Opiniestuk in De Morgen: www.demorgen.be/meningen/wie...

Wie bezorgd is over asielzoekers die ‘profiteren’, zou juist moeten eisen dat ze zo snel mogelijk mogen werken

Een ‘strenger’ asielbeleid kan de onveiligheid net vergroten, schrijft Lode Cossaer, medewerker aan het Hoger Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte in Leuven.

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Out of curiosity, I screened for winsori* in the full texts of articles (1990-2025) from the top 5 econ, top 3 finance, and top 3 accounting journals: * 3% in econ * 16% in finance * 27% in accounting (30% if I also include CAR and RAST) It's not entirely comparing apples with apples, but still.

Goldberger (1979, 337) put it well: 'A powerful intellect was at work. In the same vein, if it were shown that a large proportion of the variance in eyesight were due to genetic causes, then the Royal Commission on the Distribution of Eyeglasses might as well pack up.' www.jstor.org/stable/25536...

Aylwyn Scally@aylwyn-scally.bsky.social · last mo.

This is a thoughtful piece by @ent3c.bsky.social, articulating a view of hereditarianism that I think is shared by many in anthropology, psychology & elsewhere. It's also one that I, as a geneticist working on human evolution, fundamentally disagree with. ericturkheimer.substack.com/p/the-cofnas...

RE: freedom of speech, academic freedom, and race science. In this (long) thread, I’m going to 1) establish my bona fides on academic freedom and race science, 2) show why academic freedom and freedom of speech are different and… 1/34

Waarschijnlijk is dit interview de bron van deze vreemde bewering — "dat klokkenluiders problemen uit de eigen organisatie aan het licht brengen" — die nu door tal van mensen als waarheid verder wordt verspreid. www.demorgen.be/nieuws/dit-i...

‘Dit is paniekvoetbal’: rechtsfilosoof over de schorsing van Nathan Cofnas aan UGent

Nathan Cofnas, de omstreden onderzoeker die Jason Arday beschuldigde van plagiaat, is voorlopig geschorst door de UGent. Gevaarlijk, vindt hoogleraar rechtsfilosofie Raf Geenens (KU Leuven). ‘Beter ee...

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Kris Hardies@krishardies.bsky.social · last mo.

Beetje grappig/vreemd om verschillende mensen dat te zien beweren; en je vraagt je af waar ze het vandaan halen (alvast niet uit EU wetgeving of de klokkenluidersregeling van de Vlaamse overheid). Ten andere, relevantie daarvan onduidelijk; is er hier sprake van klokkenluiden? Twijfelachtig.

There are more things to address, but we have started collecting some Q&As online: vincentholst.github.io/the_curious_...

In 2023, @nature.com published 'Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time', receiving world-wide media attention. Our Matters Arising, published after a 32 month delay (more on that soon), shows that the reported decline can largely be attributed to dataset artefacts. 🧵

No blog needed for this, a tweet will do! Things psychology does better than econ: .

Julia M. Rohrer@dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 2mo ago

I wrote a post about cultural differences between psychology and economics -- things were I specifically believe econ is doing better. Surprisingly, I still stand by those points 8 years later. Somebody from econ should write a counterpart though about things that psychology does better 🤭

Just spotted the first paper in a "top 6" accounting journal with fake references — I guess it was waiting to happen. Quite embarrassing for everyone involved (the authors, reviewer(s), editor(s), and the publisher).

I'm sympathetic to the 'why should we care' stance; it's outcomes [models, theories,...] we care about, after all, no? At the same time, yes, science is for humans, and we could get to a point where AI produces outcomes that are "true" but unhelpful (e.g., unintelligible to any human).

It's interesting how quick we are to assume science is aligned by default. There's an idea that good science doesn't require human involvement, it's about the "Truth" which can be discovered & verified independent of our judgment. In doing so we ignore most of the history of science.

Alexander Kustov@akoustov.bsky.social · 4mo ago

At the same time, if you are a scientist and you want to solve a problem or simply get things done, you are going to be perfectly content if the solution is machine-generated, whether it is about analysis, the write-up or both.

Still have you read the entire paper but I wonder how this all squares: bsky.app/profile/kris... Why do we see so much super low quality AI-submissions, if it doesn't seem tot take that difficult prompting to get al least mediocer ones?

Kris Hardies@krishardies.bsky.social · 5mo ago

De editors van Organization Science publiceerden net dit: pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/... 'Submission volume has risen 42% since the late 2022 release of ChatGPT, while writing quality has declined.'

In “Six Memos for the Next Millenium”, Italo Calvino distilled six literary virtues he felt should endure regardless of how the world changed. As we enter an age of automated evaluation & production of science, what are the parallel epstemic virtues we should try to preserve? We want your input! 🧵

Bottom line: The “motherhood penalty” is real, causal, and driven by discrimination, not differences in ability. As the authors put it: “Giving evidence of being a mother leads to discrimination against mothers in hiring and pay.”

Ik sta vandaag op de website van Knack met de stelling da we amnestie behoren te verlenen aan alle mensen in irregulier verblijf. Een. draadje met argumenten Sharing is caring enzo. (Kijk vooral hoe rechts *niet* gaat ingaan op de argumentatie. ;)) / 1

De link vind je hier: knack.be/nieuws/belgi... /2

AI makes continuous reproducibility and robustness testing trivial. What happens to science under new levels of scrutiny and stress-testing by default? Some thoughts on how this could play out, informed by watching open science play out over the last decade.

Living the metascience dream (or nightmare) with AI for science

What happens when we go from replication crisis to robustness extremes?

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Nog eens bevestigd: een meta-analyse (11 mln mensen) vindt geen verband tussen inkomensongelijkheid en welzijn of mentale gezondheid. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Economic inequality does not equate to poor well-being or mental health

Previous correlations of inequality with mental-health problems might have been affected by publication bias.

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Ik denk dat we inderdaad onderschatten hoe vaak ook mannen slachtoffer zijn van partnergeweld (doch minder dan vrouwen). Wat cijfers op een rijtje: * 16% vrouwen en 9% mannen in België geeft aan ooit slachtoffer te zijn geweest van fysiek of sexueel partnergeweld * 30-32% van psychologisch geweld.

Jan Hautekeete@jan-hautekeete.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Interessant hoe diep en vanzelfsprekend het ( seksistisch) stereotype is dat mannen daders zijn en vrouwen slachtoffers. Partnergeweld tegen mannen - door vrouwen - komt even vaak voor als partnergeweld tegen vrouwen. En dan is er nog de systematische onderschatting van geweld door vrouwen.

This reminds me of this cool paper by Calcagno et al. that showed that 75% of all published articles in biology are published in the first journal they are submitted to. I guess biologists are (or at least used to be) quite well calibrated: www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Daniel Lakens@lakens.bsky.social · 8mo ago

One way to fix the system is to stop submitting low quality work. If your papers are regularly rejected after full review (ignoring desk-rejections) they are of too low for where you are submitting. Work should rarely be rejected after review by peers. If it is, you are doing something wrong.

Wil je baanbrekend onderzoek combineren met beleidsrelevante inzichten? Wij zijn op zoek naar een voltijdse doctoraatsbursaal in woningmarkteconomie aan @uantwerpen.be Solliciteren kan tot 26 februari 2026 www.uantwerpen.be/nl/jobs/vaca...

New preprint! So, what's a multiverse analysis good for anyway?> With @jessicahullman.bsky.social and @statmodeling.bsky.social juliarohrer.com/wp-content/u...

Vandaag sta ik in De Morgen met een pleidooi tegen de onzin van remigratie.

De Morgen@demorgen.be · 10mo ago

Lode Cossaer is verbonden aan het Hoger Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte van de KU Leuven. Remigratie is geen beleidsoptie maar een verkoopstrategie, zegt hij. Een simplistische fantasie.

Looking for help from the #psychology #metascience communities! This www.theoryfinder.com/theory-repos... online repository lists more than 200 theories (*), mostly from psychology. The authors' goal is to foster the use of theory ... I'd like some vetting of these theories. How do we do this?

Theories - Theory Repository

Disclaimer:

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Ik heb geen toegang tot Apache, maar we bespraken de opiniepaper van Guest et al. deze week in de leesgroep van onze faculteit. Dat leverde een boeiend gesprek op, maar we vonden toch allemaal dat het maar een zwakke paper was – ja, het is een opiniestuk, maar toch een wetenschappelijk.

Stef Aerts@stefaerts.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Artikel is het lezen waard. De nodige nuance en realisme waar nodig. Niet dat ik het met iedere zin eens ben, maar dat hoeft ook niet.

Looking for help from the #psychology #metascience communities! This www.theoryfinder.com/theory-repos... online repository lists more than 200 theories (*), mostly from psychology. The authors' goal is to foster the use of theory ... I'd like some vetting of these theories. How do we do this?

Theories - Theory Repository

Disclaimer:

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TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

The official home of the Python Programming Language

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A big moment for #Accounting Open! 🔓 Milestones unlocked: 🔥 My opening editorial is now out: "Shaping the Future of Accounting Research: Less, Better, More Interesting" 👉 lnkd.in/eyKr-T4K #AccountingResearch #OpenAccess #AccountingCommunity

This is one of the things that really annoys me – already from when I was still a student myself.

Julia M. Rohrer@dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 12mo ago

Each year I teach test design I ask the master’s students how much R they’ve learned & there is a pleasant shift (lots of undergrad psych programs in Germany now teach R), but there’s always some variation—like one program relying on excel, and another that starts with R but then switches to SPSS?!