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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Tired of "methods sections" lacking detail? Check out our new preprint: "Ten simple rules for writing a reusable step-by-step protocol" 📢 This is not only for lab work. Detailed protocols are essential for reproducibility across ALL research fields 🔗 osf.io/preprints/me...

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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

There are still free spots for the 2nd edition of the 5-day course: "Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis in R", run in collaboration with the @eco-aeet.bsky.social This year we are running the event at beautiful and historic @ucoimbra.bsky.social (Portugal) Info: aeet.org/events/2026/... #rstats

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Course Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis in R, 2ed

This course provides a practical introduction to modern methods of evidence synthesis, with a focus on systematic review and meta-analysis in ecology and evolution.

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EXCELScIOR ERA Chair Project @excelscior-era.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

🎉 Great news! Our team member Thomas Feliciani @thofel.bsky.social is one of the winners of the University of Coimbra’s 7th Seed Projects for Interdisciplinary Research. Congratulations to Thomas and to all the awardees! 👏👏 @ucoimbra.bsky.social #CiBB #CNC-UC #SantanderPortugalFoundation

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MetaROR @metaror.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Our latest article uses simulations to "explore ways in which decision reliability, bias, extent of decision randomisation and other factors interact". Reviewers consider it timely and "methodologically sound" while challenging some of the assumptions and offering suggestions. 👇 Read it here

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Reliability, bias and randomisation in peer review: a simulation - MetaROR

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Thomas Feliciani @thofel.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Interesting new paper in PNAS: Kramer, B. L., & Lee, C. (2025). The rise of diversity terminology in biomedical research. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(34), e2401805122. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

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PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Thomas Feliciani @thofel.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Meta-research: Nature Human Behavior issues a correction for a 2023 article on "corrections" -- i.e., papers that correct misinformation. ___ Funny meta-correction -> Chan & Albarracin (2025) at doi.org/10.1038/s415... Original article -> Chan & Albarracin (2023) at doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Author Correction: A meta-analysis of correction effects in science-relevant misinformation - Nature Human Behaviour

Nature Human Behaviour - Author Correction: A meta-analysis of correction effects in science-relevant misinformation

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Thomas Feliciani @thofel.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Been playing with Multiple Neighborhood Cellular Automata (#MNCA). MNCA run surprisingly smoothly in R thanks to the efficient "terra::focal()" function, useful for running sequences of convolutions. Next challenge: finding interesting areas within the infinite-dimensional paramater space of MNCA.

This image uses a rainbow (Turbo) color palette to show the average value of raster cells across the first 500 iterations of a continuous-state MNCA, run on a Perlin noise field. Blue cells have a low average, meaning they have been mostly dead. Red cells have a high average and were thus mostly live. All colors in-between (green to orange) show cells that changed state during the simulation, revealing where activity occurred. The image reveals that the little activity that was observed occurred in the high-valued "islands" of the Perlin field, and was specifically concentrated around small, roundish clusters of stationary live cells.

This is another use of the rainbow color palette to show activity (via average values) for the first 30 iterations of a discrete-state MNCA -- of which I forgot the rules/parameters.

A discrete-state MNCA, shown at a particular iteration, with rules/paramteres similar to those reported by @Slackermanz in their guide at https://slackermanz.com/. Live raster cells (white) appear clustered in tighly-packed, bean-shaped blobs. Blobs look like biological cells that propagate slowing eating up all available empty space (dark gray).

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Thomas Feliciani @thofel.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

So it’s that time of the year again. #tulips everywhere :)

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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 💀Mar 14, 1884 Adriano Balbi died in Padua, Italy 🇮🇹 1829: The first comparative choropleth thematic maps, showing crimes against persons and crimes against property (with Andre-Michel Guerry)

A set of three choropleth maps of France, show (upper left) Crimes against persons, (upper right) Crimes against property (bottom) Literacy. In each one, the departments of France are shaded so darker = worse.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 05/03/2025

Nothing to see here, just Nature advocating LLM peer review. “Feed your dictated notes into an offline large language model (LLM) to clarify and organize your feedback. A simple prompt such as “Write a critical reviewer letter based on the following notes. Maintain a professional tone throughout”

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Three AI-powered steps to faster, smarter peer review

Tired of spending countless hours on peer reviews? An AI-assisted workflow could help.

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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 01/03/2025

Today’s been a long week

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Thomas Feliciani @thofel.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Awesome that this dataset exists! Bennett, J.S., Mutch, E., Tollefson, A. et al. Cliopatria - A geospatial database of world-wide political entities from 3400BCE to 2024CE. Scientific Data 12, 247 (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415... -- #map

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Cliopatria - A geospatial database of world-wide political entities from 3400BCE to 2024CE - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - Cliopatria - A geospatial database of world-wide political entities from 3400BCE to 2024CE

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Thomas Feliciani @thofel.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I'm "strangely attracted" to these. Video and pictures show (René) Thomas' attractor emerging from the sampling of the XY plane. For these visualizations, I set b=0.19 and initialized the orbits at z=1. __ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%... #Rstats #ggplot2 #viridis #generativeArt #mathArt

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Simone Conradi @sconradi.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Orbits: pure mathematical chaos creating organic art. Made with #python #matplotlib #numpy.

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Thomas Feliciani @thofel.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

This. 👍👍 Squazzoni, F. (2025). Editorial Note: We Need to Recognise That Peer Review is Central to the 'Social Contract' of Academic Citizenship. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 28 (1) 6 doi.org/10.18564/jas... -- #peerreview #jasss

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Editorial Note: We Need to Recognise That Peer Review is Central to the 'Social Contract' of Academic Citizenship

by Flaminio Squazzoni

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Thomas Feliciani @thofel.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Today we got perfect weather. Perfect for a pensive afternoon, that is.

A close up photo of the bright red vegetation growing on the ground, and bushes.

Wintery vegetation on a lake side. The dense fog makes it eerie.

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Any metric can and will be gamed. So we really need to think through the implications here. At first sight this is terrible: it kills replication & robustness in the cradle, pushing towards "new" stuff. Chasing the unexpected got the Gino and Ariely cases. www.nature.com/articles/d41... #EconSky

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Can novelty scores on papers shift the power dynamics in scientific publishing?

By providing measures of novelty, DeSci Publish hopes to shift the bargaining power between journals and authors.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 14/12/2024

As I mentioned three weeks ago, Jevin West and I are developing a sort of followup course to Calling Bullshit. We've got the basic scrollytelling tech worked out and now need to choose a design. We're not designers and would like to simply buy an HTML5 template if only for the colors and fonts.

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Calling Bullshit: Data Reasoning in a Digital World

The world is awash in bullshit. Politicians are unconstrained by facts. Science is conducted by press release. Higher education rewards bullshit over analytic thought. Startup culture elevates bullshi...

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Thomas Feliciani @thofel.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

A warning sign from a train station in Wallonia: “Tout contact avec les fils peut être mortel!” Hey, daughters can be dangerous, too!

A photo of the underpass wall where I found the warning sign, surrounded by graffiti. The sign reads:
Il est interdit, sur les quais des voies électrifiées
- de lever des objets de grandes dimensions;
- de toucher les fils, même tombés à terre.
Tout contact avec les fils peut être mortel !

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Thomas Feliciani @thofel.bsky.social · 23/12/2023

Gender homophily in research teams, communities fosters gender citation bias. A cool new paper in Research Policy [1] also covered by Nature News [2]. — [1] Zhou et al. 2024 — doi.org/10.1016/j.re... [2] Oza 2023 — doi.org/10.1038/d415...

A screenshot of the online article by Zhou et al. (2024) titled: “Gender homophily: In-group citation preferences and the gender disadvantage”.

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Thomas Feliciani @thofel.bsky.social · 22/12/2023

Found on Italian trains. This sticker forbids getting “on and off while the train is still moving”. They probably meant “on OR off”. And I get funny ideas. Train operators vs logical operators.

This is the photo of sticker glued to a train door. The sticker has a warning sign depicting a falling person followed by a message in Italian, English, French, and German. It reads:
“IT'S STRICTLY FORBIDDEN
To get on and off while the train is still moving.
To get on and off the train outside the platforms. To lean against the doors”.

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Beth Clarke @bethclarke.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

We’ve spent the last decade talking a lot about replications, but to what extent has this talk translated to a tangible change in how often replications are published in psychology journals? osf.io/preprints/ps... /w Katherine Lee, Sarah Schiavone, @mijke.bsky.social @simine.com (1/9)

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Federico Bianchi @federicobianchi.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

Still not sure of the numbers of the Italian community on this platform, but here it is: I've just published a book in Italian on mechanisms and models of social networks www.mulino.it/isbn/9788815...

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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

My dept. used to have methods groups, 'R Club', & hackathons. These were student led & vibrant. Those days are gone. Now, it's like pulling teeth to get students and faculty to even go to brown bags & once-a-term colloquia. I'm worried not just for open science but for our science across the board.

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Thomas Feliciani @thofel.bsky.social · 10/12/2023

Unpopular opinion (for R coders): |> > %>% And as an addendum: = > <- I know, I know, apples and oranges. But I do prefer apples. — #r #rstats

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Thomas Feliciani @thofel.bsky.social · 09/12/2023

Hello new platform, hello world! Ready to make noise. That is, Perlin noise. With R package “ambient”. And“ggplot2” for rendering. Post-processing with Snapseed. Cheers.

2D Perlin noise rendered with a colorful palette. Intermediate values are rendered in pastel light blue shades and serve as background. Areas with more extreme values appear as “islands”: green-yellow-red for high values and blue-fucsia-white-red for low values. Random grain perturbations are added for texture, and a faux tilt-shift effect makes the 2D plot look like a macro photo of some colorful print.

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