Lisa DeBruine

You know how the "No brown M&M's" clause in Van Halen's contracts works? (summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Halen_test) Well that's what demanding a simulation-based power analysis does for a complicated, e.g. multilevel model: forces you to understand that model properly before showtime.

I needed to know what day the semester ends at my own university; it only took me a web search and 8 separate clicks to find

Metacheck is now hosted by Surf! This offers us the possibility to offer an all in one online solution. Before we advertise this more, we would love to trial the new tool with data managers and editors of Diamond open access journals who want to try out automated checks. Especially of data and code.

We have a module to catch and warn against that in metacheck :) www.scienceverse.org/metacheck_bo...

Everyone stop what you're doing and read my paper with @jacobmontgomery.bsky.social and Zion Little modeling preregistration as pre-play cheap talk. We ask how preregistration affects behavior like p-hacking when there is no enforcement and plans must be self-enforcing osf.io/preprints/so...

WTF is wrong with autocorrect lately? I just misspelled “maintenance” as “maintainance” and all it could suggest was “maintain ancestors” and “maintain anchovies”

Do I have any co-authors with an Erdös number less than 3? I just found out my Bacon-Erdös-Sabbath number is at most 10, so checking if I can get it any lower.

any statistician born after 1983 can't hand-calculate sums of squares... all they know is be Bayesian, eat hot chip & calculate marginal effects

Our reflections on the recent "AI and Research Integrity" meeting in Montreal: We are somewhat worried that many AI trustworthiness assessment tools are not trustworthy. @lhdjung.bsky.social @jamiecummins.bsky.social trustworthy.scientific.claims/posts/trustw...

So you know previous waves of technological fabulism the tech companies threw a little loose change at social behavioral research and user interface experience. whats interesting about AI interesting is that they aren’t even pretending to care about how people use the technology.

Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc

I love that you can see now if people follow you from a starter pack. And I love even more the fact that most of my new follows come from one called "Science Shitposters".

❇️ I've updated Data Skills for Reproducible Research to v6.1. The Iteration & Functions chapter has been split in two and I've added some material on unit testing. It's a living textbook, so please submit issues if you find a mistake or something unclear. psyteachr.github.io/reprores-v6/...

Survey of German academics finds restrictions on academic freedom are rare and not associated with academic position, discipline or gender, but expectations of restrictions are higher among precarious academics. Hope this paper gets attention, as it does not confirm media stereotypes of academia

Journals should stop offering to store supplemental information. Everything that is shared with a paper should have it's own DOI, and live in a proper repository. As authors, link to files (e.g., Zenodo), but never add them as supplemental files.

Machine learning and generative LLMs are subject to many of the same drawbacks and issues as general empirical research in the typical publishing system. In this piece now published at NHB we argue that, like for empirical research, ML and LLMs can benefit from the use of Registered Reports.

This poster hits a little different in the Glasgow underground…

Workshop done 😀 since I anyway put together a list of resources, I'm going to share it in this thread. So here we go, my top recommendations for how to improve computational reproducibility of your work

`webexercises` creates interactive exercises for pkgdown, Rmarkdown, and with this update, Quarto (books), Latex output, and #R package vignettes! My hope is that this will support open educational materials, especially in R-package documentation. cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

I like this clear overview of ai use in preparing a resource (by @hadley.nz) but am really struck by the difference in language used to talk about tasks done with Claude versus other programs. How does this anthropomorphism change how we take responsibility? tidydesign.substack.com/p/y-code-whe...

My local chicken place’s chaotic pricing scheme winds me up an unreasonable amount.

I was pleased when most of my cool academic colleagues got on here and there was more interesting content, but lately every time I log on, I end up depressed about the world and contemplating just giving up and joining a commune with my extended polycule.

1/ What is the prevalence of personally identifiable information (PII) in author-collected data publicly shared in the social sciences? We audited 327 replication packages from 11 leading journals in economics, political science, and psychology Answer: surprisingly high 🧵

This is, incidentally, ALWAYS where the anti-trans playbook was going to lead, because they fundamentally conceptualized being trans as having a mental disability, and every last scrap of ableism they were covert with there, they're mask off on now. They must be rejected--in whole. Hobbes is right.

If you know the details of the Claudine Gay (Harvard) and Jason Arday (Cambridge) controversies but little about the Marc Tessier-Lavigne (Stanford) controversy, you should ask yourself why. [And, yes, the answer is as simple as you think it is. This isn’t 3-dimensional chess...]

I got small town southern Ontario, which I guess is pretty accurate as I lived in Hamilton, ON for three years.

👉 "But in this new era, we must delete code even harder, because if we don’t constantly remove complexity, we are going to drown in generated kudzu slop that overtakes codebases." 🌿