Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️
@joachim.cidlab.com
Professor of #CogSci and #Stats @UCIrvine; Pursuer of Lofty Undertakings; Purveyor of Articles Odd and Quaint; and Protector of the Realm. #blm #trahr he/him
See, this... this is what it was all for
"Professor suspended after Japanese university finds fishy results in sushi paper" retractionwatch.com/2026/01/12/p...
Professor suspended after Japanese university finds fishy results in sushi paper
Iwate University A university in Japan has suspended a fishery science professor for a month after its investigation found fabrication in a retracted paper on fish freezing. According to the …
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January 13, 2026 at 8:16 PM
See, this... this is what it was all for
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This is a big deal for speeding up clinical trials, and for pediatric use after adult trials have proved successful. The @USFDA goes Bayesian.
A win for #IBD patients, and especially for kids with #IBD. @crohnsandcolitisau.bsky.social @f2harrell.bsky.social
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A win for #IBD patients, and especially for kids with #IBD. @crohnsandcolitisau.bsky.social @f2harrell.bsky.social
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FDA Issues Guidance on Modernizing Statistical Methods for Clinical Trials
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today published draft guidance designed to facilitate the use of Bayesian methodologies in clinical trials of drugs and biologics, helping drug developers make be...
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January 13, 2026 at 12:26 PM
This is a big deal for speeding up clinical trials, and for pediatric use after adult trials have proved successful. The @USFDA goes Bayesian.
A win for #IBD patients, and especially for kids with #IBD. @crohnsandcolitisau.bsky.social @f2harrell.bsky.social
www.fda.gov/news-events/...
A win for #IBD patients, and especially for kids with #IBD. @crohnsandcolitisau.bsky.social @f2harrell.bsky.social
www.fda.gov/news-events/...
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Our explainer ``Pattern scaling: How local warming is related to global warming: An explainer,’’ with @andrewgarrett.bsky.social & David Stephenson, just published in Significance: academic.oup.com/jrssig/artic...
Pattern scaling: How local warming is related to global warming: An explainer
Abstract. In the fourth of an occasional series of explainers on the statistics and data underpinning our understanding of climate change, Adrian E. Rafter
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January 12, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Our explainer ``Pattern scaling: How local warming is related to global warming: An explainer,’’ with @andrewgarrett.bsky.social & David Stephenson, just published in Significance: academic.oup.com/jrssig/artic...
One thing about the American health care system is that you end up learning which ailments go away on their own and which get worse
January 12, 2026 at 5:50 PM
One thing about the American health care system is that you end up learning which ailments go away on their own and which get worse
In the beginning, there was the word. And the word was "import numpy as np"
January 9, 2026 at 10:29 PM
In the beginning, there was the word. And the word was "import numpy as np"
"Load bearing friction" is a great phrase. Reminds me of an Elsevier editor who complained that the reduction of submission formatting requirements did nothing but increase the desk reject rate
Wrote a summary of a great keynote by @zey.bsky.social at NeurIPS, arguing that we’re having the wrong nightmares about AI: not AGI or superhuman benchmarks, but good-enough genAI at scale threatens "load bearing frictions" society relies on to signal effort, authenticity, sincerity, credibility.
Zeynep Tufecki on having the wrong nightmares about generative AI
I was writing a blog post where I was going to reference Zeynep Tufecki’s 2025 NeurIPS keynote, and realized there isn’t a solid synopsis online.
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January 9, 2026 at 5:46 PM
"Load bearing friction" is a great phrase. Reminds me of an Elsevier editor who complained that the reduction of submission formatting requirements did nothing but increase the desk reject rate
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Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).
January 8, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).
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Abstract submission are open for the MathPsych/ICCM 2026 conference in Montreal July 17 to 21, 2026 mathpsych.org/conference/23/ The submission deadline is February 28!
January 8, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Abstract submission are open for the MathPsych/ICCM 2026 conference in Montreal July 17 to 21, 2026 mathpsych.org/conference/23/ The submission deadline is February 28!
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One day I'm going to take apart my dryer and there's going to be a stack of laser pointers behind the drum
January 7, 2026 at 8:12 PM
One day I'm going to take apart my dryer and there's going to be a stack of laser pointers behind the drum
The Republic, if you can keep it
From an email to one of our faculty members....
Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
January 6, 2026 at 9:26 PM
The Republic, if you can keep it
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real-life Necker cubes - can you see them?
January 5, 2026 at 1:23 PM
real-life Necker cubes - can you see them?
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As a counterpropaganda inoculation technique, this has to be a little bit effective? | Birmingham revellers turn out for non-existent fireworks – for second new year in a row
Birmingham revellers turn out for non-existent fireworks – for second new year in a row
Hundreds of people gather in Centenary Square to see in 2026 after false claims online promise ‘dazzling’ display
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January 1, 2026 at 8:55 PM
As a counterpropaganda inoculation technique, this has to be a little bit effective? | Birmingham revellers turn out for non-existent fireworks – for second new year in a row
I don't really know this tradition but can I ask the lemon pig to bless my year with RAM
January 1, 2026 at 7:54 AM
I don't really know this tradition but can I ask the lemon pig to bless my year with RAM
See, when *I* interrupt people, it's to move the conversation along. When people interrupt *me*, they don't go to heaven
People (Americans?) often criticize people who interrupt while someone else is speaking. But interruptions are used within the system of turn-taking, and their use is a social norm that varies across cultures. Hence the criticism may be a subtle form of discrimination.
December 27, 2025 at 9:51 AM
See, when *I* interrupt people, it's to move the conversation along. When people interrupt *me*, they don't go to heaven
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"I wasn't quoting Hitler, I just independently came up with a similar phrase," is kind of exactly the defense you expect from the classical-Nazi staff you imagine writing for Harvard's conservative student paper
on the one hand this does seem like the inevitable outcome of giving hundreds of thousands of dollars to a self-selecting group of the most anti-social and self-regarding entitled assholes in an already entitled and assholic population
on the other hand it’s still pretty shocking
on the other hand it’s still pretty shocking
Racial Slurs and Nazi Symbols: Inside the Complaint That Shut Down The Harvard Salient | News | The Harvard Crimson
Screenshots and message logs obtained by The Crimson appear to show Salient leaders casually using racial slurs, defending extremist rhetoric, and dismissing internal concerns — conversations that lat...
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December 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
"I wasn't quoting Hitler, I just independently came up with a similar phrase," is kind of exactly the defense you expect from the classical-Nazi staff you imagine writing for Harvard's conservative student paper
Recent discovery via Reddit: equal parts Cointreau, Malort, lime juice, grenadine. Shake and strain.
December 20, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Recent discovery via Reddit: equal parts Cointreau, Malort, lime juice, grenadine. Shake and strain.
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teach students `git` early todd.gureckislab.org/2025/12/19/g...
Scientists Should Learn and Teach git First | Todd Gureckis
In the AI era, we need to learn and teach `git` first
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December 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
teach students `git` early todd.gureckislab.org/2025/12/19/g...
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Congrats to @laurennross.bsky.social, @ucirvine.bsky.social logic & philosophy of science Dean's Professor and Chancellor's Fellow, who’s received research funding from the John Templeton Foundation to study token causality, which concerns explanations for specific events!
Bringing scientific insight to the causes of individual events
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December 18, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Congrats to @laurennross.bsky.social, @ucirvine.bsky.social logic & philosophy of science Dean's Professor and Chancellor's Fellow, who’s received research funding from the John Templeton Foundation to study token causality, which concerns explanations for specific events!
This scene is a highlight of the show
I'm deep in Season 3 of Deep Space Nine (a show I watched sporadically but never all the way through), and the Sisko/Nog dynamic is just so fucking good. Sisko has thought he had Nog clocked since Season 1, and he just keeps being wrong. Love it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcAT...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcAT...
Worthwhile
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December 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
This scene is a highlight of the show
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The Vanity Fair photographer knew what he was doing. (I doubt I’m the first to notice this but it hasn’t graced my TL)
December 18, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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