Reposted by D. I. BurinSolal Pirelli @solalpirelli.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Did you know there's a barely hidden market for authorship of fake scientific papers in conferences? New preprint w/ @abalkina.bsky.social, @mkunesova.bsky.social, and @yaamurozturk.bsky.social : arxiv.org/abs/2604.22458 We found 4,000+ ads & matched them to 1,720 IEEE conf. papers! ...🧵arxiv.orgOpening Pandora's box: Paper mills in conference proceedingsPaper mills are a growing threat to the integrity of science, yet their penetration in conference proceedings remains underexplored despite conferences being more important than journals in some scien... 16437
Reposted by D. I. BurinDan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Selecting an effect size for power analysis is hard. Many researchers fall back on Cohen's thresholds, but they have no empirical basis and vary wildly by field. Our new paper offers a better option: field-specific effect size distributions built from meta-analytic data doi.org/10.3758/s134... 316175
D. I. Burin @diburina.bsky.social · 14/04/2026y con ese post fakisimo de AI. ¿No tenés pensamientos o sentimientos propios? 000
Reposted by D. I. BurinDr. Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social · 04/04/2026NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA 344362857566
D. I. Burin @diburina.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Leído hoy: "too young to retire, too old for this shit" 010
Reposted by D. I. BurinMetaDocencia @metadocencia.org · 25/03/2026Registration is now open for Herramientas de Ciencia Abierta 🆓 Free online course in Spanish 🗓️ April 15 to May 6 🖥️ 4 sessions 🗂️ #OpenScience resources, references in Spanish, and a peer-to-peer exchange network Join us: metadocencia.github.io/herramientas... 036
D. I. Burin @diburina.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Ah, así que publicaste en Scientific Reports? Qué revista seria, que buen sistema de peer review ! 000
Reposted by D. I. BurinDavid Eagleman @davideagleman.bsky.social · 21/02/2026Are memories in your brain distributed or local? How did early experiments in the late 1940s address this? Join me this week with neuroscientist Nicole Rust (nicolecrust.bsky.social), author of "Elusive Cures", as we discuss the modern emerging picture of the brain. eagleman.com/podcast/141 1179
D. I. Burin @diburina.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Este año entré 2 veces a Linkedin y me da vértigo que en todas las publicaciones estén "excitados" y felices, y hablen tanto. 110
Reposted by D. I. BurinOscar Woolnough @owoolnough.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Found one in the wild! Models of the language network in a published paper in a (presumably) predatory journal. I think I'd be concerned if a patient had four anterior temporal lobes in their lert hemisphere, it might affect their conprehension #NeuroSkyence 46114
D. I. Burin @diburina.bsky.social · 12/02/2026pero qué enorme dolor, decepción, traición, Chomsky 😭 010
D. I. Burin @diburina.bsky.social · 13/01/2026La AI le vuela la chapa a mas de uno, sin llegar a ser episodios psicóticos para internación. Todos/as conocemos alguno que de tanto interactuar con la IA (y con poca gente que le diga "no da") se convenció de algo delirante o se cree que está muy capacitado para algo de lo que no tiene ni idea. 000
D. I. Burin @diburina.bsky.social · 30/12/2025Last year I was told by a selection committee for a professor position that my sample lecture was "postgraduate level" (meaning: not clear enough). If otherwise, I'm sure they would have said "not serious enough" 3171
D. I. Burin @diburina.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Parece que ✨ se volvió el emoji oficial de "hecho con IA" Lástima porque me gustaba la estrellita. 010
Reposted by D. I. BurinCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16/12/2025Just decline the peer review invitation. What are you people even doing?nature.comMore than half of researchers now use AI for peer review — often against guidanceA survey of 1,600 academics found that more than 50% have used artificial-intelligence tools while peer reviewing manuscripts. 35651195
Reposted by D. I. BurinGabiZu @gamabita.bsky.social · 30/11/2025Y ya que estamos...recuerden que está abierta la convocatoria para el próximo dossier. ¿Nos ayudan con la difusión? Toda la info acá 👉 revele.uncoma.edu.ar/index.php/li... 036
Reposted by D. I. BurinMark Goodrich @markgoodrich.bsky.social · 25/10/2025I know he was in last week as well but this might be the most important read of the week. An iconic piece of research on scaffolding just failed replication and @carlhendrick.substack.com has all the details and what it might mean here. open.substack.com/pub/carlhend...open.substack.comWe Need to Talk About ScaffoldingA new replication challenges the evidence behind one of education’s core ideas. 134
Reposted by D. I. BurinSociety for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 19/08/2025We are currently preparing a large scale up of moderators to deal with the big backlog, which has built up to a truly unacceptable size. Again, please accept our apologies, and perhaps also take this as an invitation to join the moderation team? We need all hands on deck. bsky.app/profile/impr... 0109
Reposted by D. I. BurinFramework for Open and Reproducible Research Training @forrt.bsky.social · 11/08/2025🚀Making Replications Count Hackathon - in-person🚀 3 days. 2 open tools. 1 goal: make replication studies impossible to ignore 📅22–24 Oct 2025 | Münster, Germany ✈️Travel & accommodation covered (UKRI-funded) Find out more below 👇 #OpenScience #Metascience #Replication #Hackathon #CodingForScience 13319
Reposted by D. I. BurinJesica Formoso @jformoso.bsky.social · 14/07/2025🌟 This week I'm curating the @weare.rladies.org account! 💜 I’ll be sharing bits and pieces from the R world — things I find interesting, helpful, or just fun to think about. Come say hi, share what you're up to, or just drop by for some good vibes! 🦄 #WeAreRLadies #RLadies #RStatsweare.rladies.org 1127
Reposted by D. I. BurinWe Are RLadies+ @weare.rladies.org · 13/07/2025This week's #RLadies curator is @jformoso.bsky.social 🥳 03412
Reposted by D. I. BurinDan Levenstein @dlevenstein.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Does anyone else find it perpetually annoying that what most folks would consider neural "computation" is Marr's "algorithmic" level, while his *computational* level is really just "what's the goal of this thing anyway?" AKA function. 13607
Reposted by D. I. BurinLouis Teitelbaum @louisteitelbaum.bsky.social · 24/06/2025New conceptual review + tutorial on text embeddings out in #APA_Journals w/ @almogsi. Beginner-friendly, but experts will find spicy new takes as well. Tag a colleague who’s still counting words... #RStats #tidyverse #quanteda 1/ 242
Reposted by D. I. BurinDaniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Have you dreamed of seeing or reading books recently? Well, according to a German publication about dreams and their meaning from 1603 this means: future sadness and depression. Access the "Traumbüchlein" (VD17 39:113610Q): resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB0000A4E40... #booksky #bookhistory 55411
Reposted by D. I. BurinMetaDocencia @metadocencia.org · 24/06/2025🚀 Durante las próximas semanas compartiremos una serie de tutoriales sobre proyectos en #GitHub 🙋♀️ En nuestro primer video, @patriloto.bsky.social nos guía sobre cómo generar un issue para trabajar y colaborar mejor. Conoce el resto de los tutoriales y suscríbete: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... 033
Reposted by D. I. BurinLenny van Dyck @levandyck.bsky.social · 18/06/2025How is high-level visual cortex organized? In a new preprint with @martinhebart.bsky.social & @kathadobs.bsky.social, we show that category-selective areas encode a rich, multidimensional feature space 🌈 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroskyence 🧵 1/nbiorxiv.org 17430
D. I. Burin @diburina.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Having tried to estimate power for complex glmm analyses, I feel represented by this image. 010
Reposted by D. I. BurinPCI Psychology @psych.peercommunityin.org · 12/06/2025PCI Psychology is here!! 🎉🥳 After over a year of hard work by so many people, we are thrilled to announce that we are open for submissions! Join us in making publishing more efficient, equitable, and open: psych.peercommunityin.org #PsychSciSky #scipubpsych.peercommunityin.orgPCI PsychologyPeer Community in Psychology 114199
D. I. Burin @diburina.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Y los investigadores tenemos que pasar comité de ética, pedir consentimientos... tendríamos que hacer un chatbot y listo! 000
D. I. Burin @diburina.bsky.social · 10/06/2025En Instagram podés hacer un chatbot IA con la plantilla "terapeuta". Te decía dónde estudió y un no. de matrícula (todo falso, obvio, ni siquiera es persona). Le pusieron un "guardrail" pero igual no te dice que es un chatbot www.404media.co/senators-let...404media.coSenators Demand Meta Answer For AI Chatbots Posing as Licensed TherapistsExclusive: Following 404 Media’s investigation into Meta's AI Studio chatbots that pose as therapists and provided license numbers and credentials, four senators urged Meta to limit "blatant deception... 100
D. I. Burin @diburina.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Needed: An app that automatically extracts references from student papers (or authors who use references) and checks whether they exist or not, and whether the DOI matches the title and authors listed in the paper. No AI (a prerequisite), but a standard database(s) search. 010
Reposted by D. I. BurinJay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 04/06/2025An analysis of ~100,000 academics finds that a small subset of academics generate majority of social media posts. That vocal minority can skew how the public—and even journalists—infer “academic consensus,” potentially fueling false perceptions. www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comPolitical expression of academics on Twitter - Nature Human BehaviourAn analysis of nearly 100,000 academics on Twitter reveals strong progressive stances on climate and social issues, driven by a small, vocal subset. The study highlights potential gaps between academi... 611340
D. I. Burin @diburina.bsky.social · 02/06/2025Si esto es el futuro de la educación, no veo la hora de que me reemplace una IA 000
D. I. Burin @diburina.bsky.social · 02/06/2025"ChatGPT isn't its own, unique problem. It's a symptom of a totalizing cultural paradigm in which passive consumption and regurgitation of content becomes the status quo. It's a symptom of the world of TikTok and Instagram and perfecting your algorithm" www.404media.co/teachers-are...404media.coTeachers Are Not OKAI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching." 120
Reposted by D. I. BurinJuan Carlos Godoy @jcgodoy9.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Acá tenés una lista de guías, tutoriales y manuales diseñados para ayudar a la comunidad de psicología a ampliar sus cajas de herramientas de prácticas y métodos de investigación. 🧠 ➡️ buff.ly/DrWbr2R via Association for Psychological Science 011
Reposted by D. I. Burincaveartfilms.bsky.social @caveartfilms.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Soon perhaps the AI will be going to university without the unnecessary baggage of bringing a human being along. 1913
Reposted by D. I. BurinGabiZu @gamabita.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Situación de CyT en Argentina; 4 partes*. ¡Toda difusión nacional e internacional, nos ayuda! The situation of science and technology in Argentina. Any national and international RB/RT helps! *Subo el video en partes porque excede la extensión máxima admitida en Bluesky. 134
Reposted by D. I. Burineasystats @easystats.github.io · 27/05/2025🆕 Introducing check_group_variation() in the {performance} #Rstats package! 🎉 This function makes it easy to checks if variables vary within or between levels of grouping variables. Perfect for understanding and designing mixed models 🚀 easystats.github.io/performance/... #stats #easystats 34413
D. I. Burin @diburina.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Semantic knowledge does not lie in "modular" ventral occipitotemporal or anterior temporal regions, but their white-matter connection. Great work here (title might be misleading) journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...journals.plos.orgObject knowledge representation in the human visual cortex requires a connection with the language systemThis study shows that communication between the visual cortex and the brain language system is necessary for the representation of object knowledge in the visual cortex and for corresponding behaviors... 010
Reposted by D. I. BurinNature @nature.com · 21/05/2025The papers all follow a similar template and make misleading claims go.nature.com/4kucwEHgo.nature.comAI linked to explosion of low-quality biomedical research papersAnalysis flags hundreds of studies that seem to follow a template, reporting correlations between complex health conditions and single variables based on publicly available data sets. 610859
D. I. Burin @diburina.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Ejemplo de reactancia psicológica: La propuesta "tienen que entender la IA, tener habilidades digitales", "tu futuro profe, psico, médico, abogado, amigo, es IA" La respuesta "Almost half of young people would rather live in a world where the internet does not exist" 010