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 the publisher posted a blank white page with the cryptic phrase, “This article has been withdrawn due to article violation.”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 www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgWhy have papers by one of history’s most famous physicists been retracted?Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck.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
Jan Freyberg @janfreyberg.com · 17/01/2026My preorder for this on bookshop.org UK was cancelled, any particular reason or should I preorder somewhere else?bookshop.orgBookshop.org: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.A better way to buy books online. Every purchase financially supports local independent bookstores. 200
Jan Freyberg @janfreyberg.com · 16/01/2026But don't you have to act shocked and angered lest someone accuses you of traitorous emotions? 000
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
Jan Freyberg @janfreyberg.com · 05/01/20261688 erasure is official government policy to this day given it's on the life in the UK test 020
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