Jesper W. Schneider

Against Publishing: universonline.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Preprints are read, shared, and cited, yet still dismissed as incomplete until blessed by a publisher. I argue that the true measure of scholarship lies in open exchange, not in the industry’s gatekeeping of what counts as published.

Did humans evolve to 'protect' women? Ethnography complicates a convenient narrative

Did humans evolve to 'protect' women?
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This only happens to you once

Simonsohn has now posted a blog response to our recent paper about the poor statistical properties of the P curve. @clintin.bsky.social and I are finishing up a less-technical paper that will serve as a response. But I wanted to address a meta-issue *around* this that may clarify some things. 1/x

War of Exhaustion in Ukraine (video) And our responsibility

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Who can stop “bad” research? Researchers and universities? Funders before it’s funded? Funders after it’s funded? Journals before it’s published? Journals after it’s published? Policy makers when using research?

There is, I believe, only one correct answer to this problem.

Paul Feyerabend, Against Method.

Prescriptions about how science MUST be done? Simply a bad, authoritarian idea. And based on the history of science, not good for scientific progress.

#metasci

Meta-Research: Gender variations in citation distributions in medicine are very small and due to self-citation and journal prestige In studies of gender disparities in academia, increased focus is required on within-group variability and between-group overlap of distributions when interpreting and reporting results.

"... In summary, evidence across multiple fields of science demonstrates that men over-cite men(and themselves)and under-cite women ..." -selective citing?
elifesciences.org/articles/45374

Being a social scientist means holding two truths at once: 1. This is all deeply complicated 2. I have to submit something by Tuesday

Wait a day or two as I need to update the data already available, they are an older version compared to all the analyses in the paper.

Gender disparity in funding rates in double-blind grant peer review: The case of the Villum Experiment Abstract. The Villum Experiment (VEX) is one of the few funding schemes that employs a double-blind review process where applicants are blinded to reviewers, applications are highly standardised, revi...

Gender disparity in funding rates in double-blind grant peer review: The case of the Villum Experiment url: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

Sure it does, but the reaction from the Editors (and journal) is very typical. Besides the obvious problems you carefully expose, this also shows the general vulnerability of non-experimental studies using passively observed data, with many researcher degrees of freedom and garden of forking paths!

Easy there, Tiger.

Restoring Gold Standard Science is Far More than Stopping Fraud Some brief thoughts on the call for Gold Standard Science

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AI, Materials, and Fraud, Oh My! The red flags we should have seen earlier for a too-good-to-be-true paper on AI tool adoption at a materials research firm

AI, Materials, and Fraud, Oh My!
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Sig Jolly til din Cola 🤩

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Trump, Antisemitism & Academia | Christopher R. Browning If the Trump administration were truly concerned about antisemitism, it would start in its own house.

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The Imperialism Has no Clothes JD Vance in Greenland

This, from Timothy Snyder, is definitive, on Greenland open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Bedste europæiske alternativer til amerikansk teknologi og elbiler Find de bedste europæiske alternativer til populære amerikanske tjenester som Google, Facebook, X, Gmail og flere.

En af de mest komplette oversigter, jeg har set mobilsiden.dk/nyheder/it-t...

Essay | What Is the Endgame for Ukraine? History offers a range of precedents for what an agreement with Russia could look like—and how bad the consequences might be.

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Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness
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There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing How regime change happens in America

Since writing this article, I have received messages from federal civil servants who tell me it is accurate, and that they are frightened. Please share this with anyone who doesn't understand the scale of the transformation.

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Alternativer til Meta, X og ChatGPT 🇪🇺 - Astrid Haug Her er min liste over software, hardware, sociale medier til at skifte amerikansk tech ud med europæiske, gerne danske, alternativer, eller noget, der er open source og/eller nonprofit.  Først et par ...

Over de seneste dage har jeg udbygget min liste over danske/europæiske/australske/canadiske alternativer til Meta, X, Google, ChatGPT, Netflix og meget mere - software, sociale medier, streaming, hardware. Enjoy 🙏

Given that the Trump people did nothing to induce Russia to end the war, it’s fair to conclude that the whole idea of pursuing peace was just a pretext to renew relations with Russia.

Trump’s disgusting behavior in our Oval Office in the company of a genuine hero and defender of democracy like Volodymyr Zelensky may be the most disgraceful public behavior by any president in our history.

Five Failures in the Oval Office (video) America hurt itself badly today.

Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
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British volunteer who lost arm and leg evacuating Ukrainian civilians: ‘Russia is the enemy. How can you not see it?’ It could have been a tragic story costing British volunteer Edward Scott his life. As a humanitarian aid worker with the Ukrainian NGO "Baza" (the "Base" in Ukrainian), 28-year-old Scott has made mul...

As a humanitarian aid worker, 28-year-old Edward Scott has made multiple trips to the front-line areas to evacuate civilian Ukrainians. But the mission on Jan. 30 to the embattled city of Pokrovsk in southern Donetsk Oblast was different.