iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 18h

feeling squished between factoids, aphorisms, platitudes, clichés, unable to breath or express myself deftly. mostly frustrated with myself that i let the external noise cloud my thoughts so damn much. so much untraceable received wisdom to sort through.

2120

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

women's experiences are complex, diverse, and valid regardless of whether they fit neatly into a preferred narrative. all these universal statements about what i have experienced and how i should feel about it make me want to scream endlessly.

2181

Reposted by Berna Devezer

jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 29/09/2026

"Replication crisis" reforms like preregistration & pre-analysis plans were developed to control false positives in experimental research. Does that work in observational studies? Our new paper in Sociological Methods & Research argues for a different approach. 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A Replication Framework for Observational Research: From Specification Restriction to Specification Expansion
Jonathan Ben-Menachem https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8092-0848 jbenmenachem@gmail.com, Ari Galper https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7909-8837, and Nic Fishman
Abstract
Sociology has remained relatively insulated from debates about the “replication crisis.” Heeding calls to consider replication more deeply, we introduce a distinction between two types of research reforms that have emerged in the wake of the crisis: specification-restricting and specification-expanding reforms. Specification restriction is often promoted as a way to increase the repeatability of research findings by controlling false positives. We argue that this statistical justification is less compelling in observational contexts—where the assumptions licensing false-positive control are harder to sustain and rigid ex ante analytical commitments can instead enshrine fragile specifications—than in experimental contexts. We further argue that apparently low replication rates do not necessarily imply a high prevalence of false positive findings. Instead, we propose a replication framework centered on specification-expanding reforms, stronger incentives for confirmatory research, and meta-analysis. This approach equips sociologists to assess the repeatability of findings and build a more cumulative discipline.

28129

Reposted by Berna Devezer

Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A writeup abt the special issue of Studies in HPS which @martinkusch.bsky.social and I edited based on a 2022 conference held @crasshlive.bsky.social & @kingscollege.bsky.social The standard of articles is high, my own submission got rejected! So I poured my heart into the introduction. Have a read

hps.cam.ac.uk

22913

Reposted by Berna Devezer

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

find yourself a cat that doesn't move when you slide yourself between his body and the sofa he was sleeping on. pseudo is mine tho, get yourself another.

Close-up selfie of a woman with short brown hair, wearing a gray fleece robe, leaning in cheek to cheek with a fluffy tuxedo cat held up beside her face. The cat tips its chin up with long white whiskers fanning across the frame, and sunlit evergreens fill the angled windows behind them.

5421

Reposted by Berna Devezer

Jenna Russell @jennarussell.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Would you realize if the book you were reading was AI? What if it was humanized to remove AI-speak? We find that even without using stylistic cues (e.g., word choice or sentence structure) narrative choices alone give AI fiction away!

927474

Reposted by Berna Devezer

D. Hicks @danhicks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The University of California is considering requiring the SAT again, based in part on claims that there's a burgeoning crisis in Calculus classes at Berkeley. I don't think the available evidence actually supports those claims. dhicks.github.io/posts/2026-0...

dhicks.github.io

The absence of evidence for a calculus crisis at UC Berkeley – D. Hicks

Website description

1123

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

find yourself a cat that doesn't move when you slide yourself between his body and the sofa he was sleeping on. pseudo is mine tho, get yourself another.

5421

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tired: Wish there was an edit button to fix typos Wired: Typos are all mine; 100% organic, human-generated Inspired: I'll sprinkle my LLM-generated text with typos to signal authenticity Retired: I'm never writing or engaging with written word ever again

1415

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

cut my finger. with an extremely sharp serrated knife. do not recommend.

490

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

so many correlational social science studies with causal implications based on scale measures immediately stop making sense when you try and interpret the relationship between two individual items. it's rather a good measure of face validity tbh. there are oceans of meaning btw items and constructs.

4291

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

for the first time ever, i lost my cursor on the laptop and after almost losing my mind, found it on my ipad screen wtaf?!! (i had no clue this was a thing that was possible because all other times i tried hard to instinctively move my cursor to other devices, it always failed bec duh)

3191

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

hmmm not hearing a popular song is very easy. i do it all the time with zero effort. not being able to imagine why people wouldn't have heard of a popular song beside posturing boggles my mind though. that's gotta be some extreme degree of myopia. you are a writer at a music mag ffs.

3212

Reposted by Berna Devezer

Os Keyes @okeyes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Since we’re doing another round of “AI will destroy humanity” doom-hype, it’s a good time to announce a new paper myself and my postdoc advisor just had accepted by BioSocieties on just this. TL;DR: almost all the “AI can make bioweapons” literature comes ultimately from the Effective Altruists.

ironholds.org

17720266

Reposted by Berna Devezer

Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 26/09/2026

No data to back it up, but I suspect the formatting as an image instructs the reader to understand it as some kind of Instagram-type aesthetic statement, rather than a series of words that should be processed critically

041

Reposted by Berna Devezer

Richelle Sepulveda @richellesepulveda.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Anybody else deal with a kitty with a broken jaw? Would appreciate any tips or tricks.

134

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

one thing i’ll never get about social media is how an extremely predictable, thin take that normally wouldn’t get much attention as a regular post becomes viral when posted indirectly, as a photo of some text

4192

Reposted by Berna Devezer

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

this is also why heuristic-based evaluation of research quality bothers me so much. just like in the above cases, we tend to fall back on heuristics when it's our job to evaluate the scientific merits of papers and we have everything we need to do so. it's laziness disguised as expert judgment.

0182

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

speaking of girl dinners: roasted marinated chicken and sweet potato cubes. put them in a bowl. topped off with chopped avocado and freshly made carrot green-parsley chimichurri.

190

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

order for a baker's dozen of ny bagels just arrived. they're so, so, so incredibly fluffy 😍

4241

Reposted by Berna Devezer

Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Wonderful to see that Helen De Cruz has won the International Society for Science & Religion's General Readership Book Prize for her work, Wonderstruck! This illuminating book reveals how wonder and awe are catalysts that can help us reclaim what makes life worth living. Learn more: buff.ly/IYNfe0Q

Wonderstruck: How Wonder and Awe Shape the Way We Think by Helen De Cruz

112442

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

the ice coffee thing reminds me of some academics judging whether a grad student takes their defense seriously based on how dressed up they are. the whole point of a defense/interview is to have a solid opportunity for in-depth evaluation so you don't have to resort to thin-sliced heuristic signals.

57710

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

taking the time to enter the word "image" for alt text has to be a special kind of antisocialness. why not simply leave it blank so everyone knows there is no alt text? why make people click to read *that*?

0172

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

had an endless zombie nightmare set in a flooded city all night and woke up with a headache. now looking at the tl, i'm starting to feel like trying to hunt zombies with a speargun too large for me to hold straight involved more optimism than being a academic in the u.s. today.

3100

Reposted by Berna Devezer

Dean Shamess @deanshamess.ca · 24/09/2026

I am not part of society, but society need not worry for I will do everything myself and make this perfect.

131

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

along with shame, can we also bring back at least some pretense of corporate accountability?

182

Reposted by Berna Devezer

Robin Blythe @rbly.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Just read your and Uljana's paper and found it both compelling and ideologically consistent with principled practices of open science. It was disappointing to see that Tukey laid out good foundations 50y ago and we wandered straight into the garden of forking paths from there.

121

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

i prepped mise en place for two dishes. took a power nap. got up and forgot what was for what. ended up putting all the spice in the same dish. looking forward to eating hellfire-bulgur for dinner.

2231

Reposted by Berna Devezer

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The rise of metascience embodies and builds on this result-centric focus that has come to define the scientific endeavor over the past few decades. Maybe the backlash against AI will help us finally push back against this trend and bring the focus back to the context, process, assumptions & models.

psycnet.apa.org

2144

Reposted by Berna Devezer

Alex Kale @kalealex.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What AI scales about science are the parts that are most broken and gameable. With the exception of combinatorial problems like protein folding, we need more thinking and less rote computation.

0236

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

since I started wearing a wrist brace on the left side last week, I switched my watch to the right wrist and boy, since both wrists are in constant discomfort, I cannot tell which is injured anymore

360

Reposted by Berna Devezer

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I think it's also the case that we will not be starved of understanding because of AI, but because we've been increasingly devaluing understanding in favor of results and outputs that AI fits right into the current state of scientific production.

1173

Reposted by Berna Devezer

Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 23/09/2026

Out of curiosity I ran one of my texts (which is already available online) in Pangram, the AI detector thing. It thinks it's 75% likely to be AI. I obv didn't use any AI whatsoever in writing it. So yeah, miss me with "we are SO reliable in detecting AI".

1820356

Reposted by Berna Devezer

Bart Penders @penders.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I often refer to the words of Dutch philosopher Trudy Dehue: "The sorrow of science is that it’s only admired for what it cannot be". It seems to no longer be only a sorrow, but has become a bane.

141

Reposted by Berna Devezer

Steve T PhD @thelasttheorist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

doot da dooo jus goin over here now goin over there no plan no clock maybe go fishin later

011

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

after looking at fat bear pics all day, i basically manifested this

4433

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

don't forget to cast your vote for Pseudo during Fat Bear Week (he denies any involvement but we all know the truth)

Overhead view of a fluffy tuxedo cat sprawled on its back in a gray bolster bed on a hardwood floor, head tilted back to look up at the camera with wide green eyes. White paws are tucked and splayed in several directions, the long dark tail trails off the bed's edge, and a blue fish toy with curly ribbons rests on its chest. An empty stainless steel bowl and two more fish toys sit at the top corner of the bed.

1472

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

with deepest regards to all other champions, i must say there's only one absolute unit on this page and it's the 2018 champion. meet beadnose, everyone! www.nps.gov/katm/learn/n...

a very, very, very, very, VERY roumd bear sitting by the river

1415

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

my morning bluesky roundup: - someone being smug about being humble - many people inexplicably posting pangram screenshots - academics targeting some other field with various stereotypes - takes, takes, takes - irritation about various things - one sincerepost 💞

3161

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

at this age, i've kinda smoothed out all sharp edges i was able to. weird hang ups, forced standards, lousy pet peeves, things i thought were my red lines... so many of them gone. i'm as mellow as i'll ever be. yet... work-related social functions still cause me to drag my feet. pure berna-core.

2240

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

went to this beautiful vineyard overlooking the clearwater river and sat against this view. at some point it got so hot outside that we moved inside. after some rough few weeks, i so needed this weather and some time with friends. finally got to have a weekend for myself. tho might work tonight.

Sunny view over a vineyard in a river canyon: neat rows of green grapevines descend toward a blue river winding between steep, golden-brown grassy hills, with a bridge crossing in the distance. In the foreground, two cornhole boards with orange paw-print decals sit on a bright green lawn under a deep blue sky.

2201

Reposted by Berna Devezer

value plus discounted @akhilrao.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

when feyerabend said "methodological anarchy" he meant fiat currency send skeet

041

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

i will not help make fetch happen

Screenshot of me muting Tilly Norwood forever

1200

Reposted by Berna Devezer

Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.eurosky.social · 19/09/2026

Science is hard, we should all work hard to do it better, & we should all help each other (also) with methodological developments and tutorials. However, this is an endless endeavor with no one solution. To translate a collective tentative striving into one normative framework seems disingenuous

2253

Reposted by Berna Devezer

value plus discounted @akhilrao.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

economists metascientists 🤝 "gold standard is not good"

13313

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

you think metascience units sound good on paper but are skeptical that they will be misused by this government. i think they sound horrifying on paper and am skeptical that they could do any good in anyone's hands. we are not the same.

aip.org

Researchers Skeptical of NSF Metascience Plan

The agency issued a memo last week laying out several grantmaking changes, including a new office for metascience.

23613

Reposted by Berna Devezer

Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

There has been a noticeable lack of serious reaction over Turkish persecution of LGBTQIA+ community from the global community. As in many other countries, Türkiye tries to mask persecution by claiming being LGBTQIA+ isn't illegal and then using "obscenity laws". www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

theguardian.com

Turkey detains dozens in crackdown on LGBTQ+ activists and journalists

Protesters teargassed as minister claims widespread raids and arrests under obscenity laws were to ‘protect families’

10865508

Reposted by Berna Devezer

Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

As a long, long, long, long, long time Converse buyer, I will never buy a Converse product ever again. I am sick of the virtue signalling to racists. I see this and I see a man hanged, a white robe that could be a klansman's robe and light shaped like a KKK hat. What the actual hell!?!

5273440750

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

friend invited me to a "sip and paint". i had not painted a thing in about 35 years so i had zero expectations. turns out i'm a speed painter. who knew?!! the nice thing is as my canvas filled out, my mind became a blank canvas itself. it's become very breezy up here all of a sudden!

An acrylic painting on canvas, propped on a wooden shelf, showing a black raven perched on the curling stem of a large orange pumpkin. Behind them, black silhouetted evergreens rise against teal and purple mountains, under a sky that blends yellow and orange into swirling purple clouds with a spiraled moon in the upper left, painted in a loose Van Gogh-ish style.

2423