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apache/ @apache.be · Mar 15

“In de stad schuilt een ander soort democratische politiek die meer aandacht verdient”, stelt socioloog @stijnoosterlynck.bsky.social.

Oosterlynck laat de stem van de stad vandaag horen in de twintigste Paul Verbraekenlezing.

Socioloog Stijn Oosterlynck: “De stad wijst ons de weg”

De socioloog zoekt voor zijn Paul Verbraekenlezing in de stad naar een democratische toekomst.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · Mar 15

Generally not a fan of Nicholas Kristof but he's a sound person to track the deaths that Elon claims haven't occurred on his watch.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Achol Deng, an 8-year-old girl, was also infected with H.I.V. at birth and likewise remained alive because of American assistance. Then in January, Achol lost her ID card, and there was no longer a case worker to help get her a new card and medicines; she too became sick and died, said Labani.

Yes, this may eventually save money for United States taxpayers. How much? The cost of first-line H.I.V. medications to keep a person alive is less than 12 cents a day.

I asked Labani if he had ever heard of Musk. He had not, so I explained that Musk is the world’s wealthiest man and has said that no one is dying because of U.S.A.I.D. cuts.

“That is wrong,” Labani said, sounding surprised that anyone could be so oblivious. “He should come to grass roots.”

Another household kept alive by American aid was that of Jennifer Inyaa, a 35-year-old single mom, and her 5-year-old son, Evan Anzoo, both of them H.I.V.-positive. Last month, after the aid shutdown, Inyaa became sick and died, and a week later Evan died as well, according to David Iraa Simon, a community health worker who assisted them. Decisions by billionaires in Washington quickly cost the lives of a mother and her son.

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Einstein Foundation Berlin @einsteinberlin.bsky.social · Mar 14

🏆 Research integrity consultant and image forensics expert @elisabethbik.bsky.social has uncovered fraudulent data in over 7,600 scientific papers and exposed the practices of ‘paper mills’ that produce counterfeit scientific articles. She is honoured with the €200K Individual Award. Congrats!

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Pim Huis in 't Veld @huis.bsky.social · Mar 6

Here with subtitles:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmDV...

Claude Malhuret, Senator of the French Republic, speaks the truth about what is happening in the US

YouTube video by Gregory Mullins

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beamertens.bsky.social @beamertens.bsky.social · Feb 27

The format we used for audit trailing can be accessed on #OSF via the following link osf.io/dtkxg/

Audit trail qualitative interview study "Unraveling low-educated adults' motivation for second-chance education: a multidimensional perspective"

Disclaimer The materials provided in this repository are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license. This means that you are free to share, ...

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Sven De Maeyer @svawa.bsky.social · Feb 27

Happy to share our new article on motivation of adult learners in second-chance education with @beamertens.bsky.social

We used an audit-trail to meet some open science principles!

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

#open-access #L&I #QualitativeResearch #OpenSciene #OSF

Unraveling low-educated adults' motivation for second-chance education: A multidimensional perspective

Low-educated adults' participation in second-chance education (SCE) is often implicitly imposed, as an ISCED level 3 degree is required to have access…

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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · Feb 22

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #OTD 📊
💀Feb 23, 1855 Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss died in Göttingen, Germany 🇩🇪

In 1821 he proved least squares as best linear unbiased estimator& illustrated this with data on the French meridian arcs, from Dunkirk to Barcelona.
Scientific problems stimulated discoveries

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · Feb 17

New blog post!

Sometimes, when reviewing a manuscript, it's really unclear to me what precisely the authors are trying to do -- which makes it hard to evaluate the work properly.

So, here's some advice for how to ensure that readers don't get lost.
www.the100.ci/2025/02/17/r...

Reviewer notes: Avoid any ambiguity about analysis aims

For any central statistical analysis that you report in your manuscript, it should be absolutely clear for readers why the analysis is being conducted in the first place – that is, the analysis goal s...

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Stephanie Anne Shelton @sashelton.bsky.social · Feb 17

Check out "A Layering of Selves: Bias, Subjectivity, and Paper Dolls," a more #creative and #fun way for #qualitative #students to explore #subjectivity, #positionality, & #bias. FREE access:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #highered #research #PhDSky #AcademicSky #HigherEdSky #methodology

Figure 1. Stephanie’s (Left) and April’s (Right) Paper Dolls From Initial Play.

This paper examines the ways that artful inquiry affords qualitative research students
newly creative and embodied opportunities to understand and engage with subjectivity
and bias—important concepts in the eld of qualitative inquiry. Moving beyond the
inadequacy of traditional teaching practices, such as student-generated written sub-
jectivity statements, we share here an artful methodological approach using paper dolls
to disrupt conventional engagements with these concepts. Inspired by Donna
Haraway’s emphasis on layer(ing)s of subjectivity and Karen Barad’s discussion of
cutting together-apart as a creative process, we draw from collaging in/as research to
offer this paper doll activity as a constructive and disruptive way to invite students to
consider themselves as complex, messy, and inevitable aspects of the research process.

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · Feb 14

“Curry’s letter describes “an assault on scientific research…huge cuts in funding & regime of censorship (particularly with regard to equity, diversity & inclusion & climate) that is a direct threat to freedom of expression & academic freedom. These actions contravene the society’s code of conduct”

Royal Society will meet amid campaign to revoke Elon Musk’s fellowship

More than 1,300 scientists have signed a letter calling on the world’s oldest science society to reassess the billionaire’s membership following cuts to US science.

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Sven De Maeyer @svawa.bsky.social · Feb 13

Isn’t pivot_longer doing the job?

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Peter Van Petegem @pvpeteg.bsky.social · Feb 11

🎙️ De Staat van ons Onderwijs over Zelfregulerend leren
Hoe ondersteun je als docent studenten bij hun zelfregulerend leren? Ik spreek met Sabrina Govaerts & Astrid Koelman (Kenniscentrum OLLI, AP Hogeschool) over hun tool voor docenten HO.
🎧 Luister hier: www.mixcloud.com/peter-vp/de-...

De Staat Van Ons Onderwijs Over Zelfregulerend Leren In Het Hoger Onderwijs

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Peter Van Petegem @pvpeteg.bsky.social · Feb 5

Ondertussen in de V.S.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/u...

Musk Team Scrutinizes Education Department Operations

The engagement is the latest sign of the billionaire’s expanding influence across the government, which already stretches into more than half a dozen agencies.

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Reproducibility for Everyone (R4E) @repro4everyone.bsky.social · Feb 3

I#LoveMethodsWeek25 is happening this year! We are hosting a workshop!
Sign up for our workshop here: https://buff.ly/40SG1Jn
Check out other events here: https://buff.ly/40Axc5u

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Patrick S. Forscher @psforscher.bsky.social · Jan 30

You may have heard of Questionable Research Practices and "HARKing" as threats to replicability.

In a new paper led by @sakshighai.bsky.social, we argue that a similar practices -- Questionable Generalizability Practices and "MASKing" -- undermine generalizability.

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Sven De Maeyer @svawa.bsky.social · Feb 1

So hard to imagine reading this anno 2025

www.statnews.com/2025/01/31/c...

CDC removal of databases on sexual orientation, gender identity sparks alarm

Data from an expansive federal survey on youth behavioral habits, including their sexual orientation and gender identity, have been removed from the website of the CDC.

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · Jan 31

Which findings should we replicate? Isager et al propose a 'replication value', defined as the maximum expected utility gain when conducting a replication. It is a function of (1) the value of being certain about the claim, and (2) uncertainty about the claim. osf.io/preprints/me...

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Predatory Journals @predatoryjournals.org · Jan 31

🔍 Is double-blind peer review really the gold standard for scientific integrity? Christopher Mebane argues it may actually obscure bias and data, risking the rigor of research. Transparency, he claims, is key to safeguarding science. 🧪 #ScienceIntegrity #PeerReview

doi.org/10.1093/etoj...

Double-blind peer review is detrimental to scientific integrity

Abstract. I make six arguments for why double-blind peer review practices increase vulnerability to scientific integrity lapses over more transparent peer

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Sven De Maeyer @svawa.bsky.social · Jan 31

Very interesting paper on the double-blind peer-review system!

I am curious about your thoughts on this topic

Predatory Journals @predatoryjournals.org · Jan 31

🔍 Is double-blind peer review really the gold standard for scientific integrity? Christopher Mebane argues it may actually obscure bias and data, risking the rigor of research. Transparency, he claims, is key to safeguarding science. 🧪 #ScienceIntegrity #PeerReview

doi.org/10.1093/etoj...

Double-blind peer review is detrimental to scientific integrity

Abstract. I make six arguments for why double-blind peer review practices increase vulnerability to scientific integrity lapses over more transparent peer

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Open Science NL @opensciencenl.bsky.social · Jan 30

Today, the RDNL consortium launches a 4-year project to create a training platform that will strengthen the NL community of data stewards. Open Science NL has granted 4.8 million euros for the development of the platform: www.openscience.nl/en/news/rdnl...

RDNL consortium to work on training platform for data professionals | Open Science NL

Over the next four years, the Research Data Netherlands (RDNL) consortium will both strengthen the profession of data professionals in the Netherlands and expand their skills and competences. To this ...

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Simon P. Couch @simonpcouch.com · Jan 29

New on the tidyverse blog: reflecting on 3 LLM-based tools I've worked on recently to aid my work on #rstats packages and data science projects🤖

www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/01...

Three experiments in LLM code assist with RStudio and Positron - Tidyverse

We've been experimenting with LLM-powered tools to streamline R data science and package development.

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Prof Andy Field @profandyfield.com · Jan 29

This has grown a fair bit since I last posted about it. go.bsky.app/Qg6YSq6

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · Jan 29

Three Myths About Statistical Power

🔹️ Myth 1: Power is an objective feature

🔹️ Myth 2: With low power comes low credibility

🔹️ Myth 3: High power protects against questionable research practices

BSky author: @clauslamm.bsky.social

Powerful Myths: Common Misconceptions About Statistical Power

Lukas Lengersdorff and Claus Lamm discuss three misconceptions that stand in the way of an informed discussion.

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Sven De Maeyer @svawa.bsky.social · Jan 29

I think this assumption of infinite populations is not in there. In your model you can assume variation between stimuli regardless of there is a finite or infinite population of stimuli. I might be wrong of course. Moreover, inference works different there, not relying on estimated standard errors