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Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 15h

Isn't funding replication exactly that?

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CMU Neuroscience Institute @cmu-neuroscience.bsky.social · 15h

Come along with CMU Professor Timothy Verstynen for a playful dive into the “neuroscience of zombies,” where movie monsters meet real brain science. Along the way you’ll learn some surprising truths about how our own minds and bodies work.
Wednesday, October 29, Noon ET On Zoom
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Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 15h

p-hacking isn't methodologically sound, but multiple studies looking for one kind of association is pretty much the norm.

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D. J. Hicks @danhicks.bsky.social · 16h

The "gold standard science" stuff plays on the same oversimplified picture of science, and that's part of the reason scientists have had such weak-ass responses to it

Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 16h

It's not that I think RFK is going to do good science on this topic. I think it's important to criticize it for the right reasons.

I think perpetuating the children's version of the scientific method leads to scientific skepticism.

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Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 16h

It's not that I think RFK is going to do good science on this topic. I think it's important to criticize it for the right reasons.

I think perpetuating the children's version of the scientific method leads to scientific skepticism.

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Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 16h

Even more reflective ones will often have a very narrow view of science. They presume that all science works like their narrow subfield. They define "the scientific method" in a way that makes most science "not science."

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Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 16h

A reoccurring frustration for philosophers of science: Many scientists know how to do science like people know how to ride a bike. When they reflect on the practice of science, they repeat platitudes about how science works. Those platitudes are often wrong, sometimes even about their own field

D. J. Hicks @danhicks.bsky.social · 1d

*sighs in philosopher of science*

Looking for confirmatory evidence is an entirely normal part of science. The primary problem here is the eugenics and the fascism, not the lies to children about "the scientific method."

One Bluesky account is quoting another. Inner post has a video of RFK Jr., some person I don't recognize (Tylenol and autism guy, maybe?), Marco Rubio (I think), and Trump. Post text: "RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: 'It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

Outer post text: "We're doing studies to prove it (* not how studies work)"

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D. J. Hicks @danhicks.bsky.social · 1d

*sighs in philosopher of science*

Looking for confirmatory evidence is an entirely normal part of science. The primary problem here is the eugenics and the fascism, not the lies to children about "the scientific method."

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Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 18h

I'm glad to see that blue sky moderation has realized that people need to be protected from K*nt

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Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 19h

They also get their own signs

A picture of a blue sign that says "wombat poo" in front of a lake and a tree

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Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 1d

It's uncontroversial to say, "I would have been better off if I hadn't stubbed my toe." So, we feel like any question of the form "would so-and-so have been better off if such-and-such hadn't happened." But I think sometimes those questions are just meaningless.

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Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 1d

It's difficult to think about whether someone would have been better off in radically different circumstances. Would someone who is now autistic have been better off if they weren't? Is it even sensible to talk about them being the same person? These questions don't always have clear answers

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t exactly how to phrase this, but like… is autism that bad???? Like, why is it such a source of fear??? Of course there are challenges but you can be autistic and have a rich, fulfilling life! Many people do! I don’t understand the preoccupation.

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Andreas Madestam @amadestam.bsky.social · 1d

Come join us in Stockholm!

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Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 1d

Thanks! I'm out of town this week, but I'll drop you an email when I'm back. I appreciate the time!

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Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 1d

Tried that trick. He said no

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Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 1d

Lol. I had to promise not to be a candidate in order to chair it. This was not a difficult promise to make.

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Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 1d

The sad irony is that he probably is more deserving that some people who already got one. (This is NOT a complement to Trump.)

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Donald Trump is ordering extrajudicial killings of suspected drug smugglers.

He's vilifying his political opponents and threatening to jail them.

His ICE agents are terrorizing immigrants and firing chemical agents at peaceful protestors.

And some people think he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize?

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Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 1d

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Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 1d

Yeah! This is perhaps top of my personal worries. Any thoughts about how to spot such a person?

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Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 1d

I feel like I have a pretty good sense for what it takes to be a good Dean in our college. Less so about the process of finding this kind of person and about getting the college comfortable with the process. Any advice you have on this front is most welcome!

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Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 1d

Youch

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Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 1d

I'm co-chairing the search committee for the new Dean. Anybody want to be Dean?

In all seriousness, to anybody who has done this before, got any advice?

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Robert (Bob) Kubinec @rmkubinec.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, see, if we get rid of the immigrants, then Americans will win all the Nobel Prizes

OH WAIT

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

Immigrants have been awarded 40% of the Nobel Prizes won by Americans in chemistry, medicine and physics since 2000. nfap.com/research/new...

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Joel David Hamkins @joeldavidhamkins.bsky.social · 25d

New post-doctoral position at Notre Dame
Core analytic/logic/phil math. philjobs.org/job/show/29622
2 year position, $75K annual salary plus $15K expense account. Please apply! (I am chairing this search.)

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After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 1d

TEACHERS! After Dinner Conversation received a grant that allows us to offer a free sample philosophy ethics short story fiction books to educators for to use in their classes. No strings attached. And yes, we pay for shipping too.

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