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Mattan S. Ben-Shachar 🎗️🇮🇱🇺🇦 @mattansb.msbstats.info · 23d

New blog post!

Ever wonder what geom_histogram is actually doing? How about geom_boxplot?

In celebration of the release of #ggplot2 4.0.0 (ggplot8?), I explore the relationships between the “geoms” and “stats” offered by the core {ggplot2} functions.

#rstats

Exploring {ggplot2}’s Geoms and Stats – Stat’s What It’s All About

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 21d

Whoa—my book is up for pre-order!

𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭 & 𝐌𝐋 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐢𝐧 #Rstats 𝐚𝐧𝐝 #PyData

The book presents an ultra-simple and powerful workflow to make sense of ± any model you fit

The web version will stay free forever and my proceeds go to charity.

tinyurl.com/4fk56fc8

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 17d

A welcome - and long overdue - step. But while it’s necessary, it’s deeply insufficient - and must be accompanied by urgent action to help bring an end to the genocide in Gaza, including boycotts, sanctions and an end to all arms sales to Israel.

UK officially recognises Palestine as a state

Sir Keir Starmer has announced the UK has officially recognised Palestine as a state.

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · Jul 1

Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

Experimentology cover: title and curves for distributions.

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TMSMultiLab @tmsmultilab.bsky.social · Jun 3

The TMS-RAT v1.0 is now being tested!

It's a checklist / guidance tool to help researchers report #TMS studies & to facilitate quantitative comparisons in #systematicreviews & #meta-analyses

All the data will be made freely available; an interactive website will be coming. Stay tuned!

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · Jun 3

Speak out - name it as genocide - and then act. End all arms sales, impose a wide range of sanctions and call for the arrest and trial of all those guilty of war crimes, including prime minister Netanyahu.

Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · Jun 3

Absolutely horrifying. Palestinians gunned down while trying to access food. Leaders across the world have a duty to speak out against these continuing atrocities.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

At least 27 Palestinians killed by Israeli fire at food point, Gaza officials say

Gaza spokesperson says Israel fired with tanks and drones as Israeli military acknowledges troops shot at ‘suspects’

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British Palestinian Committee @britpalcommitt.bsky.social · May 25

Important new report out today ⬇️

Institute of Race Relations @irrnews.bsky.social · May 25

‼️New IRR study warns of Europe's creeping authoritarianism with increased used of weaponry against racialised minorities ⤵️

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

UK Border Force is in effect under military command, report says

Institute of Race Relations says MoD’s Channel role reflects global rise of ‘hyper-militarisation’ in law enforcement

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British Palestinian Committee @britpalcommitt.bsky.social · May 15

Our briefing today calls for parliamentarians to respond urgently to Israel's chilling plans for escalation - and to uphold Britain's basic legal, historic & moral obligations to the Palestinian people.

Read it here: britpalcommittee.co.uk/nakba77briefing

Nakba 77 Briefing — British Palestinian Committee

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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · May 15

Incredibly powerful investigation in Dutch newspaper NRC: Seven of the world’s leading genocide scholars — including renowned Holocaust experts — describe Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocidal.

And according to them, nearly all of their peers agree.

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Rich Ramsey @richramseyphd.bsky.social · May 15

Yep. And @bartlettje.bsky.social wrote a tremendous tutorial on how to get started. Absolute solid gold. bartlettje.github.io/disseminatio...

Dissemination using Quarto and Github Pages

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Bo Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · May 15

the kid looks fucking terrified, knows the university will probably punitively hold the diploma they've worked three or four years to get, and also knows people have been disappeared recently by fascists for doing way, way less. still says it! just an incredibly fucking brave person

Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · May 15

Here is a clip of the student's speech.

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Donders Institute @dondersinst.bsky.social · May 13

👁️💡 How much do we really see?

@marco-gandolfo.bsky.social reveals how our brains process the unexpected, with surprising differences across age and gender.

With over 14,000 participants at muZIEum, it’s the largest public #inattentional #blindness experiment to date.

🔗 www.ru.nl/en/donders-i...

Visitors muZIEum contribute to science | Radboud University

A study by Marco Gandolfo shows how our brain processes information and how this differs by gender and age. 14 thousand participants in this study were visitors to the muZIEum in Nijmegen who took par...

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Michael Inzlicht @minzlicht.bsky.social · May 14

New post: Examining the gap between psychedelic promises and scientific reality. Small, transient effects with major methodological issues don't justify the revolutionary claims. Recreational use? Fine. Mental health miracle? Not so fast. Evidence just isn't there.
open.substack.com/pub/michaeli...

Against Psychedelics

I can already hear your gears turning, dear reader: “Wait, you’re pro-booze, pro-cannabis but anti-psychedelics?

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UN Humanitarian @unocha.org · Apr 24

🚨 Aid operations in #Gaza are on the brink of collapse.

The consequences are already deadly.

We call on world leaders to press for:

❗️Lifting the blockade
❗️A renewed ceasefire
❗️Letting aid organizations operate in line with humanitarian principles

#ActForHumanity

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Wendy Higgins @wchiggins.bsky.social · Apr 10

Introducing Dr Wendy Higgins and the Reading the Mammal in the Eyes Test.

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James Bartlett @bartlettje.bsky.social · Mar 27

I'm running a data upskilling workshop on using Quarto/Github Pages for dissemination. I cover books, presentations, and websites, and you can see all the materials here: bartlettje.github.io/disseminatio.... To quote @emilynordmann.bsky.social "For the love of god, share what you do"!

Dissemination using Quarto and Github Pages

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Rob Ross @robert-m-ross.bsky.social · Apr 1

New research by Wendy Higgins, @vsavalei.bsky.social, Vince Polito, and me shows that the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test scores have poor structural properties. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test Scores Demonstrate Poor Structural Properties in Nine Large Non-Clinical Samples - Wendy C. Higgins, Victoria Savalei, Vince Polito, Robert M. Ross, 2025

The Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET) is widely used in clinical and non-clinical research. However, the structural properties of RMET scores have yet to...

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Chantelle Wood @chantellewwood.bsky.social · Mar 25

Interested in using behavioural science to tackle pollution? I'm advertising a fully-funded interdisciplinary PhD project at the Uni of Sheffield with @sheffielddust.bsky.social & Darpan Das (Uni of York), to start Sep 2025. Application deadline 4th April! www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #PsySciSky

ECOSOLUTIONS - Earth, Fire, Wind and Water: Understanding and reducing pollution caused by domestic solid fuel burning in urban environments. at University of Sheffield on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - ECOSOLUTIONS - Earth, Fire, Wind and Water: Understanding and reducing pollution caused by domestic solid fuel burning in urban environments. at University of Sheffield, listed on FindAP...

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Emily S. Cross @escross.bsky.social · Mar 22

💃🧠 Psyched to share my latest paper in Neuron on the past, present and future of dance neuroscience research! Crazy to think where this field will be in 20 more years 🚀

authors.elsevier.com/a/1kkh3_KOmx...

#PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #Dance #CognitiveNeuroscience #Neuroaesthetics #BrainScience

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Rich Ramsey @richramseyphd.bsky.social · Feb 24

Lay summary in The Conversation: theconversation.com/heads-vs-tai...

Open data and code: osf.io/zd5ey/

Heads vs tails? A simple coin flip can be enough to change how we treat others

Most explanations say discrimination is driven by differences between groups – but random individual differences may also play a role.

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Rich Ramsey @richramseyphd.bsky.social · Feb 24

Unequal resource division that follows from a random difference with an individual may make discrimination more prevalent and occur for partly different reasons than is commonly assumed, whilst also raising questions for group-based theories of discrimination.

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Rich Ramsey @richramseyphd.bsky.social · Feb 24

New paper with @dredeschrijver.bsky.social. Discriminatory tendencies emerge when participants are not divided into groups and only interact with a single person that demonstrates a different quantity estimate, painting preference, or even coin flip.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Rich Ramsey @richramseyphd.bsky.social · Dec 18

A tutorial on analysing time-to-event data (e.g. response times). @svenpanis.bsky.social and I provide guidelines and R code that show you how to prepare data, fit multi-level regression models and plan future studies using data simulation.
#rstats
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Rich Ramsey @richramseyphd.bsky.social · Dec 13

How does learning to name or tie knots shape cognitive processes? Here we analyse old data from @escross.bsky.social to gain new insight into the computational mechanisms that govern experience-dependent plasticity.
preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
code: github.com/rich-ramsey/...

GitHub - rich-ramsey/knot_dmc: About This project creates a reproducible manuscript for the knots dynamic models of choice (dmc) project using the R package papaja(). Resources Readme License MIT lic...

About This project creates a reproducible manuscript for the knots dynamic models of choice (dmc) project using the R package papaja(). Resources Readme License MIT license Activity Stars 0 stars...

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Emmanuele Tidoni @letstido.bsky.social · Nov 22

🤖 New Study on how people perceive Humanoid Robots!

How do we distinguish between humans and #humanoid robots?

Discover more about this work and big thanks to amazing people @escross.bsky.social @richramseyphd.bsky.social @scandle.bsky.social:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Are humanoid robots perceived as mindless mannequins?

The shape and texture of humans and humanoid robots provide perceptual information that help us to appropriately categorise these stimuli. However, it…

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