laserhedvig

Another good started paper
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

If you like sensitivity analysis in your research, may I introduce you to multiverse analysis?
Maie, Eguchi & Uchihara (2024). Arbitrary choices, arbitrary results: Three cases of multiverse analysis in L2 research.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A map of Europe with the year when women received the right to vote

Happy International Women’s Day!

a cartoon of alice from alice in wonderland saying " thank you " ALT: a cartoon of alice from alice in wonderland saying " thank you "

dear @rosemarykirstein.bsky.social . I am glad to see that you have an account here as well!! I love your writing. my friends and I are doing a bookclub, and for the next session we're doing The Steerswoman. I look forward to (hopefully) recruiting new fans!

Screenshot of the "Does that use a lot of energy?" online app

Hannah Ritchie has built a fun little tool where you can compare energy usage of various products and activities.

This is super helpful imho, because it's so hard to develop intuitions even just about the scales involved here.

hannahritchie.substack.com/p/does-that-...

a drawing of a girl in a blue dress and a drawing of a girl in a yellow and white dress ALT: a drawing of a girl in a blue dress and a drawing of a girl in a yellow and white dress

funnily enough I attended a talk this week by @dingdingpeng.the100.ci on causal inference and she started with the blue dress as well, just like episode 2 of @cragcrest.bsky.social podcast about scientific uncertainty

💖hurray!💖
I'm two episodes in so far and it's very good stuff!

maybe if humanity outsources all functional, formal, boring writing to LLMs then we get to finally embrace total grammatical anarchy as signs of humans, redo the language in leetspeak and slangs not yet imagined -- watch me produce next token with so much perplexity that oceans evaporate

Here's a (hopefully) pedagogical vowel graphic I made based on some plots and images of mine and others (e.g. @dalaigrama.bsky.social) a while back! I hope you like it!
#linguistics

Leipzig U and the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) have an open faculty position (W2) in evolutionary population genetics! This position is tenured and comes with generous core funding. We are eager to welcome a new colleague! Deadline March 11.
www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetai...

No worries. No good being out and about when you're not well.

Just finished my talk on causal graphs as a simple yet effective reasoning tool -- unfortunately I had to join remotely because I caught a nasty cold 😷

Still had fun talking about DAGs, caffeine during pregnancy and hunter-gatherer longevity!

You can find my slides here:

Thank you so much for your talk this morning @dingdingpeng.the100.ci , I really enjoyed it!

🙏🙏🙏 @sciam.bsky.social 🙏🙏🙏

a black and white cartoon of a man holding a sign that says ' sickos ' . Alt: Sickos meme. Yes...ha ha ha...yes.

To my astonishment, Wolfgang Forstmeier will also talk about DAGs in his keynote (and even about multiverse analysis).

MFW causal inference is catching on as a topic in the meta-science/reproducibility space

to understand my excitement at @cragcrest.bsky.social podcast about science methodology, here are screenshots of me at the other short form social media platform begging for such a podcast since 2018.
yes, I am a bit pathetic. Now I am also very pleased.

Here is the podcast RSS link, give it to your podcast reader thing (podcast addict, apple podcast, podbean etc)
www.scientificamerican.com/syndication/...

@cragcrest.bsky.social has done a podcast on how uncertainty shapes science!!! I AM BEYOND EXCITED! I am a fan of her science journalism, for example pieces such as "Science Isn’t Broken - It’s just a hell of a lot harder than we give it credit for" on @fivethirtyeight.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy

I'm thrilled to report that the workshop on scientific methods @idiv-research.bsky.social I'm at today is sponsored by the iconic local brewery & pride of East Germany - Sterni! @sternburgbier.bsky.social
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sternburg
ws: conference.idiv.de/event/4/
#sterni #academia #sciene

a telephone pole with three posters stapled vertically. the top one is blue the middle is a peach and the last is bright green. they all have thin horizontal lines as a background to the text. together they say WHAT COULD WE REACH IF WE STACKED OUR DREAMS ? in the background is a beautiful sidewalk lined with orange and red trees.

i think about this all the time

Nice video from my department of linguistic and cultural evolution at @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social and Vanuatu cultural centre on language diversity in Vanuatu

www.eva.mpg.de/fileadmin/co...

This might seem weird, but there may be some benefits here. If you have high uncertainty about the specific ranking of projects in that middle group, it might be better to draw at random than let biases and subjective preferences influence the decisions.
Here are some work that Formas cite on this.

Oh? I didn't know. I'll consider using the more abstract galaxy brain next time.

Frequently asked questions about Explore 2025 Here you will find frequently asked questions and answers about the call Explore - Formas open call for research projects 2025 .

A Swedish state-funded research funding agency, Formas, has started to approve applications based partially on random draws. Applications are grouped into high quality (gets funding), low quality (doesn't get funding) and a middle group where a lottery takes place 🎰.
formas.se/en/start-pag...

We're watching Whiplash and Amadeus today, I'm calling it "Ambition is the Mind-Killer"
#movies #cinema #oscars #amadeus #whiplash

no I agree with @mjskay.com above, showing the points is often useful to good in order to understand the bounds.

new package alert! {tidychain} is a #rstats packaged inspired by the below authors experience in showing how an excel file was changed / manipulated by looking at the underlying xml files to prove fraud in research

datacolada.org/109package

usrbinr.codeberg.page/tidychain/

I find it hard to compare mirrored axises. I find ridgeplots or facets easier to compare.

oh for sure, swap to median when better