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Betrayal! This Woman’s Auntie Was Just Her Mom’s Lifelong Friend the Whole Time Some lucky people never have to feel the sting of betrayal from those closest to them. But that’s not the case for poor Kiana DuBois who has just learned that her favorite auntie was actually just her...

I just knew there was going to be some satire piece about this somewhere...

reductress.com/post/betraya...

very distinctive building! I recognized it immediately. :)

My favorite is Big Team Science having their conference tag BTSCon confused for the K-pop group

“Multiverse analyses require thorough, theory-based model selection. Otherwise, they become a ‘dangerous tool’ that drowns valid models in misspecified ones, needlessly eroding trust in science.”

A plea for thoughtful models by @kauspurg.bsky.social

#MetaSci

I’m in a room where a whole ass faculty member said “Chat GPT 5 would be able to write a better NSF proposal than me” and… well…

My inside thoughts got the best of me BC I said loud as fuck “that’s unfortunate, because there’s not a machine on earth that writes better than me.”

My personal faves are the "Luminous" + "Dark Integers" duology of short stories.

CBP Enforces Binary Sex Codes and Strengthens APIS Passport Validation CBP has implemented two APIS enforcement measures affecting flights to and from the United States. Effective October 14, 2025, APIS sex fields must contain only binary codes “M” or “F”; any other valu...

Due to this policy, I have just applied for a visa waiver to a country of which I am a citizen. Why? Because my American passport has an X on it, and now I can only safely enter the country using my Chilean passport with a binary sex marker.

www.visaverge.com/passport/cbp...

A 481-Year Age Difference? For Some Readers, That’s Hot. (Published 2024)

I was going to say that this reminded me of that shadow daddy trend - www.nytimes.com/2024/08/13/s...

But it seems that the garlic promo is actually for one of the latest books in one of the series in the NYT article. 😅

In an ideal world, the same thoroughness is applied to positive results, but I suspect reviewers and editors alike more often take a lighter touch if there's a well-crafted narrative or alignment with consensus theory (or if the author / institution is prestigious).

/fin

I actually think the inverse problem (positive bias for positive results) is more of an issue?

With a null result, (ideal) peer reviewers are understandably thorough in checking the methodology to rule out errors that would have confounded the results.

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Can't satirize the university when it's doing such a good job, itself.

For sure.

There is lots of vocal pushback that is motivated by laziness, but there's also tons of selection bias in who is in the room when open science policies are introduced / discussed!

Indeed, the memo’s description of the environment that leads to terroristic violence applies cleanly to the entire right-wing ecosystem. But perhaps the most striking accusation-as-confession is this paragraph from the national security presidential memorandum: "This political violence is not a series of isolated incidents and does not emerge organically. Instead, it is a culmination of sophisticated, organized campaigns of targeted intimidation, radicalization, threats, and violence designed to silence opposing speech, limit political activity, change or direct policy outcomes, and prevent the functioning of a democratic society." What is this but an elegant encapsulation of the past 10 years? It describes everything from the removal of Jimmy Kimmel from the air to the Libs of TikTok pattern of incitement to Charlie Kirk’s Professor Watchlist to Fox News’ defamation of Dominion Voting Systems and its employees to the celebrity worship of people like Kyle Rittenhouse.

In the Trump regime, every accusation is a confession. The terrorism is coming from inside the White House. www.theverge.com/policy/79051...

You would not believe how many emails it took for the airline to pay for uniform alterations.

Could you just use the same coordinate axes as an ROC with each agent's performance plotted as a point?

I don't even focus on people. I am at war with certain ideologies and ideas, and I want them expunged. I want to turn them into phrenology. That's what I want. But I don't want the people out. When you start talking about who people are in their bones —

This is TNC, and this is the foundational difference between his politics and Kleins’s. At a basic level you either believe in the biologically deterministic myths that historically and currently animate hate and exclusion and oppression, or you fight them with everything you have.

two cuttlefish hover over a reef where the female has laid eggs with tiny little baby cuttlefish in them. It's the month of December

This fall, @megstampede.bsky.social & I are collaborating to create a 2026 calendar!

Each month features a different animal, facts about them, & actions we can take to help them!

Sales will fund our '26 Native 🌱 Project

Order before 10/1 to get a free plant sticker!
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Map of Regional Public Health Coalitions Northeast Public Health Collaborative (Blue) West Coast Health Alliance (Yellow)

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative.

The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

If I were stuck with plain bibtex, I’d probably use `misc` and then maybe denote dataset in an optional field or something.

It seems like biblatex has support for a dataset entry type. The actual formatting of the data could require custom scripting to meet a particular style guide.

I’m sure she totally means Palestinians and their comrades speaking out against Zionism

Back when we were thinking about what was needed to prepare for the new DMSP, this wasn't on our radar... :lolsob:

#datalibs #medlibs NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy question - is data that was produced from grants that are now terminated still subject to the original grant terms and conditions?

Into the Spiderverse

Preregistration doesn't fix bad theory.

But it's certainly faster and easier to do than developing good theory.

Ooof, been there!

Apologies: You Have Reached the End of Your Free-Trial Period of America! Want rule of law? That’s premium.

Valued users!

We understand that over the past 250-odd years, you have come to rely on the services provided by the U.S. of A.: postal delivery, representative government, edible food, clean water, lifesaving vaccines, and no kings—ever, guaranteed. Well, 250 years of free is enough.

Is it even software? Sounds like a survey instrument!

In my first year of a psychology PhD, I do think journal clubs often turned into methodological nitpicking.

As an educator looking back, I would frame the skill development as:
first, learn to how to be critical of methods
second (and with wisdom/experience), learn which critiques are important!

so many people are going to die because not enough people were willing to believe that RFK jr would actually try to do exactly what he has said for decades that he wanted to do