The rise of metascience embodies and builds on this result-centric focus that has come to define the scientific endeavor over the past few decades. Maybe the backlash against AI will help us finally push back against this trend and bring the focus back to the context, process, assumptions & models.

I think it's also the case that we will not be starved of understanding because of AI, but because we've been increasingly devaluing understanding in favor of results and outputs that AI fits right into the current state of scientific production.

My department is looking to hire 3 new faculty members! Please share widely. Assistant Professor - Cognitive: apply.interfolio.com/193975 Assistant Professor - Social Psychology: apply.interfolio.com/193979 Associate/Full Professor - Mental Health: apply.interfolio.com/193984

At least where I got my PhD, if I wasn't sure what I found, how it worked, if it was useful or significant, nobody pretended I accomplished anything.

Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they)@katjathieme.bsky.social · 19h ago

Who are the scientists, what are their names, and what have they published on this topic. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Ooops, we live hacked the "safe" @anthropic.com models today at tbdcon! bUt ItS sEcUrE! Haha. No.

My patrician told me Phoenicians keep eating his consuls so I asked how many consuls he has and he said he just goes to Fields of Mars and has a dictator for elections send him a suffect consul afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding consuls to Phoenicians and then Two started crying.

Calling this a dj plot because it looks like levels on a mixer

Happy bisexuality visibility week

julia 🌋@hypv.bsky.social · 21h ago

a thing i learned today is that from 1991 till 2025 it was the official position of the church of england that being gay is a sin but there's room for reasonable diasgreement, while being bi always must be wrong, no nuance

I’m something of an evolutionary psychologist myself

Josh Grubbs@joshuagrubbsphd.com · yesterday

Men prefer bbq because, as hunters in hunter gatherer societies, we would have been responsible for killing, butchering, and smoking meat while women were busy gathering edible plants, roots, fruits, and nuts. Women prefer air fryers because they worked to dry gathered fruits to preserve them.

This is eerie. I wonder if you could do something similar with buoys on now dry lakes --using recorded data-- older sound recordings from deforested locations, etc. The difference between copying something real elsewhere and something real elsewhen can be small. via @kevinr.free-dissociation.com

Bart⚓️@bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 20h ago

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

I've been listening to a lot of @fallofcivilizations.com and it's so so good. Went looking for a map overlay of the Aztec empire on modern Mexico and was surprised and delighted to find this AMAZING 3d reconstruction of Tenochtitlan tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl

a portrait of Tenochtitlan

a 3D reconstruction of the capital of the Aztec Empire

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Don’t let the “lecturer” title undersell this — there is often more stability in these positions than they advertise.

Princeton Neuroscience Institute@princetonneuro.bsky.social · 23h ago

📢 We’re hiring! PNI is seeking a full-time Lecturer in Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience to teach undergraduate and graduate courses in computational modeling and human cognitive neuroscience. Priority consideration: Nov. 30 Apply: apply.interfolio.com/193741 #NeuroSkyence #NeuroJobs

Fully expecting this to be based on a tiny self-selected sample predisposed to aggression, with participants coached on how to act, exaggerated performances for observers, all run by a host with a flair for showmanship but questionable ethical instincts. You know, a direct replication

DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · last wk.

Netflix has announced a new reality series titled ‘THE NEW STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT’. The series follows 30 participants who enter a real prison and are randomly assigned as guards or prisoners. They must see if they conform to the roles or if morality wins.

lil brms rmarkdown tip v <- list() # brms gives you these v$brms <- model$version$brms v$cmdstanr <- model$version$cmdstanr v$stan <- model$version$stan v$rstan <- model$version$rstan # close enough v$r <- getRversion() # but i should be stashing the R version inside the model object

CANINE VECTOR BORNE DISEASES in graphic detail please look at this book with your child while you wait for the vet to see you

John Flournoy@johnflournoy.science · 2d ago

Amazing picture book at the vet

Preaching to the choir but every time I visit Canada it's like I'm traveling to a first world country. The Netherlands too. Also Japan. When I come home to the USA?????

just runnin skype a scientist livestreams www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7BR...

Hummingbirds with Alyssa Sargent

YouTube video by Skype A Scientist

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I'm overwhelmed and have a headache and am very tired, but then I got an email that said " The kids learned a ton today and are excited to take what they learned and write all about it in their science journals! Thanks so much for organizing such awesome events for our students." and now I'm like 🥹

Reminding myself that these are text prediction models. Trained on a corpus including descriptions of itself, and how people like to answer these kinds of questions, the response Ted is talking about doesn't require much.

Ted Underwood@tedunderwood.com · 23h ago

I am never, ever getting used to this much self-knowledge without consciousness. Close-read the list of "stuff I don't have." There are abysses in there. Then it pulls out to a breezy "plus flight, which seems like a good deal."

Reminder that it took TEN YEARS to settle on the ohm as the standard unit of electrical resistance.

Rachel Coldicutt@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · yesterday

I might write a little song about how standards don't fix anything without legal enforcement and routine safety inspections.

Fun story. As I was a grad student I published a 1st-author paper on co-rumination in J of Adolescence that got discussed in the NYT (side note, the reporter interviewed me but only named my advisor in the story). Our PR office wanted to build on it for more press, so they wrote up a press release…

Sanjay Srivastava@sanjaysrivastava.com · 2d ago

I’ve never heard of a university press office that doesn’t ask researchers to review and sign off on press releases. Unless I hear otherwise, this is on the scientists, not the PR office

In case you missed it live, this session was recorded and is now available! Remarkably, it now appears that Hurricane Polo has likely become the fastest-strengthening East Pacific hurricane on record (from tropical storm to category 5 strength in ~30 hrs)!

A Category 5 hurricane west of Mexico? Plus: Thoughts on CA's El Niño-related emergency declaration

The latest in a recurring series of live, virtual, & interactive #weather and #climate-focused "office hours" hosted by Dr. Daniel Swain. 9/22/2026 topic: I'll offer a deep dive into rapidly strengthening Hurricane Polo in the tropical East Pacific, which may go on to become a top-of-scale Category

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Some generic brand 286 system.

samuel mehr@mehr.nz · 2d ago

IBM PS/2, baby!!!!

Amazing picture book at the vet

ok but now i get to link you all to one of my favourite linguistic shitposts www.tumblr.com/fixyourwriti...

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💬 1  🔁 25090  ❤️ 21833 · For the confusèd among you. · Old English (Anglo-Saxon): Eft he axode, hu ðære ðeode nama wære þe hi of comon. Him wæs geandwyrd, þæt hi Angle genemnode wæron. Þa cwæð he,…

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DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · 2d ago

Robert Eggers is set to direct a new film adaptation of ‘ROMEO AND JULIET’. The film will feature the actors speaking in Olde English. (Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...)

imagine the headline "Boston physician organization successfully lobbies to ban life-saving surgical tools that could reduce employment for surgeons." Okay that's a terrible headline, way too long, but this is what Boston did for self-driving cars.

mathematical branches #oc

BREAKING: financial systems appear to be shut down at NIH—days before the end of year, as NIH funding is WAY down. More to come. Time to lock in, folks.