Mark has kindly invited me to do this interview. How I got into metascience, how my path diverged from the mainstream and more if you're interested. I enjoyed thinking about his questions. Hope you enjoy reading!

Mark Rubin@markrubin.bsky.social · 2d ago

Q&A with @devezer.bsky.social about metascience, open science, and her work in this area.

A must read by @jwlockhart.bsky.social on the money behind open science. He’s spot on that there are some subjects you just can’t touch with typical peer reviewers in #metascience scatter.wordpress.com/2026/07/31/s...

science funding and the cherry picking problem

Science publishing–like all of science–requires money. There’s no getting around it, even with the open science movement. What appears free to many authors and readers still requires money and infr…

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This is more than the NSF social sciences division - now on the chopping block - awarded in grants last year. Think about that: a single AI company has the money to fund more social science research than the US govt.

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 5d ago

Anthropic AI research fund offers $5m - $30m for social science research on themes of AI impact on workers; transition initiatives; income support; building worker stakes; and wider evidence on public investments. Total fund of $200m available www.anthropic.com/news/economi...

Posting my W that I'm officially cured of dysphagia, having gone from a functoinal oral intake scale of 1 (nothing by mouth) to eating this damn bagel inside of ~2 months.

This sounds like a terrible methodology. I’d think we’d be better off looking at hdr.undp.org/inequality-a... and www.cato.org/human-freedo...

While I might be in the minority for not experiencing a renewed interest in the Odyssey this summer, I do love that my mutuals seem to be holding both an enjoyment for the movie and the scathing critique at the same time.

A phenomenal example of how quantification of societal phenomena can sit at the intersection of important, impactful and interesting.

Chloe N East (she/her)@chloeneast.bsky.social · last wk.

My paper is out today in PNAS documenting how ICE activity in Trump 2.0 compares to the last 10 years and the mismatch between the action and the rhetoric. Joint with the fabulous @caitlinpatler.bsky.social and @elizabethacox.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

That's not incidental. Under-resourced districts are easier sells for "innovative" tech and harder places to say no when a company frames it as closing an opportunity gap. Rural and Indigenous communities keep getting cast as the beta testers for whatever Silicon Valley wants to normalize next. 4/

1. A short thread on the Trump / Kratsios "Golden Age of Science" report, the claim that scientific research has become less disruptive over time, and a paper about NIH's inadequate funding of novel science written by none other than the current director of the NIH, Jay Bhattacharya.

1. The new Trump / Kratsios plan for US science appears explicitly designed to destroy US universities. Diverting money to tech donors is probably just a bonus. Gift link.

Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities (Gift Article)

Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.

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Can we take bets on which folks from #metascience go from marching to stand up for science a couple years ago to diving headfirst into this pool of money for their vanity projects and grievance fueled war on perceived qrps?

Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ahead 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:

New blog post: This one on Type-S error motivated by -A paper I read in hospital -A new keyboard -Migrating my website to astro and needing to try stuff -Playing with cursor in a low-stakes scenario joebakcoleman.com/blog/2026-07...

Sighin’ and M’attitude Errors · Joe Bak-Coleman

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J@arthurdeodat.bsky.social · 3w ago

It's unfortunate that Taco Bell seems to be bearing the brunt of public anger over this given we only know food served there has anything to do with it because the company has been more forthcoming than others. It should be lauded for such efforts, not taught to hide important info.

It's incredible what some modern inks are capable of. Here, Van Dieman's Underwater series Deep Sea Diver.

Taco Bell and Michigan swooping in to make up for deficits in federal capacity to trace pathogens is somehow an unsurprising turn of events in 2026.

Multiverse analysis, abdication of responsibility and manufacturing of doubt: I have written on some downsides I see with multiverse analysis (which I like in principle): arxiv.org/abs/2607.14623 I was inspired/provoked to write it by @dingdingpeng.the100.ci (thanks!)

This is an interesting and good take on multiverse analyses…

ArXiv Paperboy (Stat.ME+Econ.EM)@paperposterbot.bsky.social · 3w ago

arXiv📈🤖 Multiverse analysis, abdication of responsibility and manufacturing of doubt By Modr\'ak

It’s amazing seeing @holdenthorp.bsky.social say the obvious part clearly. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive

There’s a saying in the management world, popularized by NASA administrator Daniel Goldin in the 1990s, that the goal of technological improvements is to make products faster, better, and cheaper. Alt...

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Not in my field at all, but this looks like a fun read for the statistically-wonkish. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Regression to the mean can explain saturation of geomagnetic storms - Nature

The saturation of geomagnetic activity with solar wind strength can be explained by a regression to the mean effect, suggesting that the impact of extreme geomagnetic storms can be twice as large as p...

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This looks useful. A typical meta-analysis in ecology mixes experiments with observational studies, mixes coefficients with different controls and therefore different causal meanings. I would not normally say "hey the folks in medicine are doing it right, imitate them" but in this case maybe

Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar@asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 3w ago

Are our ecological conclusions built on shaky foundations? Our latest paper in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social highlights that Risk of Bias (RoB) assessment, crucial for ensuring the internal validity of research, is almost never used in #systematicreviews in eco & evo 📉 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/2041...

Is this a typo or am I just rusty on frequentist statistics?

"Even when epistemic values recognise knowledge as relational and situated, extractivist harms persist. We offer an ameliorated concept of extractivism to include subtler, systemic harms rooted in epistemic disadvantage." By Rena Alcalay and Joachim Vandekerckhove

“Epistemic Disadvantage in Open Science Practices”

Open science advocates aim to address epistemic injustice and global power asymmetries in research infrastructures yet underestimate structural vulnerabilities and risks embedded in data sharing pr...

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Because the point of this seems to have been missed by the email to *all* of the authors cc'ing my personal email address... The deeper issue here isn't whether the 245th author on a paper did an internship at Meta; it's the question of whether they're actually authors or participants.

Joe Bak-Coleman@jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 3w ago

Curious about the competing interests statesments for @i4replication.bsky.social’s @pnas.org paper. 1) funding for i4r comes heavily from an AI/tech tied group and 2) that many authors and none has a conflict of interest with LLMs and science? www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Is anyone aware of academic award *recipients* being announce from an LLM/AI company to academics? I've seen a few RFP's but nothing indicating who received the funds.

My month plus of being home for the hospital in a nutshell.

Curious about the competing interests statesments for @i4replication.bsky.social’s @pnas.org paper. 1) funding for i4r comes heavily from an AI/tech tied group and 2) that many authors and none has a conflict of interest with LLMs and science? www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Absolutely essential reading about the impact of vibe coding on open source and the practice of software development generally, by @samlearner.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/cec8...

Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party?

Our obsession with AI code-writing tools is overwhelming the web’s unsung human caretakers

ft.com

Stoked to read this new @statmodeling.bsky.social, @rmcelreath.bsky.social and every other Bayesian book. I’ve gotta say, a chapter 4 skim has got me me hooked.

Ok, so reading the reviews the reviewers hit on some of this but the authors have a remarkable capacity to pacify reviewers and there were a couple of reviewers really rooting for it.

Joe Bak-Coleman@jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 4w ago

This is one of those papers that winds up in a prominent journal and managed to bob and weave past reviewers with statistical training. Starting with the simplest possible thing: 469 effects from 70 experiments but AFAICT, there's no explicit handling of that hierarchical structure.

This is one of those papers that winds up in a prominent journal and managed to bob and weave past reviewers with statistical training. Starting with the simplest possible thing: 469 effects from 70 experiments but AFAICT, there's no explicit handling of that hierarchical structure.

This skeet will self destruct@pardoguerra.bsky.social · 4w ago

This is quite the finding for a device thats just a plagiarism machine, or whatever we are calling it this week. www.nature.com/articles/s41...