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Berna Devezer

@devezer.bsky.social

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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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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · Oct 6

Article fresh off the print (no paywall)! The tl;dr is in the quoted thread. We advance a measure of replication distance to capture differences btw an original study & its replications. We also discuss how statistics needs to go beyond ideal assumptions to serve science better.

#metasci #sts #stat

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 6h

idk how but somehow the 'replication crisis' brain has managed to marginalize, even illegitimize, completely normal scientific processes such as confirmation and exploration.

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 7h

i've come to despise that the term "p-hacking" is now a stand-in for all kinds of lying, bullshitting, making up facts, fabricating evidence, and any misuse or abuse of science

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 7h

😢

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah somehow our photographers are not very good at headshots either. They don't know how to adjust the depth so it flattens the whole face into a 2-D moon with zero depth. Normally my eyes are large but in these photos they look beady and lost in face meat 😫 But so do everyone else's at least.

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 9h

Amen to that! My photographer thought I was hopeless I suppose so we didn't have a second take 😅

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 9h

My happy place 🥰

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 9h

Teach me!!

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 9h

a close up of a woman 's face with a smile on her face

ALT: a close up of a woman 's face with a smile on her face

media.tenor.com

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 10h

(In reality, what it took is my finally giving up on trying to be collegial and going to someone higher up to get me back on the website)

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 10h

I'd say so does art!

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 10h

This is something I haven't been able to figure out. Seems like that comes with the territory of wanting to pursue admin careers in academia. We open a chair/dean position, make an external hire, the chair/dean moves on to a higher admin position at the 1st opportunity. Rinse and repeat, every time.

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 10h

I'm just fitting in 🥳

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 10h

I mean if that's the end result of their struggles, I'd be scared to see the raw version 😱

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 11h

and class enrollments 😬

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 11h

like getting caught after 'plagiarising and publishing a paper you rejected as an editor' bad

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 11h

Yup!

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 12h

I served on the dean search committee before. Just one extremely specific (hence likely irrelevant) advice based on personal experience: Do some general vetting early on lest you end up having someone in your shortlist who has committed research misconduct 😬

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 12h

OMG I finally saw this photo and I... uhm... well, let's just say that the potato-ness was replaced with something that's not quite an improvement. Everyone in my department is grinning, and I just look so damn pissed off. The sheer contrast... I'm dying 😂🤣

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · Aug 25

me going into a professional headshot: ugh I hate these. they always make me look like a dorky potato. this time i'll make demands.

me 30 sec later: yup, that's good!

must confess that my (lack of) patience is the only thing that stands between me and non-dorky potatoness or dorky non-potatoness.

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 12h

Yay because what the region needed was for Erdogan to be empowered by another power-crazed psychopathic strongman.

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 13h

Neurotypical Foreskin sounds like a subversive punk rock band

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 15h

i think that's already over-emphasized in the scientific culture and often to a fault.

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 16h

Tbh I feel like I sometimes expect too much from this space. Hard to be always content with what it is and what it can be. Not complaining though. I know this is largely about me.

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 16h

That's the first thing I needed as soon as I found the announcement tbh.

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 17h

Yeah as a non-native speaker, that seemed like a low blow (since it seemed directed at either his use of English or more likely, his accent). Maybe it's my overall alienation vibe that affected how I interpreted the tone of the piece tbh. Some days the world just makes even less sense than usual.

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 17h

negative adjectives*