iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Joel Pick @joelpick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🚨Exciting project alert!!🚨 Are you interested in data and code sharing in Ecology and Evolution? @eivimeycook.bsky.social and I are running a hackathon to quantify data and code availability and sharing quality across 90 society journals, and looking for people who want to be involved.

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Corey Callaghan @coreytcallaghan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Do you use #iNaturalist data in research—or advise students who do? We put together a practical guide to using iNaturalist data in scientific research, covering how to access, acquire, analyze, and attribute the data, with examples in R and Python. Paper: doi.org/10.1093/bios... #ecology

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David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

CuspHanger 0.4.0 gives you control over the lightness steps, in the form of a bezier curve or any other function. meodai.github.io/cusphanger/

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Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Our update to the BES Data Management Guide is now live! assets.britishecologicalsociety.org/2026/09/2110... Huge thanks to the incredibly talented ECRs who contributed sections. It's an excellent resource that I've already used with my PhD students. ❤️

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Miri Forbes @miriforbes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Pretty excited to have just published our latest video, a clinical case example using HiTOP. This was a team effort with the Clinical Translation Workgroup, but very much led by the brilliant @tashtc.bsky.social ✨ We hope it might be useful, and are keen to hear any feedback! youtu.be/Hl6bA4roCNU

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HiTOP Case Example

YouTube video by HiTOP

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Martin Modrák @modrakm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I will be looking for a PhD student in Bayesian statistics (in collaboration with Paul Bürkner), located in Prague. Forward to students if you have somebody who could be interested. www.martinmodrak.cz/grammo-call/

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Grammo - Let's Research Bayes!

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 07/09/2026

Writing some scientific workflow slides for this week’s MPTC class.

Research workflow for those branches of the sciences where the important thing is to become famous.

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Modern academic structures are constraining scientific creativity A new paper says research is structured around short funding cycles, productivity-based evaluation criteria, and risk-averse frameworks that favor predictable and non-transformative research outputs. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Big news! 🎉 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚜 1.0.0 for #Rstats is out. It’s a big number and it feels like a big step. I wrote a blog on the challenges of interpreting statistical models, SPEED, cool new features, the future, and a 5 year package development and writing odyssey. arelbundock.com/posts/margin...

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simine vazire @simine.com · 02/09/2026

Psych Science has retracted Ariely & Wertenbroch (2002). The second author requested the retraction. Both authors agreed to it. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... So grateful to @datacolada.bsky.social for these blog posts and the work behind them: datacolada.org/138 and datacolada.org/139 1/2

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Templeton World Charity Foundation @templetonworld.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Congratulations to Dr @katelaskowski.bsky.social for receiving the 2026 Ctrl-Z award by the Center for Scientific Integrity. The award celebrates scientists who discover errors in their work and take the necessary steps to correct the record. 👉 Learn more about the prize: bit.ly/4hSKk0b

Image of Kate Laskowski, a young woman with medium auburn hair looking at the camera. Text reads: "Kate Laskowski, Ph.D is recognized with 2026 Ctrl-Z Award. Organised by the Center for Scientific Integrity, it celebrates scientists’ courage in retracting their own work"

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Eric Schares @eschares.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

🚨Update: Our analysis of global APC expenditure has now been expanded to cover more publishers (7 -> 14) and more years (2019-2025). We estimate $15B in APCs paid over seven years, $3.7B in 2025 alone. Elsevier crosses the $1B threshold by itself in 2025. arxiv.org/abs/2608.16322 #ScholComm

Line chart showing 5 biggest publishers from 2019-2025

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Pierre-Simon Laplace @learnbayesstats.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

In this special episode of Learning Bayesian Statistics, @alex-andorra.bsky.social is joined by Andrew Gelman, Aki Vehtari, and Richard McElreath to discuss Bayesian Workflow. From simulation and hierarchical pooling to causal inference, there’s a lot to unpack 🎧 lnkd.in/geX2QkxV #Bayesian

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Bayesian Workflow - Gelman, Vehtari & McElreath

Andrew Gelman, Aki Vehtari, and Richard McElreath discuss their new book on Bayesian workflow, reverse Bayes and hierarchical pooling.

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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A massive update: At least ~15 companies~ are selling scientists antibodies using faked validation data. We've documented 18,000+ manipulated images on 17,000+ products sold by leading laboratory suppliers including Thermo Fisher, Abcam, Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Millipore Sigma and Bio-Techne. 1/🧵

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Miri Forbes @miriforbes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

One week to go until I'll be reviewing the applications - can't wait! I've now added information on the top-up funds I have available too. Please spread the word to anyone you know who might be interested in doing a PhD in quantitative psychopathology :) miriamkforbes.academic.ws

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Miriam K. Forbes, PhD

I am an Associate Professor in the School of Psychological Sciences at Macquarie University. I was awarded my PhD in Psychology in 2014, and went on to do po...

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Ben Harrap @bharrap.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The Statistical Society of Australia has a new President... No, it's not Randy the greyhound (although he would've done a fine job) It's me! If you want to know a little more about me, I have the blog post just for you :) benharrap.com/post/2026-08... #statssky #datascience

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Get to know the new President of the Statistical Society of Australia (it’s me) – Ben Harrap

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Emi Tanaka @emitanaka.org · 06/08/2026

📢🇦🇺 Australian National University is recruiting a continuing Senior Data Scientist 👩‍💻🧑‍💻 Bring your statistical expertise and help turn data into meaningful university-wide insights 📊 📅 Apply by 23 Aug 2026 23:55 AEST #Statistics #StatsJobs jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/senior-...

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Senior Data Scientist - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia

Classification: ANU Senior Manager 1 (Administration)Salary package: $141,637 - $148,403 per annum plus 17% superannuationTerms: Full-time, Continuing The Position Operating under broad strategic guid...

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Michael Hochberg @mkhochb.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Opinion article co-authored with Peter Thrall: "AI will reorganize science. Will research remain a human enterprise?" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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AI will reorganize science. Will research remain a human enterprise? | PNAS

AI will reorganize science. Will research remain a human enterprise?

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Quentin Bacquelé @quentinbacquele.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

1/ The world's songbirds sing in just 8 basic sounds. And where a bird lives decides which ones it uses. My first PhD paper is out now in @science.org (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aee6239) Here is what we found:

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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 28/07/2026

"AI is an accelerant, not the kindling. The kindling is publish or perish." "We don't need generative AI to make a dog's breakfast out of scientific literature." Our Ivan Oransky speaks with @cenmag.bsky.social

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Can we stop AI from flooding scientific journals?

AI detectors may never beat fraud. Changing how science rewards its researchers might be the only fix that does

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Cate Macinnis-Ng @loraxcate.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This is an excellent piece - "remote control science" captures it so well.

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Ben Harrap @bharrap.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

You thought abstract submissions for the Australian Data Science Network Conference were closing today? Nope! Like all good conferences, we're extending the deadline by one week. The final deadline is July 31st (for real this time!) adsnconf2026.netlify.app @ardc.edu.au #statssky #datascience

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Australian Data Science Network Conference 2026 – ADSN2026

26th & 27th November 2026, Australian Bureau of Statistics House, Canberra

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This looks useful. A typical meta-analysis in ecology mixes experiments with observational studies, mixes coefficients with different controls and therefore different causal meanings. I would not normally say "hey the folks in medicine are doing it right, imitate them" but in this case maybe

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SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Ever think the #peer-review system is broken? ‘Peer review by Reciprocity’ proposes to make this process fairer and more sustainable. Learn all about it through Oakleigh Wilson’s incredible conversation with Angela Moles for the ninth instalment of the #ECRAsks series: sortee.org/blog/2026/06...

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Libby Heeren @libbyheeren.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Did you know you can search for R packages by what they do, as opposed to just their names? Look! 👉🏼 rwarehouse.netlify.app @kylieainslie.bsky.social made The Warehouse for just this purpose. Send it to a new R programmer today ❤️ because it's the resource we all wish we'd had at some point #rstats

Screenshot of a website with "The Warehouse" at the top. The user has typed "add interactivity to a ggplot" into the search bar at the top of the website and results below include plotly and ggiraph

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Universität Bern @unibe.ch · 09/06/2026

🧠📑 The Bernese tool #RegCheck uses AI to systematically compare clinical trial registrations with published articles. This makes #OutcomeSwitching and #HARKing visible and strengthens the evidence base for reliable systematic reviews 👇 ▶️ sohub.io/gl4r @jamiecummins.bsky.social

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Dr Giorgia Michelini @giorgiamichelini.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Congrats to our brilliant President @miriforbes.bsky.social and the whole exec committee for kicking off the #HiTOP2026 conference! @hitop-system.bsky.social

Group photo of Miriam Forbes (HiTOP president) and members of the HiTOP executive committee, taken at the end of a Q&A during the opening plenary session of the HiTOP 2026 conference

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Vicki @vickiboykis.com · 29/05/2026

New post: we should be more tired than the model vickiboykis.com/2026/05/28/w...

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We should be more tired than the model

Adding deliberate friction back into development

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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 26/05/2026

Deadline Sunday! Our $2,500 Ctrl-Z Award recognizes scientists who discover substantial errors in their published work and take meaningful steps to correct the scientific record. More details and nomination form here:

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The Ctrl-Z Award: Recognizing the courage to correct or retract published work

The Ctrl-Z Award recognizes and celebrates scientists who discover substantial errors in their published work and take meaningful steps to correct the scientific record — even if doing so risks pro…

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Ben Harrap @bharrap.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Someone brought up variable naming and it reminded me of how much fun I had writing this blog post #rstats #databs benharrap.com/post/2025-03...

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What makes a good variable naming convention – Ben Harrap

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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 18/05/2026

I'm bringing my substack back to life to talk about AI and data science: open.substack.com/pub/tidydesi.... I have conflicted feelings about both AI and writing about AI but I want to try and work through them in the open, and I hope you'll join me on this journey.

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Returning to life!

Welcome back to the tidy design principles substack.

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Miri Forbes @miriforbes.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

We looked at six internalizing disorders with varied heterogeneity. One key finding here: The disorders with more theoretically possible symptom profiles consistently had more observed profiles too - the larger conceptual space for heterogeneity allowed for more variability in practice.

An infographic giving a rundown of the descriptive heterogeneity results from the study. Table 1 in the linked preprint provides a screen-reader friendly version of this information.

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Miri Forbes @miriforbes.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Turns out empirically derived phenotypes (data-driven symptom sets) nested within traditional mental disorders can help reduce diagnostic heterogeneity! We learned so much cool and interesting stuff in this study. I could talk (/post) about it all day, but here’s a few highlights (🧵)

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I got to collaborate with *MIRI'S DAD*!! Can you image?

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Every day is a good day for sharing one of the most useful papers about research data ever written. PLEASE get your people to understand and follow this advice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Data Organization in Spreadsheets
Karl W. Broman
& Kara H. Woo
Pages 2-10 | Received 01 Jun 2017, Accepted author version posted online: 29 Sep 2017, Published online: 24 Apr 2018

1. Introduction
2. Be Consistent
3. Choose Good Names for Things
4. Write Dates as YYYY-MM-DD
5. No Empty Cells
6. Put Just One Thing in a Cell
7. Make it a Rectangle
8. Create a Data Dictionary
9. No Calculations in the Raw Data Files
10. Do Not Use Font Color or Highlighting as Data
11. Make Backups
12. Use Data Validation to Avoid Errors
13. Save the Data in Plain Text Files

ABSTRACT

Spreadsheets are widely used software tools for data entry, storage, analysis, and visualization. Focusing on the data entry and storage aspects, this article offers practical recommendations for organizing spreadsheet data to reduce errors and ease later analyses. The basic principles are: be consistent, write dates like YYYY-MM-DD, do not leave any cells empty, put just one thing in a cell, organize the data as a single rectangle (with subjects as rows and variables as columns, and with a single header row), create a data dictionary, do not include calculations in the raw data files, do not use font color or highlighting as data, choose good names for things, make backups, use data validation to avoid data entry errors, and save the data in plain text files.

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Miri Forbes @miriforbes.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Now officially published in JPCS! psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202... I should also have highlighted these tables in my original post, which summarise the key differences in the higher-order and lower-order structures compared to HiTOP:

Table 1: A Summary of the Primary Differences in the Higher Order Structure of Our Findings Compared With the HiTOP Model

A version of the full table readable by screen readers is provided in the preprint in the linked post.

Table 2: Exemplar Symptoms and Syndromes With Diverging Placement in the Lower Order Structure Compared With HiTOP

A version of the full table readable by screen readers is provided in the preprint in the linked post.

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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Outstanding work by @alexdgibson.bsky.social to uncover the use of highly dubious data sets from @kaggle.com being used in hundreds of research papers and potentially even informing clinical practice. If you're re-using data, take the time to confirm that it's real. www.nature.com/articles/d41....

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Dozens of AI disease-prediction models were trained on dubious data

The models are designed to predict someone’s risk of diabetes or stroke. A few might already have been used on patients.

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Rob Calver @robcalver.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Very excited to announce that the #BayesianWorkflow book by @statmodeling.bsky.social, @avehtari.bsky.social, @rmcelreath.bsky.social et al publishes in June! routledge.com/9780367490140 #RStats #DataScience #Bayesian

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

SCORE, a collaboration of 865 researchers, is now released as three papers in Nature, six preprints, and a lot of data (cos.io/score/). SCORE examined repeatability of findings from the social-behavioral sciences and tested whether human and automated methods could predict replicability.

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SCORE | Center for Open Science

SCORE shows that there is no shortcut to producing credible research findings, and there is no single indicator of trustworthiness. Research progress depends on transparency, rigor, and establishing r...

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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

My new piece "Reproducibility: how to strengthen a weak foundation" is out today @nature.com! 🎉 How reproducible is research in the social & behavioural sciences? A new study by Miske et al. assessed 600 papers across 62 journals: the results are sobering. 📄 doi.org/10.1038/d415... 📄 rdcu.be/fbcq5

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Dax Kellie @daxkellie.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

galah 2.2.0 is on CRAN! 📦 🛡️ Authorised users can access sensitive data from the command line 🌏 GBIF gets full support for predicate or DOI queries, new support for the Flemish and Kew Gardens portals 🗂️ We’ve tidied scripts to be more versatile, efficient & consistent galah.ala.org.au/R/ #rstats

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Dave Hemprich-Bennett @davehb.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I’m not sure if I ever shared on Bluesky this article we wrote on how almost everyone giving career advice is susceptible to survivorship bias, but I think it was good and you should read it www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Beware survivorship bias in advice on science careers

For objective careers advice, talk to those who left science as well as those who stayed.

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

FAIR data and code is both the most boring part of Open Science, and the part that will most fundamentally change how science is done. This gap is regrettable, but understandable. Most scientists can't imagine what their science would be like if research outputs were FAIR.

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