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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 9h

I really really really liked The Oatmeal’s take on AI here theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

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Jourhavande Filosof @systerfrida.se · 17h

”AI isn't going to wake up, become superintelligent and turn you into paperclips – but rich people with AI investor psychosis are almost certainly going to make you much, much poorer.”

pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Dr Mircea Zloteanu ☀️ 🌊🌴 @mzloteanu.bsky.social · 1d

#statstab #432 PsychOpen Gold

Thoughts: instead of submitting to greedy and unhelpful publishers, try this list of fully open and free journals in psychology.

#OpenScience #openaccess #apcs #goldaccess #pedagogy

psychopen.eu

PsychOpen GOLD: Open Access Publishing

We are a Diamond Open Access platform for psychology research. Peer-reviewed, free-to-read journals with no publication fees, promoting open science.

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Magnus Johansson @pgmj.bsky.social · 3d

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Robin Blythe @rbly.bsky.social · 3d

Love this paper by Hinne doi.org/10.1177/2515... but curious why BMA isn't compatible with competing theories: "BMA is less useful when...each candidate model may represent a different theory of a physical process...the models are not a nuisance factor; they are the focus of the analysis." #statsky

A Conceptual Introduction to Bayesian Model Averaging - Max Hinne, Quentin F. Gronau, Don van den Bergh, Eric-Jan Wagenmakers, 2020

Many statistical scenarios initially involve several candidate models that describe the data-generating process. Analysis often proceeds by first selecting the ...

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 5d

Exceptional Doctorow piece on the solar rollout, why it's unstoppable, & why many old downsides of solar aren't factors anymore. The entire material mining needed 4 a global solar transition = only 17% of the fossil fuel mining we do every year! & then we're done! doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...

Decarbonization at a distance

A post-American century that runs on sunshine.

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 4d

My article "Data is not available upon request" was published in Meta-Psychology. Very happy to see this out!
open.lnu.se/index.php/me...

LnuOpen | Meta-Psychology

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Magnus Johansson @pgmj.bsky.social · 7d

I'm sure there are ways it is brilliant, but my first methods check in EFA/CFA psychometric papers is always whether rule-of-thumb critical values are used to assess model fit. I don't think we should trust model fit interpretations using rule-of-thumb cutoffs in any paper.

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Magnus Johansson @pgmj.bsky.social · 8d

I strongly recommend to stop using rule of thumb cutoffs such as Hu and Bentler since they are unlikely to be appropriate. Dynamic/adaptive cutoffs should be used, see for instance pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36787513/

dynamic : An R Package for Deriving Dynamic Fit Index Cutoffs for Factor Analysis - PubMed

To evaluate the fit of a confirmatory factor analysis model, researchers often rely on fit indices such as SRMR, RMSEA, and CFI. These indices are frequently compared to benchmark values of .08, .06, ...

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Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 12d

100% this, especially with Wiley given their anti-preprint stance.

Francesco Poli @francescopoli.bsky.social · 12d

Why are we still sending our work to Wiley and other publishing companies so that they can profit from it? There's so many better options now, for example: psychopen.eu/journals/

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Magnus Johansson @pgmj.bsky.social · 14d

Interesting paper on how software could help analysts. ”Causal clarity in statistical software” (Korf et al., 2025). I like many of the ideas, such as clarifying estimand, using multiple estimators, and no output of coefficients for adjustment variables doi.org/10.1093/ije/... #stats #rstats

Causal clarity in statistical software

Imagine running a simple regression in any statistical software of choice—but this time, you only get a point estimate of the regression coefficient. There

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Emil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 14d

I'm exited to announce a new resource about making slides with quarto and revealjs. This book is the combination of all the work I have done in this area, reordered and polished up

There isn't a lot of new information yet, but this format allows me to add more easily

slidecrafting-book.com
#quarto

Screenshot of first page of slidecrafting-book.com website

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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 16d

I hope Melvin Bragg's retirement will not end In Our Times. He has a lovely voice and manner but it's the people he invites that hold the show. I'll take this chance to post a thread of some of the more memorable episodes for me. Starting with Schaffer, Worrall, and @michelamassimi.bsky.social

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Scientific Method

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Scientific Method.

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