🚨 New blog post! 🚨 Collaborating on Quarto documents can be tricky, especially if you're working with people who don't need to write code 🫂 So I've pulled together some options for collaborating on Quarto documents into a blog post! Link: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/collabo... #QuartoPub #RStats

Collaborating on Quarto documents – Nicola Rennie

Collaborating on Quarto documents, particularly non-technical collaborators who don’t want or need to edit any code, is hard. This blog post outlines a few different options that might make it a littl...

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Day 2 of #ExE2026 ! Thank you to all our sponsor journals. I am proud to say ExE is sponsored strictly by society and non-profit journals! 👌📄 A huge thanks to our journal sponsors (see next post), who take their APC revenue and use it to support the sci communities like ExE ❤️ 1/2

Brave people fight for a free internet that works the way it should and it had before the "subscription everywhere" model took over! In this vein, a hidden gem is the delphytool site -- a suite of free, easy, no-frills no-subscription tools -- including a QRcode generator here: tools.rmv.fyi

Adam Konig | Play Mischief on steam! 🐀@konig.games · last mo.

My biggest pet peeve is that there's a ton of scam websites that are "Free QR Code Generator"s then the QR code stops working after a few days and then redirects you to ask you to PAY to re-activate it. I made a page on website for making ACTUALLY FREE QR Codes. Enjoy. konig.games/QRCodes/ #QRCodes

In so many ways, Rome is a uniquely extraordinary city. But did everything that’s good about Rome happen a LONG time ago? That’s how I used to see Paris until 10-15 years ago. Rome’s choking in cars. Everything great about it is being made worse by that. So what’s getting better today in Rome?

Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Seriously, what else was I going to do on my first day here in Rome except inventory piazzas? My simplistic assessment? Most either had too many tourists (I know, hypocritical), or if less well known, too many vehicles. Most had too little seating, too many ugly fences, too many building ads…

I have been tinkering with how to quickly modify a Quarto theme, and I think I have a decently fast solution. Introducing the Quarto Theme Tweaker Run the `Open Theme Tweaker` command in an active qmd file. Modify the settings to your liking. Save the results. github.com/EmilHvitfeld... #quarto

Representativeness and response validity across nine opt-in online samples

Representativeness and response validity across nine opt-in online samples

Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 22 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02438-zStagnaro et al. compare nine opt-in participant samples on measures of response validity, representativeness and professionalism. They find substantial variation across samples and offer guidance for choosing samples based on the research question.

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Our paper "Recognising and mitigating LLM Pollution in online behavioural research" is now officially published in Nature Communications. Congratulations to our team members Raluca Rilla, Tobias Werner, Hiromu Yakura, Anne-Marie Nussberger www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Recognising and mitigating LLM Pollution in online behavioural research - Nature Communications

Online behavioural research faces a growing methodological and epistemic threat as participants increasingly rely on large language models: LLM Pollution. Amid accumulating empirical evidence of conta...

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An inevitable development for for-profit Open Access publishers is Fordism: automation & massification. If you earn money piece-rate for each paper you want to increase the flow of papers while minimizing cost. e.g. very low and *uniform* turnaround times at Frontiers and MDPI

Michael Okun@michael-okun.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

New paper from me and @jaredb-econ.bsky.social on the debt and our fiscal outlook! Before we dig into the paper, I think we should be frank about how we got here. At the beginning of the century, debt was on track to be stable indefinitely. Then Congress enacted enormous tax cuts. Now it's not.

Yeah, this datavizs26.classes.andrewheiss.com/resource/ai-... And also this: www.andrewheiss.com/ai/ And this for the idea of purposely adding friction into the learning process: stats.andrewheiss.com/pinky-lychee/

AI, LLMs, BS, and vibe coding – Data Visualization with R

Use R, ggplot2, and the principles of graphic design to create beautiful and truthful visualizations of data

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I will be teaching an intro to #Rstat course this coming Fall term. And I wonder: should I? And if so, how? Can we still teach the commands/workflows the old way? How do you teach statistical coding when LLMs can and will code for you? I'm open to any suggestion #Science #Teaching #AI

You heard the man!!

Andrea Matranga@andreamatranga.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Fot those who didn't follow the previous episodes @sameyler.bsky.social is the editor that helped me get the Neolithic paper past the finish line at the QJE. She runs her own editing outfit (stderr-editors.com). Your papers need editing, and Sam should be doing it.

ok #Rstat people I realize I'm living in the past. It's 2026, summer is here, time to update my stack. So - should I switch to @posit.co Positron - how do I integrate AI assistants into Rstudio/Positron and which one should I - other coding extensions I absolutely need to add to my workflow?

What’s happened to income-group gaps in parental spending on children in the U.S.? For the last 45 years, they just. keep. getting. wider. In a new @socarxiv.bsky.social working paper, I present updated evidence on trends in spending on childcare, education, and extracurricular activities.

Great work, but what a confusing abstract. If you're debunking a result, may I suggest 1) don't report the original findings that support the theory and 2) state upfront that the replication failed.

Periodic reminder that @peercommunityin.bsky.social provides free peer review with links to >100 "PCI-friendly" journals, most of which are diamond open access (free) or not-for-profit. peercommunityin.org/pci-and-jour...

PCI and journals - Peer Community In

Once an article has been recommended by a PCI, the authors can opt to leave it on a preprint server, to publish it in PCI Journal, to submit it to a PCI-friendly journal or to any other journal.

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Michael Okun@michael-okun.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

Frontiers last year published the famous AI rat-dck picture. They retracted it swiftly claiming it was a mistake. Now they reconsidered. Between honest work from editors and turning their journals over to AI, no trade back. rat-dck wasn't so bad after all! Respect to @michael-okun.bsky.social

Michael Okun@michael-okun.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

An inevitable development for for-profit Open Access publishers is Fordism: automation & massification. If you earn money piece-rate for each paper you want to increase the flow of papers while minimizing cost. e.g. very low and *uniform* turnaround times at Frontiers and MDPI

Michael Okun@michael-okun.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

That's #FrontiersMedia ladies and gents. The strain on scientific publishing is motivated by journal groups wanting to streamline the publishing of papers. Gold OA ties papers published to revenue. The more you can pump out, regardless of quality, the better. #ResearchIntegrity #SciPub

The strain on scientific publishing

Abstract. Scientists are increasingly overwhelmed by the volume of articles being published. The total number of articles indexed in Scopus and Web of Science has grown exponentially in recent years; ...

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Michael Okun@michael-okun.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Over the last month I saw that human editors are now stripped of control. I could no longer stop the system from auto-inviting "reviewers" with zero relevant expertise. Even worse - the AI began actively revoking the invitations I manually sent out to actual, qualified experts.

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

What France would look like with all the trees they cut down to print letters they had no intention of pronouncing.

1. How common is LLM use in scientific publishing, and how does it vary across field, publisher, journal prestige, author demographics etc.? @kylesiler.bsky.social has new paper in PNAS that addresses this question on a massive scale: 7.3 million papers from Elsevier, PLOS, MDPI, and Frontiers.

The diffusion of large language models in published academic articles | PNAS

Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly changing academic research, raising questions of who is adopting these tools and under what conditions. Th...

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Today PLOS publishes Redefining Publishing: Practical pathways to open science, the public report from our 18-month research and design project. The report asks how publishing can better support open science. Explore the report: plos.io/4o3bsun #OpenScience

Redefining publishing for the Open Science era

Explore innovative publishing models that support open science, enhance research transparency, and foster global collaboration in the evolving landscape of scholarly communication.

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Hier zur Veranschaulichung ein paar Zahlen, wie viel Profit die großen Verlage machen. Wir reden von @elsevierconnect.bsky.social, @springernature.com, Taylor & Francis, Wiley, and @sagepub.com Preprint dazu: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820

Some excellent thoughts the future of publishing and evaluation in an overstrained system founded on uncompensated labor

This skeet will self destruct@pardoguerra.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Some quick thought on what this means for the way we communicate science: time to kill the peer reviewed article? pardoguerra.org/2026/05/09/i...

Commented on the spike in retractions lately. There's no question we can't just let people get away with fraud. But to deal with the root problems, we need to address the root causes. #SciPub Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Drain: metaror.org/article/the-... PISS: arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563

The Causes and Impacts of Rising Research Retractions | The Scientist

Retraction data points to better identification of scientific misconduct and the negative impact of the publish-or-perish culture in academia.

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I have them all. Academia is self-inflicted pain -- but also because we have the luxury of having a job in which pain inflicted from others (hierarchy, clients, customers, suppliers) is low to non-existent. So we do it ourselves.

Markus Eichhorn@markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Bingo! Do I win a prize now?

Spot on! To different extents in US and EU, from the '50s onwards we *actively* worked to make cities more car-friendly, giving them more space, confining pedestrians to narrow sidewalks, banning bikes on roads, bulldozing homes to make way. Car supremacy was engineered. Time to reverse course.

Giulio Mattioli@giuliomattioli.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I am quoted in this Guardian article on (how hard it is) to reduce car use in European cities, even in places like Vienna www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Not quite what you’re looking for but maybe a combination of #tidylog + Claude Code summary github.com/elbersb/tidy...

GitHub - elbersb/tidylog: Tidylog provides feedback about dplyr and tidyr operations. It provides wrapper functions for the most common functions, such as filter, mutate, select, and group_by, and pro...

Tidylog provides feedback about dplyr and tidyr operations. It provides wrapper functions for the most common functions, such as filter, mutate, select, and group_by, and provides detailed output f...

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