🎉 @rpsychologist.com 's PowerLMM.js is the online statistics application of the year 2025 🎉

powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com

- Calculate power (etc) for multilevel models
- Examine effects of dropout and other important parameters
- Fast! (Instant results)

"Statistical probabilities are not properties of the natural world - there are not wild untamed packs of p-values roaming the plains."

New preprint by @birdbassador.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy and @laneh.bsky.social

arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08213

my life would radically improve if i weren’t subjected to microsoft products..,. like my days would feel a 1000 x better

📢 Summer school 📢

@johankwisthout.bsky.social, Barbara Müller, and I are organising a Summer School at Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, about "Critical AI Literacy: Navigating Sustainability Challenges"

www.ru.nl/en/education...

I don't care what you think about @taylorlorenz.bsky.social or her book launch -- "raw dogging the air" earns a one year free pass from criticism.

Finally realised why Socrates was forced to drink the hemlock. He neglected to get his Learning Objectives approved by the Teaching Committee.

The strain on scientific publishing: we set out to characterise the remarkable growth of the scientific literature in the last few years, in spite of declining growth in total scientists. What is going on?

direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

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#AcademicSky #PhDchat #ScientificPublishing #SciPub

most people want a quick and simple answer to why AI systems encode/exacerbate societal and historical bias/injustice and due to the reductive but common thinking of "bias in, bias out," the obvious culprit often is training data but this is not entirely true

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Zotero is great and I think that anyone who needs to organise and cite more than a handful of references should be using it. Here's an intro to Zotero that I made for my undergrad students (but the info is relevant for anyone new to Zotero).

Full vid [13 mins]: youtu.be/SlUHjOqVCyU
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