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The Onion @theonion.com · 9h

Childhood Best Friend Would Never Make The Cut Now https://theonion.com/childhood-best-friend-would-never-make-the-cut-now/

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 9h

Results of the replication are in!

Chocolate is more desirable than poop:

Cohen's d_rm = 6.20, 95%CI [5.63, 6.78]

N = 486, two single item 1-7 Likert scales of desirability.

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 1d

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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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 7h

Hot Water Balloon

xkcd.com/3153/

Comic. [Giant balloon reminiscent of a hot air balloon but wavy and laying on the ground with “bloop” “bloop” sound effects. Two people are in a basket attached to one end of the balloon.] [caption] Hot water balloon rides turn out to be significantly less romantic than the air kind.

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Phivos Phylactou @phivph.com · 11h

2025: “I’ve got this innovative idea to study pupil responses as a measure of brain stimulation”

Meanwhile in 1875:

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Chelsea Parlett @chelseaparlett.bsky.social · 7h

We’ve discussed who owns the *means* of production, but what about the *skews* and *kurtosis* of production? 🤔

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Human Behavior & Evolution Society @humbehevosoc.bsky.social · 13h

📢 Job opening: Penn State Anthropology & Social Science Research Institute are hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Human Reproductive Ecology
Focus: social & ecological determinants of reproductive health across diverse populations.
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Assistant Professor of Anthropology in Human Reproductive Ecology - Penn State - HBES

The Department of Anthropology (https://anth.la.psu.edu/) and the Social Science Research Institute (SSRI: https://ssri.psu.edu/) at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park invites…

www.hbes.com

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Impressionable Teen Falls In With Wrong Socioeconomic Class https://theonion.com/impressionable-teen-falls-in-with-wrong-socioeconomic-class/

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Georgia Tomova @georgiatomova.bsky.social · 1d

What is the most annoying website on the planet and why is it ResearchGate

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 2d

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities

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EHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨

EHEBA is calling for the Service to the Community Award 🙌

Do not hesitate to nominate someone that you know has contributed in the strengthening of our community beyond their research!

Deadline: December 19th, 2025

Here is the form👇

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

2026 service noimination form.doc

2026 EHBEA Services to the Community award Nomination Form Please submit this application form by e-mail to the EHBEA Secretary [email protected] Next Deadline: 5pm (GMT), 19th DECEMBER 20...

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Tim Waring @twaring.bsky.social · Aug 21

🧠 Want to integrate cultural evolution into your course using award winning materials created by the field's experts, and get paid $2000 to do it? 💵

🚨 The Cultural Evolution Society is seeking applications for the ACE Teaching Innovation Awards.

🔖 Apply here: vuw.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management

The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 2d

This is your periodic reminder that you can add coffee stains to your LaTeX documents.

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 2d

TIL that on macOS, fn + delete does forward-delete, as in, deleting text to the right of the cursor

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Michał Wypych @mwypych.bsky.social · 2d

There's also formr which is free and integrates nicely with R. You'd probably need to set up your own instance because their servers are already full bit they give detailed instructions: formr.org

formr - an online survey framework with live feedback

formr survey framework. chain simple surveys into long runs, use the power of R to generate pretty feedback and complex designs

formr.org

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Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 2d

Regent parrot chicks getting weighed are just so absurdly adorable and undignified 😂😭😇

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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 2d

Heron surveys the world and is unimpressed

The head and body of a heron looking cross. Its body is grey, with white lower breast and throat. The beak is yellow underneath and black and grey above. Its eye has a yellow ring round a black centre.

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Daniel Nettle @danielnettle.bsky.social · 3d

In a new paper, we show from longitudinal UK and France data that income volatility (fluctatuations month to month) are bad for mental and general health. And it is much badder than you would expect given the lowness of the low months:
doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

Redirecting

doi.org

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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 3d

The data is from April but holy moly

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · May 30

No words

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Kim Zetter @kimzetter.bsky.social · 4d

Apple announces new payouts for certain types of bugs - company will pay up to $2 million for anyone disclosing a chain of bugs that could be abused for spyware like Pegasus, as well as bonus awards for exploits that can bypass Lockdown Mode or are found while Apple software is still in beta testing

Apple Announces $2 Million Bug Bounty Reward for the Most Dangerous Exploits

With the mercenary spyware industry booming, Apple VP Ivan Krstić tells WIRED that the company is also offering bonuses that could bring the max total reward for iPhone exploits to $5 million.

www.wired.com

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Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · 4d

Juno is a clam dunk champion 🏀

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Rense Corten 🟥 @rensec.bsky.social · 4d

WORK! At Utrecht University (@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social) We're recruiting a PhD student in experimental sociology! More info: www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

PhD Position in Experimental Sociology

Do you want to apply innovative methods to study fundamental sociological questions?

www.uu.nl

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Georgia Tomova @georgiatomova.bsky.social · 4d

"A UK study involving nearly 20,000 people, found that those who spent at least a total of 120 minutes every week in greenery were significantly more likely to report good health and higher psychological well-being."

is it ✨magic✨ or is it ✨confounding✨

Nature and outdoors can help boost your health - here's how

Spending just 20 minutes in nature can lower blood pressure, heart rate and stress levels.

www.bbc.co.uk

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The Onion @theonion.com · 4d

Church Of England Names First Woman Leader https://theonion.com/church-of-england-names-first-woman-leader/

“Finally someone for the Pope to marry.”

Caroline Bertone, Bunker Decorator

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R Consortium @rconsortium.bsky.social · 4d

R+AI 2025 • Nov 12–13 • Online • Low-cost

Skip the hype. See how R + AI works in production!

Keynote: Joe Cheng (Posit) on focused, reliable LLMs for data science

Actionable R+AI sessions. Students from $25.

Register: rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs...

#rstats @posit.co @jcheng5.bsky.social

R+AI 2025 • Nov 12–13 • Online • Low-cost

Keynote: Joe Cheng (Posit) on focused, reliable LLMs for data science.

Actionable R+AI sessions. Students from $25.

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Emil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 5d

I made a new quarto revealjs template based on Pechakucha, a presentation format where you have 20 slides that auto-advances after 20 seconds. Once started you will not be able to stop it. And it will make sure you have 20 slides whether you like it or not

github.com/EmilHvitfeld...

GitHub - EmilHvitfeldt/quarto-revealjs-pechakucha: pechakucha slides in quarto revealjs

pechakucha slides in quarto revealjs. Contribute to EmilHvitfeldt/quarto-revealjs-pechakucha development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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