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Bob C-J and Geoff Cumming @thenewstats.bsky.social · 8h

Don’t know. My use is primarily reading for pleasure. I have Zotero on my boox and it seems to run well, but papers rarely win over my book collection so can’t really say.

Bob C-J and Geoff Cumming @thenewstats.bsky.social · 9h

Love the boox air. Sleek, powerful, great battery life. I use Calibre sync to pull my whole epub and pdf library from Dropbox onto my boox. It is awesome.

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Bob C-J and Geoff Cumming @thenewstats.bsky.social · 20d

Another CREP study out in print: online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

Congrats to all the students and dedicated faculty mentors involved, like @aggieerin.bsky.social ky.social and @jorowags.bsky.social

Get your students involved in CREP: www.crep-psych.org!

#stats #psychology

Collaborative Registered Replication of Griskevicius et al. (2010): Can Pro-environmental Behavior Be Promoted by Priming Status Motivation?

The present study presents the results of a collaborative registered replication of Griskevicius et al. (2010, Experiment 1). As part of the Collaborative Replication and Education Project, 24 student...

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Bob C-J and Geoff Cumming @thenewstats.bsky.social · Sep 4

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Bob C-J and Geoff Cumming @thenewstats.bsky.social · Sep 3

What We’ll Never Know
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Use these to lobby your politicians, not only if you are in the U.S. Suggest further makers of videos: [email protected]

What We’ll Never Know | Introduction to the New Statistics

Message just in from James Pennebaker, President of the APS, about a sadly highly important project by Tim Wilson. Tim is collecting a bunch of short punchy videos on the theme of 'what we'll never kn...

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Bob C-J and Geoff Cumming @thenewstats.bsky.social · Aug 26

New version of vcmeta (1.5) for R now out: github.com/dgbonett/vcm....

Some new functions and a few name changes.

vcmeta provides all the tools you need for variable-coefficient meta-analysis (no assumption of effect-size homogeneity; probably the best default option?).

#stats

GitHub - dgbonett/vcmeta

Contribute to dgbonett/vcmeta development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Bob C-J and Geoff Cumming @thenewstats.bsky.social · Aug 20

Cool paper about JASP's raincloud plots with nice examples of how they can be used, especially for complex designs.

I do wish JASP would supplement add to this visualizations of group differences and their uncertainty.

#stats

doi-org.proxy.cc.uic.edu/10.3758/s134...

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · Aug 12

"“I ain’t ever bought no prostitutes. I ain’t never raped nobody. I ain’t never paid anybody off. None of that stuff,” said G, a resident from one of the photographed tents.

“He’s much more of a criminal than I am”"

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Donald Trump threatens to clear encampments in D.C.

With D.C.’s MPD now under federal control and the National Guard coming to D.C., the fate of people in encampments remains up in the air.

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JASP @jaspstats.bsky.social · Aug 2

Just out: JASP 0.95! With sandboxing, a new plot builder, ESCI, and more.

jasp-stats.org/2025/08/02/i...

Introducing JASP 0.95: Sandboxing, Plotbuilder, ESCI, Parametric Survival Analysis, and Much More - JASP - Free and User-Friendly Statistical Software

We are proud to announce that JASP 0.95 has been released and is now available on our download page. JASP 0.95 presents a big step forwards, as you can see from the full release notes. Some of the hig...

https://jasp-stats.org/2025/08/02/introducing-jasp-0-95-sandboxing-plotbuilder-esci-parametric-survival-analysis-and-much-more/"

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Bob C-J and Geoff Cumming @thenewstats.bsky.social · Jul 31

Great new review of forgetting mechanisms in C. elegans -- lots of cool research I had missed (or maybe forgotten about?)

#neuroskyence

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

Investigations of forgetting in Caenorhabditis elegans

The traditional view considered forgetting as a passive process where memory traces gradually fade due to the natural weakening of neural connections.…

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Bob C-J and Geoff Cumming @thenewstats.bsky.social · Jul 31

Here's a nice paper in JCB on why testing for exactly no effect is not a great idea when studying biological systems, and how putting effect sizes at the front of our thinking can help.

Paper is by Josh Morgan at WashU St. Louis.

#stats #neuroskyence

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Alternative to the statistical mass confusion of testing for “no effect” | Journal of Cell Biology | Rockefeller University Press

Morgan discusses how progress in cell biology is hindered by significance testing and the need for a shift to effect size estimation.

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Bob C-J and Geoff Cumming @thenewstats.bsky.social · Jul 30

Feel like an excuse to get that travel money for some sun and surf in November? Consider these two back-to-back meetings Down Under. 16-18 and 19-21 November 2025.
researchintegrityconf.com
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Bob C-J and Geoff Cumming @thenewstats.bsky.social · Jul 29

Of course, esci remains available in R (cran.r-project.org/web/packages...) and as a modules in @jamovi.bsky.social. So whatever your preferred platform, you can generate estimates and beautiful estimation-focused figures. Enjoy!

#stats

esci: Estimation Statistics with Confidence Intervals

A collection of functions and 'jamovi' module for the estimation approach to inferential statistics, the approach which emphasizes effect sizes, interval estimates, and meta-analysis. Nearly all funct...

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Bob C-J and Geoff Cumming @thenewstats.bsky.social · Jul 29

To use: Download JASP 0.95.0 for your platform, start it, and in the available modules list, scroll down to find and enable ESCI. Viola, you will have an ESCI menu.

(Note: the JASP team went with upper-case; guess they wanted to shout out how much the love the module)

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Bob C-J and Geoff Cumming @thenewstats.bsky.social · Jul 29

Look what you can find in the latest version of JASP:

**esci**

That's right, all your favorite estimation-focused analyses, strong hypothesis testing, and meta-analysis are available in the esci module for JASP 0.95.

#stats #metascience
Many thanks to the good people at @jaspstats.bsky.social

New release announcement for JASP 0.95.0 featuring inclusion of the ESCI module

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Bob C-J and Geoff Cumming @thenewstats.bsky.social · Jun 20

It is very hard to say what works with correct specificity. How would we ever detect these bizarre equipment effects if we didn’t publish and think critically about failed experiments?

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · Jun 16

New Replication Project in sport and exercise science shares it results: Out of 25 replication studies performed, 56% yielded significant results, but only 7 (28%) revealed a similar effect size. Several problems related to the quality of are discussed.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Estimating the Replicability of Sports and Exercise Science Research - Sports Medicine

Background The replicability of sports and exercise research has not been assessed previously despite concerns about scientific practices within the field. Aim This study aims to provide an initial es...

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Bob C-J and Geoff Cumming @thenewstats.bsky.social · Jun 16

What stats software should you teach with?

Here's a super-comprehensive review of GUI-based options from Thomas Langkamp.

The winners (on very reasonable criteria)? JASP and jamovi.

Strongly agree!

osf.io/preprints/ps...

#stats #psychology
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Mariah Hoye @mariahhoye.bsky.social · Jun 13

I love this paper too!

The author, Rick Born, is part of the @comm4rigor.bsky.social which is developing educational units on topics like confirmation bias!

For anyone interested in learning more, check out the beta form of the unit at c4r.io (and give us feedback so we can keep improving it)!

Bob C-J and Geoff Cumming @thenewstats.bsky.social · May 6

In the genre of thinking about bias, I like this recent paper in neuro alot. What I prefer about this is the framing of worrying about bias generally (inflating or diminishing), not just emphasizing a certain direction (diminishing).

www.eneuro.org/content/11/1...

Stop Fooling Yourself! (Diagnosing and Treating Confirmation Bias)

Confirmation bias (CB) is a cognitive bias that allows us to fool ourselves by selectively filtering data and distorting analyses to support favored beliefs or hypotheses. In this article, I will brie...

www.eneuro.org

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Bob C-J and Geoff Cumming @thenewstats.bsky.social · Jun 12

Also worth re-upping this cool paper discussing the arduous process of doing good animal behavioral testing, using object recognition as an example.

Seems like object recognition is a subtle, fragile effect with validity issues. Why are we using it?

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

Rigor and reproducibility in rodent behavioral research

Behavioral neuroscience research incorporates the identical high level of meticulous methodologies and exacting attention to detail as all other scien…

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Bob C-J and Geoff Cumming @thenewstats.bsky.social · Jun 12

Here's a fascinating paper on the interpretation of novel object recognition tests: scores can reflect changes in novelty-preference, not just memory performance!

A nice reminder of the "neglected factors" in doing fruitful science.

#neuroskyence #stats

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

The curious interpretation of novel object recognition tests

Novel object recognition tasks are commonly used to assess memory in rodents. These tests rely on an innate preference for exploring objects that are …

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Bob C-J and Geoff Cumming @thenewstats.bsky.social · Jun 12

If we took these arguments seriously, then those making them should *also* be worried that they're providing additional fuel for bad-faith actors ("look, see, now the scientists are telling each other not to talk about their problems!").

Bob C-J and Geoff Cumming @thenewstats.bsky.social · Jun 10

There are lots of studies on this (eg www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...). Though it is a moving target what an online sample is.

A multi-group analysis of online survey respondent data quality: Comparing a regular USA consumer panel to MTurk samples

With the exploding use of Internet surveys, research efforts and data quality are increasingly subject to the effects of respondents who do not give t…

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Bob C-J and Geoff Cumming @thenewstats.bsky.social · Jun 10

That’s great! Ours fail attention checks as much as early MTurkers. Every year my methods students marvel at survey data mistakes from our participant pool: sat scores entered when gpa is requested, estimated hours a day exercising reported in minutes (120!) etc. & low effort on open ended qs.

Bob C-J and Geoff Cumming @thenewstats.bsky.social · Jun 10

Of course, after the first few years, MTurk and other platforms became really problematic: familiarity effects, proxies and language issues, and then bots. I am not sure there is any value in MTurk or other convenience sample platforms anymore.