I hosted a conference for a couple years that focused on Junior Scholars. I had to take a hiatus but wonder if people are still interested in doing this again. I am hopeful next spring--but too soon to tell.

Newly added to SSRN - with glitches galore, so apologies if you‘ve already received this through multiple SSRN distribution lists! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

THE best conference. Such a good time. (And it's now so big that it's no longer possible to talk to everyone. What a challenge - this flew by!)

Maggie Wittlin@maggiewittlin.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Had a great time at the biggest Evidence Summer Workshop yet! What an awesome scholarly community. Thanks my co-organizers Ed Cheng, @alexnunn.bsky.social, and Julia Simon-Kerr. #ESW

Science happiness is the best happiness

Thomas Fuchs 🫯@thomasfuchs.at · 6mo ago

science lady is excited

A new set of papers, sharing the long-awaited result of several reproducibility and replicability projects, including commentaries, is published today. I look forward to reading the studies, and re-using the data generated! www.nature.com/collections/...

Reliable research in the social and behavioural and sciences

Sweeping new investigations probe the replication, robustness and reproducibility of results across the behavioural and social sciences.

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It was a pleasure to have @edithbeerdsen.bsky.social present her timely and important article, Expert Evidence in Times of Skepticism & Distrust (forthcoming @michlawreview.bsky.social), at today’s @setonhalllaw.bsky.social faculty workshop, sparking an invigorating discussion 🔥🔥🔥

This is not just a win, and not even just a win that will improve many people's lives. It is also proof of concept of a form of scholarship that Rachel pioneered. (Make sure to read the whole thread.)

Rachel Lopez@rlopez.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Today is one of those rare days as a lawyer and scholar when the law offers a glimmer of hope. Amazingly, today, the PA Supreme Court held that automatic life-without-parole sentences for 2nd degree murder, including felony murder, amount to cruel & unusual punishment under the PA Constitution.

Why is coming up with an idea and having an AI work it into a full article better than publishing the idea only? That way every reader can decide for himself whether to read the idea as is or to prompt an AI for a blog version, podcast version, law-review version, essay version, ELI5 version, etc.

Orin Kerr@orinkerr.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The author of the article has decided to identify himself, in a long post over at the other place. Here are screenshots. The article itself is here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I am thrilled that my latest article, The Dirty Work of Executioners is forthcoming in the UC Irvine Law Review! The acknowledgment footnote here is long—so many people encouraged and inspired me, and asked me hard questions that made my work better. Draft coming soon to SSRN…

very aspect of life in this country is designed so that people do not form bonds or relationships with other people, it's wild to watch in action. Never seen divide and conquer applied this rigorously to a domestic population that is not under foreign occupation

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈@josephpolitano.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!

Happy to share that Developmental Evidence Rules is forthcoming in the California Law Review! What would it mean to take childhood seriously in evidence law? This article takes up that question.

Working on Restoring Justice kept me grounded this past year, so I share it w/ excitement & some nervousness. Written w/ Meredith Elizalde, whose son Nick was killed in a shooting at his high school, we argue for a right to restorative justice. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

First time presenting this work to a room of scientists. General reaction to learning about how science is evaluated for use in court: 🤯

Daniel Lakens@lakens.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Edith Beerdsen from Temple University, USA, continues the afternoon about the role that scientific error plays in the courtroom, providing a perspective on Scientific Error from how science influences the practice of law. #PSE8

This was a banger of a talk.

Daniel Lakens@lakens.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Leif Nelson pointing out that lawsuits are not great for science, as we need to be able to criticize others without the threat of having to pay huge legal fees, and I vest a ton of time, to defend ourselves.

Everything is ready for the Perspectives on Scientific Error conference that starts tomorrow in Leiden! I look forward to hanging out with the mix of metascientists, philosophers of science, and statisticians! So many old friends will be there (and hopefully some new ones)! #PSE8

My latest article with the one and only @spenceroverton.bsky.social called “Digital Ethnonationalism” forthcoming in University of Pennsylvania Law Review. Here is the papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Thrilled to share that 𝐺𝑢𝑖𝑙𝑡 𝑏𝑦 𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑑 has found a home with the Yale Law Journal. This piece examines parental liability regimes and parental rights, and how they are connected by a shared logic that harms children and families. Thank you to all those who read drafts and offered feedback!

NOT a recent acceptance but last Feb's paper now on SSRN, w/ many thanks to the excellent editors at Georgia L. Rev. Full paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... (Newer paper still in the cycle & on a very different topic! Sci. ev., skeptics, democracy. On SSRN soon, but lmk if you want to read.)

Another new article of mine is officially out: “(Re)Individualizing Criminal Law,” (67 B.C L. Rev. 255 (2026): lnkd.in/eR9eF7Fv Abstract 👇 & v. short 🧵 1/6

How manipulative is this? If you turn off gmail's AI summaries (that nobody asked for), no autocorrect for you.

Statistical Thermodynamics Structure and Reactivity I and II Molecular Simulations Advanced Group Theory Quantum Mechanics

Anthony Michael Kreis@anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college American Revolutionary History (Don Higginbotham) History of the Antebellum South (Harry Watson) The American South (Marci Cohen Harris) Judicial Politics (Joe Ura) Presidential Decisionmaking (Tim McKeown) Absolute legends.

First signed copies of THE PAIN BROKERS at @barnesandnoble.com Athens! This story that I've held close since 2021 is in your hands now and out everywhere JAN 13. It feels a little tender & terrifying to share it with the world. I hope that you fall in love with the people in it as I have. ❤️

Do you want to see the new filings at the Supreme Court each day? I built a tool to do just that. s2.smu.edu/~tbbennett/d...

This is a fascinating new experimental jurisprudence paper from Chris Jaeger on what is "reasonable." For laypeople's judgments of reasonableness, the probability of harm (P) has an important effect beyond its role in the B<PL formula. yalelawjournal.org/article/the-...

I wrote a whole article about this problem with @leecarpenter.bsky.social! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

What are people's recent experiences with SSRN processing timelines? I have had a piece in the queue for 35 days now, and I've reached out twice. Rote response and still queued. @ssrn.bsky.social

🚨New article! "The Second Patent Bargain"!🚨 In it, I argue U.S. law can & should use patent term extension—an obscure but important provision & process—to unlock late-stage, detailed evidence of the safety & effectiveness of drugs, vaccines & other FDA-regulated products. 1/ 🧵

Worth reading in its entirety, on “healthy frictions.”

The Conversation U.S.@us.theconversation.com · 10mo ago

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

Intriguing new metric. Very curious to see future work on how it correlates with replicability, spin, etc.

Daniel Lakens@lakens.bsky.social · 11mo ago

New paper finds that selective reporting remains the most replicable finding in science: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... I especially like their new exploratory metric 'p-values per participant'. Some papers had 11 p-values per participant! 🤯