Lidia Hocke

course schedule as a table. Available at the link in the post.

I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students.

I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

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We Asked Critics From Authoritarian Regimes What They Wish They’d Known Sooner. “You cannot make authoritarian leaders the center of your narrative. You have to make the people the center of your narrative, and you have to be passionate about it.” [theguardian.com]

09.12.2025 20:06 — 👍 28    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 0

So love wobbegongs. Everything is good about the wobbegong. Its name. Its flattened Oscar the Grouch face. Its frondy bits. Its lazy life as a hungry rug. And it’s a shark. Outstanding animal 10/10

08.12.2025 09:49 — 👍 5790    🔁 1338    💬 46    📌 47

Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it. August 2019. 415ppm CO2"

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

07.12.2025 17:17 — 👍 12815    🔁 5256    💬 114    📌 188

who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there

01.12.2025 22:55 — 👍 3594    🔁 922    💬 26    📌 23

Happy World Linguistics Day from Kraków, Poland!

26.11.2025 10:08 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Teacher at a chalkboard with words: EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO CONFUSES CORRELATION AND CAUSATION ENDS UP DYING

Just saying…

11.11.2025 13:49 — 👍 51    🔁 17    💬 4    📌 1

this is one of my favourite observations about sample size calculations. (afaik first articulated by Miettinen in 1985)

25.11.2025 10:56 — 👍 77    🔁 21    💬 1    📌 2

This is not the worst book we've ever read but it is the meanest episode we've ever done.

20.11.2025 14:53 — 👍 2336    🔁 188    💬 113    📌 41

Art.

17.03.2025 14:58 — 👍 95    🔁 15    💬 3    📌 0

Attention graph in various colours showing where research from Rhodes University has been mentioned in various locations online including Twitter, Bluesky, podcasts and news.

Twitter mentions of any research from Rhodes University = 1,275 mentions Bluesky mentions of any research from Rhodes University = 1,306 mentions

Bluesky has overtaken Twitter/X as the highest social engagement metric for the entire publication corpus of some universities.

Here's all the attention for all research from Rhodes University, ZA. In October 2025 Bluesky mentioned their research more than X/Twitter.

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28.10.2025 19:58 — 👍 667    🔁 180    💬 7    📌 10

Can Only Meat Machines be Conscious? New paper in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, free download until November 26 with this URL: authors.elsevier.com/a/1luwh4sIRv...

08.10.2025 13:06 — 👍 93    🔁 39    💬 8    📌 11

Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning Abstract. The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when

When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.

Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.

academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

28.10.2025 15:14 — 👍 1343    🔁 616    💬 20    📌 43

Against Generative AI – Cate Denial

There's so much being researched and published about GenAI that I update the 'Against Generative AI' resource list almost every day. Check it out catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...

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