Jake McMullen

Statistical evidence in psychological networks - Nature Human Behaviour Psychometric network models have become increasingly popular in psychology and the social sciences. Huth et al. show that a large proportion of reported network findings are based on weak or inconclusive evidence inviting caution when interpreting results.

A new take on the limitations of "psychometric networks" now out in Nature Human Behavior. You don't want to put too much confidence in individual edges. Something we cautioned against in 2017.

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www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Slide: There are no shortcuts--'ugly social realities' Fear of being left out a fabricated & marketing public relations rhetoric Evidence, rigorous testing and evaluation AI in education = commercialization of a collective responsibility Outsourcing a social, civic, and democratic process of cultivating the coming generation to commercial and capitalist enterprise whose priority is profit

Mic drop from @abeba.bsky.social at UNESCO Digital Learning Week

Exploring Pre-service Teachers' Generative AI Readiness and Behavioral Intentions: A Pilot Study: https://osf.io/3aygt

Bayes is using a JASP magic wand to conjure a white rabbit out of a top hat. Artwork by Viktor Beekman (instagram.com/viktordepictor), concept by Eric-Jan Wagenmakers (@ejwagenmakers.bsky.social). Available under a CC-BY license here: https://www.bayesianspectacles.org/artwork-library/

This summer: A week of hybrid workshops. 🛠️☀️
jasp-stats.org/workshops/

Discovering Statistics using JASP

Bayesian Hypothesis Testing with JASP

Machine Learning with JASP

State-of-the-Art Meta-Analysis with JASP

ECs for students available.

I wanted to highlight key findings from our study and the replication, and how they extend to 2024.

Now it provides a systematic review of more than 600 scientific studies on the relationship between digitalization and democracy.

So what does science have to say? We actually know quite a bit: 1/5

Western Postdoctoral Fellowship Program Western University, in vibrant London, Ontario, delivers an academic and student experience second to none.

Looking for a post-doc? Apply for the Western Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at Western University @westernu.bsky.social in Canada🇨🇦. Comes with a competitive salary and a research stipend: www.uwo.ca/research/fun...

A collage where the top photo has Trump smiling glbly in the Oval Office while Musk stands nearby in a t-shirt, baseball cap, and black coat, and where the bottom photo has Trump in the Oval Office pointing angrily at Zelensky, who is wearing a black, high-collar shirt with official Ukrainian insignia.

It's hard not to see the hypocrisy of his attacks on Zelensky's choice of clothes.

Google’s Sergey Brin Asks Workers to Spend More Time In the Office (Gift Article) The tech giant’s co-founder said that if employees worked harder and were in the office more, the company could reach an artificial general intelligence breakthrough.

If "60 hours a week is the sweet spot of productivity," that's only because the tech workers who can put in all those hours at the office have offloaded all their caregiving responsibilities onto others more vulnerable than them.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/t...

POV: You're 16, believe being in advanced placement math class means you're a once in a generation genius, and have just discovered Reddit.

I think we're seeing what happens when one side builds a coalition around collective outrage, and the other side mistakes the appeal of collective outrage for the appeal of particular policies.

And people talk about how Koreans "showed up for their country" but like. Why do you think they showed up where they showed and when they showed up? The opposition party was literally sending SMS alerts and mass-printing glossy color cardstock signs for their voters

Scientists! Can you share examples of society-run, open-access, non-profit journals that you know of? I'm thinking of this like AERA Open, Journal of Numerical Cognition, Frontline Learning Research

We are pleased to announce that the 5th Jean Piaget Conferences will take place from 25 to 27 June 2025 at the University of Geneva.
This year’s conference will be structured around three key axes: development, learning, and teaching.
Submissions : Feb 28th
confpiaget.sciencesconf.org

Kiitos Antti!

Thanks Nicole!

Scientists! Can you share examples of society-run, open-access, non-profit journals that you know of? I'm thinking of this like AERA Open, Journal of Numerical Cognition, Frontline Learning Research

I've got a meeting free day next week and I'm trying so hard to not book anything. Even the potential feels glorious already

INTRODUCTION

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?

Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.

thebullshitmachines.com

All U.S. federal government websites are already archived by the End of Term Web Archive Here's all the information you might need. Official website: https://eotarchive.org/ Wikipedia:...

Signal Boost: All U.S. federal government websites are already archived by the End of Term Web Archive

Let people know, download your own copies.
Don't let this digital book burn continue.

#Feds #Health #WHO #CDC #AMA #USPHS #FDA #NIH #NCHS #PCORI

📣 Big news: Lifecycle Journal is now open for submissions! 📣

Lifecycle Journal is a new, innovative, community-driven approach to scholarly publishing, initiated by COS.

Learn more and submit: lifecyclejournal.org/

Hi, Vox reporter here: If you've had a study section, NIH travel, or other NIH-related meeting cancelled (or not), raise your hand! Reply or DM me, and repost for visibility if you're able.

#academicsky @drugmonkey.bsky.social

I desperately want an AI that submits travel reports for me so I can get reimbursed for my $12 breakfast without spending way more of my time than that $12 is worth to do it.

Is that what's being built or what I'm being offered? Of course not.

In Congress, a Push for Proxy Voting for New Parents Draws Bipartisan Support A group of younger lawmakers is pressing to change House rules to allow members who are new parents to vote remotely.

There is no maternity leave for members of Congress. And members aren't allowed to cast votes remotely while recovering from childbirth or caring for young kids. Yet, 47% American men believe the US has gone so far to promote women's equality that we're hurting men.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/u...

Still waiting for SP+ to include the FCAA. I need to be able to directly compare the gators and beaver hunters (my two alma maters)

Finland vs. Germany: the case of MDPI

by @deevybee.bsky.social

deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/12/finl...

#PeerReview

For all your 2025 teaching, writing, and article reviewing needs

Applications are open for the Jacobs Foundation fellowship program — in addition to $$$ from Jacobs, new fellows also get to hang with the previous fellows, & we are fun

jacobsfoundation.smapply.org/prog/jacobs_...

Open Encylopedia of Cognitive Science

Announcing the launch of the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: oecs.mit.edu! OECS is a freely-available, growing collection of peer-reviewed articles introducing key topics in cogsci to a broad audience of students and scholars.

What Makes a Good Theory? Interdisciplinary Perspectives - Computational Brain & Behavior Computational Brain & Behavior -

Finally our editorial for the "What makes a good theory?" special issue is out (co-edited with @irisvanrooij.bsky.social, @jcskewes.bsky.social, Sashank Varma, and Todd Wareham). It's an interdisciplinary issue and the contents are transdisciplinary.

#philsci #metasci #cogsci #ai #psych 🧪