Lisa DeBruine

The amount of time I spend in a non-renv project fixing version issues is usually equal to or less than the amount of time I spend in a renv project fixing renv issues ⚖️

Bsky hive mind — I’ve been wanting to purchase an air fryer for years now, but have choice paralysis. Please help me decide which one to get. I seldom cook for more than 2 people. I have an instant pot that I love. I don’t own a microwave. Price isn’t a huge consideration if I’ll use it a lot.

Double-check the lines of contribution. I accepted a commit on a repo that I’d asked a human contributor for, didn’t realise it came with an additional Claude contributor, and even after rolling back the repo and deleting that commit, Claude is still listed as a contributor (with 0 lines of code) 😕

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

Haha, I’m on it! (Actually having fun writing JSON schema for things)

XKCD comic: Title: HOW STANDARDS PROLIFERATE: (SEE: A/C CHARGERS, CHARACTER ENCODINGS, INSTANT MESSAGING, ETC.) Panel 1: SITUATION: THERE ARE I4 COMPETING STANDARDS. Panel 2: character 1: 14?! RIDICULOUS! WE NEED TO DEVELOP ONE UNIVERSAL STANDARD THAT COVERS EVERYONE'S USE CASES. character 2: YEAH! Panel 3: SOON: SITUATION: THERE ARE I5 COMPETING STANDARDS. YEAH!

Crossref is great for journal articles, and datacite is great for datasets and software. Bibtex is good for citations, but not as detailed.

I really tried to avoid it, but I've been forced into creating a 15th standard to rule them all :(

Let me know if there's something I've missed. #schema

As an academic community, why can't we have just one format for references? If you never hear from me again, it's because trying to reconcile journal reference sections, bibtex, doi.org, crossref and openalex formats has murdered me.

A thesis student is looking at parasocial attachment to generative AI in undergraduate and postgraduate students. The questionnaire will take about 10 minutes. Please pass the study link on to anyone who might be interested.

exp.psy.gla.ac.uk/project?para...

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WtF?

This is a new phenomenon and business model exploiting gaps in publishing. The cartel uses fake names to produce AI-written or plagiarised papers. Reference lists contain 100s of paid entries.If papers are retracted, no real authors are punished, and citations still count, even from retracted papers

These sorts of stories are why I’m afraid to bring my son to visit his grandparents, now that he’s over 18 and not a US citizen.

Paper on statistical power necessary for interaction effects
doi.org/10.1177/2515...

If you have about 20 minutes, I would be grateful if you could help my undergraduate student explore whether common empathy questionnaires are actually interchangable in the ways they are used in the social science literature.

The presentation of the Cass report as this gospel text is also disingenuous given the significant academic criticism it has received.

Just last year, a peer-reviewed critique led by Irish researchers from the University of Galway found serious flaws with the report.

Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization How do you write text that conveys the whole meaning of a visualization? You probably can’t. But that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t try

Many struggle with writing alt text for charts and other other data visualizations. Amy Cesal's "Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization" hammers home the importance of explaining the chart type, the type of data, and the reason for the chart.

medium.com/nightingale/...

Pick up the nearest (e)book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence.

There is also an ‘I’ in ‘silver,’” he said.

(If you know what that’s from, I expect you have the same brain worm I do lately🏒)

FYI: pat of the problem is the model I was using.

groq/openai/gpt-oss-120b is very fussy, and won’t let you have an array at the top level.

openai/gpt-4.1 is less fussy and works with a broader range of ways to set up the json structure.

I can, of course, manually iterate, convert each returned list into a table, add the index, and then combine to one table. But I feel like I must be missing something about ellmer functions.

Any recs for better learning material than the docs/website?

My problem is each string I need to evaluate may have 0 or more power analyses (object B above), but the parallel functions in ellmer just return a list with each extracted power analysis and no indication of which string it is from (most have 1, but some have 0 and some have 2).

I am swinging wildly between loving and hating ellmer. It makes some things much easier, but other things much harder than my original technique of describing the JSON I want and parsing the returned JSON text into a table.

Is anyone here an expert on #rstats ellmer structured data?

It works when I define the JSON schema of an object A containing an array of object B, but not when I read object B from JSON schema and use type_object and type_array to set up object A.

Reprex: gist.github.com/debruine/d35...

Ok that is like 5 steps and several minutes for water boiling and butter softening! The vegetable peeler method takes 10 seconds.

I do not own a microwave and am 99.5% of the time pretty happy with that (my kitchen is tiny)

It’s usually about 15C when I wake up lately (my landlord won’t let me install a smart thermostat) so the butter is very hard, but I’ve discovered (maybe you all already knew this) that using a vegetable peeler to get thin slices makes cold butter so easy to spread! #lifehacks 🧈

(Just saw you already have an eSIM)

I struggled with this for a year, and had to constantly restart my phone to get data. The only thing that worked was switching to an eSIM, and no idea why that helped.

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Our publishing system does not prioritise or value the careful curation of research data to be FAIR nearly enough. I have been data editing for AP&P for a year now, and it is sad to see no reward for the clearly careful organisation of data and materials vs that which is thrown on OSF with no care!

@posit.co this fundamentally undermines me using your products as a teaching tool. Will this be in posit cloud too? If so, instructors need to be able to switch this off in module workspaces.

Same. I meant to catch up on open research news, but there’s no way to avoid the rest of it.

WARN-D machine learning competition is live » Eiko Fried If you share one single thing of our team in 2026—on social media or per email with your colleagues—please let it be this machine learning competition. It was half a decade of work to get here, especi...

After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data.

If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition.

eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...