A domesticated wildcat
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Pseudo account (until I figure out privacy) of someone else who has a public account! Overtired scientist who loves cats. Or a sleepy, sassy cat in the shape of a scientist she/her/dr
normally, as a metascientist, I should be elated to read about "establishing metascience units to institutionalize continuous improvement" as a government science priority but in this case it fills me with dread
Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · 2w agoAhead of a hearing before the House Science, Space and Technology Committee tomorrow, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has released a 120-pg report, "Science: A New Golden Age" www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u... Here's the summary from the press release:
Turning the whole of US science into one gigantic automated papermill is surely the solution to all our problems.
OK last one because this hits close to home Not only is it a great misconception that replication = truth (one doesn't imply the other) but also replicability is not a reliable metric to establish a crisis either (see our paper). arxiv.org/abs/2604.26268
![Abstract of our article "The Difference Between “Replicable” and “Not replicable” is not Itself Scientifically Replicable"
Replication studies estimate the replicability rate of scientific results by aggregating binary verdicts of experiments. Exact replications are rarely attainable, so most replication sequences are non-exact. Experiments differ in ways that matter and do not share a single common data-generating process. We formalize two statistical interpretations of this non-exactness. In a shared latent rate model (benchmark), experiments are exchangeable and depend on a common
random replicability rate. In a conditionally independent rates model (operational), each experiment has its own replicability rate drawn independently from a population distribution. Under the shared latent rate model, even small variability among replicability rates induces an irreducible variance floor on the estimated mean replicability rate that cannot be eliminated by adding more replications. Under the conditionally independent rates model, the degree of non-exactness is not identifiable from standard replication data, because one binary verdict per experiment contains no information about between-experiment
heterogeneity. Researchers therefore cannot tell which precision regime they are
operating in or whether high- and low-replicability sequences can be distinguished in principle. As a result, the usual data structure of one binary verdict per experiment cannot support reliable demarcation between “replicable” and “not
replicable” results and systematically understates uncertainty, making high- and
low-replicability sequences appear discriminable when they are not. [...] Our results imply that replicability rate is not a reliable demarcation criterion for scientific results. The replication crisis, if there is one, cannot be established by the methods used to declare it.
Keywords— Replication, replicability rate, heterogeneity, non-exactness, demarcation](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yha64k6gbnmndrc2u6bxpmzo/bafkreicy3m4lxez2w4lykusv6ofykfx73w4ym7jjwonz5nh32ekwuzgqqq)
I showed this to @asterionhex.monster and they said (paraphrased) “Edward Gorey lookin ass”
Leah Reich@leahreich.com · 2w agoHi everyone! I hope you're having a great Wednesday. Just wanted to make sure everyone knows what a baby heron looks like. Ok bye see you later www.instagram.com/p/DateeyJCE3Y/
One day I will figure out how to stay calm when I see antisemitic “Stephen miller is a vampire” jokes but today is not the day.
TBF lots of us figured diseases were going to increase in general based on RFK Jr being in charge of anything health related
internet freds 🦇☠️💾✨️@esquiring.bsky.social · 3w ago
go home summer, you're drunk (this plus the smoke)
Capital Weather@capitalweather.com · 3w agoA Tornado Watch, Severe Thunderstorm Watch, and Flood Watch have been issued for parts of the DC region Saturday afternoon into evening as scattered strong to severe storms move through. Full coverage at CapitalWeather.com and the Capital Weather app. (Posted at 2:40p Satruday)
We can’t all be as talented or famous as Sam Neill, but we can all aspire to be kind enough that people happily tell stories like this about us one day.
Melanie Lynskey@melanielynskey.bsky.social · 3w agoI won an award at Sundance years ago and Sam Neill, whom I did not know, tweeted to me “we’re all so proud of you, sweetheart”. I can’t even express what that meant to me. That our most beloved national treasure, a man I worshipped, would take the time to write to me!
alright I'm sick of reading about platner let's get back to what matters
Eight years ago today, five members of the Capital Gazette staff were killed in a horrific attack on their newsroom. We honor their lives, keep their loved ones in our thoughts, and continue fighting for a future free from gun violence.
“Over prior years, we didn’t pay as much attention as we should have to the experience of our most knowledgeable engineers that have been with us through many product cycles.” Evergreen.
My cats don't care if my neck has lost all structural integrity
On the anniversary of Obergefell v. Hodges, we celebrate the landmark decision legalizing marriage equality nationwide. As the Trump Administration continues its sweeping MAGA attacks on LGBTQIA+ Americans, we recommit to defending freedom, dignity and equal protection for all.
I almost never do this, BUT: my hairdresser has been ill and hospitalized. Now on top of being sick, he's in a financial crisis. One of my least favorite things about this country - he should be taken care of. Anyway, any little bit helps. www.gofundme.com/f/support-je...
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"Broom the soup." A lot of centrists are freaking out right now, and people are both reading too much and too little into the DSA victories, but a metaphor from my career may be helpful here. 1/?
Julianne McShane@juliannemcshane.bsky.social · last mo.“All of us are a little frustrated with the Democratic Party. But you don’t blow it up. That’s what MAGA has done.” - Tish James on Mamdani 👀😳
Young people don't like feeling like they'll never have a real job or home. Middle-aged people don't like feeling suddenly precarious. Nobody wants all the fucking crazy, be it armed thugs in the streets, insane gaslighting president, mass shootings or wealth inequality or inflation or wars ... 6/x
It’s been five years since Alex Jones lost InfoWars to the Sandy Hook families. As the verdict came down, he asked: “Do these people actually believe they’re getting any money?” He hasn't paid them a penny. Well, The Onion is going pay them anyway. The new InfoWars begins July 2nd at 8 p.m. ET.
The Onion says it won’t wait for the courts, will launch Infowars to pay Sandy Hook families
The Onion’s staff is tired of waiting for the courts to settle its pending takeover of Alex Jones’ brand, so the new Infowars will launch next month.
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Five Summer Outfits That Will Make You Look Like A Sexy Little Reflecting Pool
Jamie Dupree@jamiedupree.bsky.social · 2mo agoTook a 20 mile bike ride this morning to check out the Reflecting Pool
Journalists have a duty to tell the public that the president and his aides are seriously considering suspending habeas corpus *when it is happening* rather than saving it for a book rollout over a year later
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2mo agoBREAKING: New from Haberman and Swan: Secret memos show that the Trump White House debated last year, to a greater degree than previously known, whether to limit a constitutional right — suspending habeas corpus rights for undocumented immigrants to accelerate mass deportation efforts.
The passing of Jane Yolen is a hole in my heart. She was not only beyond brilliant as an author and human being, but was incredibly kind and encouraging to me when I was just starting out and when we’d run into each other at cons or at local fairs. Her smile and her words ring in me. I never forgot.
worth re-upping right now honestly it's hard to be all those things
A domesticated wildcat@caracal.bsky.social · 6mo ago"Here, I don't have to be quiet Here, I don't have to be kind, extraordinary, and normal all out the same time But look at me run myself ragged Blood on the stage" www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8CI...
"Which is to say it was a perfectly normal morning, no better or worse than any parent of any kid might have. Normal is not what we would have predicted in those first 24 hours. But normal is what we have." This is one of two messages on this. I wrote about #DownSyndrome and prenatal testing.
Perry: An influencer couple had an abortion, then spread misinformation about Down syndrome
Last week, YouTuber Jesse Ridgway (McJuggerNuggets) and his wife Ashley announced she had an abortion earlier in the week after a prenatal diagnosis of Down's. But the debate that followed was full of...
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