Paolo Crosetto

Data Visualization A Practical Introduction

@kjhealy.co has a new version of his data visualization book coming out and 1) you’d be a fool not to get it especially if you do R stuff 2) it’s gonna be even more beautiful than the first one, which is truly lovely book 3) he put the ENTIRE content on his website for free, you lucky so-and-so

Great thought-provoking blog here. On the nature of how we do science itself, cannot recommend enough Science is a strong link problem.
www.experimental-history.com/p/science-is...

The war is not over. Tibbles fight on.

True, and yet more fuel to the argument that Europe should decarbonize fast, faster, and even faster.

Of course our politicians have gone steadily in the opposite direction, what with Germany closing down nuclear plants, e-car policies (partly) reversed, half-assed renewable policies, and the like.

An illustration of selection on significance for a test with 50% power

I wrote a short blog post that describes selection on significance in plain language and then proposes and criticizes two alternatives (selection on precision and registered reports). This is me working through my thoughts online, so feedback is very welcome.
ryancbriggs.net/blog/the-pro...

The EU took the energy transition as an "eco-hippy" thing and invested late, half-heartedly & slowly.

China deemed it both a strategic imperative & an econ niche they could exploit; it went big, fast, all in.

Now we are setting tariffs on Chinese energy products, and are vulnerable to everything.

Trump is slashing funds across all of science. But the flattest of flat curves is Econ & Social Sciences. ~5 grants in 5 months (vs ~50 in previous years).

If this trend continues -- and, really, any indication it won't? -- this is an apocalypse for US economics.

America is sabotaging itself.

I just estimated my risk preferences! My CARA coefficient is 0.61. Try it here: jamesblandecon.shinyapps.io/RiskApp/

#CARAestimate #TeachEcon #TeachBE

ESTIMATE MY RISK PREFERENCES

Version 0.0.3 now lets you download your choice data and posterior distribution

#TeachBE #TeachEcon #EconSky

jamesblandecon.shinyapps.io/RiskApp/

YouTube video by MN Center for Philosophy of Science AI and the Nature of Science: Keynote presentation by Carl Bergstrom

how LLMs change incentives for research - a great talk by @carlbergstrom.com , had to watch in parts, a lot to digest. #institutional_epistemology at its best! www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mj3... #philsci

Anti-fascism should have broad support across the American political spectrum. Elections need to be defended. Here's an open letter from retired professors at HBS in which we call for business leaders to address that need.
#econsky #academicsky
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/02/an-a...

Graph of the male / female birth ratio (Ratio) over 82 years from 1629 - 1710, with the points connected by lines. Also shown is the loess smooth curve, and a thick red line at the value Ratio = 1. The fact that all 82 points are above this line is equivalent in probability to getting 82 heads in 82 coin tosses.

Painted portrait of John Arbuthnot by the artist John Kneller

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊
💀Feb 27, 1735 John Arbuthnot died in London, England 🇬🇧

1711: First test of statistical significance based on deviation between observed data and a null hypothesis (M/F birth ratio = 1)

#rstats: data(Arbuthnot, package = "HistData")

ditto for France

What the heck is this policy?
Why can't you write a letter past an arbitrarily short deadline?

If a reader reasonably thinks & has evidence that an editorial mistake might have been made, as an editor I would gladly welcome the letter *anytime*, if I care about my journal's reputation.

New p-hacking technique just dropped -- when your randomised results don't deliver what you want, just select subjects on the treatment variable and disregard the rest, then add a fancy name to this -- "per protocol analysis" and off you go to fame.

I am afraid many Medical Doctors *do not want* things to improve. I have been a referee for some medical papers that were butchering statistics and inference, told authors and editors as much, paper got published anyway with my "technical concerns" waved away.

Spot on stuff here. Nicely done both. Also a seeming endorsement that paying peer reviewers is worth a shot to salvage peer review as an institution.

My experiences with @biologyopen.bsky.social from @biologists.bsky.social have been very positive so far.

#ResearchIntegrity #AcademicSky #FoSci

ok now you got me hooked. Could we?

That was his problem. Had he said something good, he would have immediately been ignored. Had he said something awfully bad or gross or crazy, he would have been in no time a candidate for Fratelli d'Italia or Lega somewhere.

But he was dull. Insipido. We don't easily forgive that.

An advertisement for a PhD position studying "Revealing the mechanistic basis of defence peptide antibacterial specificity." It shows fruit flies infected by green-fluorescent protein expressing bacteria, and describes the project and way to apply.

Very excited to be advertising this project with the excellent cosupervision of Peter Mergaert through @i2bcparissaclay.bsky.social and @uniexecec.bsky.social.

This position is open to international applicants and will involve stints in both Penryn UK and Paris France. Please share!

Apply: adum.fr

Actually some IRB not only allow but *push* for data not to be made available for privacy reasons -- this also for anonymized data and yes, that's because of a strict interpretation of EU GDPR data protection.

Result: Facebook and co know everyone's every move and more but researchers are stuck.

I had no doubt, these sneaky cycles end up everywhere

vaguely moving your hands around in the direction of, well, you know, great lakes, about 2 million years ago, but maybe also why not looking a bit at the Solar System to see its influence on basic chemistry to explain, well, the rust belt... after that it's impossible to get lost, trust me

That's some really micro microeconomics -- and the same time some really macro macroeconomics stuff.

But @andreamatranga.bsky.social does this mean you are writing a paper on this *too*?

From the guy that gave you "Agricultural revolution happened because of changes in Earth axial tilt" & "Serfdom in Russia happened because defending low-yield steppe from nomad attackers steppes requires it", take a sit for "bacteria made WWII victory possible".

I promise it will be worth the ride.

Workshop on Advancing Methods in Behavioral and Experimental Economics Find papers, speakers, and the call for the next edition of the BSE Summer Forum Workshop on Behavioral and Experimental Economics

📢Few days to submit: Advancing Methods in Behavioral and Experimental Economics (Barcelona June 2), co-organizer @mmglz.bsky.social

Committee: @paolocrosetto.bsky.social, A Dreber, @leventneyse.bsky.social, @martaserragarcia.bsky.social, J Stoop, S Toussaert, F Tufano

Link: bse.eu/summer-forum...

Next Friday Feb 27th, 11-13, I will present (in Italian) the results of our recent analyses of #ScientificPublishing in a debate with @squazzoni.bsky.social.

In person or remotely: openscience.unimi.it/ciclo-di-inc...

Understand the strain: tinyurl.com/2b6wxx5r
Stop the drain: tinyurl.com/3jfscscy

Presenting the GABRIEL software package, which uses GPT to quantify attributes in qualitative data, from Hemanth Asirvatham, Elliott Mokski, and Andrei Shleifer www.nber.org/papers/w34834

Welcome ExE 2026 is a 3-day conference aimed at evolutionary ecologists from around the world, hosted by the University of Exeter in beautiful Cornwall. It provides a friendly and inclusive platform for all c...

For UK folks in #Ecology and #Evolution, we are hosting a conference here in Cornwall! Great chance for a summer staycation June 29-July 3.

Plus, we've managed to make it affordable: £250 + £49/night for accommodation.

#EvolBiol #EcoEvo

sites.exeter.ac.uk/exe/

What happened to Science Goodreads and how do we rebuild it? A 65 million dollar question (at least) - CAIROS Blog The story of the rise and fall of Mendeley

1/ Finally wrote up “The Story of Mendeley”! Most people know the tool, few know about its rise and fall. The Mendeley story provides important clues for how to build self-sustaining AND non-extractive knowledge commons, which is why I think it deserves more attention 🧵