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Which Kind of Science Reform What hope is there for science reform, if we can't agree on what to reform? Right now, principles are more important than practices.

How can we reform science? I have some ideas. But I am not sure you’ll like them, because they don’t promise much. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...

I would be surprised if there is not a band named like that in a random college town

Never had issues using virtual environments, but probably I'm not doing things as complicated as you

The Consortium for Clarity in ADRD Research Through Imaging (CLARiTI) The presence of multiple pathologies is the largest predictor of dementia. A major gap in the field is the in vivo detection of mixed pathologies and their antecedents. The Alzheimer's Disease Resea...

The ADRC Consortium for Clarity in ADRD Research Through Imaging (CLARiTI) revolutionizes in vivo characterization of mixed pathologies #AlzResearch

Learn about this unprecedented publicly available imaging–plasma–neuropath dataset in A&D:
alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

These are beautiful animations! What tool(s) did you use to make them?

#rstats The fantastic `collapse` package has just put out a big new release that includes joins and pivot (reshape) functionality. This essentially makes it "data wrangling Turing complete" in addition to being very fast. More details at the shiny new website. sebkrantz.github.io/collapse/

Software is both a cause of unreliable research and part of the solution. The bulk of scientific research relies upon specialized software for data managemen... Science as Amateur Software Development (2023 edition)

Science is great but academia not so much. Earlier this week I revised my talk "Science as Amateur Software Development". The unprofessional way that academics curate & process data would benefit from professional habits of software engineers and chefs too 🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qzV...

I've said this elsewhere but people conflate transparent with well-reasoned.
Open materials doesn't necessarily mean the experiment was well designed. It just makes the design scrutinizable.
Open data and analysis code doesn't make the statistics correct. It just makes the analysis scrutinizable.

Why I Don’t Write a “Related Work” Section Imagine someone explaining a complex topic, like how to improve the fuel efficiency of a boat. But shortly after starting the explanation, they go off on a series of tangents about pretty boats they...

I wrote this blog post due to a VIS submission getting a some nasty reviews due to the lack of a RW section and demanding a bunch of totally irrelevant references. (I think it was the ISOTYPE paper)

Key glyphs for legends — draw_key Each geom has an associated function that draws the key when the geom needs to be displayed in a legend. These functions are called draw_key_*(), where * stands for the name of the respective key glyp...

Made a pretty complicated ggplot chart, which I haven't done in a while. I'm so impressed at just how many anticipated entry points there are for customization. I used custom key glyphs, which is an amazing niche feature!

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