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
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people who are actually wrestling with the discomfort of uncertainty are not dumb or evil or corrupt or ignorant because they don't share your false clarity
November 24, 2025 at 11:19 PM
people who are actually wrestling with the discomfort of uncertainty are not dumb or evil or corrupt or ignorant because they don't share your false clarity
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so much internalized intolerance for pluralism
people like the idea of it until they're given an opportunity to actually regard or implement it
people like the idea of it until they're given an opportunity to actually regard or implement it
November 24, 2025 at 11:07 PM
so much internalized intolerance for pluralism
people like the idea of it until they're given an opportunity to actually regard or implement it
people like the idea of it until they're given an opportunity to actually regard or implement it
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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
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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??
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"create AI agents to test new hypotheses, automate research workflows, and accelerate scientific breakthroughs"
a cartoon of a girl with the words internally screaming next to her
ALT: a cartoon of a girl with the words internally screaming next to her
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:18 AM
"create AI agents to test new hypotheses, automate research workflows, and accelerate scientific breakthroughs"
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
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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.
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Gosh with any luck you might be able to avoid doing science altogether
Today @anthropic.com released PubMed integration for Claude. No hallucinations. Just real science, real data. As a beta tester, this has been game changing— a supercharged research tool. Here are 6 prompts that will transform how you search the literature. A 🧵
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www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...
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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.
Celebrating hubby's big five-oh. He asked for chili so I delivered. Mixed bean chicken chili and crusty cornbread for dinner; apple-walnut-raisin cake for later. The chili is 🔥🔥🔥 It's gotten better the longer I kept it on the slow cooker. Just like hubby kept getting better and better with age 🥰🥰🥰
November 22, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Celebrating hubby's big five-oh. He asked for chili so I delivered. Mixed bean chicken chili and crusty cornbread for dinner; apple-walnut-raisin cake for later. The chili is 🔥🔥🔥 It's gotten better the longer I kept it on the slow cooker. Just like hubby kept getting better and better with age 🥰🥰🥰
technical ability and expertise aside, i like concerts better when the artists care to interact with the audience. it happened once last night and that was the piece i enjoyed most. i could always stay at home, listen to a recording if i only cared about musical perfection.
taught my last classes before the fall break, feeling exhausted. but gathered up the energy to show up to the chamber music concert on campus. we have amazing guest artists today (one of them a Grammy and Emmy winner violist) and a wonderful program. the break starts on a high note.
November 21, 2025 at 6:58 PM
technical ability and expertise aside, i like concerts better when the artists care to interact with the audience. it happened once last night and that was the piece i enjoyed most. i could always stay at home, listen to a recording if i only cared about musical perfection.
sometimes I observe a mutual being an asshole to another mutual for no apparent reason and my heart sinks. we can surely do better by each other. I think in the current state of the world, maybe we even should. it'll carry a lot of weight. when there are so many nazis and pedos deserving our ire...
November 21, 2025 at 4:03 PM
sometimes I observe a mutual being an asshole to another mutual for no apparent reason and my heart sinks. we can surely do better by each other. I think in the current state of the world, maybe we even should. it'll carry a lot of weight. when there are so many nazis and pedos deserving our ire...
taught my last classes before the fall break, feeling exhausted. but gathered up the energy to show up to the chamber music concert on campus. we have amazing guest artists today (one of them a Grammy and Emmy winner violist) and a wonderful program. the break starts on a high note.
November 21, 2025 at 3:33 AM
taught my last classes before the fall break, feeling exhausted. but gathered up the energy to show up to the chamber music concert on campus. we have amazing guest artists today (one of them a Grammy and Emmy winner violist) and a wonderful program. the break starts on a high note.
tfw you finish watching ep 1 of a new show, instead of ep2, the streaming app starts ep 1 of an entirely diff show, & you connect the storyline, by filling in the gaps, w/o skipping a beat. that's how powerful our sense of narrative construction is. and why science needs extra vigilance & humility.
November 21, 2025 at 12:45 AM
tfw you finish watching ep 1 of a new show, instead of ep2, the streaming app starts ep 1 of an entirely diff show, & you connect the storyline, by filling in the gaps, w/o skipping a beat. that's how powerful our sense of narrative construction is. and why science needs extra vigilance & humility.
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Huh, I didn't know Georg wrote this (I "know" him from the world of comparative brain evolution).
Looks like @mitpress.bsky.social released it OA (ty 🙏🙏🙏)
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
@devezer.bsky.social maybe relevant to your interests, given all the work "model systems" does in bio. science
Looks like @mitpress.bsky.social released it OA (ty 🙏🙏🙏)
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
@devezer.bsky.social maybe relevant to your interests, given all the work "model systems" does in bio. science
November 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Huh, I didn't know Georg wrote this (I "know" him from the world of comparative brain evolution).
Looks like @mitpress.bsky.social released it OA (ty 🙏🙏🙏)
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
@devezer.bsky.social maybe relevant to your interests, given all the work "model systems" does in bio. science
Looks like @mitpress.bsky.social released it OA (ty 🙏🙏🙏)
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...
@devezer.bsky.social maybe relevant to your interests, given all the work "model systems" does in bio. science
Thoughts on load-bearing citations and others... A distinction we don't draw but should, imo.
I'll come back to this idea because that complements something that's been brewing in my mind for some time. Some needed resolution in our citation practices where we explicitly distinguish between "load-bearing" work on which our inferences rely and others (kitchen sink citations). And the need to
November 20, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Thoughts on load-bearing citations and others... A distinction we don't draw but should, imo.
quick weekday dinner. there's something so deeply comforting about the combination of tomato sauce and ricotta. also threw in some parmesan and drunken goat cheese for good measure. feels like a spa day in my mouth.
November 20, 2025 at 3:22 AM
quick weekday dinner. there's something so deeply comforting about the combination of tomato sauce and ricotta. also threw in some parmesan and drunken goat cheese for good measure. feels like a spa day in my mouth.