postdoctoral research scientist, human behaviour and evolution, social learning, cultural evolution, open science, secular buddhism
Joined January 2012
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📢New Preprint!📢 We've developed a behavioural measure of open-mindedness: the 'Ideological Turing Test,' (ITT). 🧵
psyarxiv.com/2e9wn/
with @tomstafford & Daniel Brady from the wonderful @RSE_Sheffield
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Career idea: write these papers and collect citations
🔥“Why median splits are amazing”
🔥”The benefits of treating ordinal variables as Gaussian”
🔥”Nearly significant? An important concept”
🔥”The immense epistemic fertility of not sharing code”
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There are many claims for the oldest pub in Britain. The most famous is the Trip to Jerusalem at Nottingham: reputedly opened 1189, but this was invented in 1909 by the landlord. In reality its a 17thC building that was used as a pub by 1751. So which is the oldest? ...a thread🧵
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Plan to quote this in an upcoming paper. I think it elegantly showcases issues around biological reductionism, the levels problem (Eronen), and hierarchies of organizations (Wimsatt).
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Like any good research software engineer, the beaver (genus Castor) runs incremental tests after every commit youtube.com/shorts/T_r7SD0MG…
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There are entire fields in psychology doing research with measures that were never properly validated.
Time for an “expression of concern” for a few thousand papers?
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"I’m a woman, I’m young, I’m Muslim, I’m left-wing. When people attack me, it’s usually for one – or all – of those reasons."
I spoke to @ElleUK about dealing with racism and abuse – and how I won't let that stop me from fighting for social justice:
elle.com/uk/news-politics/a6…
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We are still looking for a reviewer with expertise in SAS and ideally some domain knowledge in intergroup processes. Please get in touch if that describes you, or kindly help us boost this signal!
We are currently looking for a reviewer with expertise in SAS. Domain knowledge in intergroup dynamics would be ideal, but is not a must. If you are interested or know someone who might fit this description, please let us know! Reply here or email: error.reviews/contact/
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If any kid is hurt tonight, responsibility will fall on the mayor and univ presidents.
Other leaders and schools have found a safe, de-escalatory path. This is the opposite of leadership and endangers public safety. A nightmare in the making.
I urge the Mayor to reverse course.
NEW - @NYCMayor says Columbia protest has been "co-opted" and is going to share their intel, he says at 1 Police Plaza. He advises students involved in the protest to leave the area and tells parents to tell their kids to leave "before the situation escalates."
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"I got to figure,” the tenant said. "We all got to figure.
There’s some way to stop this. It’s not like lightning or earthquakes. We’ve got a bad thing made by men, and by God that’s something we can change.”
John Steinbeck
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P.S. It’s Dan Dennett’s birthday so here are his 4 steps to arguing effectively! brainpickings.org/2014/03/28… @OpeningUpMinds
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And of course: Why Inequality is Bad, danielnettle.org.uk/wp-conte… , Let Them Eat Cake, Getting Your Head around UBI, and The Mill That Grinds Young People Old. In fact, can we just make Part 2 of HOTTE required reading for all students/politicians/humans?! openbookpublishers.com/produ…
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Progress on making my blog boring vanilla html. If you've not read any of this, I suggest the Regression Fire and Dangerous Things three-part series. It's like a super-condensed version of my book/course, a neutron star of Bayesian causal inference. elevanth.org/
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The future of Perspectives on Psychological Science (the journal) is wide open!
Want to be the next Editor in Chief? Have ideas about new directions for the journal? Submit a proposal (2pp) by June 1.
Come join the team of APS journals' Editors in Chief!
psychologicalscience.org/pub…
And I still maintain that (profiteering) journals paying for a system where unemployed postdocs become paid error-checkers would simultaneously solve two problems of academia: lack of reproducibility & ECR job insecurity (short-term contracts/ too many postdocs for lectureships)
Hi @rlmcelreath , me again! 👋 It's another ordered logit (love dem Likert scales). I can plot the estimates for each question, as shown, but can I plot (or compute) the 'strength' of the condition effect (b_cond) for each question? i.e how b_cond effect varies for each question?
