D. J. Hicks

Looks super interesting, thanks for sharing

"However, if we distinguish between replication (performing a study de novo) and reanalysis (re-examining an existing study’s data), several things become clear. First, recent clashes are part of a long conflict over data access, stretching back at least to the 1990s: while some actors may be interested in preventing the consideration of certain data, others are interested in reanalyzing data to challenge the scientific consensus, and in fact have done so. Second, using procedure or methodological quality to adjudicate reanalyses often fails, leading to a recourse to reputational markers that amplifies conflict. Scientific transparency is a"

It is ever cheaper & easier to produce new science undermining key regulations. Technical/"objective" signals of merit don't prevent this, and relying on social signals like funding source breeds resentment (and, as reanalysis becomes cheaper/easier, they may grow less reliable too)

This analysis was restricted to dates on which at least one transient occurred (n = 310), an analysis that eliminates the substantial bias due to the large number of zero values in the transient data (there were no transients observed on 88.5% of the days in the dataset).

Though apparently the authors have not heard of a zero-inflated NB model

A somewhat tall, spindly-looking herb-y plant, with long rows of alternating leaves and wilting purple flowers

Vetch. Missoula, MT, 11 June 2025. #plants #outdoorPhotography #photography

Doritos only for orange cats, you can tell by the color

A squishy dog filled with beans

I love telling people I got a new dog, watching the start of their reaction, and then showing them this

She is FILLED with BEANS??!!?? (complimentary)

PEEP PEEP SPLASH SPLASH

tech-ghouls (complimentary): eldritch horrors manifesting as 80s pop culture references, Stay Puft-style

tech-ghouls (derogatory): Musk et al.

Ignorant antisemites: “Why didn’t Jews fight back against Hitler”.

Jews:

They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.

when it comes to Confederate statues, you gotta melt the shit down or otherwise fuck it up so badly it cannot be repaired

bc if there is even a possibility that it can be restored?? these motherfuckers are gonna put it right back up at the earliest opportunity

On a completely unrelated topic, did you know that household bleach, saltwater, and other chlorides can trigger "bronze disease", an "an irreversible and nearly inexorable corrosion process" that can completely destroy bronze objects?

Look, I'm just saying that every escalation and trespass and glib little threat they've made has been at the cost of hemorrhaging whatever 'make life 2019 again' capital he had a year ago. This is with low unemployment and a stratospherically-high stock market.

They have no one on deck.

A white cat has just stood up from a red rug and is about to smush my phone with his face

"No school only Jasper"

ChatGPT Harm Reduction for Writing Assignments ChatGPT Harm Reduction for Writing Assignments Because this document has escaped containment, a couple points of explanation. I wrote this for myself and a few colleagues as we work out how to handle...

Whatever strategy you’re about to suggest, we’ve thought about it. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Yes. There is a near-unanimous bipartisan conventional wisdom about the Democrats becoming 'too woke' even though — again, objectively — they avoided prioritizing social issues in the 2024 campaign.

JOURNAL OF CONTROVERSIAL IDEAS VOLUME V SPECIAL ISSUE CENSORSHIP IN THE SCIENCES OCTOBER 2025

The Journal of Controversial Ideas is a cautionary tale of what happens when academic freedom is conflated with free speech. Most journals would be too embarrassed to publish the exceptionally poor scholarship the JCI repeatedly platforms, but at the JCI “controversy” matters, not scientific merit

Screenshot of article that reads: Neil Selwyn, an education professor at Monash University and author of Should Robots Replace Teachers?: AI and the Future of Education, says attempts to automate teaching usually underestimate how much the profession requires improvisation and adapting to a particular student’s needs. Alpha’s trust in software-enabled repetition and students’ self-motivation is often typical of education ventures started by people with backgrounds in tech who were self-taught and “then fix onto self-regulated learning or one-to-one tutoring as the way that one can learn math or science or engineering or coding most effectively,” Selwyn says. “But they didn’t tend to learn history, poetry, or archaeology, or any of the humanities” that way.

Assuming that everyone learns the way you do, and then structuring your pedagogy on that premise, it's one of the worst things you can do when working with any students

Red tabby kitten with white markings, polydactyl feet with tiny brown spots on his toes looks out with sad, green eyes

Look at this face! The little feets with many, many brown spotted toes! So baby!! Oregon Humane Society has lots of kittens still...come on in for a look today 😻 #cats #catsofbluesky #adoptdontshop

Getting hooked up to the machine that lets you telepathically communicate with mice so that I can tell them that I love their cute faces and unique abilities but they just scream “GIVE ME PEANUT BUTTER” over and over again.

Screenshot of text: unfuck google drive by shooting gemini Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again! Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever? Open your gdrive (web OR app) Settings > Manage Apps Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push) Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

Sure it is a problem that we evaluate papers based on the innovativeness of their results but that's not a replication-specific problem. That's a systemic, cultural problem regarding our scholarly standards and scientific formation. Publishing more replications is not a fix for that.

UC Path?

One might expect children to be deterred by dog poop.

But, knowing children, maybe not?

This reaction turns Teflon into toothpaste’s key ingredient Grinding PTFE with chunks of sodium metal creates sodium fluoride in a solvent-free reaction that aims to avoid landfills

It's been a big year for chemists trying to turn PTFE (better know as Teflon) into something that won't hang out in a landfill for 1,000 years. The latest development in this area uses chunks of sodium metal. My latest for @cenmag.bsky.social
cen.acs.org/materials/po...

Which is less surprising: that a right-wing confabulation of "the left" concocted for propaganda purposes is unpopular, or that people treat it as though it were real

I had to stop inventing variations on cinnamon rolls for Xmas because the nibblings revolted

Masala chai rolls kicked ass, though

There's a particular kind of doomer on here who's like "and then SCOTUS will install him as president for a third term, and the military will back him up" as if that's the end of history.

Friend, there's still an "and then" after that.

Dear @nytimes,

It is entirely possible to write a story about education without seeking comment from Chris Rufo.

Sincerely,

An actual educator