Aurélien Allard
@aurelienallard.bsky.social
Philosopher and Social Psychologist. Assistant professor at Nantes University. Studying justice, morality, replicability and open science. Personal website: https://aurelienallard.netlify.app/
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Exactly. And it’s this very norm that we’re against. Complexity for complexities sake. The “nuance is always good”. No it’s not. The incremental insights need to outweigh the added complexity. And often the reported complexity is just empirical noise.
November 21, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Exactly. And it’s this very norm that we’re against. Complexity for complexities sake. The “nuance is always good”. No it’s not. The incremental insights need to outweigh the added complexity. And often the reported complexity is just empirical noise.
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Perhaps the most influential table in hunter-gatherer studies, published in Lee's chapter in the famous 1968 edited volume by Lee and DeVore titled, ironically, Man the Hunter 🧪 #BioAnth
November 21, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Perhaps the most influential table in hunter-gatherer studies, published in Lee's chapter in the famous 1968 edited volume by Lee and DeVore titled, ironically, Man the Hunter 🧪 #BioAnth
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One of my favourite charts (my only contribution was the annotation)
Now this is how you detect whether an election was stolen. Humans choose rounder numbers.
by @TheEconomist
by @TheEconomist
November 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
One of my favourite charts (my only contribution was the annotation)
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I read the caption first and thought the illusion might be because the y-axis was on a log scale, but it's not!
My brain was bamboozled regardless.
My brain was bamboozled regardless.
November 19, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I read the caption first and thought the illusion might be because the y-axis was on a log scale, but it's not!
My brain was bamboozled regardless.
My brain was bamboozled regardless.
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If you talk about philosophy of science in interpretability papers you get to learn some incredible facts about what can go wrong with simple causal ablation studies
November 18, 2025 at 11:54 PM
If you talk about philosophy of science in interpretability papers you get to learn some incredible facts about what can go wrong with simple causal ablation studies
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This post highlights how far behind the OSF is in usability and speed. The ResearchBox UI does seem clean, but why not use Zenodo directly (RB archives to Zenodo anyway.)
[130] Researchbox: Even easier to use than before. More transparently permanent.
datacolada.org/130
datacolada.org/130
[130] ResearchBox: Even Easier to Use and More Transparently Permanent than Before - Data Colada
Over the past 10 years or so, posting data, code, and materials for published papers has gone from eccentric to mundane. There are a few platforms that enable sharing research files, including Researc...
datacolada.org
November 19, 2025 at 8:14 AM
This post highlights how far behind the OSF is in usability and speed. The ResearchBox UI does seem clean, but why not use Zenodo directly (RB archives to Zenodo anyway.)
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new paper by Sean Westwood:
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
November 18, 2025 at 7:16 PM
new paper by Sean Westwood:
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
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Why are there so many ways to compute a frequentist interval for a proportion? Because the sample space is discrete, coverage can be garbage without adjustment. The Agresti-Coull interval ("score" below) is really a Bayes interval with a weak prior, has good freq coverage! >
November 17, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Why are there so many ways to compute a frequentist interval for a proportion? Because the sample space is discrete, coverage can be garbage without adjustment. The Agresti-Coull interval ("score" below) is really a Bayes interval with a weak prior, has good freq coverage! >
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My Element on science denial is free to download until December 1st! Get it for free while you can!
doi.org/10.1017/9781...
doi.org/10.1017/9781...
Science Denial
Cambridge Core - Philosophy: General Interest - Science Denial
doi.org
November 17, 2025 at 2:09 PM
My Element on science denial is free to download until December 1st! Get it for free while you can!
doi.org/10.1017/9781...
doi.org/10.1017/9781...
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I agree. It’s still rare, but it happens. See also point 4 in this article: www.politico.eu/article/epp-...
November 15, 2025 at 9:32 AM
I agree. It’s still rare, but it happens. See also point 4 in this article: www.politico.eu/article/epp-...
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Les copains @joffreyfuhrer.bsky.social et @aurelienallard.bsky.social lancent leur podcast et m'ont fait l'honneur de m'inviter pour l'épisode inaugural !
J'ai pas écouté parce ma vraie voix me cringe trop, elle sonne mieux dans ma tête. Mais on a passé un super moment et dit plein de bêtises.
J'ai pas écouté parce ma vraie voix me cringe trop, elle sonne mieux dans ma tête. Mais on a passé un super moment et dit plein de bêtises.
Vous rêvez d'un podcast qui mêle psychologie et philosophie? Science et questions existentielles? Avec @joffreyfuhrer.bsky.social, on lance un nouveau podcast: Cog Sci, Phil and Chill! Notre premier épisode, avec comme invité @bdecourson.bsky.social , est ici: open.spotify.com/episode/52Va...
CSPC #1: sens de la vie, statistiques, coopération et religions
open.spotify.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Les copains @joffreyfuhrer.bsky.social et @aurelienallard.bsky.social lancent leur podcast et m'ont fait l'honneur de m'inviter pour l'épisode inaugural !
J'ai pas écouté parce ma vraie voix me cringe trop, elle sonne mieux dans ma tête. Mais on a passé un super moment et dit plein de bêtises.
J'ai pas écouté parce ma vraie voix me cringe trop, elle sonne mieux dans ma tête. Mais on a passé un super moment et dit plein de bêtises.
Vous rêvez d'un podcast qui mêle psychologie et philosophie? Science et questions existentielles? Avec @joffreyfuhrer.bsky.social, on lance un nouveau podcast: Cog Sci, Phil and Chill! Notre premier épisode, avec comme invité @bdecourson.bsky.social , est ici: open.spotify.com/episode/52Va...
CSPC #1: sens de la vie, statistiques, coopération et religions
open.spotify.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Vous rêvez d'un podcast qui mêle psychologie et philosophie? Science et questions existentielles? Avec @joffreyfuhrer.bsky.social, on lance un nouveau podcast: Cog Sci, Phil and Chill! Notre premier épisode, avec comme invité @bdecourson.bsky.social , est ici: open.spotify.com/episode/52Va...
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Yes, like a Netflix documentary included IN EVERY SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY TEXTBOOK
I think many people don't realise that "When Prophecy Fails" is not an experimental study, but a work of history. Its like finding out that a popular Netflix documentary is fake. Bad but does not change science. Social psychology is not based on this book in any way.
There’s growing evidence that something was going seriously wrong in the classic early work on cognitive dissonance
Latest revelation: The story in When Prophecy Fails seems to have been fabricated in the most egregious way
But this is not the only one…
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Latest revelation: The story in When Prophecy Fails seems to have been fabricated in the most egregious way
But this is not the only one…
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
November 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Yes, like a Netflix documentary included IN EVERY SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY TEXTBOOK
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Wrapping up the final row all at once: What papers to you are prototype examples of having huge, moderate, or minimal citation impact and also minimal actual impact, in whatever way you define actual impact?
November 12, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Wrapping up the final row all at once: What papers to you are prototype examples of having huge, moderate, or minimal citation impact and also minimal actual impact, in whatever way you define actual impact?
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I think likening that to a superposition of quantum states doesn't work. In the quantum case, make a measurement and you will end up either with one or the other. What you are describing is worse: it starts out and will remain inconsistent. Let's call it the Whitman approach to causal inference!
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I think likening that to a superposition of quantum states doesn't work. In the quantum case, make a measurement and you will end up either with one or the other. What you are describing is worse: it starts out and will remain inconsistent. Let's call it the Whitman approach to causal inference!
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![Comic. Someone is claiming to predict the exact date of a future earthquake. Should you listen? [flowchart: start] → NO (There are big earthquakes constantly, so if anyone ever *does* figure this out, it will be immediately obvious that their method works and then the world’s seismologists will not shut up about it. You won’t need this flowchart.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreic7wdqg4w6qfevbqzzq4esd6237pojsnpwsrbb7gaxsxobqaiwazm@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Two-group pre/post data are deceptively simple, and you could analyze them in many different ways, depending on your goals. Here are three blog posts on the topic:
solomonkurz.netlify.app/blog/2022-06...
solomonkurz.netlify.app/blog/2020-12...
solomonkurz.netlify.app/blog/2023-06...
solomonkurz.netlify.app/blog/2022-06...
solomonkurz.netlify.app/blog/2020-12...
solomonkurz.netlify.app/blog/2023-06...
November 10, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Two-group pre/post data are deceptively simple, and you could analyze them in many different ways, depending on your goals. Here are three blog posts on the topic:
solomonkurz.netlify.app/blog/2022-06...
solomonkurz.netlify.app/blog/2020-12...
solomonkurz.netlify.app/blog/2023-06...
solomonkurz.netlify.app/blog/2022-06...
solomonkurz.netlify.app/blog/2020-12...
solomonkurz.netlify.app/blog/2023-06...
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Okay, here are some first reflections on Watson.
Watson's life is a tragedy, really of Shakespearean proportions. He did not, as most bios will tell you, do one great thing when he was young and then collect laurels for it for the next 60 years. His career arc was unlike any in science.
Watson's life is a tragedy, really of Shakespearean proportions. He did not, as most bios will tell you, do one great thing when he was young and then collect laurels for it for the next 60 years. His career arc was unlike any in science.
November 8, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Okay, here are some first reflections on Watson.
Watson's life is a tragedy, really of Shakespearean proportions. He did not, as most bios will tell you, do one great thing when he was young and then collect laurels for it for the next 60 years. His career arc was unlike any in science.
Watson's life is a tragedy, really of Shakespearean proportions. He did not, as most bios will tell you, do one great thing when he was young and then collect laurels for it for the next 60 years. His career arc was unlike any in science.
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The history of social psychology in a nutshell.
Unintentional poetry from the lab notebooks of Millikan, Nobel Prize in Physics 1923
November 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
The history of social psychology in a nutshell.
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This will spark some great papers: an open digital dataset of roads in the Roman Empire
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Google Maps’ for Roman roads reveals vast extent of ancient network
A high-resolution digital map nearly doubles the known length of the ancient road network.
www.nature.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:38 PM
This will spark some great papers: an open digital dataset of roads in the Roman Empire
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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My Shiny app containing 3530 Open Science blog posts discussing the replication crisis is updated - you can now use the SEARCH box. I fixed it as my new PhD Julia wanted to know who had called open scientists 'Methodological Terrorists' :) shiny.ieis.tue.nl/open_science...
Open Science Blog Browser
Open Science Blog Browser
shiny.ieis.tue.nl
November 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
My Shiny app containing 3530 Open Science blog posts discussing the replication crisis is updated - you can now use the SEARCH box. I fixed it as my new PhD Julia wanted to know who had called open scientists 'Methodological Terrorists' :) shiny.ieis.tue.nl/open_science...
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The entire "editor writes headline" tradition is a stupid remnant of print journalism where it was necessary for physical layout purposes. It never has made much sense for online journalism, let alone online op-eds.
November 8, 2025 at 1:55 PM
The entire "editor writes headline" tradition is a stupid remnant of print journalism where it was necessary for physical layout purposes. It never has made much sense for online journalism, let alone online op-eds.
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Overwhelming evidence of research fraud and he still earns 190k/year www.ontariosunshinelist.com/people/steve...
Steven Newmaster Salary at University of Guelph | Ontario Sunshine List
Salary history for Steven Newmaster, Professor at University of Guelph from Ontario's sunshine list
www.ontariosunshinelist.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Overwhelming evidence of research fraud and he still earns 190k/year www.ontariosunshinelist.com/people/steve...