🚨 Big news 🚨 After 10 years at Harvard, my lab is moving to Barcelona in Spring 2027 to join @cbc-upf.bsky.social and the Department of Engineering at @upf.edu. 1/4

Took taxi from lisbon airport and was overcharged 2.5 times price and threatened with violence when I complained. Make sure to use Uber or Bolt in Portugal.

I will be visiting Yale SOM for AY 2026/2027 The visit includes me teaching an interdisciplinary PhD methods course. If you often experience New Havenness, ask your Dr (advisor) whether "Methods Stumblers" may be right for you.

First pass at a website that keeps track of the data availability status of various published papers: paulgp.com/replication-... Very much in Alpha mode, so data will be updated soon.

I login to manuscriptcentral, and when i try to access anything i get logged out. Password change does not help. Happens at two journals (psychological science and management science) Anybody else? @silverchairnews.bsky.social do you have a contact for support?

Answering the most popular question in a PhD methods course datacolada.org/133

[133] Heterofriendly: The Intuition for Why You Always Need Robust Standard Errors - Data Colada

When I taught my first PhD-level methods course, I invited students to submit questions about any topic in statistics or methodology. Six out of 10 students asked about the same topic: robust & cluste...

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A more user friendly t-test regression variable description frequency plots, and more. datacolada.org/132

this is mesmerizing

Study Finds Most Americans Can't Find Where They Are Being Deported On Map

Wouldn't it be great to gather top social science journal editors + experts on fraud-prevention to discuss better ways to fraud-proof our field @ the National Academies? This is happening! Step 1 is creating an organizing committee. Submit nominees by 11/7: www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/enh...

Tidal. Slightly cheaper, hugely better sound quality, artists are paid better, no investments into military AI.

why may chatgpt give better answers than Cursor, even when i set gpt as the engine for the latter and it has the whole project as background instead of just one script?

First time I’ve seen the rabbit/bird illusion with an actual photo. Took me just a half second to process the word in all caps…

Matt@mfyfyr.bsky.social · 10mo ago

whomst among us etc

Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites. blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-i...

Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives

Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites.

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Been using two monitors for many, many years. Just tried a single wide (curved 34") monitor instead. It's slightly less wide total a bit taller. It's way better. Looing at center of screen instead of to the side, no dead zone in the middle.

While in many respects the situation is dire I think it’s worth pointing out that there are multiple scientific ecosystems. Being scandalized shows that we normally live in a better functioning, privileged part of the scientific community.

Gautam Kamath@gautamkamath.com · last yr.

System is so broken: - researchers write papers no one reads - reviewers don't have time to review, shamed to coauthors, use LLMs instead of reading - authors try to fool said LLMs with prompt injection - evaling researchers based on # of papers (no time to read) Dystopic.

Colada[128] The Best Audit Study and its interesting shortcoming datacolada.org/128

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · last yr.

Planes roared over D.C. on Saturday, tanks rolled along the National Mall, brass bands resounded and thousands of soldiers marched past cheering crowds, as the Army put on the largest show of military might in the capital in more than three decades. wapo.st/4dYFOck

Fellow European researchers, if at all in your power, try to get your school to consider late applicants who were admitted to US programs. Hearing from many cases of admitted to top US schools who last minute realize they won't be allowed in the country.

Don't assume, plot datacolada.org/126

Feels like we should have / should now, create a single character to represent 'https://'

"In extremely rare move, Harvard revokes tenure and cuts ties with star business professor" Francesca Gino

In extremely rare move, Harvard revokes tenure and cuts ties with star business professor

An internal investigation had found that Harvard Business School professor Francesca Gino’s research on why people lie and cheat was based on falsified data.

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This little devil is the cause of MSWord suddenly moving comments outside the margins into outer space where you can't see them. It somehow just started happening against my will a few months ago. Just uncheck 'enable modern comments' under preferences general, and you will regain humanity.

Clogged bathtub/shower/sink? After unsuccessfully trying my usual tricks I followed advice of handyman and poured 2 lts of Coca Cola down the drain, waited a few hours and ... ...worked like a charm 🤯

To whom it may concern: For over a year Excel and Word would sporadically crash when ... copying! (CTRL-C) Neither ChatGPT, nor Google, nor hours on online discussion boards solved this. Solution: uninstall Microsoft Teams addin for Office !

SORRY. Sorry. Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement

Behavioral insights are only as useful as their real-world application. Explore with Jennifer Kurkowski (People Analytics, Google), Vickie Pisowicz (Eyes to See), and Jessie Wisdom (Adobe). Moderated by @elizabethlinos.bsky.social (Harvard People Lab). Join us online 5/1-5/2! bit.ly/4iWXKoY

This chart was made in America by skilled artisans. It also provides important context for understanding our current tariff situation.

The US federal govt. has dramatically reduced its support for foreign aid. At our 2025 conference, hear from fmr USAID Chief Economist Dean Karlan and writer @nickkristof.bsky.social (@nytimes.com), and explore innovative approaches that operate outside fed. programs. Online 5/1-5/2: bit.ly/4iWXKoY