👻 Jaime Derringer

Heading: Who Can Apply; a little icon of a group of people followed by the text “The Public; U.S. citizens, nationals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S.”

brb applying to be the Director of NIMH https://hr.nih.gov/careers/open-positions/job-1d970116-9870-41a7-b621-1c7ea8fa7b73

Folks, I'm cold. For me...it's time.

wait, trump is actually renovating the führerbunker and sending billions to argentina? the jokes just write themselves, huh

Do you worry that you "make it weird" ... do you strive to "not make it weird" but you fail and fail and fail?

No longer! Today we will reject self-doubt. Jump in there; make it weird.

Make it weird on purpose.

If you read my crap on Bluesky, know that I'm not actually on that service but rather bridged to it. And the odds of that service getting yanked because of BS's happiness to host the new fascists are getting stronger. So if you wonder where I went, it wasn't me; I'm still here. BS should've […]

Students reading a paper that counts caffeine as substance use: 😮

Bonus content: this is the first paper on which Yanna Weisberg and I are coauthors. I met Yanna my first week of college; she was ahead of me and so freaking cool (still is). She went off to grad school, returned for a visit, and said to me, “You would like Minnesota.”

The proportion of study measures published from 1981 to 2022. A dashed line is shown at the median point, 2014. There are 9 lines shown representing the rough categories of the measures. Although overall publications generally increase over time, there’s no clear category of measures that emerges as dominant in the field at any time. The 9 categories are labeled: General power, Equity, Sexual power, Decision-making, Power outcomes, Control, Power processes, Power bases, and Individual differences

My favorite display item is unsurprisingly this swoopy boi, giving a snapshot of the various categories that these measures could be arranged into and how their prevalence in research has changed over time, with extensive heterogeneity and no clear dominance […]

[Original post on scholar.social]

All university guidelines are just

"You first need to make a request on SLARP, but remember that you don't fill the form on BURGH, unless it is the full moon. Then you either go to FLKN or XRRLK, depending on whether it's a even or odd month. Both have the same form, but if you fill out the […]

New publication: "Reviewing research software"

"Every research project in computational science requires writing some code, even if it’s only a few scripts. This code is instrumental in generating results, and often important for understanding in detail what was done. Nevertheless, unlike […]

Is there any citable source (for an academic paper) that shows the percentage of operating systems(Windows/macOS/Linux) used in scientific research?

Screenshot of the video essay, which shows a man with short hair talking into a microphone with the following quote on screen for discussion at 16:45 “In a given year, there is one drowning of a child for every 11,000 residential pools in the United States. (In a country with 6 million pools, this means that roughly 550 children under the age of ten drown each year.) Meanwhile, there is 1 child killed by a gun for every 1 million-plus guns. (In a country with an estimated 200 million guns, this means that roughly 175 children under ten die each year from guns.) The likelihood of death by pool (1 in 11,000) versus death by gun (1 in 1 million-plus) isn’t even close”

I'm enjoying the video essay on "Freakonomics" from "Unlearning Economics" an excellent youTube channel that deals with the academic side of economics.

In the video he criticizes the much maligned freakenomics "factoid" that claims that swimming pools are more […]

[Original post on sauropods.win]

Reminder that intolerance of intolerance is not a paradox. Tolerance is not an absolute ethical stance, it is a social contract. If someone chooses to not participate in the social contract of tolerance, they do not get to benefit from it.

a vertical photo of the rock with coloured pink-magenta stripes curving upwards

an odd rock formation with yellow, orange, pink, red and cyan patches

A bit of coloured weird rocks for you today for some diversity. I'm not sure how can they have all those colours but they do.

#nature #naturephotography #rocks #geology #texture #abstract #landscape #photo #foto #photography #noAI

Heading: Who Can Apply; a little icon of a group of people followed by the text “The Public; U.S. citizens, nationals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S.”

brb applying to be the Director of NIMH https://hr.nih.gov/careers/open-positions/job-1d970116-9870-41a7-b621-1c7ea8fa7b73

xkcd 2347 with a stack diagram called "all modern digital infrastructure" holding up together – right next to it there's the angry birds slingshot with red (called "AI") pointed at that stack

Talks should be tailored to the audience, but not every element needs to be understood equally by every person. In this essay, I will analyze the aside, “Because I’m still mad at Metallica for the Napster thing” as a culturally niche reference that strategically builds audience rapport…

Saw a post on LinkedIn from an academic editing page advising to “spill the tea in your abstract.”

Strongly disagree.

Tea goes in the Supplement.

tldr; correlation is not causation https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2024.3172 #openAccess “Acetaminophen use during pregnancy was not associated with children’s risk of autism… in sibling control analyses… associations observed in other models may have been attributable to confounding.”

🏆 academic achievement unlocked: submit a review as long as the manuscript

Call for Proposals - INSURE: Interim Support for Upholding Research and Excellence

we are pleased to announce the launch of the INSURE Program—Investing in Strategic University Research Excellence

There are bigger problems but this email from the dean defining an acronym differently in the subject and body is just piling on

I had a great first week of 36th grade. I may have finally figured out this whole “school” thing. (Of course I say that every year before it eventually unravels, but I keep trying!)

“… Maybe don’t let social media metrics have unconstrained control of your homepage real estate - the heading at the top of the page is ‘current issue’ and the date of the article is not displayed (at least not in the view I’m seeing on mobile) so it’s not even obvious that this article is more […]

One of three reasons I just gave for declining a request to review:

“ - In reviewing your website to confirm the scope and aims of the journal, I noticed that featured prominently as the top-listed article under Trending - Altmetric is a piece from 2002 arguing that thimerosal in vaccines is a […]

Neat!

“Detecting behavioral drive in the fossil record is challenging because it is difficult to measure behaviors independently from corresponding morphologies. … We report carbon and oxygen isotope ratios from fossil cercopithecid monkeys and integrate the data into a view of hominin dietary […]

TFW a technical issue feels personal

🧬✨ New Preprint! short 🧵
We surveyed 338 people, most of whom identified as sexual and/or gender minorities (SGM), about their attitudes toward genetic research on sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI).
https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/wcx9g_v1

– Higher genetic knowledge was linked to […]