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Nick DeVito

@ndevito1.bsky.social
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Baseball Fan. Postdoc studying Policy, Research Integrity, and Open Science @ox.ac.uk. An American in Europe.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Only doing this in states that are on the federally-run exchange also makes this another straight up theft from (mostly) blue states. Intolerable
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Nick DeVito @ndevito1.bsky.social · 21h
Is it?
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
FBI Director Kash Patel this week has faced the worst data breach in FBI history, a deputy who quit because Patel was doing too many unconstitutional things, and partied with a suspected double agent. And it's only Tuesday. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-disgra...
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The Disgrace and Danger of Kash Patel, Part II
A quick check-in on the FBI director's latest raft of scandals (including, of course, the bestiality).
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Nick DeVito @ndevito1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oof…following in the footsteps of Cochrane UK.
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Nick DeVito @ndevito1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Dorothy basically articulating another axiom I live by.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Huge bummer when you’re just innocently trying to join and promote a movement that hates Black people, immigrants, and Jews — but then you discover that they have a dark side. apple.news/A9g-feRPSTme...
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Nick DeVito @ndevito1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I think this is smart.
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Ed @notdred.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Agreeing to do universal health care via incrementalism instead of shooting for giant legislation that will never pass is the greatest advance the American left could have hoped for
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Susan Collins is always horrified by the predictable results of her own vote, which means Mainers who genuinely care about Susan Collins should elect Troy Jackson as he won’t vote for things that wind up upsetting Susan Collins, unlike Susan Collins
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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Nick DeVito @ndevito1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I’ve randomly had two people independently reach out to me about reproducing two of my old studies over the past week based on my open code and data and it seems both were able to. It’s possible folks!
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Robert Vaux @rvaux16.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Nick DeVito @ndevito1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Because it started when I was nascent in my computational career when we started doing TrialsTracker, the data processing pipeline included a csv of JSONs.
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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 25/09/2026
"Systematic reviews are only as credible as the studies they include" INSPECT-SR was published yesterday, giving concrete guidance on how to exclude untrustworthy studies. Cochrane's statement: www.cochrane.org/about-us/new... Article: www.cochrane.org/about-us/new... Guidance: inspect-sr.com
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New tool helps researchers spot problematic trials before they distort evidence | Cochrane
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Nick DeVito @ndevito1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Does this guy think it’s relatable to not know where you live?
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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 24/09/2026
"If medical schools and universities don't want the literature to be overwhelmed with garbage," Oransky said, "then they should probably stop giving every applicant ... an incentive to publish a lot of crap."
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Is AI Flooding Medical Journals With 'Meaningless' Research?
'It's not fraudulent, and it's not really slop,' one expert says
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
more on reproducibility and Bhattacharya! New initiative announced. Immediate thought is it’s good in principle, but not sure if this model will work in practice www.science.org/content/arti... but I’ll be interested to dig into details
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NIH details $170 million biomedical research reproducibility effort
Agency director announces literature search tool, other plans to improve reliability of science findings
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"House Republicans will continue to hold Hunter Biden’s feet to the fire until we have his testimony...no one – not even the president’s son – is above the law.” - Tom Emmer, 1.17.24 "Don Jr is a private citizen and businessman so this unwarranted attack will go nowhere," Tom Emmer, 9.23.26
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Jamie Cummins @jamiecummins.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We just published a new paper (led by Love von Schreeb) demonstrating how large language models can be used to link published results to trial registrations with very high accuracy! Now out in Journal of Clinical Epidemiology - check it out: www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
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TrialScout links published results to trial registrations using a large language model
Multiple stakeholders need to locate results of registered clinical trials but frequently struggle to find them. Summary results of clinical trials are often not published in trial registries, and pub...
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23/09/2026
look, you can't just punish trump when dems are in power. that might make republicans do something crazy, like stage a coup, illegally shred the federal bureaucracy, or even vstart abducting people off the street and extraditing them to torture sites all over the world
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I think you need Mamdani levels of optimism about government to rebuild everything these assholes have broken but not necessarily his sunny disposition. Let's get some grumps in there too. Curmudgeons who are mad all the time but at the right people
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Nick DeVito @ndevito1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The only redeeming quality I find about BA is that they fly basically everywhere from Heathrow which prevents me from having to schlep to Gatwick (or figure out how the heck I'm going to get to Luton or Stansted). If not for that I'd generally avoid! Look at how they treated these poor people!
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Nick DeVito @ndevito1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
lol...what do I know but feels a little too late for that?
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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 23/09/2026
Requiring AM radio is actually good, it's the FEMA mandated public notification backstop. You all sound like anti regulation lunatics melting down about the 13 dollars in parts needed to install backup cameras. This isn't anti-EV agitprop, you have brainworms
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Nick DeVito @ndevito1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The real answer to this has to be "soak up donations to pay yourself, your family, and your friends", right?
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Nick DeVito @ndevito1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Nick DeVito @ndevito1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Still President tho
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026
LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"
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Nick DeVito @ndevito1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Really big fan of the AmeriPope
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I have been turning this quote over and over in my head and still can't quite wrap my head around the idea
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
the whole thing of being open-minded isn’t saying all viewpoints are equally valid, it’s subjecting them all to equal scrutiny then rejecting the ones that are evil or backwards or stupid
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Nick DeVito @ndevito1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I make this point all the time. Open science isn't for vanity. We never know who will need/want what until it is needed/wanted! And when that time comes, we'll all be happy it's there.
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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It’s also worth emphasizing that panel a in the thread’s first image was for *individual* files. Less than 1% of papers in the sample didn’t have downloads for *any* of their associated materials.
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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
2. These materials provide a long-term record for researchers *themselves*. People move institutions all the time and lose access to files. If it’s on OSF/Zenodo, researchers can access their own materials in the future
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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
1. Even if something isn’t downloaded in the short term (i.e., within a few years), you can’t anticipate how these materials can be used in the long term. I think future researchers will be very grateful for our generation of OS reforms.
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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Is it worth putting in all the effort needed to make your materials open if there’s a chance that no one will download them? I still think so, for two reasons:
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Nick DeVito @ndevito1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I've never seen an anti-immigration zealot propose any sort of way out of the demographic challenges immigration solves for high-income countries other than simply praying people start having more kids or basically saying "man things are going to suck for our kids" and shrugging in xenophobe.
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Nick DeVito @ndevito1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
They’re a priority to the people who keep taking away their rights though.
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Nick DeVito @ndevito1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Can confirm
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
So much of the right these days have a massive patriotism problem. This guy: - is a tax exile (left long before this govt) - hates his own country while complaining he doesn’t get big enough subsidies from it - laments the manufacturing hit from a Brexit he supported www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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Scott 𐚁 🦇 Cave 🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I know there’s a savvy take that being attached to the east wing or the kennedy center is a sort of west wing lame-o attachment to the symbols of power and on the other hand he fucking bulldozed our collective property
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/09/2026
This guy who assaulted a sitting member of Congress got 28 years and 10 months less jail time than a Texas resident who transported a box of zines that contained constitutionally protected content opposing ICE reason.com/2026/06/25/t...
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Texas man gets 30 years in prison for transporting 'anti-government' pamphlets
The case stems from a violent anti-ICE protest, but critics say the government's prosecution threatens First Amendment rights.
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Nick DeVito @ndevito1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I can’t emphasize enough how much the hopefully next Dem admin needs to fire all these guys immediately.
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Nick DeVito @ndevito1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Good thing Trump cancelled all those renewable energy projects! Great thinking, sir!
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 13/09/2026
MFW the work of a ”global keynote speaker on AI & Neuroscience” turns out to be AI slop all the way down
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Surprised Pikachu Meme
Alt: Surprised Pikachu Meme
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