Berna Devezer
@devezer.bsky.social
Metascientist @ uidaho. I work at the intersection of behavioral sciences, statistics, and philosophy. Love thinking and talking about science. Post lots of cat and food pics. Allergic to unsolicited advice.
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I'd like to re-up this paper we published last year bec I believe it makes a fundamental contribution to theoretical metascience but it is woefully underappreciated. We address a key challenge in estimating the reproducibility of a result: The distance of a replication study from the original. 1/n
Pseudo is receiving thanks now. You have a little over 24 hours so please hurry
November 27, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Pseudo is receiving thanks now. You have a little over 24 hours so please hurry
nothing like reviewing a half-assed, unedited, stretched out paper produced by a collaboration of bigwigs that's full of grammatical errors, typos, font changes, copy-paste massacres and doesn't even bother to define the key concept under study
November 26, 2025 at 11:10 PM
nothing like reviewing a half-assed, unedited, stretched out paper produced by a collaboration of bigwigs that's full of grammatical errors, typos, font changes, copy-paste massacres and doesn't even bother to define the key concept under study
PSA: the best way to handle a small injury is to sustain a bigger injury
November 26, 2025 at 10:25 PM
PSA: the best way to handle a small injury is to sustain a bigger injury
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Chekhovs selanik gevreği
November 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Chekhovs selanik gevreği
am i dunking one of these in my late morning cortado? i guess you'll never know
November 26, 2025 at 8:35 PM
am i dunking one of these in my late morning cortado? i guess you'll never know
the tl often makes me think about this. we all would be better off remembering it.
(read up also)
(read up also)
whenever you say "grow up" you are both failing to communicate explicitly and fairly while also revealing a repulsive attitude toward children as inherently worthy of lesser treatment. it is always and everywhere immoral
November 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
the tl often makes me think about this. we all would be better off remembering it.
(read up also)
(read up also)
Transparency about poor inferential practices does not relieve us of the responsibility of not engaging in such practices in the first place. Wish we stopped attributing higher moral value on transparency than doing diligent work and explicitly aiming to minimize the reporting of invalid inferences.
November 26, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Transparency about poor inferential practices does not relieve us of the responsibility of not engaging in such practices in the first place. Wish we stopped attributing higher moral value on transparency than doing diligent work and explicitly aiming to minimize the reporting of invalid inferences.
Reposted by Berna Devezer
Retraction Watch has covered the problem of the “national IQ” database. Should be noted I’m far from alone in working to remove these publications. The spreadsheet of pubs which use NIQ - linked to in the article - was started by @kohngregory.bsky.social; a project also worked on by Cathryn Townsend
. @rebeccasear.bsky.social is on a mission to get all studies using a database linking #IQ and race retracted. I spoke to her for @retractionwatch.com to find out more: retractionwatch.com/2025/11/25/m...
Meet the researcher aiming to halt use of ‘fundamentally flawed’ database linking IQ and nationality
Rebecca Sear Rebecca Sear is on a mission to convince publishers to retract articles that use a database that purports to rank countries based on intelligence. To maintain the integrity of scientif…
retractionwatch.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Retraction Watch has covered the problem of the “national IQ” database. Should be noted I’m far from alone in working to remove these publications. The spreadsheet of pubs which use NIQ - linked to in the article - was started by @kohngregory.bsky.social; a project also worked on by Cathryn Townsend
Selanik gevreği (biscotti, as known in Turkey) is half-baked, cooling down on the counter. Can't slice it before it's cool and set enough for a second bake. I added lots of orange and mandarin zest, orange blossom water, roasted anise seeds, almonds, and sour cherries.
November 26, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Selanik gevreği (biscotti, as known in Turkey) is half-baked, cooling down on the counter. Can't slice it before it's cool and set enough for a second bake. I added lots of orange and mandarin zest, orange blossom water, roasted anise seeds, almonds, and sour cherries.
making chicken pozole verde. the smell of roasting poblanos and tomatillos to make the salsa from scratch was worth the whole ordeal. i have a huge pot of it simmering on the stove. i love the soup season!
November 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
making chicken pozole verde. the smell of roasting poblanos and tomatillos to make the salsa from scratch was worth the whole ordeal. i have a huge pot of it simmering on the stove. i love the soup season!
the entire thing is mind boggling but how does one draw points and lines with such precision and consistency, exactly where they need them and do it so fast? i can't even sign my name the same way twice. we're not the same.
November 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
the entire thing is mind boggling but how does one draw points and lines with such precision and consistency, exactly where they need them and do it so fast? i can't even sign my name the same way twice. we're not the same.
Reposted by Berna Devezer
I will be one of the speakers at next year's meeting of the European Network for the Philosophy of Social Sciences. Consider sbmitting something (by March 1).
#ENPOSS, #philsci
#ENPOSS, #philsci
The European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS) invites submissions to its 15th Conference at the University of Helsinki, 26-28 August 2026. More info here: enposs.eu
European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS)
enposs.eu
November 25, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Setting aside the whole AI debacle for a second, I cannot, for the life of me, figure out why a government that has so much contempt for science, scientists, and scientific thinking would ever want to "accelerate scientific advancement". So they can destroy more of it in a record amount of time??
Launching the Genesis Mission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
November 25, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Setting aside the whole AI debacle for a second, I cannot, for the life of me, figure out why a government that has so much contempt for science, scientists, and scientific thinking would ever want to "accelerate scientific advancement". So they can destroy more of it in a record amount of time??
gosh i cannot stand grandstanding, moral or otherwise
November 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM
gosh i cannot stand grandstanding, moral or otherwise
Reposted by Berna Devezer
INNOCENT
November 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
INNOCENT
ended up muting that chatGPT assignment thing. it's patronizing to students. why not talk to them like human beings? but also if you ask people an instruction to find mistakes, they can use that prompt to find them in any source. as a species, we're great at motivated reasoning. that is not the way.
November 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
ended up muting that chatGPT assignment thing. it's patronizing to students. why not talk to them like human beings? but also if you ask people an instruction to find mistakes, they can use that prompt to find them in any source. as a species, we're great at motivated reasoning. that is not the way.
this is hilarious and miserable. just so tech bros can have their dystopia moment, students have to lose all accessibility provided by remote technology and we the professors lose the flexibility and convenience. but progress, amirite?!
For the moment, there is no alternative.
AI is accelerating a tech backlash in American classrooms
Handwritten and oral exams are making a comeback
economist.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:41 AM
this is hilarious and miserable. just so tech bros can have their dystopia moment, students have to lose all accessibility provided by remote technology and we the professors lose the flexibility and convenience. but progress, amirite?!
circling p-values right below .05 to infer something about the invalidity of inferences (or even research misconduct) is conceptually no different from calling p-values right above the threshold marginally significant. makes no sense to deride one of these practices while upholding the other.
November 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
circling p-values right below .05 to infer something about the invalidity of inferences (or even research misconduct) is conceptually no different from calling p-values right above the threshold marginally significant. makes no sense to deride one of these practices while upholding the other.
Reposted by Berna Devezer
Gosh with any luck you might be able to avoid doing science altogether
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October 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Gosh with any luck you might be able to avoid doing science altogether
got hubby a punching bag for his bd.
me after literally the first time trying to punch something in my life: you should see the other guy!
me after literally the first time trying to punch something in my life: you should see the other guy!
November 23, 2025 at 3:37 AM
got hubby a punching bag for his bd.
me after literally the first time trying to punch something in my life: you should see the other guy!
me after literally the first time trying to punch something in my life: you should see the other guy!
spotify playing You're My Heart You're My Soul from Modern Talking in the early music channel right after Telemann as corporate execs keep screaming "we innovate so much faster with AI" from the rooftops
stop "INNOVATING," you shitheads!
stop "INNOVATING," you shitheads!
November 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
spotify playing You're My Heart You're My Soul from Modern Talking in the early music channel right after Telemann as corporate execs keep screaming "we innovate so much faster with AI" from the rooftops
stop "INNOVATING," you shitheads!
stop "INNOVATING," you shitheads!
Two words remain with me after reading this piece:
"revelatory research"
Explains a lot about the structural pressures in elite academic publishing. Reveals exactly nothing about the topic being studied.
"revelatory research"
Explains a lot about the structural pressures in elite academic publishing. Reveals exactly nothing about the topic being studied.
"Toner-Rodgers’s illusory success seems in part thanks to the dynamics he has now upset: an academic culture at MIT where high levels of trust, integrity and rigor are all—for better or worse—assumed"
Uh huh, now just who is given the assumption of rigor?
(🎁 link)
www.wsj.com/economy/aida...
Uh huh, now just who is given the assumption of rigor?
(🎁 link)
www.wsj.com/economy/aida...
An MIT Student Awed Top Economists With His AI Study—Then It All Fell Apart
Aidan Toner-Rodgers shot to academic fame in a field hungry for new insights and revelatory research. But a computer scientist thought something seemed off.
www.wsj.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Two words remain with me after reading this piece:
"revelatory research"
Explains a lot about the structural pressures in elite academic publishing. Reveals exactly nothing about the topic being studied.
"revelatory research"
Explains a lot about the structural pressures in elite academic publishing. Reveals exactly nothing about the topic being studied.
oh wow the amount of apples in the cake is just right. it's really, really good. moist, fragrant, delicious.
November 22, 2025 at 5:04 AM
oh wow the amount of apples in the cake is just right. it's really, really good. moist, fragrant, delicious.