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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 2h

Told them I won't read the previous set of reviews or responses to reviewers, given that's the editor's job to evaluate whether the revisions are sufficient.

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 2h

Indeed I have just received and accepted a review request from a philosophy journal. Logged in to find out that I'm the fourth reviewer assigned after a first round revision. No explanation about why I was added midway and what exactly is expected from me.

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paolo @paolopalma.bsky.social · 3h

Does hating yourself for being gay make your sex life unfulfilling? Does an unfulfilling sex life feed back into your negative views about your sexuality? We answer this question and more in this preprint (co-lead with one of our lab's grad students, Sarah Kowall): osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Does internalized homonegativity lower sexual satisfaction? A longitudinal assessment among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (GBM) in Canada's three largest cities

Purpose: Internalized homonegativity is associated with lower sexual satisfaction among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (GBM). Though internalized homonegativity is commonly seen as ...

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Miska Knapek @miskaknapek.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Life with severe immune damaging disease #mecfs update... (I post this so people get an idea of what it's like) Besides year long chronic pain - like being thrown into a wall daily - 3 days ago I started shitting blood, felt like I'd gotten a lung and brain inflammation, all at once ...

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 4h

😞 Happy to listen. It's unconscionable that your survival comes down to affordability of healthcare. I truly am sorry. I do hope you are around for a long time and with the support and relief you need too.

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Miska Knapek @miskaknapek.bsky.social · 4h

... 3. The body having to fight disease damage from disease the broken immune system doesn't catch, means the body is really exhausted. 4. Lots of autoimmune attacks from the things the broken immune system lets in.

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Miska Knapek @miskaknapek.bsky.social · 4h

... When Mecfs folks say they're tired and exhausted, that's actually going on is : 1. Hypercoagulation means blood doesn't reach the smaller blood vessels and muscles and organs dorn get enough blood to function. 2. Broken mitochondria (cell food->cell energy convertor organ) means less energy ..

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Pierrick Simon @pierricksimon.bsky.social · 4h

Now this is the most important article I’ve ever written and I can’t believe I got away with it. It starts with a very simple and heartfelt question: what are we to do now that Helen De Cruz is gone? I propose that we should emulate the playfulness that animated their work. 🧵⬇️ #philsky #philtwit

“Drawings on the beach”, a drawing by Helen De Cruz, found on “helen de cruz portfolio Tumblr”. It depicts a person drawing elaborate patterns with a finger in the sand: the patterns amount to a big sea turtle, seen from above, with an ornate shell. The beach has the colours of a tropical beach (the tags on tumblr says: Vanuatu). The waves are beginning to erase the bottom of the turtle drawing.

“ ‘Please imagine Helen with a smile’: philosophical playfulness and the legacy of Helen De Cruz” by Pierrick Simon, published in Philosophical Psychology https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09515089.2026.2742245

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 4h

They're rare and unique, making it harder to fully understand for those lucky enough to not have experienced them. But maybe all the more important that we get a glimpse at what they can be like. Though ultimately what matters is that you do whatever makes you feel better (or at least not worse).

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 5h

I love how creepy it is

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 5h

And such results get even less interpretable as you sum over vastly different literatures with incommensurate data generating processes, where the same replicability estimate may emerge for a variety of reasons. The responsible choice would be to stop reporting & interpreting replicability metrics.

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 5h

It is wild that the estimates range from 29% to 75%, yet they focus on one to interpret. But I got good news: You don't have to think abt what this means bec no replicability metric calculated based on a yes (replicated)/no (didn't replicate) classification per study produces a reliable estimate.

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The Difference Between "Replicable" and "Not Replicable" Is Not Itself Scientifically Replicable

Replication studies estimate the replicability rate of scientific results by aggregating binary verdicts of experiments as ``replicated'' and ``not replicated''. These estimates assume rarely attainab...

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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 10h

This is the website of Ulrika Carlsson, an editor of truly extraordinary quality who takes your scholarly writing to the next level. Proud to endorse and recommend her. Imagine having your writing edited by someone who published on unrequited love, tragedy, and resentment in journal Mind (iykyk)

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 6h

Trump admin's new rule adding prohibitively expensive new fees for "OPT"—temporary work authorization program for international students and new grads in the United States—is out. Would require colleges to pay $70,000 for year one. $30,000 for years two and three combined for STEM fields.

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 10h

New working paper of mass reproducibility in psychological science by Brodeur, Baki, & Fazio finds: “84% of preregistered articles deviate from their pre-analysis plan, and nearly half of these deviations go unacknowledged.” Open Access: www.econstor.eu/handle/10419...

Among the 50 preregistered reported articles, 42 (84%) deviated from the pre-analysis plan in at least one respect, and 8 (16%) did not. Of the 42 articles with deviations, 25 (59.5%) disclosed some or all of them, while 17 (40.5%) disclosed none. The most common form of deviation was implementing a different procedure in the paper from the preregistration, occurring in 57.143% of preregistered articles with deviations. The prevalence of these categories is summarized in Ta- ble 12. Deviations involving design or reporting scope were most frequent, occurring in 25 articles, followed by estimation or modeling choices, occurring in 23 articles. Deviations related to sample size/data collection and data exclusions/filtering were each identified in 12 article, while deviations concerning variable construction were prevalent in 10.

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 6h

Just sending hugs and compassion. Hope you soon feel strong enough to write. I am so sorry you are suffering so much. Will keep my fingers crossed for a positive turn.

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 15h

probability theory was one of the best classes i took at grad school, which i've always believed should be a prereq (along with mathematical statistics) for any graduate degree that entails using statistics

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Honestly at this point, I wouldn't look if you didn't call me that 😄

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 15h

Who doesn't?! 😅 It's Bear-nah with emphasis on nah

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 16h

tho ofc Neagley pronounces it the way everyone pronounces my name here

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 16h

oh there's someone called Berna in Neagley, huh. first time i hear my name in any american production.

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hubby just showed me my probability theory notes from ~20 years ago, which i hereby find out that he is still using 😲 (i am still a good note taker, which others still benefit from in various occasions)

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Would pay $$$ to see 🤣

It does give a certain sense of weight, I suppose!

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 19h

Been waiting to see if anyone would undertake going through that repository. I tried and immediately said not again.

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 06/10/2026

Look at this precious baby 😭

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Kelcie Moseley-Morris @kelciemmorris.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

ICYMI: The Idaho Capital Sun worked up a rundown of the contributions supporting and opposing the abortion rights measure on the ballot next month, including top donors to each campaign. Visualizations by yours truly.

idahocapitalsun.com

Supporters and opponents of Idaho's abortion rights initiative, Prop 1, have raised millions • Idaho Capital Sun

Two Idaho political action committees, or PACS, on both sides of the proposed abortion rights initiative, Proposition 1, have spent $1.3 million combined.

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

History of science and STS friends, what's a book I should read that talks about the paths not taken with a technology? Something like Jenni Lieberman's Power Lines, which I love.

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Besides everything else, it is baffling to me that they'd explicitly declare no deviations from the prereg when planned and obtained Ns are so different. That seems rather deceptive.

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Erin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It is so bad. Why is it so bad? 😭

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I'm recruiting a grad student at Florida this fall! If you find boredom interesting, and psychological richness weirdly compelling, consider applying! Pumpkin carving & rock painting skills a bonus. Applications due 12/1, see website for details: www.erinwestgate.com/join-the-lab...

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A Jay Holmgren @ajh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just clicking around their OSF pages there are a number of weird inconsistencies, papers where they note that the replication is under-powered, then some findings within that paper are excluded due to low power, but others are included and marked as failing replication with no explanation I can find

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Angela Dai @adai.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

🚀We have PhD openings in my lab! 3D got pretty interesting :) Generation is getting better, which makes real scenes more interesting: things get used, opened, moved, etc We want to understand that in 3D: function, dynamics, physics 👉apply 3dunderstanding.org/openings.html or via ELLIS

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telling women to not speak out their expertise on here is... well i could complete this sentence a hundred ways and not one would be laudatory

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Congrats Richard! Shame it took this long tbh but wonderful nonetheless.

Perhaps one should be neutral if one doesn't know much about how replications work or one is not an expert on this particular domain. I don't think knowledge and expertise demand neutrality.

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Because this is my area of expertise and I've been publishing about this for years. I get to have a view, especially given none of the theoretical work that's being done so far is taken into account when designing such studies. I am quite realistic and I don't think it being an RR changes much.

Asad Margins @catsashimi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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Simone Weil hit on something similar: "Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating."

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yeah and that's why they're so cringe too

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yeah I take such quotes with a handful of salt. there may be a kernel of sensible intent there, yet under uncertainty not much we can do without stats.