Kareem Khalifa is assembling a list of journals that either specialise or regularly publish work in philosophy of social science. A great service but I need this list to be longer! Please add to it #philsci #philsky
💔 One person died in the Kyiv region as a result of the Russian attack. There is significant destruction.
Going against the gut: Q&A with Kevin Mitchell on the autism-microbiome theory www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/goi...
New paper shows social scientists are sidelining null results. Analysing 100,000 articles across 150 political science journals, it finds 2% of abstracts report null-only findings; >90% highlight significant results.
Researchers 10–100x less likely to spotlight nulls: driver of publication bias.
Iran extends Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi's prison sentence by seven years
8.0% of citations in the medical literature contain major errors.
E.g., the cited work makes the opposite claim or is unrelated to the claim in the citing article.
Tällä hallituskaudella tehty ja tekeillä hurja määrä viranomaisten, erityisesti poliisin, toimivaltaa lisääviä lakimuutoksia. Valmisteilla jopa perustuslakimuutos, jonka pontimena valtuuksien lisääminen entisestään. Perusoikeudet kapenevat, tarve usein heikosti perusteltu.
www.hs.fi/paakirjoituk...
Maahanmuuttopolitiikan kiristykset vaikeuttavat kansainvälisten tutkijoiden asettumista Suomeen. Tiukentuneet työhistoria‑ ja toimeentuloehdot eivät sovi tutkijatyön pirstaleisuuteen. Lisäksi kansalaisuushakemusten pitkät käsittelyajat nakertavat luottamusta tulevaisuuteen. 👇🏻
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Yli miljoona rohingaa elänyt vuodesta 2017 Bangladeshissa mutavellin keskellä. Koska Myanmarin sisällissota + juntan valta jatkumassa kotiinpaluu ei ole mahdollista, siirtoja kolmansiin maihin on hyvin vähän tarjolla...
NYTin lahja-artikkeli:
Laillisuusvalvoja näkee ongelmia kaavailuissa laajentaa poliisin tiedustelumahdollisuuksia
Libyan authorities have freed over 220 migrants from what would appear to be a secret underground prison in the southeast of the country. The people were held in gravely inhuman conditions.
www.infomigrants.net/en/post/6930...
Congress ordered CBP to create a biometric entry/exit system 25 years ago. The problem was that the tech wasn't there until recently, and the agency never pushed hard for it. In late 2020, CBP proposed a rule to implement it. That rule sat until 2025, when the Trump admin finalized it December 26.
Conflicts across Africa, such as in Sudan, the Horn of Africa or the Sahel, remain unresolved as international attention and mediation efforts are stretched or focused elsewhere. https://bit.ly/4bwFXVi
🇺🇦🙏 Current Humanitarian Situation in Ukraine: IDP Needs and Limits of Recovery
Transition to full-scale recovery will only be possible with stabilization of security and energy context and a gradual reduction in household vulnerability.
Read more 👀
theukrainianreview.info/current-huma...
A Cartesian coordinate system with learning to performance on the horizontal axis, left to right, and novice to expert on the vertical axis, bottom to top. The expert/performance quadrant shows a green thumbs up with "human-in-the-loop", the novice/performance quadrant shows a yellow doc with a checkmark on it that says "low-risk tasks", then expert/learning quadrant shows a yellow doc with a refresh symbol that says "verify" and the novice/learning quadrant has a red triangle that says "danger."
If you forced me to set aside the many ethical and environmental questions about #GenAI, and asked me for the best advice I could provide on how it should be used, this picture sums up my current thinking. Experts can use it... (1/n)
Smuggled to suburbia: no end to danger for Ethiopians looking for better life in South Africa
scientific community is trained in reading papers presented as defense of preset conclusions (or hypotheses to the same effect) and struggles to react meaningfully to exploratory research written in an exploratory way. "what if this is a thing? let's see. huh turns out it isn't!" baffles reviewers.
Screenshot of the title page of an article published in the journal "Psychological Bulletin" titled: "Trust and Subjective Well-Being Across the Lifespan: A Multilevel Meta-Analysis of Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Associations."
Trust in others and institutions predicts subjective well-being and vice versa. This makes me even more attuned to the costs of people and systems that undermine trust. The decay of trust as a public health issue. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky doi.org/10.1037/bul0...
Mass grave of migrants discovered in eastern Libya, survivors report torture #Refugees
We've got ISSUES. Literally.
We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
A 🧵 1/n
Kyiv my beloved
More from Tehran and Shiraz today. Footage coming out has dropped sharply due to IRGC/Basij raids searching for Starlink terminals, and extreme jamming causing massive packet loss, making it nearly impossible to upload or send content.
Cannot imagine the courage required for Iranians to keep joining the protests, & find ways of getting testimony out. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Iran’s judiciary chief vowed that punishment for protesters “will be decisive, maximum and without any legal leniency.” The comment, reported by Iranian state television, came from Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei.
Screenshot of title page including the following abstract: To minimise confounding bias and disentangle warranted from unwarranted disparities, researchers examining sentencing discrimination have traditionally sought to control for as many legal factors as possible. However, over the past decade, a growing number of scholars have questioned this strategy, noting that many legal factors are themselves subject to judicial discretion and that controlling for them can introduce post-treatment bias. Here, we use directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) to provide a formal and comprehensive assessment of the different types of bias that may arise from different choices of controls. In addition, we propose a new modelling framework to facilitate the selection of controls and reflect the model uncertainty created by the trade-off inherent in judicially-defined legal factors and other factors with a similar dual causal role. We apply this framework to examine race disparities in US federal courts and gender disparities in the England and Wales magistrates’ court. We find substantial model uncertainty for gender disparities and for race disparities affecting Hispanic offenders, rendering estimates of the latter inconclusive. Disparities against black offenders are more consistent and — under specific conditions — could be interpreted as evidence of direct discrimination.
Thrilled to share my latest paper entitled, "Estimating Discrimination in Sentencing: Distinguishing between Good and Bad Controls"
Led by @jpinasanchez.bsky.social, the paper introduces a framework for examining discrimination in criminal justice processes.
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publicera.kb.se/ejels/articl...
Glad to see this out at @ajpseditor.bsky.social! I show that the immigration-crime issue, when salient, can shift leftist cosmopolitans to the Right. This is due to leftist voters being more conservative on crime than leftist parties.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
joka helpottaa poliisin pääsyä mm. terveys- ja sosiaalialanviranomaisten tietoihin.
Eduskunnassa on tällä hetkellä lakiesitys, joka mahdollistaisi passeja ja henkilökortteja varten kerättyjen sormenjälkien ja kasvokuvien käytön rikoksentorjunassa lisäksi siellä on esitys, joka helpottaa poliisin pääsyä Supon keräämiin tietoihin. Eduskuntaan lähettämistä odottamassa on esitys, -->
"Uudistuksen jälkeen poliisi voisi seurata ihmisiä tai ihmisryhmää ilman yksilöityä rikosepäilyä. Viestin suojan saisi jatkossa murtaa, jos yksilöön tai yhteiskuntaan kohdistuisi vakavan rikoksen uhka."
Hallitus haluaa muuttaa perustuslakia tämän hallituskauden aikana, jotta tämä saataisiin läpi.
