@svawa
🎓 Professor statistics and measurement in education at #UAntwerpen 💡 Interest in Education for Sustainable Development, Bayesian analyses, Comparative Judgement, Reproducibility, and Open Science 💻 living in the #tidyverse at #R loving #brms
“In de stad schuilt een ander soort democratische politiek die meer aandacht verdient”, stelt socioloog @stijnoosterlynck.bsky.social.
Oosterlynck laat de stem van de stad vandaag horen in de twintigste Paul Verbraekenlezing.
Achol Deng, an 8-year-old girl, was also infected with H.I.V. at birth and likewise remained alive because of American assistance. Then in January, Achol lost her ID card, and there was no longer a case worker to help get her a new card and medicines; she too became sick and died, said Labani. Yes, this may eventually save money for United States taxpayers. How much? The cost of first-line H.I.V. medications to keep a person alive is less than 12 cents a day. I asked Labani if he had ever heard of Musk. He had not, so I explained that Musk is the world’s wealthiest man and has said that no one is dying because of U.S.A.I.D. cuts. “That is wrong,” Labani said, sounding surprised that anyone could be so oblivious. “He should come to grass roots.” Another household kept alive by American aid was that of Jennifer Inyaa, a 35-year-old single mom, and her 5-year-old son, Evan Anzoo, both of them H.I.V.-positive. Last month, after the aid shutdown, Inyaa became sick and died, and a week later Evan died as well, according to David Iraa Simon, a community health worker who assisted them. Decisions by billionaires in Washington quickly cost the lives of a mother and her son.
Generally not a fan of Nicholas Kristof but he's a sound person to track the deaths that Elon claims haven't occurred on his watch.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
🏆 Research integrity consultant and image forensics expert @elisabethbik.bsky.social has uncovered fraudulent data in over 7,600 scientific papers and exposed the practices of ‘paper mills’ that produce counterfeit scientific articles. She is honoured with the €200K Individual Award. Congrats!
The format we used for audit trailing can be accessed on #OSF via the following link osf.io/dtkxg/
Happy to share our new article on motivation of adult learners in second-chance education with @beamertens.bsky.social
We used an audit-trail to meet some open science principles!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#open-access #L&I #QualitativeResearch #OpenSciene #OSF
#TodayinHistory #dataviz #OTD 📊
💀Feb 23, 1855 Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss died in Göttingen, Germany 🇩🇪
In 1821 he proved least squares as best linear unbiased estimator& illustrated this with data on the French meridian arcs, from Dunkirk to Barcelona.
Scientific problems stimulated discoveries
New blog post!
Sometimes, when reviewing a manuscript, it's really unclear to me what precisely the authors are trying to do -- which makes it hard to evaluate the work properly.
So, here's some advice for how to ensure that readers don't get lost.
www.the100.ci/2025/02/17/r...
Figure 1. Stephanie’s (Left) and April’s (Right) Paper Dolls From Initial Play.
This paper examines the ways that artful inquiry affords qualitative research students newly creative and embodied opportunities to understand and engage with subjectivity and bias—important concepts in the eld of qualitative inquiry. Moving beyond the inadequacy of traditional teaching practices, such as student-generated written sub- jectivity statements, we share here an artful methodological approach using paper dolls to disrupt conventional engagements with these concepts. Inspired by Donna Haraway’s emphasis on layer(ing)s of subjectivity and Karen Barad’s discussion of cutting together-apart as a creative process, we draw from collaging in/as research to offer this paper doll activity as a constructive and disruptive way to invite students to consider themselves as complex, messy, and inevitable aspects of the research process.
Check out "A Layering of Selves: Bias, Subjectivity, and Paper Dolls," a more #creative and #fun way for #qualitative #students to explore #subjectivity, #positionality, & #bias. FREE access:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #highered #research #PhDSky #AcademicSky #HigherEdSky #methodology
“Curry’s letter describes “an assault on scientific research…huge cuts in funding & regime of censorship (particularly with regard to equity, diversity & inclusion & climate) that is a direct threat to freedom of expression & academic freedom. These actions contravene the society’s code of conduct”
Isn’t pivot_longer doing the job?
🎙️ De Staat van ons Onderwijs over Zelfregulerend leren
Hoe ondersteun je als docent studenten bij hun zelfregulerend leren? Ik spreek met Sabrina Govaerts & Astrid Koelman (Kenniscentrum OLLI, AP Hogeschool) over hun tool voor docenten HO.
🎧 Luister hier: www.mixcloud.com/peter-vp/de-...
I#LoveMethodsWeek25 is happening this year! We are hosting a workshop!
Sign up for our workshop here: https://buff.ly/40SG1Jn
Check out other events here: https://buff.ly/40Axc5u
You may have heard of Questionable Research Practices and "HARKing" as threats to replicability.
In a new paper led by @sakshighai.bsky.social, we argue that a similar practices -- Questionable Generalizability Practices and "MASKing" -- undermine generalizability.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
So hard to imagine reading this anno 2025
www.statnews.com/2025/01/31/c...
Which findings should we replicate? Isager et al propose a 'replication value', defined as the maximum expected utility gain when conducting a replication. It is a function of (1) the value of being certain about the claim, and (2) uncertainty about the claim. osf.io/preprints/me...
🔍 Is double-blind peer review really the gold standard for scientific integrity? Christopher Mebane argues it may actually obscure bias and data, risking the rigor of research. Transparency, he claims, is key to safeguarding science. 🧪 #ScienceIntegrity #PeerReview
doi.org/10.1093/etoj...
Very interesting paper on the double-blind peer-review system!
I am curious about your thoughts on this topic
Today, the RDNL consortium launches a 4-year project to create a training platform that will strengthen the NL community of data stewards. Open Science NL has granted 4.8 million euros for the development of the platform: www.openscience.nl/en/news/rdnl...
New on the tidyverse blog: reflecting on 3 LLM-based tools I've worked on recently to aid my work on #rstats packages and data science projects🤖
www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/01...
This has grown a fair bit since I last posted about it. go.bsky.app/Qg6YSq6
Three Myths About Statistical Power
🔹️ Myth 1: Power is an objective feature
🔹️ Myth 2: With low power comes low credibility
🔹️ Myth 3: High power protects against questionable research practices
BSky author: @clauslamm.bsky.social
I think this assumption of infinite populations is not in there. In your model you can assume variation between stimuli regardless of there is a finite or infinite population of stimuli. I might be wrong of course. Moreover, inference works different there, not relying on estimated standard errors
What would happen in the Bayesian realm? To be clear, I do not know myself nor did I wrap my head around it. Just a spontaneous thought.
Zeer boeiende bijdrage. Heb hier opnieuw wat uit opgestoken.
🌍 Hoe maak je jongeren weerbaar tegen klimaat-nepnieuws? In deze aflevering van 'De Staat van ons Onderwijs' bespreek ik met Leen Bisschop #OdiseeHogeschool hoe wetenschappelijke geletterdheid en reflectieve dialogen jongeren helpen kritisch te denken.
🎧 Luister nu!
www.mixcloud.com/peter-vp/de-...
📊 Check out the updated list of #Predatory journals! Now in a convenient spreadsheet format with 2,776 records. #AcademicIntegrity #ResearchEthics
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Thx for sharing!
Great paper that every quantitative researcher should read (multiple times)!
