ejwagenmakers.bsky.social

@ejwagenmakers.bsky.social

We still have a few spots left for our 2026 version of the hybrid JASP Workshop week end of August featuring a day on Discovering Statistics, a day on State-of-the-art Meta Analyses, a day on Machine learning, and two days on Bayesian hypothesis testing😊 (also single days) jasp-stats.org/workshops/

Workshops - JASP - Free and User-Friendly Statistical Software

The JASP team is excited to support four workshops this year (2026). Each of these workshops can be attended either in person (at the University of Amsterdam) or online: On Monday August 24th, we orga...

jasp-stats.org

E
E

Have you used Bayes factor to test point-null hypotheses in Hierarchical models and wondered: 1. Bridge sampling (BS) or Savage-Dickey density ratio (SDDR)? 2. If SDDR, which density estimation method? 3. How many MCMC samples? 4. What's the cost-benefit trade-off? This may be of interest to you.

Bild
Zurich Cognition Lab@cognition-zurich.bsky.social · last mo.

How to best estimate Bayes factors for standard hypothesis tests? We compared bridge sampling and the Savage-Dickey density ratio. The latter does a good job in most constellations typical for experiments in cognitive psychology.

E
E

Another demonstration of the use of AI in academia. This time, the AI decyphers Feynman's handwriting. Blogpost: www.bayesianspectacles.org/an-ai-decryp... Target paper: Christian et al. (2026). Resolving Feynman’s restaurant problem reveals optimal solutions and human strategies. PNAS, 123.

An AI Decryption of Feynman’s Napkin

Before proceeding, I should say something about Richard Feynman. In his physics work, Feyman was clearly a genius. And as a public persona, Feynman was certainly also charismatic (see for instance …

bayesianspectacles.org

Almost unlimited things to hate in the OMB proposal. But researchers shouldn't let people get away with saying untrue things. If APCs are no longer allowable, researchers can and will find other ways to achieve public access. None of us got into this work to write for each other behind paywalls.

E

Major scientific advances occur when technology makes trivial something that had been extremely burdensome. We are on the verge of the second 1000x one that directly affects my work. It doesn't eliminate work, it makes possible work that previously was just fantasy.

Brian Nosek@briannosek.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This wonderful work shows an AI-assisted workflow that could reduce reproducibility check cost and time by orders of magnitude. Soon, large-scale projects like SCORE may only be needed for training and validation evidence. Talk www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijad... Paper www.leoyang.org/publication/...

The press want you to believe there are violent protests in Brighton today. Counter protesters outnumbered the Fascists by many thousands. We sang, danced, and waved inflatable bananas and hearts in the name of tolerance and diversity. Fascists not welcome in Brighton.

This...the fetishizing of unreplicable neuroscience in order to legitimize our work is self-defeating. We don't need to know that depression is in the brain (as opposed to what???) to know it is problematic. How much money have we wasted proving something like depression is "real"?

Kevin Mitchell@wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Hey psychologists, when you're explaining some psychological phenomenon that's perfectly well captured in psychological terms, maybe you don't need to refer to some shitty neuroimaging study with ten people to make it seem more "sciencey"...