Author | Lightnews

Reposted by Jeremy Wilmer

Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · 5d

MetaROR, a platform for reviews of research on research, is a success! We have published 24 sets of reviews and have 16 submissions in process. MetaROR now has 9 partners - these are journals that agree to use our reviews when authors submit to them. metaror.org #metascience #openaccess

Home - MetaROR

MetaResearch Open Review MetaResearch Open Review MetaResearch Open Review A new platform designed to transform how we review and share metaresearch A new platform designed to transform

metaror.org

1 15 26

Reposted by Jeremy Wilmer

Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social · 8d

Updated every month: Access the raw datasets behind every #dataviz we've ever released online. The IIB Data Room. 500+ sheets, 1200+ datasets. Continually updated.
informationisbeautiful.net/data/

A table listing various article titles and their corresponding bit.ly links, sorted by publication date from August 2024 to May 2023. The table has four columns: Title, bit.ly link, Published date, and Updated (empty). Topics include 'Per Second', 'WaterWorld', several articles about plastics, 'Two Years of the Russia-Ukraine War', among others. Most links are either geni.us or Google Docs spreadsheet URLs. Dates range from most recent (01 Aug 2024) to oldest (24 May 2023)

3 10

Jeremy Wilmer @showmydata.org · 8d

A precious teaching resource for neuropsychology/cognition/perception: patient videos
.

Ben Balas @bjbalas.bsky.social · 8d

In my #Neuropsychology course, I use many patient videos to give examples of various consequences of brain injury. Some of these are really excellent and can be tricky to find, so I thought I'd share this doc with links to some of my favorites - a brief 🧵with some highlights. (more to come later!)

Neuropsychology_Psyc486_VideoLinks

docs.google.com

3

Jeremy Wilmer @showmydata.org · 12d

An inspired display of positive, patriotic civic action. The Lexington MA rally was excellent, including this inspirational speech/poem by MA poet laureate Regie O’Hare Gibson. youtu.be/GGtiPOZBaUg?...

1 3

Jeremy Wilmer @showmydata.org · 13d

I'm looking forward to attending the No Kings March in Lexington MA 10am-12noon today — www.mobilize.us/lexingtonala...

No Kings! It Started Here · Lexington Alarm

Join our No Kings! rally on the historic Lexington Battle Green sponsored by Lexington Alarm! and Indivisible LAB. The “It Started Here” rally will feature speakers, local music, and information ab...

www.mobilize.us

4

Reposted by Jeremy Wilmer

Nature @nature.com · 18d

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Pewter Howitt share economics prize for work that underlines the importance of investing in research and development.

go.nature.com/4hj9NNV

Economics Nobel prize won by researchers who showed how science boosts growth

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Pewter Howitt share economics prize for work that underlines the importance of investing in research and development.

go.nature.com

3 74 210

Reposted by Jeremy Wilmer

Xan Gregg @xangregg.bsky.social · Sep 27

Dot plot #dataviz comparison: ratings of FIDE chess Grand Masters via Tidy Tuesday.
1 Nearest stacks (Wilkinson)
2 Smoothed stacks
3 Smoothed hexagonal grid
4 Exact position (beeswarm)
Smoothing trades delta-x for spikiness (deviation from kernel density estimate).

Dot plot of FIDE Grand Master chess ELO ratings. Most are between 2400 and 2600. Each dot is placed in the nearest stack.
Source data: https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/blob/main/data/2025/2025-09-23/readme.md

Dot plot of FIDE Grand Master chess ELO ratings. Most are between 2400 and 2600. Each dot is placed in the nearest stack or the next nearest if it helps avoid spikes.

Dot plot of FIDE Grand Master chess ELO ratings. Most are between 2400 and 2600. Each dot is placed at its true x position, adjusted vertically to avoid overlap.

1 1 11

Jeremy Wilmer @showmydata.org · Sep 28

This blog post is a nice concise articulation of how it is tempting, but incorrect, to interpret a change score in a randomized experiment as a direct estimate of the effect size of the treatment.

Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · Sep 27

Psychologists are also definitely guilty of confusing change with treatment response, which is why I wrote about it here:

www.the100.ci/2025/01/22/r...

Reviewer notes: In a randomized experiment, the pre-post differences are not effect estimates

Reviewer notes are a new short format with brief explanations of basic ideas that might come in handy during (for example) the peer-review process. They are a great way to keep Julia from writing 10,0...

www.the100.ci

1 3

Reposted by Jeremy Wilmer

Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · Aug 15

WOW! These demos are impressive 👍
Looking for more examples along these lines

We Are R-Ladies @weare.rladies.org · Aug 14

Running R code on your phone... that is definitely magic!!

webR also makes it super easy to create #rstats learning resources that students can work with using just a browser, no install drama needed.

jen-richmond.quarto.pub/barbarplots/

1 2 5

Reposted by Jeremy Wilmer

Henry Grabar @henrygrabar.bsky.social · Aug 14

"moving from a less walkable (25th percentile) city to a more walkable city (75th percentile) increased walking by 1,100 daily steps, on average. These changes hold across different genders, ages and body mass index values, and are sustained over 3 months." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Countrywide natural experiment links built environment to physical activity - Nature

By analysing the smartphone data of 2,112,288 participants, in particular observing and comparing the activity of the same individual in two different environments, we find that increases in the walka...

www.nature.com

3 32 150

Reposted by Jeremy Wilmer

George Stagg @gws.phd · Aug 14

PSA for anyone beginning to use #wasm #webR to share R code snippets: We have a new short URL for the webR app: webr.sh!

webR - R in the browser

Interactive R environment running in your browser. Execute R code, create plots, and analyze data without installing anything.

webr.sh

4 18 56

Reposted by Jeremy Wilmer

erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · Aug 15

it finally happened

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

190 500 6.7K

Jeremy Wilmer @showmydata.org · Aug 14

Reposting the below resource for educators who, like me, are still trying to figure out a good approach to AI.

Anna Mills @annamillsoer.bsky.social · Aug 14

AIPedagogy.org from Harvard's metaLAB was already the best-designed introduction to AI for educators I knew of.

I return to it again and again for creative, critical assignment ideas.

Now it's even more user friendly and offers a space to compare chatbots and change their settings.

Home

Creative and critical engagement with AI in education AI Guide Looking for a step-by-step introduction to AI? Our guide is designed to help you understand what AI is, how it works, and what it can and...

AIPedagogy.org

3

Reposted by Jeremy Wilmer

Natalia Vélez @natvelali.bsky.social · Aug 1

Notes from @noranewcombe.bsky.social 's beautiful Rumelhart Prize "tasting menu" - congratulations Nora!!! #CogSci2025

Sketchnote of Nora Newcombe's Rumelhart Prize Talk, posing three questions and case studies for cognitive science: (1) innateness (with the geometric module as a case study), (2) representations (featuring cognitive maps vs. graphs), and (3) embodiment (featuring mental rotation)

6 25 140

Jeremy Wilmer @showmydata.org · Jul 31

Excellent use of shown data in a business report.

Eli Holder @elibryan.bsky.social · Jul 30

How do people work at work?

Also: How do you get quantile dot plots to play nicely in a dataviz 📊 design system across an 89 page report, with hundreds of different plots, each with varying distributions?

New deep-dive case study on my recent project for Worklytics: 3iap.com/work/worklyt...

Worklytics - Work Analytics Benchmark Report Design and Specialized Data Visualization

Design system, visualization, and automation for the Worklytics Annual Benchmarks Report.

3iap.com

1 1 2

Reposted by Jeremy Wilmer

Abdul-Rahim Deeb @ardeeb.bsky.social · Jul 29

If you're heading to @cogscisociety.bsky.social, come to our symposium “Perception as a Foundation for Common‑Sense Theories of the World”

📅 August 1 • 9 AM
📍 Salon 2

With
@thiskevinsmith.bsky.social
@shariliu.bsky.social
@judithfan.bsky.social
@ardeeb.bsky.social
— See you there! #CogSci2025

1 7 16

Reposted by Jeremy Wilmer

Joey Cherdarchuk - Obumbratta @obumbratta.com · May 15

What is #dataviz animation good for? An updated thread with examples.

7 28 110

Reposted by Jeremy Wilmer

Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · Jul 1

Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

Experimentology cover: title and curves for distributions.

9 230 530

Jeremy Wilmer @showmydata.org · Jun 14

Strong turnout for the #NoKings rally in Lexington MA, where the fight for U.S. democracy began.

@standupforscience.bsky.social

Revolutionary War statue in Lexington MA during No Kings rally.

Crowd in Lexington MA for No Kings rally.

1 44 270

Jeremy Wilmer @showmydata.org · Jun 2

This detailed map shows economic costs of just the first round of attempted cuts to science funding through the National Institutes of Health.

Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · Jun 2

Joint w/@asinclair.bsky.social and the #SCIMaP team: brief correspondence in @nathumbehav.nature.com on the impact of NIH indirect cost cuts on the economy and employment, impacts that will only worsen given similar proposals for NSF/DOE + overall science proposal.

rdcu.be/eo3Hp

NIH indirect cost cuts will affect the economy and employment

Nature Human Behaviour - NIH indirect cost cuts will affect the economy and employment

rdcu.be

1

Jeremy Wilmer @showmydata.org · May 30

A beautiful post here by @lizneeley.bsky.social and co that explains the harm that the current administration is doing to present and future scientific medical research expertise and infrastructure in our country: unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

Medical Research Funding — Unbreaking

How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

unbreaking.org

3

Reposted by Jeremy Wilmer

Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · May 30

ummmmm...fake sources, mischaracterization of findings, made up research studies doesn't sound like "Gold Standard Science" to us.

But what do we know? We are just a lowly, grassroots community of the world's leading scientists. 🐸☕

#foolsgoldscience
#standupforsciece

www.notus.org/health-scien...

The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist

The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.

www.notus.org

16 160 590

Reposted by Jeremy Wilmer

Ferric Fang, MD @fangferric.bsky.social · May 29

Two Harvard economists forecast the impact of the administration’s proposed NIH budget cuts- stunning losses in new therapies, life expectancy, and economic output with a “social cost 16 times greater than the savings the administration is attempting to achieve."

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Cutting the NIH—The $8 Trillion Health Care Catastrophe

This JAMA Forum discusses the recent budget cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH), the effects of these cuts on scientific research and health of individuals in the US, and the prospects for cha...

jamanetwork.com

2 150 210

Reposted by Jeremy Wilmer

PHD Comics @phdcomics.com · May 27

Ready for Summer? 🌞

4 73 450

Reposted by Jeremy Wilmer

Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · May 18

Our goal is to have 1000 SUFS Teach Ins across the US, by 9/30.

*GASP* 😮

We know, it's a big goal.

If you've received tax dollars for your science, you have a responsibility to inform *your* community what is at stake: public health, the economy, innovation, and America's global leadership.

Host a teach in. Share science with your community....protest style! Calling back to the teach ins of 1965, we are taking to parks, pubs, & churches to tell our neighborhoods about how the budget cuts will impact them.

10 210 410