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Dr. Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 15h

Yay this paper is now published in Empirical Software Engineering!

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 15h

Really enjoyed & honoured to be part of the Critical AI Literacy Symposium yesterday. Also @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social & @miquelpt.bsky.social (and others) spoke about their wonderful work too. Big thanks to @irisvanrooij.bsky.social, Leo & Barbara for organising. ✨

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxyg...

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Lisa DeBruine @debruine.bsky.social · 1d

Please help us, #MetaScience community!

It's time to decide on a forever name for papercheck (scienceverse.github.io/papercheck/). We don't want it to be confused with papercheck.ai, and we plan to check other research artifacts like repo contents, data, code, and prereg. Any suggestions?

Check Scientific Papers for Best Practices

A modular, extendable system for automatically checking scientific papers for best practices using text search, R code, and/or (optional) LLM queries.

scienceverse.github.io

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Evolutionary Psychology (the podcast) @epthepod.bsky.social · 1d

This week, we talk to Keelah Williams about Evolutionary Psychology and the Law.
youtu.be/hmpfZajB2UI
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Evolutionary Psychology and the Law with Keelah Williams

YouTube video by Evolutionary Psychology (The Podcast)

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 18h

🧫 Alarming rise of superbugs in newborns

A study across Southeast Asia found most newborn sepsis cases were caused by drug-resistant bacteria, with Klebsiella and Acinetobacter showing especially high resistance.

🔗 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

#SciComm #Health #AMR 🧪

Pathogen distribution and antimicrobial resistance among neonatal bloodstream infections in Southeast Asia: results from NeoSEAP, a multicentre retrospective study

Neonatal sepsis in tertiary hospitals in Southeast Asia is predominantly caused by gram-negative bacteria, with high rates of non-susceptibility to commonly prescribed antibiotics.

www.thelancet.com

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 16h

Young Republicans group chat.

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 16h

The lifecycle of software objects

The Verge @theverge.com · 19h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

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Anita Leirfall @anitaleirfall.bsky.social · 1d

The computer scientist Daniel Spielman likens research to gambling. “It’s a big endorphin rush when you think you’ve solved something. And even if the usual outcome is that you’re wrong, that feeling of excitement is motivating.” www.quantamagazine.org/the-computer... #science #philsky

The Computer Scientist Who Parlays Failures Into Breakthroughs | Quanta Magazine

Daniel Spielman solves important problems by thinking hard — about other questions.

www.quantamagazine.org

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koenfucius @koenfucius.bsky.social · 1d

Research by Lee et al suggests LLMs exhibit human-like cognitive-behavioural biases characteristic of gambling addiction😬—like illusion of control, gambler's fallacy, and loss chasing; increasing models’ autonomy amplified risk-taking and bankruptcies:

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 16h

A thought-provoking piece in Nature Neuroscience by many neuroscience colleagues: "Science must break its silence to rebuild public trust". Lots to think about here.

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

Public engagement: building common ground
How can we help to bridge this divide? Simply producing more excep tional science will not be enough to rebuild public trust. Rather, we must adopt a new model that recognizes communication and advocacy as core pillars of science, on a par with rigor and reproducibility. Public engagement efforts should be valued for faculty promotions, much like obtaining grants and publishing our findings in scientific journals. Researchers should be recognized and rewarded for activities such as giving public talks, working with local schools, engaging with policy makers, developing social media campaigns and platforms or writing accessible articles for general audiences. Developing these skills must be an integral part of scientific training, reinforcing the notion that the responsibility to champion science lies with us. Courses that teach graduate students and postdocs to communicate complex ideas clearly, to use social media effectively and to advocate for evidencebased policies must be deemed critical and supported by our universities. These efforts should not be viewed as distractions from research but woven into the fabric of what we do as scientists. Rebuilding public trust requires a cultural paradigm shift: scientists must see themselves not just as producers of knowledge, but also as its ambassadors and translators. Such a fundamental change will occur only if it is embraced by our scientific leaders and institutions, emphasizing the critical role of public engagement for science to succeed.

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Arnav Das @arnav7.bsky.social · 16h

Didn't know he came from ivory

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 20h

Nature is healing

Tim Knopf @lokfuehrer-tim.bsky.social · 1d

Unbekannte haben mehrere Hühner in einer S-Bahn Richtung Köln ausgesetzt 🐔

Drei Hühner auf Stroh, die in einem Art Abteil mit mehreren Sitzen und einer Glastür abgetrennt zum Rest, in einer S-Bahn vor sich hin leben.

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 1d

🌍 Carbon offsets largely fail to cut emissions

A 25-year review found most carbon offset schemes do not reduce global heating, with systemic flaws like double counting and temporary projects undermining real progress.

🔗 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#SciComm #Climate #CarbonOffsets 🧪

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

www.theguardian.com

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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 1d

These children have been failed by the adults who were supposed to keep them safe

Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 1d

Measles outbreak in SC sends 150 unvaccinated kids into 21-day quarantine arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

Measles outbreak in SC sends 150 unvaccinated kids into 21-day quarantine

The outbreak includes at least seven confirmed cases, but some are clearly being missed.

arstechnica.com

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Eric Turkheimer @ent3c.bsky.social · 1d

In 2018, Charles Murray challenged me to a bet: "We will understand IQ genetically—I think most of the picture will have been filled in by 2025—there will still be blanks—but we’ll know basically what’s going on." It's now 2025, and I claim a win. I write about it in The Atlantic.

Your Genes Are Simply Not Enough to Explain How Smart You Are

Seven years ago, I took a bet with Charles Murray about whether we’d basically understand the genetics of intelligence by now.

www.theatlantic.com

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 1d

"The more we have learned about the specifics of DNA associated with intelligence, the further away that goal has receded."

Eric Turkheimer @ent3c.bsky.social · 1d

In 2018, Charles Murray challenged me to a bet: "We will understand IQ genetically—I think most of the picture will have been filled in by 2025—there will still be blanks—but we’ll know basically what’s going on." It's now 2025, and I claim a win. I write about it in The Atlantic.

Your Genes Are Simply Not Enough to Explain How Smart You Are

Seven years ago, I took a bet with Charles Murray about whether we’d basically understand the genetics of intelligence by now.

www.theatlantic.com

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koenfucius @koenfucius.bsky.social · 1d

It can be hard to spot manipulative nudges on commercial websites, causing you to pay for something you didn’t want, locking you into a subscription etc.

@richard-mills.bsky.social developed a Chrome extension that detects, highlights and rates them for you:

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Arnav Das @arnav7.bsky.social · 1d

Also I didn't know this existed at all

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Arnav Das @arnav7.bsky.social · 1d

Which company are those

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 1d

As my husband is traveling for work I borrowed his open ear headphones and two days later I’m fully convinced that in-ear headphones are barbaric devices of the past.

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Anita Leirfall @anitaleirfall.bsky.social · 1d

«In this paper, I critically discuss Cappelen’s arguments for the abandonment of “democracy” and “democratic” in political theory specifically.»

Philosophy at the Open University @ouphilosophy.bsky.social · 6d

📣Democracy Double Bill from Philosophy at the Open University!📣

Dan Cavedon-Taylor explores how deepfakes and AI video may (not) threaten democracy
doi.org/10.1017/apa....

Mark Pinder counters a recent argument by Herman Cappelen for abandoning the term
doi.org/10.1007/s442...

#philsky

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Michael Boo-tancourt @betanalpha.bsky.social · 1d

On Wed Dec 10 join me to learn about what a regression model is, and what a regression model is not, while raising funds for World Central Kitchen and United Farm Workers. For details on how to register, sponsored registration possibilities, and more see betanalpha.github.io/courses/.

A slide with the text “Predicting a missing variate for a fully observed covariate, however, is not always the relevant predictive task.”, a probabilistic graphical model for predicting a missing variate given a partially observed covariate, and a corresponding equation for the posterior prediction distribution.

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 2d

Make an effect size prediction!

@jamiecummins.bsky.social and I are replicating Balcetis & Dunning's (2010) "chocolate is more desirable than poop" (Cohen's d = 4.52)

Let us known in the replies what effect size you think we'll find. Details of the study in the thread below.

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Rob Sica @robsica.bsky.social · 2d

"Mainstream parties have to decide whether they want to deliver the policies people demand, or they will be replaced by someone who does, even if these alternatives are far inferior in other ways."

What Do Representation Gaps Reflect?

On Information Asymmetries, Value Differences and Genetics

laurenzguenther.substack.com

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