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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

when to use which of those types for what research questions (selection seems convenience-based), which types of inferential slippage are most damaging, and how to reconcile individual vs. collective behaviors (which are still composed of individuals and can sometimes be studied as such).

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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Thanks for this work. I enjoyed reading it, and I find it useful to name all these types of heterogeneity, even if we still end up with an awkward combination of intent, consequence, domain, person property vs. event, etc. My main confusion is now ...

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markuskl.bsky.social @markuskl.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Pro-environmental behavior is often used as a broad ☂️ term under which different behaviors (e.g., mitigation, conservation, restoration), sustainability approaches (e.g., sufficiency, efficiency), types of behavior, domains (e.g., mobility, energy, food), and their antecedents are summarized.

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

We are inviting applications for a two-year postdoctoral position in a collaborative meta-science project on the effectiveness of data and code sharing policies in research-performing organizations. www.tue.nl/en/working-a...

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Postdoc In Meta-science

Personal type: Scientific staff

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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Tremendous shade thrown in Het Parool 😂

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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Same here: I feel compelled by these countable bits but when I was tracking the actual citations they were mostly trivial and frequently wrong. Very unsettling

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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

#AcademicSky @dingdingpeng.the100.ci (Julia Rohrer) is a true breath of fresh air that our field needs. www.the100.ci/2026/04/13/s... "Slipshod science should not be worthwhile." Worth a read. Worth seriously considering her proposal for restructuring reward initiatives in science.

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Science needs downvotes

A bug bounty module in grants would give criticism a leg up The Soviet Union was good at producing shoes. Factories made 800 million pairs a year, twice as many as Italy, three times as many as the...

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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

This eerie mosaic depicts Winter holding a bare branch and wearing a birrus (a hooded cloak used extensively in ancient Britain). Its use of cool blue colours, the seeming melancholy in the face & the sparse pale background really conveys the cold barrenness of winter. 🏛️Bignor 📷 mine #MosaicMonday

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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I've heard this museum is very good

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Kristian Steensen Nielsen @kristiansn89.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

⭐NEW PAPER ⭐ We collaborated with AWorld, the largest app for personal climate action, to examine behavioral patterns, data quality, and the links between users' actions, carbon footprints and psychological factors. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... @fdabl.bsky.social @cameronbrick.bsky.social

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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Last week. I think these will only become more important in this age. I'd like to add oral exams too.

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Daniel Heck @danielheck.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I always had the vague feeling that Scientific Reports and Nature Communications are mainly APC business models. A paper estimated the total APC for gold/hybrid Open Access per journal 2015–2018: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Surprise, surprise - there are 2 outliers at the top😐

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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Do I know any USC (University of Southern California) staff, faculty, or students? I have a special library request that requires a current affiliation. Thank you ~

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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Nice. Perhaps assuming the scale of difficulty is linear makes this more impressive seeming. In tennis for example, I've read that between rank beginner and #1 there are 14 matchups of 5/95% win probability. Such a steep... climb!

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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

I just rewatched Star Wars: A New Hope (1977) because my wife had never seen it. It has been remastered and upscaled to be beautiful and crisp in high-def. Honestly, it looks amazing. The props, costumes, and sets still blow me away.

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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

I don't teach history! Thanks for the helpful links, I will read them. My Dutch is also mediocre/ok.

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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Yes, great example, thank you. I teach this history of protest in Amsterdam. It is perhaps a better case than Paris to reveal the feedback loop between individual actions, policy and infrastructure change, and back to individual actions.

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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

That's revealing. I didn't realize the rates were so modest to begin with. No wonder I always read about the change in relative rather than absolute rates!

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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Useful history. I think 10 years could be seen as fast for this level of transformation. I'm not surprised that policy and luck help; more, where did the political will come from?

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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Paris invested heavily in bike infrastructure and saw a massive increase in ridership. Does anyone know about research on where the willingness and investment came from, e.g., attitudes, priorities, city-level meetings, national conversations? How do such changes in policy and infrastructure emerge?

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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Yeah. It's not just bad coverage in education. The more fundamental problems I think are the lack of error correction either during peer review or after publication; there being no consequences for a paper getting it wrong.

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Are female economists treated differently than males in academic seminars? These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research. So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023...

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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

If ever there was a moment to shame climate wrongdoers, that moment is now. To that end, I offer a recently published article (by @sharonyadin.bsky.social & me) on how ordinary folks like you & me--plus civil society & governments--can harness the power of shame. @ioppublishing.bsky.social

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Shaming climate wrongdoers

Shaming climate wrongdoers, Yadin, Sharon, Maibach, Edward

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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

EN Do your laundry for science from your own home! Sign up here for our Citizen Science project and collect the microplastics from your clothes. NL Doe thuis jou was voor de wetenschap! Meld je hier aan voor ons Citizen Science project en verzamel de microplastics van jouw kleding.

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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

theconversation.com/we-got-lazy-... Lots of debate in NL right now about our wealth tax and the changing rules. There's uncertainty and I think that also causes distaste. If it was just 'the way we do it' it would be easier to be proud of what values and benefits it supports, maybe?

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‘We got lazy and complacent’: Swedish pensioners explain how abolishing the wealth tax changed their country

For some Swedes, the question isn’t simply whether a wealth tax works, but what kind of society has been lost with its abolition.

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Jeannette Eggers @jeannetteeggers.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

I have thoroughly enjoyed reading Science in Resistance: The scientist rebellion for climate justice by Fernando Racimo. Maybe not very surprising, after all, it was reading a paper by Fernando that made me join Scientist Rebellion three years ago. 🧵

Picture showing the cover of the book this post is about.

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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/m... We could just wring our hands and decry autonomous lethal drones, but before judgment it's worth pausing just to recognize how much has changed in the past few years and where it leaves us, Ukraine, and the future of war.

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In Ukraine, a New Arsenal of Killer A.I. Drones Is Being Born

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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Stimulating. I have adapted from Buddhism as well, more for academic psychology than for politics. Agreed that compassion is not conditional on the target in moral terms. Instrumentally, I don't see rapid societal change through without winners and losers, heroes and villains, as we wrote about.

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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Well, I like your writing and argument. I hear a lot on the left that we need as wide a tent as possible, but in practice championing seems to expose political vulnerability. Maybe part of this is short vs long term success. Certainly disenfranchisement is unstable and unjust.

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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Certainly capital is an enemy, but I'm not even convinced that democracy is the solution. The country doing the most for the energy transition is not very democratic

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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

There is no laissez-faire capitalism, so the only questions are where we want to lean on the wheel and how much

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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

www.dutchnews.nl/2025/12/traf... Couldn't have written that more clearly myself. Increase roads, increase demand for roads. How about investing more in solutions with fewer costs on society: public health, finances, environmental quality?

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Traffic congestion increased this year, despite new roads - DutchNews.nl

The total length and duration of traffic jams in the Netherlands increased this year, despite the opening of several new roads in Zuid Holland, figures from the ANWB show. The ANWB said traffic conges...

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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Interesting summary, thanks. We can reject any theory of cognition where the person is an island.

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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

On willpower being overrated Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/o...

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Opinion | Willpower Doesn’t Work. This Does.

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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Took me a long time too. Compelling

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 25/12/2025

Giving what we can has implemented a fun game where you spin a globe to see how your starting point in life would compare if you were reborn today, randomly somewhere on earth. www.givingwhatwecan.org/birth-lottery

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Birth Lottery

If you were reborn today, where would you land? And how would that change your life?

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Megan Darby @climatemegan.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

no *you're* crying Happy Christmas!

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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

My inbox is a de-facto to-do list. When using Outlook, an email feature I really miss, was it in gmail in the past?, was to snooze a message into the future UNLESS I receive a response in the meantime. That way, items don't disappear off the list, and I don't get extra messages.

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Ruben C. Arslan @ruben.the100.ci · 18/12/2025

Finally, @bjoernhommel.bsky.social's and my paper introducing the SurveyBot3000 is officially out in AMPPS. It's a fine-tuned language model that guesstimates correlations between survey items from text alone. Not perfectly, but useful for search, for example. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Fig. 3. Scatter plots of the synthetic and empirical estimates, validation study (Stage 2). Showing N = 30,135 item-pair correlations, N = 257 scale reliabilities, and N = 1,568 scale-pair correlations for (top) the pretrained SBERT model and (bottom) the fine-tuned SurveyBot3000 model. SBERT = all-mpnet-base-v2 model.

Fig. 4. Prediction error of the synthetic estimates, validation study (Stage 2). Our prediction model allowed the error term to vary freely according to the predictor, the synthetic estimate. The thin-plate splines show that some synthetic estimates were predictably more accurate.

Fig. 5. Accuracy by domain. Accuracy differed across domains. SurveyBot3000 accuracy (colored) was always higher than SBERT accuracy (gray). Results were largely consistent whether accuracy of items was tested (left, circle) within domains or (right, cross) across domains.

Fig. 1. Multistep training procedure for the SurveyBot3000, which produces synthetic estimates of interitem correlations. (a) Pretraining base model (SBERT). (b) Fine-tuning SurveyBot3000. (c) Validation. SBERT = all-mpnet-base-v2 model.

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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

A thousand percent. Dying young helped. Gordon Lightfoot didn't age too poorly. One political song was banned in 30 US states. Not too shabby

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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

was it? Wow, crazy. I doubted later that I had chosen the right track. 'Baby Love' is also groovy. Next entry: Dutch and not even the Osdorp Posse? www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gWc...

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Winne - 'Crime Passionel ' ft. Dick Klees #5 Winne Zonder Strijd

YouTube video by TopNotch

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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Oh wow, that's a groove. Jovanotti meets Will Smith, on a west coast gangsta loop? Electro!

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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Oh absolutely. "That's my favorite band!" said my wife tonight. What? I have never heard her play them 🤔

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