I also have this thread on our chapter
Berna Devezer@devezer.bsky.social · 2y agoAlright it's here! Where we push back against the exploratory-confirmatory distinction that's become canonized in metascience and talk about what we think exploratory research (including exploratory experimentation and modeling) means and why our view is incompatible with 'unplanned data analyses'.
Was just talking with a friend about how jeans, a red checked button down shirt and a newspaper from that day is an easy dead Mitch McConnell Halloween costume and now she sends me this:
Donald Trump cut fire prevention to give Elon Musk a tax break. www.startribune.com/report-doge-...
Report: DOGE delayed fire-prevention plan for Echo Trail near Ely
Washington Post reporting supports the allegations of a former Forest Service ranger now running for the Legislature.
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Surveys like this always alarm people Fortunately, recent research from cognitive psychology shows that the reason people are so wildly wrong when estimating the size of minority groups is largely NOT because of prejudice — but rather how humans think about unknown proportions of any kind
Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · last wk.This actually explains something about how people talk about the Jewish community.
Today, in violations of the rule of law that would be sufficient for impeachment in any other American presidency but aren't in this one because pathological partisan loyalty has rotted the constitutional order:
tony romm@tonyromm.bsky.social · 2w agoNEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
Post a perfect album from the 90's that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice In Chains
Georg Henning@georghenning.bsky.social · last wk.Post a perfect album from the 90's that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice in Chains
Accurate scientific reporting on rigorous research is my passion
Josh Grubbs@joshuagrubbsphd.com · 2w agoAccurate scientific reporting on rigorous research is my passion
I just saw a meme that said “get in losers, we’re reclaiming the emdash”. People. PEOPLE. Where are your STANDARDS? It CLEARLY should be “get in, losers — we’re reclaiming the em dash.”
Heard this one? The City of Barcelona traded 3 lanes of vehicle traffic for an exceptional 4.7 km green pedestrian corridor in the heart of the Eixample grid. Businesses sued, & eventually won in court. Then they admitted that they actually like the change. Streets for people are good for business.
The Legal Attack on Superblock Barcelona - City Lab Barcelona
In this blog post, I attempt to unpack what this court ruling is about, the legal arguments, and who is behind it. Did the city really do something wrong? What will happen to the Consell de Cent proj...
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Also: this isn’t just about science. This will devastate the entire federal grant funding process, which means all academic research grants, arts grants, community project grants, agriculture grants, conservation grants, etc. Please leave a comment opposing this change.
Karen James@kejames.bsky.social · 3w agoTOMORROW (Monday) is the LAST DAY to leave a public comment about the proposed OMB proposal that will be an absolute disaster for science if adopted. Follow the link below for instructions on leaving a good comment.
The rise of larger vehicles like SUVs and pickup trucks, with their taller hoods and larger blind zones, has contributed to a 75% increase in pedestrian and cyclist deaths since 2009. Until we design better streets and ban these vehicles, people outside these vehicles will keep dying.
The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s (Gift Article)
The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found.
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Shout out to the #rstats {performance} package. Its check_model() function is super helpful for model evaluation. #statistics #STEM
Class in the US is entirely a matter of aesthetics now. Rich suburban kids are “country”. Beard Dudes who look like they love IPAs are “working class.” Teachers who make $32,000 a year but have to dress up sort of nice in JCPenney clothes are “elites“. None of these words mean anything anymore.
Dorian Lynskey@dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 3mo agoWhat is it about oyster farming in the American imagination that makes a privately educated small businessman “working class”?
this is how we heal the nation and ourselves headed to Wisco later this week my body is ready
Luke Knox@lukeknox.me · 3mo agothrowing a brat in there
I want cis Americans to sit uncomfortably with the fact that most of these restrictions were ushered in through the liberal act of "just asking questions" about trans people.
Michael Clemens@mclem.org · 3mo agoThe United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...
Jasper has many many many opinions. He is very cute, if slightly loud.
This is not lets-propose-this-and-see-what-Congress-says. Their plan is more like USAID: eliminate before Congress can weigh in.
Pam Davis-Kean, PhD@umpamdk.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...
"Many said they mourned an America that valued knowledge for its own sake."
Kevin Elliott@kjephd.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe Associated Press @apnews.com writes a eulogy for the invaluable CIA World Factbook, unaccountably & unceremoniously killed by the Trump regime as part of its war on public & reliable information. apnews.com/article/cia-...
yep, my kid's life saving cystic fibrosis medications that literally correct the specific protein defects that cause CF at the cellular level are due to small molecule drugs, developed by big pharmaceutical companies, addressing targets identified by NIH research
Ashwin Varma@ashwinvarma97.bsky.social · 4mo agoThey are complementary. There are essentially 0 drugs approved that didn't rely on NIH R&D. But NIH funding alone cannot deliver drugs, because NIH funding discovers new biology, but pharma R&D discovers the actual **drugs** (small molecule, monoclonal antibody) that modulates the biology.
They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science, the kind you literally cannot restart once it’s gone. #USForestService
Crawford Kilian@crof.bsky.social · 4mo agoWell, this is simply infuriating. Someone's got to fight this in court. BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service open.substack.com/pub/morethan...
Every Justice Department or FBI employee who worked on the criminal investigations into President Donald Trump has been fired, resigned, or took early retirement, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said. https://cnn.it/4ddkUrI
I need to like this one at least four times
Berna Devezer@devezer.bsky.social · 4mo agoLast word: History of science exists. Philosophy of science exists. Science and technology studies exist. There is no excuse for writing about science in complete and utter oblivion about vast scholarship that has produced a lot of knowledge and understanding about what science is and how it works.
My 11 year-old lives like a normal 11-year-old instead of a chronically ill child who was likely halfway through his life already because of the triumphs of science that are still occurring
Berna Devezer@devezer.bsky.social · 4mo ago"Science is no longer triumphant" That's rich after coming out of a long and devastating pandemic and experiencing the power of mRNA technology first hand! What is this lofty claim based on?
"There's no we we could do that in the US." 20 years ago there was no way they could do it in France, but here we are.
Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 5mo ago“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
Remember that time trump was being successfully being prosecuted for serious crimes and everyone in charge dragged their feet because they didn't want white supremacists to be mad at them?
If these were scientists on a NIH grant; or “bureaucrats” at the DoL (read female & black) there would be a 15m Fox segment about waste, fraud and abuse.
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 5mo agoNEW ORLEANS: ICE agents overlook the security area on the lower level (photo shared w/ me)
Paging the Spring Garden Road Merchants Association
Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 6mo agoHalf of business owners on this Toronto street estimated that more than 25% of their customers arrived by car. In fact, it was 4%. And the % of customers who who walked or cycled? 72%. Retailers routinely overestimate the # of “car customers.” Via @carltonreid.com www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...
8 in-custody deaths in 50 days—one every 6 days. This needs to be a much larger story.
Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal@jayapal.house.gov · 6mo agoI received notification of yet another death at an ICE facility, meaning 38 people have died in custody since Trump returned to office. ICE is failing to ensure the health and safety of the people it is responsible for. We need immediate oversight of this entire operation.
