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Professor at Uni Bern Meta Science ⸾ Research Methods ⸾ IT Security & Privacy ⸾ Technology Effects https://the100.ci & @error.reviews

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If you currently do not have a reproducible workflow where you can share data and code where possible, I expect you will soon not be able to publish in good journals.

Beyond being best practice, journals will use this to identify papers written by AI.

Plan a new project accordingly.

10.03.2026 04:42 👍 31 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 0

Thank you, very helpful! Should have remembered it was @mbialek82.bsky.social

10.03.2026 14:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@lakens.bsky.social I recall you were in the mix, no?

10.03.2026 14:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Has this ever been written up somewhere? I too recall seeing it, but can't find anything

10.03.2026 14:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Strictly speaking, a postdoc is just a doc who posts

10.03.2026 12:54 👍 56 🔁 12 💬 5 📌 2

Mister P is back (new name??)

10.03.2026 11:36 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Wow, this should be super interesting.

Wait, no, that's his book from 2022. Sorry!

24.02.2025 10:02 👍 23 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0

MrP is a special case of Regularised Prediction and Poststratification (RPP)

10.03.2026 11:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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When tests are used for decision-making, differences of this magnitude can lead to errors with potentially life-altering consequences (e.g., about intellectual disability)

10.03.2026 11:26 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Now published in Collabra!
online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...
Using test data from TwinLife (N=9,980, Culture Fair Test CFT 20-R), we show that Regularised Prediction and Poststratification yields IQ scores that differ by up to 19 IQ points (mean 4.19 pts) from those reported in the CFT 20-R manual

10.03.2026 11:26 👍 19 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
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Ig Nobels to move awards to Europe due to concern over US travel visas Scientific awards – which honor research that makes people laugh and then think – to move away from ‘unsafe’ US

🧪 🇨🇭 #IgNobel awards come to Switzerland as US unsafe for scientists
#HoppSchwiiz
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

10.03.2026 03:51 👍 111 🔁 55 💬 3 📌 5
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Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available

10.03.2026 03:09 👍 13333 🔁 3317 💬 243 📌 192

Finally this long-last meta-research is done!
We examine the demographics of subject from 1000 Chinese psych journal articles & 27 big-teams science.

Findings: these participant are not representative of the 🇨🇳population, in terms of sex, age, & edu.
@btscon.bsky.social @sakshighai.bsky.social

12.02.2026 00:37 👍 22 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0

Tired: difference scores suck!
Wired: distance scores suck!

I remember learning about what we called "algebraic confounding" in BA research methods, and how uninteresting results like these are... And yeah, they're everywhere.

10.03.2026 04:40 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
A graphic promoting a book review. On the left is the cover of the book Inside an Academic Scandal: A Story of Fraud and Betrayal by Max H. Bazerman. The cover has large orange and black text and an abstract horizontal paint‑stroke graphic beneath the word “Scandal.” On the right, black text reads: “Jennifer Byrne reviews Inside an Academic Scandal: A Story of Fraud and Betrayal.” At the bottom right is small text that reads “Vol. 46 No. 1 (2026): February,” alongside a small circular logo with the letters “PIR.”

A graphic promoting a book review. On the left is the cover of the book Inside an Academic Scandal: A Story of Fraud and Betrayal by Max H. Bazerman. The cover has large orange and black text and an abstract horizontal paint‑stroke graphic beneath the word “Scandal.” On the right, black text reads: “Jennifer Byrne reviews Inside an Academic Scandal: A Story of Fraud and Betrayal.” At the bottom right is small text that reads “Vol. 46 No. 1 (2026): February,” alongside a small circular logo with the letters “PIR.”

Jennifer Byrne (@jabyrnesci.bsky.social) reviews Max H. Bazerman’s 'Inside an Academic Scandal', a narrative of research misconduct, institutional response, and the ethical challenges surrounding fraud in academia.
journals.uvic.ca/index.php/pi...

09.03.2026 15:59 👍 11 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 0

Excuse me, that should be “Ted Carter resigns over The inappropriate relationship”

09.03.2026 14:15 👍 266 🔁 34 💬 11 📌 3
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Just read the abstract 🫠 via Alexander Magazinov. I don't believe he is on Bluesky.

09.03.2026 11:00 👍 118 🔁 25 💬 14 📌 50
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Think inside the box, part 1: The guy Euclidean distance told you not to worry about Romance could be so simple if only we were two-dimensional. You just find the closest available partner and go for it. To find out who is closest, you might compute a distance measure. The Euclidean d...

New post from me on The 100% CI. Think inside the box, part 1: The guy Euclidean distance told you not to worry about
www.the100.ci/2026/03/09/t...

09.03.2026 13:03 👍 36 🔁 8 💬 5 📌 3

this is how I access bluesky

09.03.2026 07:52 👍 18 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 4
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Publisher demands $500 from impersonated author to retract paper Last year, we wrote about a Walsh Medical Media journal that refused to withdraw an author’s paper unless he paid a fee — even though he didn’t write or submit the article. For one reader, some det…

Lol. This is academic publishing taken to its logical end.

07.03.2026 10:36 👍 210 🔁 66 💬 8 📌 7
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Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors Initial results from scanning through Excel files belonging to 600 published scientific papers.

If you want to take your mind off awful politics and look at awful science stuff instead, this is a good read: www.sciencedetective.org/scientific-d...

06.03.2026 10:17 👍 85 🔁 36 💬 0 📌 5

I have got the data
and I figured out exactly how to do my cluster analysis
all I need is a relevant question that my cluster analysis is going to answer

06.03.2026 12:26 👍 37 🔁 2 💬 4 📌 0

The Very Khornate Catepillar

06.03.2026 08:57 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

Find someone who believes in you like researchers believe in pre-post differences as valid treatment effect estimates.

05.03.2026 13:53 👍 75 🔁 12 💬 5 📌 3
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First PPDI Lab paper of the year, led by our amazing lab manager Sara Schwind (🚨she's on the PhD market next year🚨)! we reviewed the transparency practicesat BBI. #OpenScience 1/6

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

05.03.2026 12:59 👍 20 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

To catch a raccoon you must first think like a raccoon <opens a vertically merged real estate and construction agency>

05.03.2026 21:03 👍 79 🔁 5 💬 5 📌 0
A digital CAPTCHA verification window titled "Select all squares with PIPES" against a plain white background. The window contains a 3×3 grid of numbered squares, mixing literal hardware, smoking pipes, and programming syntax.

A digital CAPTCHA verification window titled "Select all squares with PIPES" against a plain white background. The window contains a 3×3 grid of numbered squares, mixing literal hardware, smoking pipes, and programming syntax.

These captchas just keep getting harder #rstats

05.03.2026 15:58 👍 618 🔁 141 💬 8 📌 2
Pooh meme: bored, I don't know anything about this... smug: this is beyond the scope of the paper

Pooh meme: bored, I don't know anything about this... smug: this is beyond the scope of the paper

editing some writing atm...

05.03.2026 12:57 👍 101 🔁 27 💬 1 📌 1
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What I thought was a joke is real: you can now bet on German train delays. bahn.bet

04.03.2026 10:29 👍 197 🔁 77 💬 15 📌 33

Never, ever, write chapters in edited volumes. No one can read them, they are trees that fall in a forest when there is no one around to see it. Do yourself a favor, and post a preprint, or start a blog. It will likely have 1000 time more impact.

04.03.2026 17:27 👍 35 🔁 10 💬 3 📌 0