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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!
www.not-ship.com/hey-guys-you...
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
Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter
(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?
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?...
I'm looking forward to attending the No Kings March in Lexington MA 10am-12noon today — www.mobilize.us/lexingtonala...
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
"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...
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.
If you're heading to @cogscisociety.bsky.social, come to our symposium “Perception as a Foundation for Common‑Sense Theories of the World”
📅 August 1 • 9 AM
📍 Salon 2
With
@thiskevinsmith.bsky.social
@shariliu.bsky.social
@judithfan.bsky.social
@ardeeb.bsky.social
— See you there! #CogSci2025
What is #dataviz animation good for? An updated thread with examples.
Experimentology cover: title and curves for distributions.
Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.
