getting desk rejected is actually a violation of zeus’s law

mr president they’re putting bears on ozempic

A new study finds that audiences connect with scientists less through credentials or demographic similarity and more through human qualities like curiosity, authenticity, and clear communication.

Forming Relationships With Scientists Through Film: A Qualitative Study of Viewers’ Trust, Identification, and Value Alignment - Nicole M. Krause, Emily L. Howell, Sarah S. Goodwin, 2026

Drawing on open-ended responses from a national U.S. survey (N = 630) of viewers of Observer, a documentary film featuring scientists engaged in practices of ob...

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Catching up on the Hank Green AI and knitting controversy

Me with job applications

Josh Grubbs@joshuagrubbsphd.com · 2d ago

Maybe it will happen tomorrow

Personally I would love to see Bluesky expand. It shouldn’t just be the app for leftists who can’t stand Matt Yglesias! It should also be the app for liberals who can’t stand Matt Yglesias. And apolitical folks who can’t stand Yglesias. And, yes, even conservatives who can’t stand Matt Yglesias!

“If you take the deal, you’re going to be exploited. If you don’t take it, you’re going to die,” said attorney Frank Ssekamwa about the U.S. demand to access the health data of millions of Ugandans. “It’s the essence of digital colonialism.”

I'm excited to announce that I will be reviewing graduate student applications for Fall 2027 admissions! I review applications in both the Personality, Development, and Health and the Clinical Science (Weinberg) programs.

New Jingle assessment: we show that the "Perspective Taking Protocol" has very poor reliability and near-zero convergent validity with other nominal measures of emotional and spatial perspective taking, empathy, and theory of mind. w/ @malte.the100.ci

PsyArXivBot@psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 5d ago

The RFT Perspective Taking Protocol has very poor reliability and convergent validity with other measures of perspective taking, empathy, and theory of mind: A jingle assessment: https://osf.io/jb6c4

I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

"We're all worried," as what it means to do research (in my field, Theoretical CS) seems to be shifting, and shifting fast. What to do? Senior researchers must lead by example, knowing that not everything will pan out. What I'm suggesting below may not work everywhere, but here's my own advice: 1/

Important new study of shifting behavior of journalists in response to BLM protests.

jon ben-menachem@jbenmenachem.com · 5d ago

Autopsies of Black Lives Matter and George Floyd protests often conclude that movements produced tough-on-crime backlash. My new study in Work and Occupations finds a different kind of movement outcome: BLM changed how local reporters cover cops and jails. 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

nothing shouts "I don't read much" more than when you equate em-dashes with AI. as Kat says here: 1) AI uses em-dashes BECAUSE AUTHORS USE THEM & AI IS TRAINED ON OUR WRITINGS! 2) "AI checkers" are complete bunk (just another AI bullshit machine), 3) this is not a "list of three" haha

Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · 4d ago

So I woke up this morning to find out that Ozzy Osbourne’s son made a video falsely accusing me of using AI to write a Rolling Stone article about the Tate brothers.

This paper shows that immigration enforcement can _increase_ crime. Undocumented immigrants already have the lowest crime rate, but tough-on-immigration policy makes immigrants less likely to report crime. So immigration enforcement worsens the problem it was ostensibly meant to solve

Spider-Man: Brand New Day be like

Bill Chopik@chops310.bsky.social · 3d ago

Feel better? It's the best we can do

A common mistakes I’ve seen quant researchers wading into intersectionality make is mistaking intersectionality as an interaction effect. I think I’m gonna start sending people this paper since it does a nice job explaining how intersectionality informs modeling choices doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

As a scientific society, we're committed to inclusivity and making sure everyone has a spot at the table. Registration is $500, we secured a discounted hotel rate of $250/night, & flights are $700+. Lunches are an extra $30/day. Travel awards for $200 available. See you there!

people weren’t joking when they said the new spider man was about bisexuality

What is this useful for? - LLM-only/LLM+human pilots help test effects before running human experiments. - LLM forecasts help identify which small-sample effects would replicate in larger held-out samples. - Expert+LLM judgments help select more effective interventions than expert-only selection.

New paper in @nature.com with @lukebeehewitt.bsky.social, @isaiasghezae.bsky.social, & @robbwiller.bsky.social: Can LLMs predict results of social science experiments? Across 70 experiments, we find a strong correspondence (r=.85) between predicted and observed effects. doi.org/10.1038/s415... 🧵

Any immigration researchers in my network: Are you aware of any survey instruments that assess feelings of grief and loss due to migration (e.g., missing friends and family; missing important milestones in family life; missing social spaces)?

For context so no one is confused. this isn’t a reviewer looking at our findings and worrying what I’d do with it. This is a reviewer spending a year demanding changes to a registered report to fit their priors, running out of objections, then rejecting b/c of my posts bsky.app/profile/tage...

@tagerai.bsky.social · 6d ago

Well this is a first - my registered report R&R at Nature got rejected in part b/c of my social media posts.

modern retelling of icarus except instead of flying too close to the sun it’s trying to use a more complex model than necessary

Reading about AIDS denialism for the show and it's wild how much these features align with the tactics of the anti-trans "reasonable concerns" brigade. web.archive.org/web/20060615...

Seeing another job posting and telling myself “I would have been so ready for this next year” for the third year in a row

No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...

Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation

PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...

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Ameaka Fatima Nkempu, a Johns Hopkins University researcher in public health, was detained by ICE while boarding a domestic flight. She says she is Cameroonian in a Medium article that she authored. As of Thursday morning, the ICE Online Detainee Locator did not list where she was being held.

Baltimore Banner@thebaltimorebanner.com · 6d ago

ICE detains Hopkins public health researcher as agency expands airport arrests

Some good recommendations. More simply, you often don't need logistic regression for binary data! statisticalhorizons.com/when-can-you...

When Can You Fit a Linear Probability Model? More Often Than You Think | Statistical Horizons

Paul von Hippel epands on a prevoius blog post, exploring a wider range of circumstances where the linear probability model is viable.

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Julia M. Rohrer@dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 6d ago

New blog post! Odds ratios are...a bit weird. Here I explain two problems (interpretation, non-collapsibility) and provide some simple recommendations for improved reporting. www.the100.ci/2026/07/30/r...

Nice post about how weird odds ratios can be, and some ways to do a nice job Our lab had some complimentary tutorials on this over the years, for main effects psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202... And interactions: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Julia M. Rohrer@dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 6d ago

New blog post! Odds ratios are...a bit weird. Here I explain two problems (interpretation, non-collapsibility) and provide some simple recommendations for improved reporting. www.the100.ci/2026/07/30/r...