Reposted by Jan FreybergStuart Presnell @logopetria.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Wow, I really had no idea 034
Reposted by Jan FreybergJason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Who is draining Africa? This figure shows net-appropriation of resources from Africa's CFA zone, illustrating two key facts. 1) Eurozone countries are the biggest appropriators, benefitting from the Francafrique system. 2) Contrary to conventional Western narratives, China's appropriation is tiny. 4295130
Reposted by Jan FreybergKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026Here's Amazon's two new planned fossil-fuelled AI data centres next to the ENTIRE POWER GRIDS OF SEVERAL LARGE COUNTRIES Together, the two gas-burning data centres will emit more than Spain's entire grid, if built 4216591063
Reposted by Jan FreybergJim Thompson @jimthommo.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Looks like a null effect of TUS on LGN using a very sensitive measure (SSVEPs) by a top vision science group. More reason to be careful interpreting TUS results 052
Reposted by Jan FreybergBerna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 29/07/2026It's the unseriousness of the whole thing that gets to me. What is produced as scientific research in one of the top business schools in the country. What they measure and what's being reported have nothing to do with each other. How do they not feel ashamed to circulate this report? (rhetorical) 3505
Reposted by Jan FreybergJohannes Franzen @johannesfranzen.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Bitte nicht korrigieren oder erklären, ich habe mich null informiert und es interessiert mich auch nicht. 743238
Reposted by Jan FreybergThiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 28/06/2026This is what makes it art: '(...) the publisher posted a blank white page with the cryptic phrase, “This article has been withdrawn due to article violation.” Springer Nature is nevertheless still selling the empty PDF for $39.95.' www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgWhy have papers by one of history’s most famous physicists been retracted?Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck. A bot may be to blame 5311121
Reposted by Jan FreybergEuan MacDonald @euanmacdonald.bsky.social · 16/06/2026A Ukrainian drone dives lazily through Moscow skies to strike an oil refinery in the SE of the Russian capital earlier on June 16. The refinery, 16km from the Kremlin, provides a large proportion of Moscow and its region's fuel needs, Ukrainian news sources say. Russia's fuel crisis set to worsen. 1237797
Reposted by Jan FreybergMiri Forbes @miriforbes.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Our Bluesky discussion on data sharing in the genAI era is famous 091
Reposted by Jan FreybergRyan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 05/06/2026This is amazing. They actually quantified the tetrahedral color and color perception of hummingbirds. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 610218
Reposted by Jan FreybergMattan S. Ben-Shachar @mattansb.msbstats.info · 31/05/2026Psychologists doing clustering be like: #statsmeme 940763
Reposted by Jan FreybergGustavo A. Ballen @gaballench.bsky.social · 29/05/2026And finally it was published! Massive thanks to my coauthors, the editor and reviewers, and the institutions that supported our research. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...journals.plos.orgWhat did the dove sing to Pope Gregory? Ancestral melody reconstruction in Gregorian chant using Bayesian phylogeneticsAn attractive goal in the study of Gregorian chant melodies is reconstructing unobserved melodies as they may have been transmitted along their history, especially as early chant notation does not cap... 01911
Reposted by Jan FreybergGavin Buckingham @handle.invalid · 26/05/2026I get a weird, almost physical sensation in my eyes from this image 2226
Reposted by Jan FreybergBenjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 21/05/2026*at the baseball game* so there‘s this paper by Thomas Nagel 0142
Reposted by Jan FreybergThe Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 20/05/2026I know “the personal is political” and “everything is political” but I simply cannot live life being forced to consider everything in a broader context. That’s not cowardice—it’s self preservation 2302
Reposted by Jan Freybergvalue plus discounted @akhilrao.bsky.social · 17/05/2026"interesting long read" is how economists say "your identification strategy, it is totally believable, this is causal" and i think that's lovely 3443
Reposted by Jan FreybergRichard McElreath 🐈⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 18/05/2026math videos be like: this small list is infinite 3417
Reposted by Jan FreybergProf Nichola Raihani @nicholaraihani.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Sneak peek at the US cover for THE THINKING ANIMAL, coming Jan '27. Looking forward to sharing more - soon! @stmartinspress.bsky.social @zcosini.bsky.social 16117
Reposted by Jan FreybergBerna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026📣 The difference between replicable and not replicable is not itself scientifically replicable. 📣 New work with Erkan Buzbas, showing that verdicts such as "X% of results replicated" are based on an inferential machinery that doesn't work. arxiv.org/abs/2604.26268 15546205
Reposted by Jan Freybergaustin (eeek!/ackkk! 👻) @thebadcode.com · 20/04/2026maybe even better than the gods 313913
Reposted by Jan FreybergCorey Atad @coreyatad.com · 16/12/2023just had my mind blown learning the term “escalate” is derived from the word escalator (originally a trademarked name), and not the other way around 98314
Reposted by Jan FreybergRichard McElreath 🐈⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/s... 12679215
Reposted by Jan FreybergTitus Blome @derlampenputzer.bsky.social · 18/03/2026das ist so gottlos witzig www.theverge.com/tech/896322/...theverge.comMeta is shutting down its VR metaverse on June 15th.Meta announced last month it would be shifting its strategy to go “all-in on mobile” for Horizon Worlds, and today, the company shared exactly when the VR version of the app would be going away. Updat... 1828
Reposted by Jan FreybergKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 17/01/2026Not sure this counts as a timeline cleanse but check out the weird little cars I made 2241564
Reposted by Jan FreybergSteve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 11/01/2026RFE/RL, which has sued Kari Lake to block her termination of its federal funding grants, resumes shortwave radio broadcasts into Iran following the imposition of an internet blackout by the Islamic Republic. about.rferl.org/article/radio...about.rferl.orgRadio Farda Returns to Shortwave, Bypassing Iran’s Digital BlackoutRadio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) has today resumed shortwave radio broadcasts into Iran following the imposition of an internet blackout by the Islamic Republic. 37337
Reposted by Jan FreybergBenjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 25/12/2025the nerd urge to bring a project with you when visiting family over Christmas 171
Reposted by Jan FreybergKevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 23/12/2025Time to start a bluesky Christmas fight: Most over-rated and under-rated cuisine? For me: Over-rated: French Under-rated (globally): Mexican Under-rated (US specifically): Indonesian 31987
Reposted by Jan FreybergMichael "Shapes Dude" Betancourt @betanalpha.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Many of the most passionate Bayes verses frequentist debates are not between I and II or III and IV but rather I and IV. People are often excited more about the freedom to work with better models than having uncertainty quantification. 2161
Jan Freyberg @janfreyberg.com · 02/11/2025Giving #scisky #icanhazpdf another go - does anyone have access to this? thejns.org/pediatrics/v...thejns.org 000
Reposted by Jan FreybergMicah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 02/09/2025New preprint! We are pleased to share our Hierarchical Bayesian framework for Interoceptive Psychophysics! Implemented in rstan, we provide a complete suite of tools spanning model comparison, parameter recovery, multifactor designs, power analysis, and more! 🎯 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 510430
Reposted by Jan FreybergEhud Karavani @ehudk.bsky.social · 12/08/2025>10 years on and i still haven't seen a single question answered with clustering 2222
Reposted by Jan FreybergInternational Committee of the Red Cross @icrc.org · 25/07/2025Gaza | The scale of human suffering and the stripping of human dignity have long exceeded every acceptable standard, both legal and moral. This tragedy must end now. Mirjana Spoljaric, ICRC President: ms.spr.ly/63327sGyPt 5217186
Reposted by Jan FreybergAlberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 22/07/2025This is a great article about "AI" and art: 0162
Reposted by Jan FreybergMwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 02/10/2024Sleep when the baby sleeps, eat when the baby eats, edit your manuscript when the baby edits their manuscript 719424
Reposted by Jan FreybergLars Mølgaard Saxhaug @load-dependent.eurosky.social · 01/07/2025John «most of my published research is wrong» Ioannidis 043
Reposted by Jan FreybergDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 25/06/2025New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41... We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance 1/nature.comComputer-vision research powers surveillance technology - NatureAn analysis of research papers and citing patents indicates the extensive ties between computer-vision research and surveillance. 341011554
Reposted by Jan FreybergRichard McElreath 🐈⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 19/06/2025The open access movement has been captured by the publishers, and the journal system is worse than ever. Suggestions like open review do nothing to make research or peer review better, nothing to break the bullshit of rewarding people for simply publishing, right or wrong. Where is our courage? 119519
Reposted by Jan FreybergMꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Pilot Whale You know what time it is? That's right! It's time to plug my work again! Yay! www.worldofmoose.com/products/pil... 438289
Jan Freyberg @janfreyberg.com · 06/05/2025Really wonderful podcast. This episode was my introduction to it but I've listened to a few now. Also noticed that @kathrynnave.bsky.social is on Bluesky! 083
Jan Freyberg @janfreyberg.com · 06/05/2025Technically released last week, here is a paper from me and my team: multimodal conversational diagnostic AI. We extend previous work on AMIE and enable it to request, reason about, and report on images.research.googleAMIE gains vision: A research AI agent for multimodal diagnostic dialogue 120
Reposted by Jan FreybergEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Study in Nature: “Across 30 out of 32 evaluation axes from the specialist physician perspective & 25 out of 26 evaluation axes from the patient-actor perspective, AMIE [Google Medical LLM] was rated superior to PCPs [primary care docs] while being non-inferior on the rest.” (& AIME is an older LLM) 47015
Reposted by Jan FreybergEsther Mondragón @e-mondragon.bsky.social · 25/04/2025I quite enjoyed this 'Experiments, Causal Inference, and Limits of Evidence' event, particularly @devezer.bsky.social's talk, which aligns well with my own views as well as Nancy Cartwright's scepticism. Thanks a lot to the organisers. 2356
Reposted by Jan FreybergRoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · 20/04/2025This paper is the result of >20 yrs of hard work by talented students, postdocs and collaborators, but none more than my co-author Ren Ng and his team in EECS. 1/n Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...science.orgNovel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scaleImage display by cell-by-cell retina stimulation, enabling colors impossible to see under natural viewing. 19335
Reposted by Jan FreybergJohn Butler @jslbutler.bsky.social · 15/04/2025That is why psychophysics works so well. As it is experiments on psychophysicists whose natural habitat is a darkened room sitting in front of a CRT 052
Reposted by Jan FreybergMomentum Magazine @momentummag.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Paris Proves the Power of Pedals: How Cycling Helped Cut Pollution in Half. momentummag.com/paris-proves...momentummag.comParis Proves the Power of Pedals: How Cycling Helped Cut Pollution in HalfSo how did Paris, once choked with vehicle traffic and notorious for its pollution, pull off such a turnaround? 15119
Jan Freyberg @janfreyberg.com · 13/04/2025Where at Duolingo do I send in my sick note to get my streak reinstated? 000
Reposted by Jan FreybergVincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 10/04/2025📚😅🎉 Yay!! I just submitted the complete manuscript of my upcoming book to the publisher! Learn to easily and clearly interpret (almost) any stats model w/ R or Python. Simple ideas, consistent workflow, powerful tools, detailed case studies. Read it for free @ marginaleffects.com #RStats #PyData 21596148