky.social to bridge the gap between complex ideas and artificial intelligence.
youtu.be/WjsDhmbxwns
I rounded up a few Claude Skills for #RStats users.
Huge thanks to the creators who developed them. They share Skills for everything from tidyverse code to brand.yml files to learning while using AI.
Hope the list is useful, and please let me know what I missed! 🧡
rworks.dev/posts/claude...
For researchers working with the IPEDS dataset (nces.ed.gov/ipeds/), which can be kind of a bear to work with, especially over time, I've constructed some code to harmonize the data into a single DuckDB database
github.com/paulgp/ipeds...
A skill I've had to learn the hard way: saying no to very cool opportunities when those opportunities would get in the way of my core work.
🚀 My first PhD paper is out!
I'm glad to share my first PhD publication: "Country-level differences in socio-economic development and cultural dimensions are associated with workers' economic expectations of AI", published in Computers in Human Behavior Reports (OA: doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...).
🐉Hey there to all my 5 followers! UAB is seeking a Systematic Review Librarian. Come work with me!! Learn more and apply here: uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/27128 #medlibs
Qualitative researchers, have you used any automated tools for evaluating research (micro tasks or full-blown peer review)?
#qualitative #qual #peerreview
Answering the most popular question in a PhD methods course
datacolada.org/133
Vor einigen Jahren war es noch kompliziert, über das deutsche Bundesarchiv NSDAP-Mitgliedschaften abzufragen. Nun haben die National Archives in den USA anscheinend die gesamte Zentralkartei ins Netz gestellt. Jedenfalls ein sehr tolles Tool für Mikrogeschichte. catalog.archives.gov/id/12044361
The data dictionary: A simple but effective way to plan, organize, validate, and document your data.
datamgmtinedresearch.com/document#doc...
With some help from Claude Code, I have the app I've always wanted:
elicitcausal lets you design a causal graph with your theoretical priors & preregister it. Then after you complete a study, you can upload your graph and get estimates of causal learning.
Link: causal.wilddata.solutions
#rstats
A classic black-and-white formal portrait of Dr. Alice Hamilton (1869–1970), pioneering American physician, toxicologist, and founder of occupational medicine in the United States. She is shown in a head-and-shoulders pose against a neutral studio background, gazing directly at the camera with a calm, intelligent, and resolute expression. Her dark hair is neatly parted and pulled back into a low bun, and she wears a high-necked dark blouse or dress with a simple brooch at the collar, embodying the quiet determination and professionalism that defined her groundbreaking career advocating for worker safety, researching industrial poisons, and becoming the first woman faculty member at Harvard Medical School. #PublicHealth #ScienceSky #WomenInScience
A sepia-toned historical photograph from around 1893 showing an anatomy lecture or demonstration at the University of Michigan Medical School. In the center foreground, a young woman—Alice Hamilton—stands at lectern, dressed in a long dark Victorian gown with high collar and long sleeves, addressing the class while gesturing toward a seated male demonstrator holding a small anatomical specimen. Surrounding her in tiered, curved wooden amphitheater seating are dozens of male students in formal 19th-century attire (suits, bow ties, mustaches), along with a few other women in long dresses seated among them. A bearded older man (likely the professor) sits nearby, and several attendees hold books or papers. The circular, tiered room with high walls and simple wooden benches creates a dramatic, intimate academic setting, capturing a rare moment of a woman participating actively in medical education during an era when female medical students were still exceptional.
Physician, research scientist & author Dr. Alice Hamilton was born #OTD in 1869.
She was:
+ The "mother of occupational medicine"
+ A pioneer in industrial toxicology
+ America's foremost authority on lead poisoning (c. 1916)
+ The first woman appointed to the faculty of Harvard, 1919
#WomenInSTEM
The nebula appears to have distinct regions that capture different phases of its evolution: an outer shell of gas that was blown off first and consists mostly of hydrogen, and an inner cloud with more structure that contains a mix of different gases. Both Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) and MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) show a distinctive dark lane running vertically through the middle of the nebula that defines its brain-like look of left and right hemispheres. Webb’s resolution shows that this lane could be related to an outburst or outflow from the central star, which typically occurs as twin jets burst out in opposite directions. Evidence for this is particularly notable at the top of the nebula in Webb’s image, where it looks like the inner gas is being ejected outward.
🆕 These new NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope images show the Cranium Nebula using two instruments that reveal enhanced details of its brain‑like appearance. 🧠🧪🔭
🔗 esawebb.org/news/weic2605/
@science.esa.int @stsci.edu
**Postdoc position in human category learning**
@thecharleywu.bsky.social, Frank Jäkel and I are seeking a postdoctoral fellow to lead a joint project on human category learning at the Centre for Cognitive Science @tuda.bsky.social.
www.career.tu-darmstadt.de/tu-darmstadt...
Looking sharp (or fuzzy), tomorrow…
Everyone fighing over TIbble versus DF >| vs %>% Me: googling what mean means
Me? I'm just happy to be here #rstats
The language I'm working on, T, a reproducibility- and pipeline-first DSL for Data Science, has now a basic packaging system. Say hello to `hello_t`, the very first package for T!
github.com/b-rodrigues/...
A classic black-and-white portrait photograph of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Maria Goeppert Mayer, taken in a classroom or lecture setting. She stands in front of a large chalkboard filled with handwritten nuclear physics equations, nuclear mass data, and element symbols (including notations like I¹²⁹, Cr⁵², and various alpha, beta, and gamma values). Goeppert Mayer has a thoughtful, focused expression as she gazes upward slightly, with her lips pursed in concentration. She wears a patterned dress with short-sleeved matching jacket with a geometric black-and-white design, a pearl necklace, and her hair styled in soft curls. In her hands, she holds a wooden slide rule.
Theoretical physicist Maria Goeppert Mayer died #OTD in 1972.
She shared the 1963 #Nobel Prize in Physics (w/Wigner & Jensen) "for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure." She was the second woman to win a Nobel in #physics. (Who was the first?)
#WomenInSTEM
Do y'all know of any RCTs (or other randomized experiments) with an interesting nominal* outcome?
*In this case, I'm not including binary or ordinal outcomes as "nominal." Rather, here I'm looking for 3+ unordered categories.
How strong is the threat to academic freedom? If you are a publishing psychologist, please help us get a better understanding of the threats due to external pressure and self-censorship in the publication process by taking our 5-10 min anonymous survey: t1p.de/t1qof
Results will be shared here!
This is particularly weird because most of Open Science boils down to: just be honest. Write down in your paper what you actually did. Seems a rather low bar for any science, but apparently pointing this out touches upon a very sensitive issue for some fellow academics.
Scientists: if you have pursued/secured philanthropic funding in the wake of federal research funding cuts, I want to talk to you.
Reposts appreciated!
If you're doing something with AI coding for open-science and meta-research, I'd be happy to talk more. Please do reach out to me at giladfel@gmail.com
poor bee GOLD_07, whose embarrassing mistake has been immortalised in a way beyond his comprehension
