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Daniel Engber @engber.bsky.social · 16h

(I know that's not actually a Street Fighter reference.)

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Daniel Engber @engber.bsky.social · 16h

FINISH HIM

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Daniel Engber @engber.bsky.social · 13d

More news on the slimy, invasive species that everyone loves:

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/w...

Octopuses Invade the English Coast, ‘Eating Anything in Their Path’

www.nytimes.com

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Scott Myers @smyers20.bsky.social · 16d

New PubPeer comment on "Efficacy of oral folinic acid supplementation in children with autism spectrum disorder: a randomized double-blind, placebo-controlled trial" (Panda et al, 2024). Concerns about significant errors. #folinicacid #leucovorin, #autism

pubpeer.com/publications...

PubPeer - Efficacy of oral folinic acid supplementation in children wi...

There are comments on PubPeer for publication: Efficacy of oral folinic acid supplementation in children with autism spectrum disorder: a randomized double-blind, placebo-controlled trial (2024)

pubpeer.com

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Daniel Engber @engber.bsky.social · 19d

They're using reason as a fig leaf for the lame-o impulses and snap judgments that define their crappy, authentic selves. I, on the other hand, have the strength of character to overcome my gut reactions and thus give voice to the wisdom at my core

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Experimental Philosophy @xphilosopher.bsky.social · 19d

People sometimes face a conflict between intuition (system 1) and reasoning (system 2)

In cases like these, which will be seen as the person’s true self?

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Daniel Engber @engber.bsky.social · 19d

Wow, upon reflection, I have a strong intuition that system 1 is the true self for other people, but system 2 is the true self for me!

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Michael Inzlicht @minzlicht.bsky.social · Sep 10

Major new paper by finds implicit measures like the IAT are no better than asking people directly about their biases. After decades of avoiding self-reports, turns out our sophisticated replacement tools work no better than what we abandoned. New post!

The Great Implicit Bias Bamboozle

Where were you when you first learned about implicit bias?

open.substack.com

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Ian Bogost 🍔 @ibogost.bsky.social · Aug 17

This year's rising seniors have never experienced a year of college without generative AI. It's AI's senior year, too. And AI is ubiquitous: Over 90 percent of college students now use it in some way.

I wrote about how AI already changed college forever. (Gift link)

College Students Have Already Changed Forever

Members of the class of 2026 have had access to AI since they were freshmen. Almost all of them are using it to do their work.

www.theatlantic.com

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Experimental Philosophy @xphilosopher.bsky.social · Jul 19

People normally think that certain things should not be for sale (e.g., organs)

But what happens when people consider the principled arguments economists have given for the view that these things *should* be for sale?

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

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Daniel Engber @engber.bsky.social · Jul 8

" Watchdogs and institutionalists alike seethed with frustration. Did the health secretary want more regulation or less? What was his overarching philosophy? How could any agency possibly accommodate so many paradoxes? ... "

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/m...

Inside the Collapse of the F.D.A.

www.nytimes.com

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Daniel Engber @engber.bsky.social · Jul 8

Holy cow

Quentin André @quentinandre.bsky.social · Jul 8

Do you remember Francesca Gino's claim on her website that HBS analyzed the "wrong data file" in their investigation, and that a "real file" proved her innocence?

HBS is now claiming that the "real file" was fabricated by Gino... and thus that Gino's claim was defamatory.

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Daniel Engber @engber.bsky.social · Jun 29

💡!

Mallory Harris, PhD @malar0ne.bsky.social · Jun 29

Great piece, really sums it up well! Small note for @engber.bsky.social - I also thought Malone said "energy" but I think @enirenberg.bsky.social is right that he was actually referencing anergy

bsky.app/profile/enir...

Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · Jun 26

Influenza can be unpredictable with regard to severity.

Malone now asks about a "broad-based anergy of some type" that may increase disease severity coming out of the pandemic.

This is not how anergy works. Malone should stop throwing out jargon he doesn't understand.

Malone is finally done.

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Jessica Pickett @pickettjessica.bsky.social · Jun 28

So far this article by @engber.bsky.social best captures the overall ACIP meeting vibes

‘I’m Not Quite Sure How to Respond to This Presentation’

The discomfiting spectacle of RFK Jr.’s new vaccine-advisory committee

www.theatlantic.com

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Daniel Engber @engber.bsky.social · Jun 17

Fascinating story on a little-known but unbelievably impressive mental sport :

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

The World’s Hardest Bluffing Game

Why are some Iraqis so good at figuring out when a person is lying?

www.theatlantic.com

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Daniel Engber @engber.bsky.social · May 27

That's not my drawing -- you'd have to reach out to Popular Science for information on who owns it...

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Daniel Engber @engber.bsky.social · May 25

The critique of science reform was "stifled"? All other points aside, this is simply not how I remember seeing the past dozen years unfold.

Somehow everyone feels stifled in the social-media age. It's the foundational emotion of the 2020s.

Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · May 25

Meanwhile, critique of any of this was stifled. Work was sent to friendly journals to avoid the full rigor of critical review. Coauthors reviewed one another’s papers, and attacked critics online when pointing out major ethical issues in reform research.

www.chronicle.com/article/this...

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Daniel Engber @engber.bsky.social · May 22

Here's the original story: www.documentary.org/online-featu...

“C” is for Censorship: PBS Cuts ‘Art Spiegelman’ Doc and Other Dubious Acts at Embattled Broadcaster

Twelve days before Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse (2024) was set to broadcast on April 15 across PBS stations nationwide as part of its strand American Masters, the filmmakers were told that a 90...

www.documentary.org

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Daniel Engber @engber.bsky.social · May 22

PBS is really going for it.

(gift link)
www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

h/t @antkaufman.bsky.social for breaking this story and reporting out the details

Now PBS Is Censoring a Film About Free Speech

A worrying pattern has taken hold in public television.

www.theatlantic.com

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Daniel Engber @engber.bsky.social · May 20

On COVID origins, we're now living in the mirror-image world of 2020: Now the lab-leak theory is assumed to be the truth.

www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

Trump Thinks He Knows What Started the Pandemic

The lab-leak theory of COVID-19’s origins has became a principle of MAGA governance.

www.theatlantic.com

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Daniel Engber @engber.bsky.social · May 20

Terrific reporting here on the extent of PBS self-censorship under Trump

Anthony Kaufman @antkaufman.bsky.social · May 20

“C” is for Censorship: PBS Cuts ‘Art Spiegelman’ Doc and Other Dubious Acts at Embattled Broadcaster
www.documentary.org/online-featu...

“C” is for Censorship: PBS Cuts ‘Art Spiegelman’ Doc and Other Dubious Acts at Embattled Broadcaster

Twelve days before Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse (2024) was set to broadcast on April 15 across PBS stations nationwide as part of its strand American Masters, the filmmakers were told that a 90...

www.documentary.org

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · May 18

New post!
goodscience.substack.com/p/academic-c...

Academic Culture and Fraud

With the latest fraudulent AI-econ paper, a number of colleagues from MIT, Brown, Princeton, Univ.

goodscience.substack.com

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Daniel Engber @engber.bsky.social · May 17

Did you feel it coming in the air?

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Daniel Engber @engber.bsky.social · May 9

More details here:

bsky.app/profile/joha...

Johanna Rickne @johannarickne.bsky.social · May 9

🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John Holbein alerted me, @ollefolke.bsky.social, and @jopieboy.bsky.social to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵

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Daniel Engber @engber.bsky.social · May 9

This is such an odd use of scare quotes, in the editor's note for a challenged paper:

... We are committed to "the truth" ...

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