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Dan Kleinman

@dankleinman.bsky.social
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Research scientist at Yale Child Study Center (formerly Haskins Labs). PhD. Interested in language, dyslexia, bilingualism, EEG, stats. Proponent of summary limericks. I probably drink more tea than you. Posts are ~50% science; opinions are 100% my own.

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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 3h
My grad school advisor solicited suggestions for the cover of a textbook he was editing, and a postdoc in the lab suggested this artwork. The artist let them use it for free (with credit). Much better than the standard two-tone nonsense!
The cover of the textbook “The Oxford Handbook of Language Production”, edited by Matthew Goldrick, Victor Ferreira & Michele Miozzo. The artwork, by Theodore Zeldin, depicts something like a tree with words next to the leaves.
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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Jurassic Park meme showing Jeff Goldblum’s character and the words “You were so preoccupied with whether or not you could, you didn’t stop to think if you should.”
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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Me, every time I retrieve a broken EEG cap from a data collection site to bring back to New Haven:
A screenshot from the original TV special “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”. The Grinch, wearing a red Santa hat and coat, is carrying off a decorated Christmas tree from a home. The text, quoting from the video, says: “I’m taking it home to my workshop, my dear. I’ll fix it up there, then I’ll bring it back here.”
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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
😱
A screenshot from the linked DataColada post. The text at the top says "Here is a screenshot of the original data file, formatted and sorted to be easier to digest:". The accompanying picture shows pairs of rows grouped by subject numbers exactly ten apart. For 9 of the 10 pairs, within each pair, the two participants have identical "Corrections Made" values on the three tasks – so, subjects 1 and 11 look the same, subjects 2 and 12 look the same, etc.
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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Since when did MATLAB make the default color scheme green-on-black? I'm trying to process EEG data, and instead I feel like I'm in the Matrix.
Screenshot of MATLAB code comments. The window is black and the text on top is green.
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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Contrast this with Michael Crichton’s unrealistic and shabby shorthand for “scientific genius” in The Andromeda Strain, in which a Very Intelligent Scientist publishes a paper so important that it’s printed in both Science *and* Nature.
A highlighted excerpt from The Andromeda Strain: “He explained [his ideas] in a short paper entitled “Sterilization of Spacecraft”, printed in Science and later reprinted in the British journal Nature.”
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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Just discovered that one of the iPhone’s emoji suggestions for “duck” is 🤬. This cracks me up because Apple auto-corrects a certain swear word to “duck”. Did their model learn a co-occurrence relationship between “duck” and 🤬??
A screenshot from an iPhone text conversation. Another texter wrote “Apple stop censoring me!!” That message has been highlighted for a tapback response. Within the set of options, the user has searched for “duck”. Apple suggestions 5 options: A baby duck, a baby duck hatching, a mallard, a bird face, and a censored swearing face.
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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Back in my happy place. San Diego never gets old.
A view from a park on a hill. A few people are lying on towels or blankets on a grassy hill. Below, in the distance, you can see the neighborhood of Pacific Beach and Mission Bay; farther out, the Pacific Ocean. Above, a blue sky with fluffy white clouds.
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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I never remember whether the {ggplot} parameter is "group" or "grouping". Is #AccidentalArt still a thing? #rstats
An R plot gone badly wrong. It looks like a toddler took a blue marker and drew all over a figure of black points against a white background. There are strange wavy grey lines in the background.
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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Can we add this as a cash advance/reimbursement option to Workday?
From last November to March, the court papers say, Mr. Rush asked for, and received, “a significant quantity of foreign currency and tens of millions of dollars in gold bars for work-related expenses.”
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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The Court decided it should not have granted review; the effect in this case is that the man cannot be executed. But I found it chilling to see Justice Alito's dissent clinically discussing statistics, confidence intervals, and measurement bias to argue that the state should be able to kill someone.
From Justice Alito's dissent:

"Second—and most critically—the Eleventh Circuit’s sole reliance on the lower bound of Smith’s lowest score reflects a basic misunderstanding of statistics. When clinicians construct a confidence interval using the standard error of measurement, their calculations rely on the assumption that a defendant’s test scores are normally distributed around his “true” IQ—i.e., if a defendant took a large number of IQ tests, the scores would form a bell curve centered on his “true” IQ. Cohen 176; K. Widaman, Concepts of Measurement, in The Death Penalty and Intellectual Disability 68 (E. Polloway ed. 2015). Under that assumption, an individual’s score on any given test is more likely to be close to his “true” IQ than far away from it. This fact, in turn, means that the values near the center of a confidence interval are more likely estimates of the defendant’s “true” IQ than the values at the interval’s upper and lower bounds. See G. Cumming & F. Fidler, Confidence Intervals Give Better Answers, 217 J. Psychology 18 (2009); G. Cumming, Inference by Eye: Pictures of Confidence Intervals and Thinking About Levels of Confidence, 29 Teaching Statistics 90–91 (2007).

The Eleventh Circuit’s analysis ignored this attribute of confidence intervals. It concluded that Smith’s IQ was 70 or below because the lower bound of the interval for one score was 69. But the fact that 69 marked the lower limit of the interval meant that this value was less likely to reflect Smith’s “true” IQ than other, higher values in the..."
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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
One of the greatest headlines I've seen, courtesy of today's NYT.
My Art Will Go On: Titanic Artifacts May Soon Be Auctioned

The last time a sale was proposed, the idea drew objections from the U.S. and French governments, and from UNESCO and other cultural institutions.

By Marc Davis

[There is a picture to the right of a statue recovered from the Titanic.]
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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
With the caveat that I can’t verify this claim anywhere else: If this is true, it’s almost comically evil behavior by Elsevier — and thus I believe it completely.
In the AskReddit subreddit, user “sparrrrrt” asks: “What secret can you reveal now that your nda has expired?” The top-voted response with 25,000 upvotes, by user “Temporary-Zebra97”, is: “Elsevier, the company that makes a lot of the compulsory textbooks for University, commissioned scientists to develop a new book binding glue designed to fail after 3 years, as they hated that there was a second hand market.” Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1rqk6m8/what_secret_can_you_reveal_now_that_your_nda_has/
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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Went to check an APA style page & was greeted by this surprising CAPTCHA. Needing to group things based solely on conceptual structure feels new to me. I wonder what the next iteration will be – "Pick all the items smaller than a breadbox"? "Pick all the wines that would pair well with this pasta"?
A CAPTCHA image with a picture of a birdhouse at the top, accompanied by the text "Pick all creatures that could shelter in the item shown in the example". Below it is a 3x3 array of images of animals: 3 each show 2-4 cats, 3 each show 4 puppies, and 3 each show 1 bird.
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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
The downside, of course, is when my partner is sending me pictures from sunny San Diego this morning while I am home dealing with... this. (This video is not sped up!)
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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Me: It's nice not having a lot of meetings these days! Zoom: You were saying...?
A notification on MacOS: "zoom.us" Is Accessing Your Screen. "zoom.us" has accessed your screen and system audio 4417 times in the past 90 days
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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
This is a nice description of what I call “passing the smell test”. Fancy stats can be very useful (I occasionally rely on them!), but it’s critical to look for converging evidence that an effect is “real” rather than blindly trusting the results of a model (which could be misspecified).
An excerpt from kareemcarr.substack.com:

“Learning the content itself

This is what people usually imagine when they think of “learning statistics,” but it is only the fourth step. In my view, real skill in statistics rests on five interconnected competencies:

Data sense. The ability to tell when data “looks right” or “looks wrong” after a transformation or analysis. You develop an eye for the patterns that should be there, and a nose for the ones that signal trouble.”
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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
The process couldn't be easier. After getting packages installed and loaded, you read in the data using Julia command readjmp() (within R command julia_command()) and then transfer the result to the R workspace using julia_eval(). Magic!
# set up JuliaCall, specifying Julia dir
library(JuliaCall)
julia <- julia_setup(JULIA_HOME='/Applications/Julia-1.8.app/Contents/Resources/julia/bin/')

# install and load relevant package to open JMP files
julia_install_package_if_needed("JMPReader")
julia_library("JMPReader")

# read in data
julia_assign("filepath", "~/Desktop/mydata.jmp")
julia_command("df = readjmp(filepath)")
# transfer to R
df <- julia_eval("df")
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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
In "news that will be very exciting to a small group of people", I discovered today that – a full decade after I first wished for this feature – it is now possible to read JMP files into R!
A text thread between two people. First text: "I JUST SUCCESSFULLY READ A JMP DATA FILE INTO R". Response: "WHAT"
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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
One of my favorite bands is crowdfunding to release a new double album. I kicked in to get a digital copy, but was gobsmacked by this singular perk, which awaits a very rich superfan. The FAQ includes this gem: "Q: Is the "Fateful Choice" incentive real? A: We dare you."
A picture of a person standing in front of two similar-looking gates, accompanied by this description of an Indiegogo perk: "A Fateful Choice. $150,000 USD. Guarantee our future, if you dare! For this (admittedly unlikely) gift, we’ll record *two* new full-length albums, send them both to you, and let you choose which one will follow The New World & New World Vultures. The other will be yours exclusively, so long as you don’t make it publicly available. Plus—of course—Immortality."
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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
In La Jolla, CA, you can find the intersection of La Jolla Village Dr. and Villa La Jolla Dr. Close by is the intersection of Nobel Dr. and Lebon Dr., which is just "Nobel" spelled backwards. Together, these streets form a wholly unnecessary square of confusion.
Google Maps screenshot of roads next to the UC San Diego campus: Villa La Jolla Dr. to the west, La Jolla Village Dr. to the north, Lebon Dr. to the east, Nobel Dr. to the south.
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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Having come of academic age during the social psych replication crisis, I’ve been overwhelmed by the scope of the structural changes to incentives that would be needed to reduce scientific fraud. Giving ~$1M to @jamesheathers.bsky.social et al. is an excellent step in the right direction.
Aiello’s Ristorante, a restaurant in Whitney Point, NY. Known in the social psych world as the place where, contrary to the findings in now-retracted papers by Brian Wansink, all-you-can-eat buffet pricing does not influence regret. I happened to drive past it and, because I am a nerd, nearly caused an accident when I slammed on the brakes to pull over and take this photo.
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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I get a lot of spam from fake journals, but this one — which has a… unique subject line; has no journal title (only an acronym, here redacted); and for which the main argument seems to be that my submission within 24 hours would improve the sender’s (“my”) ranking — managed to set itself apart.
An email with some names redacted. Subject line: “Shower us with your precious article”. Body: “Hi [redacted], To support [redacted], we kindly request you to submit your article within the next 24 hours. Your prompt submission will also contribute to my ranking this month.”
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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Not an obscure place, but the Copenhagen Contemporary in Refshaleøen has a Ganzfeld installation (Aftershock) by artist James Turrell, who uses light as a medium. As with his other Ganzfelds, it’s sublimely disorienting (though absolutely verboten for anyone prone to epilepsy). Worth a visit.
A picture of three people standing in the James Turrell piece “Aftershock”. The room is an equiluminant red, with a pink oval in the distance. The hazily colored light and the lack of visual boundaries is very disorienting.
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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
As a classroom exercise, they tasted some chili peppers, rated their spiciness, and tried to account for the data using a logarithmic function. Apparently, this did pretty well. A good reason not to use an interval chili scale!
"6.1. The Ferven Scale. If s is the Scoville rating of a capsicum sample, then the Ferven scale rating of the sample is f(s) = (5/3)*log10(s/16 + 1). In Table 2, we compare the Scoville and Ferven scale ratings of the items from Table 1."
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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Are... are these reverse-coded?
Two questions from the survey: "What impact does this project have in increasing American influence, trust and reputation within foreign governments?" and "What impact does this project have in increasing American influence, trust and reputation among foreign publics?"
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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Of course, none of this is useful to me, a non-biologist watching an eagle cam wondering whether I'm looking at the mom eagle or the dad eagle. After all, I can't measure their hallux claw length or bill depth. But that won't stop me from enjoying the heartwarming family scenes.
An adult eagle of unspecified sex feeding their three adorable baby eaglets.
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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Bortolotti devised a simple predictive model to discriminate between sexes using 2 criteria. It achieved 98.1% accuracy in his sample, and it showed validity via extension to 4 live (captive) eagles which weren't used to derive the formula – demonstrating the importance of out-of-sample testing.
Figure 4 from Bortolotti (1984). Caption: "Fig. 4. Relationship between bill depth and length of hallux claw (mm) for all ages of bald eagles. The line illustrates the plane which separates males from females." The scatterplot shows a cluster of points which score lower on Hallux Claw (X-axis) and Bill Depth (Y-axis) identified by a male symbol, a cluster of points which score higher on both measures identified by a female symbol, and a diagonal line which almost perfectly separates the two clusters.
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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Me: “Long day, more terrible news for the future of science in this country, I’ll do the crossword to escape for a few minutes.” The #nytxw:
Clue: “Funding source for many labs” Answer: “Federal grants”
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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
More legalese: You still indemnify them for a whole set of potential claims, but they now only indemnify you for certain kinds of claims – specifically, "allegations that the OSF Software (but not the Content uploaded to it) infringes the patent or copyrights of a third party."
13. INDEMNIFICATION

Previous text: "To the extent authorized by law, each party agrees to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the other party, its employees, directors, officers, affiliated companies, agents, vendors, or suppliers from and against any and all claims, damages, costs, and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees, that are incurred in connection with any third-party claim arising from or related to your use or misuse of the Websites and Services, including, without limitation, your use of any Public API or third-party products accessing the Websites or Services via a Public API, your violation of these Terms of Use, or your infringement or that of any other user of your account, of any intellectual property right or other right of any person or entity."

Updated text: "To the extent authorized by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless COS, its employees, directors, officers, affiliated companies, agents, vendors, or suppliers from and against any and all claims, damages, costs, and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees, that are incurred in connection with any third-party claim arising from or related to your use or misuse of the Websites and Services, including, without limitation, your use of any Public API or third-party products accessing the Websites or Services via a Public API, your violation of these Terms of Use, or your infringement or that of any other user of your account, of any intellectual property right or other right of any person or entity. In turn, COS indemnifies you for any claims purporting to arise from allegations that the OSF Software (but not Content uploaded to it) infringes the patent or copyrights of a third party."
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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
They now provide for single sign-on authentication, which makes sense given the addition of institutional affiliates as noted above.
Updated text: "### 13. OSF SINGLE SIGN-ON AUTHENTICATION
The following terms apply to affiliated users who sign into or register for an account on the OSF by using Single Sign-On (SSO) authentication and their credentials associated with an  OSF Institutional member. These terms in no way counter or replace any other terms in the COS Terms of Use.

Single Sign-On (SSO). Refers to an authentication process that allows users to access multiple applications with one set of login credentials.

SSO Integration. When accessing the OSF through SSO, users will be authenticated by their institution's identity provider (IdP). Your institution's IdP is responsible for managing user credentials and authentication.

Institutional Credentials. Users must use their institutional credentials for SSO access. OSF does not manage or store institutional login credentials; these are handled exclusively by your institution’s IdP.

User Access. Access to the OSF through SSO is contingent upon the validity of the user’s credentials as verified by the institution’s IdP. If access is denied or suspended by the institution, the user may access the OSF via another login method. No user data is lost or locked due to losing access to their institutional credentials."

(The section is longer; this screenshot only shows a portion.)
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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
The terms of use also clarify which open-source license OSF software is available under (Apache 2.0), and now note the (potential?) existence of an appeals process should your use of the website be terminated due to unauthorized use.
Previous text: "You acknowledge that your unauthorized use or misuse of the Websites and Services could cause the COS irreparable harm. Any unauthorized use of the Websites or Services or other breach of these Terms of Use shall automatically terminate the license granted to you by the COS. In addition, the COS reserves the right, but is not obligated to, investigate any potential violations of its Terms of Use and/or any behavior that is potentially unlawful, and such investigations may involve cooperation with law enforcement authorities."

Updated text: "You acknowledge that your unauthorized use or misuse of the Websites and Services could cause the COS irreparable harm. Any unauthorized use of the Websites or Services or other breach of these Terms of Use shall automatically terminate the license granted to you by the COS subject to an appeals process. In addition, the COS reserves the right, but is not obligated to, investigate any potential violations of its Terms of Use and/or any behavior that is potentially unlawful, and such investigations may involve cooperation with law enforcement authorities."
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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
The terms of use have also changed. There is some updated language about the mission of the COS, which now describes itself as "a nonprofit culture change organization that aims to align scholarly values with scholarly practices". Nice!
1. INTRODUCTION 

Previous text: "Center for Open Science, Inc. (referred to as "the COS", "Open Science Framework", "OSF", "us" "our" and "we") is a nonprofit organization that operates certain websites at the cos.io (or centerforopenscience.org) and the osf.io (or openscienceframework.org) URLs ("Websites" or "Services"). The COS conducts research on scientific practices and provides grants for relevant projects. The COS fosters an open and interactive community among open-source developers, open-science researchers, and the broader scientific community. We also support and improve the scientific workflow by connecting technologies that researchers use by means of our development and administration of OSF and its suite of products, including OSF Preprints, OSF Institutions, OSF Meetings, OSF Registries, OSF Reviews, OSF Collections, and SHARE; terms also apply to services hosted on osf.io, but operated or moderated by other communities or entities such as universities or scholarly societies (e.g., PsyArXiv preprints service)."

Updated text: "Center for Open Science, Inc. (referred to as "COS", "OSF", "us" "our" and "we") is a nonprofit culture change organization that aims to align scholarly values with scholarly practices. It does so by developing and advancing a systems strategy for changing culture and behavior toward greater rigor, transparency, and sharing of research process, outputs, and outcomes. COS fosters an open and interactive community among open source developers, open science researchers, and the broader scientific community through our in-person and virtual events; runs programs, certifications, and fellowships with communities and related affiliates; conducts research on scientific practices and provides grants for relevant projects; and improves the research workflow by connecting technologies that researchers use through our development and maintenance of OSF."
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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
The circumstances in which the Center for Open Science (COS, which manages OSF) may share information with third parties is no longer restricted to a "need to know" basis. Also, they retain the right to conduct surveys about site usage and open practices more generally.
(d) Sharing Information with Third Parties  

Previous text: "COS may share your personal information with our vendors, agents or contractors, such as a vendor that may host COS's servers, but only on a "need to know" basis to help us operate our Websites and Services. You can read a list of these third parties [here](https://help.osf.io/article/227-third-party-vendors). By providing us with your personal information during the user registration process and by agreeing to the terms of this Privacy Policy, you expressly consent to our storing, processing, and distributing your information for these purposes."

Updated text: "COS may share your personal information with our vendors, agents or contractors, such as a vendor that may host COS's servers to help us operate our Websites and Services. You can read a list of these third parties [here](https://help.osf.io/article/227-third-party-vendors). Additionally, we may utilize certain platforms for event management or automated workflows, which may collect and pass information between systems we ultimately use for data storage and management. By providing us with your personal information during the user registration process and by agreeing to the terms of this Privacy Policy, you expressly consent to our storing, processing, and distributing your information for these purposes.

COS may reach out to users to conduct research - whether that is internal user research to improve services or generalizable and externally shareable research on open practices. In doing so we will adhere to ethical guidelines when conducting generalizable and externally shareable research."
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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
It appears that there will be new roles for project administration, including at the institutional level.
Updated text: "**OSFI/Institutional Administrator.** An active user, designated by an [OSF Institutional member](https://www.cos.io/products/osf-institutions), who can access an insights dashboard for their institution, as well as request access to affiliated content in order to assist with metadata comprehensiveness. Administrators adhere to both the service agreement between COS and the Administrator's business, organization, or institution and to the COS's Terms of Use and Privacy Policy."
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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
First, the privacy policy. Some changes appear to be housekeeping: clearly delineating between the two documents, defining who counts as a "user" of the system. In a substantive change, it appears that pre-registrations will now be implemented with version control, permitting time-stamped updates.
Previous text: "A “Registration” is a frozen (uneditable), timestamped version of a Project and/or its Components. Registrations cannot be deleted, but can be withdrawn, leaving behind basic metadata about the resource."

Updated text: "A “Registration” is used on OSF to describe a public, timestamped Object, which is referenced by a DOI and descriptive metadata. Registrations can be updated using version control and cannot be deleted, but can be withdrawn, leaving behind basic metadata about the resource."
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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
OSF is updating their privacy policy and terms of use! Looks like the biggest changes for most users will be (1) the addition of version control for pre-registrations, and (2) the addition of single sign-on, which will permit institutional affiliate roles. More details below:
An email from the Open Science Framework announcing changes to their Terms of Use and Privacy Policies. Full text of email:

"Hi Daniel,

On Friday, January 10, 2025 the COS Websites and Services Terms of Use and Privacy Policy will change. The updates to the Terms are necessary to support continued use of the Websites and Services by the public.

To better understand what has changed, see the Terms of Use change summary and Privacy Policy change summary.

You do not need to take any actions to acknowledge these updates. If you have any questions, please email support@osf.io.

Regards,

OSF Team"
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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Reminds me of this Achewood comic. It takes expertise (or at least some savvy) to understand how easy it is to automate a process. Without that level of understanding, all software seems magical — and, pitched by the right salesperson, is worth arbitrary amounts of money.
A 6-panel Achewood comic by Chris Onstad featuring two cats, Ray and Roast Beef. Ray: “Roast Beef! Why are you programming that computer?” / Roast Beef: “I guess it’s the only thing that I’m really good at” / Ray: “What are you programming it to do?” Roast Beef: “This spreadsheet would tell a person when they needed to buy eggs or milk” / Roast Beef: “Based on how much eggs or milk they started with” / [A light bulb goes off above Ray’s head] / SOON: Ray, on a call center headset: “That’s right, sir. Based on how much eggs or milk you started with. Could I interest you in a trial version?” Roast Beef, to Ray: “I also wrote a function that calculates how much hash browns to make”
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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Reading about orthography-phonology mappings and came across this gem by Kearns (2020) (doi.org/10.1002/rrq....). Language researchers know that almost anything can be an example; we should use this power for good more often!
There are also intranational differences: In the United States, the pronunciation of the *a* in the V|CV *ato* in *potato* and *tomato* has been apparently so contentious that Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers could only agree to "call the whole thing off", apparently without resolution in *Shall We Dance* (Gershwin & Gershwin, 1937).
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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Boo on that editor. We once got away with a Highlights limerick:
A Highlights section with 5 bullet points: "Structure planning employs comprehension: / Speech of others affects what we mention. / This alignment's still found / When there's no one around, / Though a partner sustains our attention."
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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
🤮 It's maddening that there are products being sold with such bogus claims. I found this image on the Amazon product page. Since it's supposed to remove metals from your body... and high doses of metals can impair cognitive functioning... it compensates for "speech delays". UGH
An image from an Amazon product page for "Lingo Leap" by Joyspring Vitamins: "Protection against the substances that are slowing down your child's speech development"; "Loved by 800k+ families, and counting". The central image shows a smiling parent holding up a bottle of Lingo Leap, and a laughing child.
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Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
I am constitutionally incapable of visiting Philadelphia and not stopping in at Monk’s Cafe at least once. Just a murderer’s row of Belgian and Belgian-style beers, with a jaw-dropping bottle list to boot.
A list of 17 beers on draft.
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