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Ingwar Perowanowitsch @ingwarpero.bsky.social · Jul 31

Quelle: yle.fi/a/74-20174831

Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death

A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and smarter design.

yle.fi

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Prof Sadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social · 21d

Great to see our new paper "Health losses attributed to anthropogenic climate change" out in print today in @natclimate.nature.com, which builds on our landscaping project on climate-health attribution a couple of years ago, funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social

Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 21d

🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Health losses attributed to anthropogenic climate change," a brief communication in the journal Nature Climate Change. There's a map showing regions of the world, and pie charts of relevant studies as they apply to different health impacts like "heat-related deaths" and "maternal and child health"

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · Sep 6

For Trump and his allies, renewable energy is akin to the new Cracker Barrel logo: something they oppose largely because it’s different and seems to be forced upon them. But unlike the logo, there’s no going back on wind and solar.
www.pbump.net/o/why-trump-...

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World Conferences on Research Integrity @wcrifoundation.bsky.social · Aug 23

Could AI slow science? Confronting the production-progress paradox

#AI #GenAI #ChatGPT #Claude #Science #WCRI2026 #WCRI

www.aisnakeoil.com/p/could-ai-s...

Could AI slow science?

Confronting the production-progress paradox

www.aisnakeoil.com

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Valentin Amrhein @vamrhein.bsky.social · Aug 17

Sabine Hossenfelder: "Scientific research is broken. This has been going on for decades, and the situation is not improving. It's getting worse."
youtu.be/9yPy3DeMUyI?...

Scientific research has big problems, and it's getting worse

YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · Jul 31

Wow.

Research findings with p-values marginally less than 0.05 attract 60 to 110% higher Altmetric scores than those with p-values marginally above 0.05.

p-hacking means more popular attention!

p-hacking FTW!

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BOU @bou.org.uk · Jul 25

EARLY VIEW in IBIS

Breeding habitat preferences and niche partitioning of insectivorous songbirds in Alpine grasslands | onlinelibrary.wiley....

Yann Rime, Pius Korner, Barbara Helm, Valentin Amrhein, Christoph M. Meier | #ornithology 🪶

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Journal of Cell Biology @jcb.org · Jul 23

In a new Perspective article, Josh Morgan discusses how progress in cell biology is hindered by significance testing and the need for a shift to effect size estimation. rupress.org/jcb/article/...

#Technology #Reproducibility #CellCycle #CellDivision #Statistics

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Martin Stendel @martinstendel.bsky.social · Jul 21

Extreme Greenland melting event right now: thawing over 80% of the surface. Seen before only once in the record melt summer 2012.

See more at @polarportal.bsky.social!

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American Statistical Association History of Statistics @hos-asa.bsky.social · Jul 12

Time for your yearly reminder that “We need less research, better research, and research done for the right reasons”. #OTD 1948 Douglas Altman b (d 3 June 2018) “One of the most influential medical statisticians of the past 50 years” he led reforms in medical research reliability & reporting. 1/3

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Valentin Amrhein @vamrhein.bsky.social · Jun 25

... The data generator thus incorporates without distinction all influences on the final data, such as selection bias and measurement errors—and it is the only object directly addressed by conventional interval estimates, p values, and other “superpopulation” inferences."

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Valentin Amrhein @vamrhein.bsky.social · Jun 25

"An example would be predicting the patterns a survey (the data generator) will produce in the face of low response rates and the errors in the survey measurements, as opposed to predicting the actual distributions in the surveyed population. ...

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Valentin Amrhein @vamrhein.bsky.social · Jun 25

"Conventional regression analysis provides inferences about
the data generator, not the assumed target population"

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Some Ways to Make Regression Modeling More Helpful Than Misleading

Click on the article title to read more.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Christie Aschwanden @cragcrest.bsky.social · Jun 12

"Bak-Coleman ‬and others say the reformers should have seen that their claims and concerns could be weaponized by antiscience movements, and done more to prevent that." I often write about sci reform & I'm genuinely curious, how do you "prevent that"?
www.science.org/content/arti...

Science’s reform movement should have seen Trump’s call for ‘gold standard science’ coming, critics say

Efforts to improve the rigor of research may have unwittingly handed the administration a way to attack science

www.science.org

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · Jun 11

Science-wide replication crisis?

"The executive order should be a wake-up call for science reformers to communicate more carefully."

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Jun 11

Science’s reform movement should have seen Trump’s call for ‘gold standard science’ coming, critics say.

Science’s reform movement should have seen Trump’s call for ‘gold standard science’ coming, critics say

Efforts to improve the rigor of research may have unwittingly handed the administration a way to attack science

www.science.org

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Per Koch @perkoch.bsky.social · May 31

Today nearly all new car sales in Norway are electric. That’s true even in Finnmark, the northernmost region in Europe’s northernmost country.

For us who live in the city, the most immediate benefit is cleaner air.

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...

Copy: archive.ph/sHcnW

Most new cars in Norway are EVs. How a freezing country beat range anxiety.

A visit to the northernmost region in Europe’s northernmost country offers a window into how to make electric vehicles the car of choice.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · May 31

I could recommend these four papers of ours for starters:
1. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
2. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1...
3. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1...
4. philsci-archive.pitt.edu/24738/

Scientific discovery in a model-centric framework: Reproducibility, innovation, and epistemic diversity

Consistent confirmations obtained independently of each other lend credibility to a scientific result. We refer to results satisfying this consistency as reproducible and assume that reproducibility i...

journals.plos.org

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · May 31

Also see

philarchive.org/archive/FEEWRI by @ufeest.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... by @vamrhein.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... by @danhicks.bsky.social

link.springer.com/article/10.1... by @markrubin.bsky.social

link.springer.com/article/10.1... by Sam Fletcher

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · May 27

There is no "science-wide replication crisis" because every word in that phrase carries unfounded assumptions. 🧵

1. There is no evidence that progress has generally stalled in the sciences. Also, no one has actually tried to estimate replicability across fields.

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Christie Aschwanden @cragcrest.bsky.social · May 30

I have become a bird spy, and I blame @bengoldfarb.bsky.social. www.lastwordonnothing.com/2025/05/30/h...

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Kari Koivula @koivulakari.bsky.social · May 26

Opera buffa? No, actually ruff male is dead serious in attracting females flying by to land at his lek. #waders #ornithology

Male ruff at his lek in standing position showing ornamental ruff an ear tufts.

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · May 25

“Reproducibility failures are essential to scientific inquiry.”

Reproducibility failures are essential to scientific inquiry | PNAS

Reproducibility failures are essential to scientific inquiry

doi.org

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Valentin Amrhein @vamrhein.bsky.social · May 22

youtu.be/6ZHWIYHlXOs?...

Land of Hope and Dreams

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

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Jason Moore @moorejh.bsky.social · May 19

I understand why some feel uncomfortable with AI being used by students (I do). However, for better or worse, the tech is here & now baked into everything we do. We have no choice but to embrace it www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/t... #artificialintelligence #learning #teaching #students #highschool

How Miami Schools Are Leading 100,000 Students Into the A.I. Future

www.nytimes.com

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Furqan Shah @shahfa.bsky.social · Mar 14

🧪 The peer review system is truly broken! 😵‍💫

An editor's perspective:
–Ever increasing number of manuscripts submitted for publication
–Authors want quick editorial decisions + fast peer review
–Reviewers are "too busy" to review
–Everyone wants to submit papers but no one wants to review

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