iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · 9h

A major Australian funder will now use a conditional lottery to award funding. I think this is a great policy change and lotteries are likely to become more common as AI-driven application numbers grow theconversation.com/some-austral...

theconversation.com

Some Australian research funding is now a lottery. And that’s actually good news

Leaving some funding decisions up to luck can save everybody time and effort – and help understand what the funding actually does.

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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

A satisfying graph after we brought a home battery to go with our rooftop solar

Line chart showing grid energy usage and greenhouse gas emissions dropping suddenly after buying a home battery

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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Will he be able to speak before he dies? If so, he could use it to espouse terrorism. Or perhaps they will they gag him to stop this? It's all incredibly fucked.

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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In peer reviewing a paper I told the authors that I didn't know what an acronym they used on page 31 was. They told me it was okay because they'd defined it on page 11. Please, just stop using acronyms.

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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I used to regression to the mean everywhere, but not as much these days.

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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

His attitude was "fake it till you make it", then "keep faking it even after you've made it".

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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Jeffrey Archer, a man who was always in the news during my childhood. This obituary is a great read. www.bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.com

Jeffrey Archer obituary

Politician and best-selling author whose career was mired in scandal and disgrace.

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Sholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Today I'm posting a new video! This case report includes AI generated images. Despite being apparently fabricated with OpenAI tools this paper is already suggested by ChatGPT as evidence to be considered for off label treatment of an autoimmune disease. youtu.be/G9KHwXNIJyk

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

AI bots are flooding researchers with requests for money and time AI agents are spamming researchers with emails wanting to collaborate or offering services for money I'm getting these emails and they make it less likely that I will respond to real people www.nature.com/articles/d41...

nature.com

AI bots are flooding researchers with requests for money and time

Many scientists use artificial intelligence in their work, but agents are increasingly soliciting researchers for collaborations.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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MACSYS @macsys.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

📢Come work with us in sunny☀️Brisbane! We are looking for an applied mathematician to join our Centre as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at QUT. 👉 qut.nga.net.au/cp/index.cfm... @smbmathbiology.bsky.social @mjsimpson.bsky.social

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WEHI (The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research) @wehi-research.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Please join us for the next event in our Director's Seminar series, with guest speaker Professor Jennifer Byrne @jabyrnesci.bsky.social Event details: www.wehi.edu.au/event/profes...

An image shows a photo of Professor Jennifer Byrne with details of her seminar. The title is 'Challenges to biomedical publication integrity - a primer on research paper mills'. The seminar will take place at 1pm on 22 September 2026, accessible via Slido with code #WEHISeminar

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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Got swooped by a butcher bird today and I turned my head just at the wrong moment so my lips brushed his feathery belly.

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

mathandai.org

Declaration — Math and AI

Read the declaration and add your name.

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Peer-Reviewed Slop @peer-reviewed-slop.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Bro... just WTF!?! ☠️ What is that deer-devil voodoo demon doing in that graphical abstract? In Coordination Chemistry Reviews?!? Impact Factor 25.6?!? 🤣 Come on now! 10.1016/j.ccr.2024.215942

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Jeffrey Brainard @jeffreybrainard.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

As research papers proliferate, can AI reviewers help humans check quality while keeping pace with the flood? Tests are revealing their strengths and weaknesses. #PeerReviewWeek @science.org www.science.org/content/article/can-ai-help-solve-peer-review-crisis-here-are-its-promises-and-pitfalls

science.org

Can AI help solve the peer-review crisis? Here are its promises and pitfalls

Amid a shortage of human reviewers, tests indicate AI can assist—but is not a savior

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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Unusual bug in the back garden. Maybe a parasitic wasp.

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Beth Clarke @bethclarke.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I’m hiring a PhD student to work with me on metascience in psychology at @zpid.bsky.social! The position is very open - could cover a wide range of topics/themes 🤸🏻‍♀️✨ If you have questions, please reach out! Applications are open until October 1st. leibniz-psychology.onlyfy.jobs/en/job/fyjwt...

leibniz-psychology.onlyfy.jobs

PhD in Psychological Meta-Science (m/f/d)

Become part of the open science movement The Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information (ZPID) in Trier (Germany) is an internationally recognized research-based psychology service center located in...

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AIMOS @aimosinc.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The submission deadline for AIMOS 2026 has been extended to 23 August. Registrations are open now, with discounted early birds until 1 October! We have a limited number of travel grants that will cover registration plus a travel subsidy for ECRs. www.aimos2026.org

aimos2026.org

AIMOS_2026 | Metascience Conference – Register Today

Join the AIMOS 2026 Conference n Wellington, New Zealand, for three days of interdisciplinary meta-research, keynote speakers, workshops, and networking to improve research practices.

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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 18/08/2026

Good satire always nearly indistinguishable from truth.

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MetaROR @metaror.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

🔓 "Who chooses open peer review and is it an indicator of article quality?" That's the subject of "an observational study of PLOS journals" evaluated on MetaROR. 👇 Read on MetaROR

metaror.org

Who chooses open peer review and is it an indicator of article quality? An observational study of PLOS journals - MetaROR

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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

It's been a long day and perhaps I shouldn't be so pedantic. But fractional people!

Text saying: "These hospitals are expected to serve for more than 18,000,000.00 people." So with two decimal places for people.

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AusHSI @aushsi.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

A fabricated dataset hosted on Kaggle was recently removed for breaching copyright, months after it was exposed in research led by #AusHSI PhD student @alexdgibson.bsky.social with @aidybarnett.bsky.social, @nicolewhite.bsky.social and Gary Collins. Find out more 👇

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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Years ago we (@zoedoubleday.bsky.social) told scientists to stop creating new acronyms because people find them hard to read elifesciences.org/articles/60080. Now there's another reason, the machines find them hard to read too. If you want your work to be in LLM searches, then quit the TLAs.

elifesciences.org

Meta-Research: The growth of acronyms in the scientific literature

A study of 24 million articles has revealed that scientists have created more than 1 million acronyms since 1950, most of which have been used fewer than 10 times.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Need more time to get work done? Have you thought of FAMT? www.ft.com/content/0291...

One senior leader at a UK sports organisation, fed up with being dragged from one meeting to the next, blocked out the last Tuesday of every month in her calendar to work for hours at a time, uninterrupted - labelling it in her diary as
"FAMT"
Her colleagues assumed she was busy with some sort of "management team" or
"football association". She eventually confessed this was in fact an abbreviation of
"Fuck All Meetings Tuesday". To her surprise, they thought it was a great idea.

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San Merg @sandromergvaz.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

😘❤️‍🔥😍

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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

New blog on trying to chase down a potentially dodgy statistic from my local council medianwatch.netlify.app/post/homeless/

medianwatch.netlify.app

Sniffing out a bad statistic

A blog about statistics, meta-research, metascience and academia

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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

A new blog on two innovations from funding peer review that could be transplanted to journal peer review. 1. 🔄 Distributed peer review. Quid pro quo. 2. 🎲 Lotteries. Acknowledging the limitations of human decision making with a bonus randomised trial. medianwatch.netlify.app/post/experim...

medianwatch.netlify.app

Experimenting with peer review

A blog about statistics, meta-research, metascience and academia

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Alexander Gibson @alexdgibson.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

🚨 Protocol -> preregistration -> preprint -> publication 🚨 125 clinical prediction model articles developed on unreliable data on stroke and diabetes. Since preprinting our results 7 articles have been retracted. doi.org/10.1186/s129...

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Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Maggots, Lycanthropes & Ice Skeletons) @hannahshelley.site · 29/06/2026

Until the ABS joins bluesky I'm just going to steal their memes from Facebook and post them here

A promotional image from the Australian Bureau of Statistics encouraging Census completion. The image features illustrations of a Census Household Form, a microphone, and the silhouettes of the Spice Girls, and the following lyrics:

Yo, I'll tell you what I want, what I really, really want
So tell us what you want, what you really, really want

I wanna, (ha) I wanna, (ha) I wanna, (ha) I wanna, (ha) I wanna really, really, really wanna complete the Census on behalf of my household, ahh

If you wanna be our lovers,
you gotta do your Census form (Gotta do your Census form)
On the 11 August, data never ends
If you wanna be our lovers, go and tell your friends
Completing is too easy, but that's the way it is

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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The #WorldRefugeeDay #Telethon powered by the ASRC has begun! Let’s show that love not hate, community not division, welcome not fear is who we are as Australians. We are stronger together! Help refugee families today by calling 1300 692 772 to donate or www.asrc.org.au/telethon

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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Some record of ethical approvals should be publicly available. Research integrity is under enormous strain from instant AI made slop. We need to differentiate the real from the fake. medianwatch.netlify.app/post/transpa....

medianwatch.netlify.app

Ethics transparency

A blog about statistics, meta-research, metascience and academia

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Karen Lamb @kelamb.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

📢 Only one month until our statistical leadership symposium in Australia! With international keynotes, invited local speakers, and contributed presentations, it's shaping up to be a great event! agbarnett.github.io/stats_leader... Register here by 30th June:

events.humanitix.com

Essential skills for statistics leadership in consultancy and research

A two-day Statistical Leadership Symposium for early and mid-career researchers across Australia

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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Only two of the ten most populous nations are going to the #worldcup2026

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Karen Lamb @kelamb.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

📢 Statisticians in Australia from all sectors: Join us in July to share your experiences and learn from others in developing professional skills and becoming leaders. Please spread the word! Hope to see you there! @mischhub.bsky.social @nicolewhite.bsky.social @aidybarnett.bsky.social

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AIMOS @aimosinc.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

The submission portal for #AIMOS2026 is now open. Submit your lightning talks, discussion groups hackathons, and workshops now. www.aimos2026.org/submit

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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

One of the common cited reasons is that panels increase accountability. There may be some merit in this, as it's embarrassing to turn up to a panel meeting unprepared, but I have seen it. I think coping with rejection is a big part of it.

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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

A blog on the evidence free call to "Bring back panels!" medianwatch.netlify.app/post/panels/. The call appeared in Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/....

medianwatch.netlify.app

Beating the panel drum

A blog about statistics, meta-research, metascience and academia

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