Berna Devezer
@devezer.bsky.social
Metascientist @ uidaho. I work at the intersection of behavioral sciences, statistics, and philosophy. Love thinking and talking about science. Post lots of cat and food pics. Allergic to unsolicited advice.
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I'd like to re-up this paper we published last year bec I believe it makes a fundamental contribution to theoretical metascience but it is woefully underappreciated. We address a key challenge in estimating the reproducibility of a result: The distance of a replication study from the original. 1/n
science in real time
"Forever advancing, we seemed always in the same place, and every day was the former lived over again."
(from Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas by Melville)
(from Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas by Melville)
November 30, 2025 at 10:57 PM
science in real time
"Forever advancing, we seemed always in the same place, and every day was the former lived over again."
(from Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas by Melville)
(from Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas by Melville)
November 30, 2025 at 10:56 PM
"Forever advancing, we seemed always in the same place, and every day was the former lived over again."
(from Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas by Melville)
(from Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas by Melville)
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Perhaps of interest to some of you.
"Quick societal adoption of tools often reflects a demand driven by business interests or culture. Reflecting on generative AI, especially Large Language Models, I believe there is a strong lifestyle generation component that nurtures..
cal-r.org/mondragon/S8...
"Quick societal adoption of tools often reflects a demand driven by business interests or culture. Reflecting on generative AI, especially Large Language Models, I believe there is a strong lifestyle generation component that nurtures..
cal-r.org/mondragon/S8...
Scripto_Asinine or sound minds?
cal-r.org
November 30, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Perhaps of interest to some of you.
"Quick societal adoption of tools often reflects a demand driven by business interests or culture. Reflecting on generative AI, especially Large Language Models, I believe there is a strong lifestyle generation component that nurtures..
cal-r.org/mondragon/S8...
"Quick societal adoption of tools often reflects a demand driven by business interests or culture. Reflecting on generative AI, especially Large Language Models, I believe there is a strong lifestyle generation component that nurtures..
cal-r.org/mondragon/S8...
Email from company Z: We've missed you. Come back! We have new goodies for you.
Gmail AI summary: Your order from Z is confirmed.
Panic ensues before I realize it's AI summary, thinking my credit card was stolen. This happened multiple times.
Anyhow I finally turned it off and so can you!
Gmail AI summary: Your order from Z is confirmed.
Panic ensues before I realize it's AI summary, thinking my credit card was stolen. This happened multiple times.
Anyhow I finally turned it off and so can you!
November 30, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Email from company Z: We've missed you. Come back! We have new goodies for you.
Gmail AI summary: Your order from Z is confirmed.
Panic ensues before I realize it's AI summary, thinking my credit card was stolen. This happened multiple times.
Anyhow I finally turned it off and so can you!
Gmail AI summary: Your order from Z is confirmed.
Panic ensues before I realize it's AI summary, thinking my credit card was stolen. This happened multiple times.
Anyhow I finally turned it off and so can you!
Reposted by Berna Devezer
I maintain that once somebody published a study, anybody can criticize it publicly, & there is no *obligation* to wait for the original authors' (OA) to reply.
1st, why would the OAs get to have the last word at every step?
2nd, waiting opens up a loophole for the OAs to derail the process.
1st, why would the OAs get to have the last word at every step?
2nd, waiting opens up a loophole for the OAs to derail the process.
November 30, 2025 at 5:38 AM
I maintain that once somebody published a study, anybody can criticize it publicly, & there is no *obligation* to wait for the original authors' (OA) to reply.
1st, why would the OAs get to have the last word at every step?
2nd, waiting opens up a loophole for the OAs to derail the process.
1st, why would the OAs get to have the last word at every step?
2nd, waiting opens up a loophole for the OAs to derail the process.
if anyone's feeling sick of too much butter and is about to give up food, here's a recipe i keep going back to for a light dinner. it's very forgiving. works with halibut, sole, flounder, etc. as well. and feel free to add any herbs, tomatoes, onions, etc. we eat it on a nice salad with vinaigrette.
Steamed Salmon with Fresh Herbs and Lemon
This steamed salmon recipe is foolproof, comes out perfect every time, uses fresh ingredients and has tons of flavor. It will be your new favorite way to cook salmon!
dirtanddough.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:40 AM
if anyone's feeling sick of too much butter and is about to give up food, here's a recipe i keep going back to for a light dinner. it's very forgiving. works with halibut, sole, flounder, etc. as well. and feel free to add any herbs, tomatoes, onions, etc. we eat it on a nice salad with vinaigrette.
now that there's some discussion on multiverse analyses, i'd like to remind you that all the caveats and pitfalls of multiverse analysis (including what's below) apply to many-analyst studies as well, besides others.
Really baffling that two most common uses of multiverse analysis are: 1. Run a bunch of correlated analyses & use correlation as evidence for the strength of inference, or 2. Run a bunch of different analyses under wildly different model (mis)specifications to show that the 'effect' is not reliable.
November 29, 2025 at 10:07 PM
now that there's some discussion on multiverse analyses, i'd like to remind you that all the caveats and pitfalls of multiverse analysis (including what's below) apply to many-analyst studies as well, besides others.
phew successfully hid this morning's academic rage bait. no side of that discussion is worth having here imo. i'd rather dunk on peer review a hundred more times than talk about 'students today'. so anyhow peer review is a broken model.
November 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
phew successfully hid this morning's academic rage bait. no side of that discussion is worth having here imo. i'd rather dunk on peer review a hundred more times than talk about 'students today'. so anyhow peer review is a broken model.
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My University is moving to a “two-lane” system for assessments. The two lanes are 1) secure, in-person assessments, and 2) open assignments that where we’re supposed to “support[] students to develop AI-ready skills.” The Uni doesn’t have the facilities to do much of #1 & there’s no middle ground. >
It's only a matter of time before humanities departments will be forced to accept AI-authored assignments, as part of revised university policy to cooperate with these billionaires. It's already happening, and our response needs to be decisive. Because our students' ability to *think* is at stake.
November 29, 2025 at 12:53 PM
My University is moving to a “two-lane” system for assessments. The two lanes are 1) secure, in-person assessments, and 2) open assignments that where we’re supposed to “support[] students to develop AI-ready skills.” The Uni doesn’t have the facilities to do much of #1 & there’s no middle ground. >
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When I see LLMs pitched as a guaranteed productivity tool for software engineering, the is the counterweight I keep trying to get people to seriously engage with and not handwave away is the future cost, and “oh everything tech gets cheaper” isn’t an answer. Services don’t and LLMs are a service.
November 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
When I see LLMs pitched as a guaranteed productivity tool for software engineering, the is the counterweight I keep trying to get people to seriously engage with and not handwave away is the future cost, and “oh everything tech gets cheaper” isn’t an answer. Services don’t and LLMs are a service.
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The OpenAI ruling writers should know about 👀 (if your work was scraped for LLM training, this affects you). www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
OpenAI Loses Key Discovery Battle as It Cedes Ground to Authors in AI Lawsuits
The issue has been a major battleground in discovery. OpenAI could be on the hook for hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars if it was aware it was infringing on copyrighted material.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The OpenAI ruling writers should know about 👀 (if your work was scraped for LLM training, this affects you). www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
Reposted by Berna Devezer
Interested in perspectives on this. Let's say you have an inexperienced colleague you've just started working with. They start on a project and complete everything incredibly quickly. Not only that, but the analysis is incredibly nuanced. They aren't a statistician but seemingly know everything(1/3)
November 29, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Interested in perspectives on this. Let's say you have an inexperienced colleague you've just started working with. They start on a project and complete everything incredibly quickly. Not only that, but the analysis is incredibly nuanced. They aren't a statistician but seemingly know everything(1/3)
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Aesthetics friends: do you know of any good recent papers on depictions of trans and/or queer characters in film/fiction? A student asked for recommendations when we did rough heroes, and I’m wondering if there might be something good for us to end the semester with…
November 29, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Aesthetics friends: do you know of any good recent papers on depictions of trans and/or queer characters in film/fiction? A student asked for recommendations when we did rough heroes, and I’m wondering if there might be something good for us to end the semester with…
entering the last stretch of my 40s—a decade largely defined by a series of health problems alongside a pandemic—feeling better, stronger, healthier than i felt in the previous nine years. so i expect for more silliness, wild adventures, and a deeper appreciation of what's worth my time and energy.
November 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
entering the last stretch of my 40s—a decade largely defined by a series of health problems alongside a pandemic—feeling better, stronger, healthier than i felt in the previous nine years. so i expect for more silliness, wild adventures, and a deeper appreciation of what's worth my time and energy.
as awful as this is, these examples kinda make me feel giddy and validated, given how i normally feel about our current peer review practices. my personal experience unfortunately has never been consistent with academics' general regard of peer review as a net benefit despite its flaws.
Springer-Nature statement
“Whilst the details of peer review are confidential, we can confirm that the article underwent two rounds of review from two independent peer reviewers, supporting an accept decision.”
How am I now expected to believe that two people looked at the paper twice and DGAF?
“Whilst the details of peer review are confidential, we can confirm that the article underwent two rounds of review from two independent peer reviewers, supporting an accept decision.”
How am I now expected to believe that two people looked at the paper twice and DGAF?
Riding the Autism Bicycle to Retraction Town
Does anyone *really* know their Factor Fexcectorn?
nobreakthroughs.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
as awful as this is, these examples kinda make me feel giddy and validated, given how i normally feel about our current peer review practices. my personal experience unfortunately has never been consistent with academics' general regard of peer review as a net benefit despite its flaws.
it's alienating how random acts of violence toward a target of the day gets normalized on this website. today victim is the delivery robots. so much inexplicable rage & desire to destroy.
we've had them for years on campus. they're ok. irl no one feels the desire to kick, throw, or beat them.
we've had them for years on campus. they're ok. irl no one feels the desire to kick, throw, or beat them.
November 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
it's alienating how random acts of violence toward a target of the day gets normalized on this website. today victim is the delivery robots. so much inexplicable rage & desire to destroy.
we've had them for years on campus. they're ok. irl no one feels the desire to kick, throw, or beat them.
we've had them for years on campus. they're ok. irl no one feels the desire to kick, throw, or beat them.
Reposted by Berna Devezer
The arrests — often at courthouses or ICE check-ins — have led to a surge of litigation. But that could be changing: a judge in California last week granted a national class action, and judges in MA and CO have certified statewide classes. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 28, 2025 at 12:16 PM
The arrests — often at courthouses or ICE check-ins — have led to a surge of litigation. But that could be changing: a judge in California last week granted a national class action, and judges in MA and CO have certified statewide classes. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Reposted by Berna Devezer
NEW: ICE’s policy of mass detaining immigrants w pending deportation proceedings has led to an avalanche of rejections in court.
More than 220 judges — including 23 Trump appointees — have called it an illegal distortion of long-settled law. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
More than 220 judges — including 23 Trump appointees — have called it an illegal distortion of long-settled law. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 28, 2025 at 12:06 PM
NEW: ICE’s policy of mass detaining immigrants w pending deportation proceedings has led to an avalanche of rejections in court.
More than 220 judges — including 23 Trump appointees — have called it an illegal distortion of long-settled law. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
More than 220 judges — including 23 Trump appointees — have called it an illegal distortion of long-settled law. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
no pies but quince dessert is turning the right color
November 27, 2025 at 11:20 PM
no pies but quince dessert is turning the right color
Thinking about OpenAI's court defense of "user violated terms of use" in the wrongful death case and reading their terms of use, which are more about IP protection (how ironic!) than user safety. But also see the wildly detailed usage policy.
openai.com/policies/row...
openai.com/policies/usa...
openai.com/policies/row...
openai.com/policies/usa...
November 27, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Thinking about OpenAI's court defense of "user violated terms of use" in the wrongful death case and reading their terms of use, which are more about IP protection (how ironic!) than user safety. But also see the wildly detailed usage policy.
openai.com/policies/row...
openai.com/policies/usa...
openai.com/policies/row...
openai.com/policies/usa...
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"ton of user data has been exposed owing to a breach in a third-party web analytics"
"Transparency is important to us."
😏
Clearly! Personal data is now transparent for all.
www.windowscentral.com/artificial-i...
"Transparency is important to us."
😏
Clearly! Personal data is now transparent for all.
www.windowscentral.com/artificial-i...
OpenAI confirms major data breach, exposing names, emails and more
Users are waking up to discover OpenAI leaked their data this morning via a faulty third-party plugin. Here's what you need to know.
www.windowscentral.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
"ton of user data has been exposed owing to a breach in a third-party web analytics"
"Transparency is important to us."
😏
Clearly! Personal data is now transparent for all.
www.windowscentral.com/artificial-i...
"Transparency is important to us."
😏
Clearly! Personal data is now transparent for all.
www.windowscentral.com/artificial-i...
Reposted by Berna Devezer
Pseudo is receiving thanks now. You have a little over 24 hours so please hurry
November 27, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Pseudo is receiving thanks now. You have a little over 24 hours so please hurry
Pseudo is receiving thanks now. You have a little over 24 hours so please hurry
November 27, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Pseudo is receiving thanks now. You have a little over 24 hours so please hurry
nothing like reviewing a half-assed, unedited, stretched out paper produced by a collaboration of bigwigs that's full of grammatical errors, typos, font changes, copy-paste massacres and doesn't even bother to define the key concept under study
November 26, 2025 at 11:10 PM
nothing like reviewing a half-assed, unedited, stretched out paper produced by a collaboration of bigwigs that's full of grammatical errors, typos, font changes, copy-paste massacres and doesn't even bother to define the key concept under study
PSA: the best way to handle a small injury is to sustain a bigger injury
November 26, 2025 at 10:25 PM
PSA: the best way to handle a small injury is to sustain a bigger injury