Reposted by Inigo Urrestarazu-PortaClaire Contraire @clairecontraire.bsky.social · 09/08/2026A hobbyhorse of mine. I think that one great source of confusion in causal analysis is that causality itself is not a statistical concept, but it so happens that a lot of our statistical toolkit(s) are necessary to help us empirically analyze causal questions. 1122
Reposted by Inigo Urrestarazu-PortaBerna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 30/07/2026this rings to me very close to scientists hoping if they do everything by the book the nature will confess its secrets without a doubt. there is no book that can conveniently remove all uncertainty. we are never promised answers. human relationships are way more precarious. so many unknowns, 1133
Reposted by Inigo Urrestarazu-PortaBerna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 27/05/2025There is no "science-wide replication crisis" because every word in that phrase carries unfounded assumptions. 🧵 1. There is no evidence that progress has generally stalled in the sciences. Also, no one has actually tried to estimate replicability across fields. 1026392
Reposted by Inigo Urrestarazu-PortaBerna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I was just reminded of this thread and given this new "Science: A New Golden Age" report, I think it's time to re-up it. We should all stop attributing a number of different observations, symptoms, grievances, and vibes about science to a replication crisis. That would be the responsible conduct. 02611
Reposted by Inigo Urrestarazu-PortaStephen Wild @stephenjwild.bsky.social · 20/07/2026One thing I think that think conversation is often missing (which Frank covers in this post, albeit in different language) is that we need to define characteristics for which we want our sample to be "representative" of the target population and then *explicitly state how we achieve it.* 2161
Reposted by Inigo Urrestarazu-PortaKonrad Hinsen @khinsen.net · 06/07/2026New blog post: "Conviviality in computational science" blog.khinsen.net/posts/2026/0... "Conviviality matters for science ... if you want to derive knowledge from your work, you need to know exactly what you are doing, and that includes a detailed understanding of your tools." 🧪 #metascienceblog.khinsen.netKonrad Hinsen's blog 34416
Reposted by Inigo Urrestarazu-PortaOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 06/07/2026> Conviviality can only happen if a majority of a community adopts it as a value. What small groups of people can do, however, is develop and use convivial tools at their modest scale, to [...] provide a model that others can learn from if they want to. — @khinsen.net 17114
Reposted by Inigo Urrestarazu-PortaMercedes Durham @drswissmiss.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Clear points about why AI-generated summaries are problematic despite claims by some that they're supposedly less problematic than other genAI use. Can I summarize this long text for you? NOPE, NOPE, NOPE 03716
Reposted by Inigo Urrestarazu-PortaClaus Wilke @clauswilke.com · 25/06/2026People always say "tell a story" but then don't explain how to do so! How is that helping? If we knew how to tell a story we wouldn't need the advice in the first place. 1/ 27833
Reposted by Inigo Urrestarazu-PortaThe Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 24/06/2026How about a “do better statistics” movement? Or “be clear about what you did and saw” manifesto? Or “share your fuckin phage libraries” declaration? Or, critique people’s data on PubPeer? Proviso: I don’t have any familiarity with psychology, where I guess this fooferaw started. 161
Reposted by Inigo Urrestarazu-PortaThe Monarch Diaries @monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 24/06/2026@devezer.bsky.social has the hands-down best perspective on this “reproducibility crisis” people like to bray about. Statistical rigor, data access, transparent experimental design, research material sharing have always been crucial and sometimes problematic. The “crisis” is a fake moral panic. 393
Reposted by Inigo Urrestarazu-Portasamuel mehr @mehr.nz · 05/03/2026pasted in text, all spacing changes, inconsistently throughout the doc. manually updating headings one by one since document-wide styles breaks spacing. added a numbered list and the numbers are in a different font than text. wtf do people know that normal software doesn't act this nuts??? 7683
Reposted by Inigo Urrestarazu-PortaChelsea Parlett @chelseaparlett.bsky.social · 14/06/2026ATTENTION EVERYONE! I sewed Nova a bucket hat🥹🧵🪡 69213
Reposted by Inigo Urrestarazu-PortaNoel Nguyen @noelnguyen.bsky.social · 08/06/2026At long last, our meta-analysis covering close to 70 studies conducted over the last 25 years on phonetic convergence between speakers in speech is out in the Journal of Phonetics authors.elsevier.com/c/1nEdMLix~5... @laboratoire-parole-et-langage @ilcb.bsky.social @montclair-state-university 173
Reposted by Inigo Urrestarazu-PortaEkaitz Santazilia @esantazilia.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Testu zaharretan laburdurak ohikoak dira, latinez bereziki. Euskaraz, haatik, zailagoak dira aurkitzen. Horra bi adibide, #Munarritz-en (#Goñibar) agertu berri den testu honetan (XVIII.-XIX. m): ▶️ lezaq > Lezake ▶️ gurutceareq > Gurutzearekin #euskara 022
Reposted by Inigo Urrestarazu-PortaBerna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Wonderful news! Journal of Research on Research is launched. "if you are a researcher who researches any aspect of research, then this is the journal and community for you." Worth reading the whole editorial for a transparent and thoughtful account of this amazing community-driven effort. 111042
Inigo Urrestarazu-Porta @urrestarazu.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Don’t really know what the Times says, but I’m pretty sure one could do an amazing sociolinguistics experiment on this. Shame I don’t have neither the time nor the money to do it myself 010
Reposted by Inigo Urrestarazu-PortaIris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 17/05/2026"Fake citations have turned into a nightmare for research librarians, who by some estimates are wasting up to 15 percent of their work hours responding to requests for nonexistent records that ChatGPT or Google Gemini alluded to." open access link: archive.ph/qt59c 2/🧵rollingstone.comAI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real JournalsAcademic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself. 22879456
Reposted by Inigo Urrestarazu-PortaBerna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 21/05/2026the metascience feed has two modes: 1. i saw some research i didn't like so it's p-hacked 2. there's this shady research practice hence the replication crisis the more these terms have been adopted, the more their meaning got diluted to ultimately stand for nothing but content-free critical vibes 1212
Reposted by Inigo Urrestarazu-PortaNicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 18/05/2026If you're a #QuartoPub or #RStats user, you might find it hard to find information about how those work with #GitLab. So here's a blog post showing you a few different ways to deploy Quarto documents with GitLab Pages! (Featuring penguins 🐧obviously ) Link: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/deploy-...nrennie.rbind.ioDeploying Quarto documents with GitLab – Nicola RennieGitLab is a common alternative to GitHub, and you can publish Quarto documents that are hosted via GitLab fairly easily. This blog post documents how to do it. 05017
Reposted by Inigo Urrestarazu-PortaBerna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 17/05/2026many dysfunctions of academic publishing get exposed by way or llm use, and i keep hoping we'll realize how poorly we've been doing so many things, but we end up focusing on llms as the root cause. i've read so many unrealistic, utopic statements about how scientific practice allegedly works. 1395
Inigo Urrestarazu-Porta @urrestarazu.bsky.social · 14/05/2026I have been using Whisper for the last couple of years, and it has gotten sensibly worse in the last months (perhaps a year?) 000
Inigo Urrestarazu-Porta @urrestarazu.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Okay, @glossapsycholx.bsky.social, we need to talk… 000
Reposted by Inigo Urrestarazu-PortaJulia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 13/05/2026You can now watch Jeremy's excellent talk on the term "association" and what it's even supposed to be referring to on YouTube. Must watch if you're doing associational research! www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKdC...youtube.comJ Labrecque | Association. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it meansYouTube video by the Causal Inference Interest Group (CIIG) 16120
Reposted by Inigo Urrestarazu-PortaMattan S. Ben-Shachar @mattansb.msbstats.info · 10/05/2026When I was still a neurocognitive psychologist it always seemed absurd when finding something in the brain was presented as if it validatwd the realness of the behavioral finding. Where do these people think behavior comes from? I was thought we settled the dualism/monism debate a while back... 1113
Reposted by Inigo Urrestarazu-PortaProf. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 10/05/2026No one should ever use this b.s., especially not in the social sciences. The fact that we’re constantly inundated by this stuff is atrocious for the future of research. 15811
Reposted by Inigo Urrestarazu-PortaJosef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Now on LingMethodsHub, @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social's tutorial on multitaper spectra in R!lingmethodshub.github.ioGenerating and analyzing multitaper spectra in R – LingMethodsHubThis is a tutorial showing how to generate multitaper spectra in R and how to compute spectral moments and DCT coefficients from multitaper spectra. 194
Reposted by Inigo Urrestarazu-PortaVincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Do you know a good framework to document data analysis choices? Ex: dropping obs, recoding a var, tuning pars, model + test statistics, etc. Ideally human-readable so people don't have to read my entire codebase. Low-maintenance+ machine-readable for bonus points! #RStats #PyData 83512
Reposted by Inigo Urrestarazu-PortaIris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 16/02/20253 main take aways: (1) Scientific inference cannot be automated or proceduralized. (2) Not heeding the warning in (1) will necessarily limit our ability for scientific discovery and understanding. (3) The only way not to limit scientific discovery is to allow for unbounded pluralism. /end 16413
Reposted by Inigo Urrestarazu-Portaelia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 01/05/2026How does one even react to such daily savagery 1207100
Reposted by Inigo Urrestarazu-PortaBerna 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 15547205
Reposted by Inigo Urrestarazu-PortaEileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil was killed today in a targeted Israeli strike. The IDF fired live rounds and stun grenades at the Red Cross ambulances trying to reach her. She is the 4th journalist killed by Israel while in the field since 2 March. Photo via X @HindRFoundation. 8440326
Reposted by Inigo Urrestarazu-PortaMai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Harrowing news as journalist Amal Khalil has been killed by Israel in a strike on Tayri in south Lebanon in violation of the ceasefire. Israeli forces prevented the Red Cross from rescuing her. This on the eve of Israel-Lebanon talks tells you everything you need to know. 4182123
Reposted by Inigo Urrestarazu-PortaJake Godin @godin.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Particularly alarming that this includes Lebanon & Gaza. I had just shared imagery from March 18 showing the demolition of villages along the southern border of Lebanon by the IDF and now not even that imagery is available: bsky.app/profile/godi... Mass demolitions haven't stopped in Gaza, either. 8409257
Reposted by Inigo Urrestarazu-PortaOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 05/04/2026Anybody who isn't cooked by hype and has worked with these systems knows the technicians do tons of preprocessing, that racism and sexism are built-in due to the datasets, and that a doctor in the loop is invaluable. 1230692
Reposted by Inigo Urrestarazu-PortaRicardo Gómez López @filoblogia.bsky.social · 31/03/2026#EMHA Euskara munduko hizkuntzalaritza argitalpenetan Zuloaga, Eneko & Dorota Krajewska. 2026. Basque catechisms in the Early Modern period. In E. Parina & D. Bronner (arg.), Contents of faith in transfer. Berlin, Heidelberg: J. B. Metzler. doi.org/10.1007/978-... 🔓doi.orgBasque Catechisms in the Early Modern PeriodThis paper provides an overview of Basque catechisms published during the Early Modern period, specifically between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. We have established a corpus of 75 printed d... 011
Reposted by Inigo Urrestarazu-PortaOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 27/03/2026Pretty sure this will be reversed once legal notices... who knows... but it should be only opt in as I understand GDPR Regardless, use it as an excuse to tell your university to move off this platform 48031
Reposted by Inigo Urrestarazu-PortaEmanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 26/03/2026after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...404media.coWikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.” 10982802298
Reposted by Inigo Urrestarazu-PortaJeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 26/03/2026We don't have to submit. I've said a long time that inevitability is the first lie of fascism. Think about that when AI boosters say there's no choice. There is. There always is. 530292
Reposted by Inigo Urrestarazu-PortaRichard 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 Inigo Urrestarazu-PortaJulia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 21/03/2026Psychology has a whole cottage industry in which people come up with some construct that is essentially "attitudes/beliefs/expectations/feelings about X", and then the central claim is that this construct is a super important determinant of future X outcomes.> 1416837
Reposted by Inigo Urrestarazu-PortaRichard McElreath 🐈⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Like many methodologists, I often find myself arguing with someone that their method/epistemology makes no sense. That someone thinks I am arguing against their *conclusions*. But I am arguing they have no justification for their conclusions. Is there a philosophical term for this problem/confusion? 158912
Reposted by Inigo Urrestarazu-PortaRichard McElreath 🐈⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 26/02/2026"the paper’s main outcome variable cannot possibly be constructed as described in the paper." Retraction of 2023 paper that did not use the reported variables. The replication report is astonishing www.nature.com/articles/s41... Pre-publication peer review remains undefeated in laundering bullshit 35014
Reposted by Inigo Urrestarazu-PortaFrank Harrell @f2harrell.bsky.social · 18/02/2026#Statistics thought of the day: If you think you can find new disease subtypes by empirically clustering patients, think again: www.fharrell.com/post/cluster... #StatsSkyfharrell.comThe Burden of Demonstrating Statistical Validity of Clusters – Statistical ThinkingPatient clustering, often described as the finding of new phenotypes, is being used with increasing frequency in the medical literature. Most of the applications of clustering of observations are not ... 24315
Reposted by Inigo Urrestarazu-PortaBerna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 13/02/2026On the publication bias discourse, I regret that metascience has become a source of decontextualized, low-res, bean-counting-focused `science is in crisis' narratives. It is largely uncurious abt science, desperately lacking in theory & measurement. I'll quote a few takes I liked & add my thoughts🧵 312232
Reposted by Inigo Urrestarazu-PortaJulia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 11/02/2026A variation: Scientists who claim they’re “not interested in causality” because they assume the term only applies to deterministic, law-like relationships that are unrealistic in their field. Instead, they’re interested in how “X drives Y”, the effects of X, the “extent to which X matters for Y”> 89317
Reposted by Inigo Urrestarazu-PortaRichard McElreath 🐈⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 04/02/2026I am doing a short workshop in this symposium (quoted below) for folks in and around Leipzig. Here's the abstract. I really indulged myself with this one. A Guerilla Approach to Scientific Workflow: 37014
Reposted by Inigo Urrestarazu-PortaEkaitz Etxeberria Gallastegi @ekaitzetxeberria.bsky.social · 04/02/2026📢 🏰 Aurten ere Historia Euskaraz hitzaldi zikloa bueltan da! Oraingoan EHUn egiten ditugun ikerketak zabaltzea asmoa daukan ekimena Gasteizko Bibat museoan izango dugu. Otsailaren 11tik martxoaren 4ra, asteazkenero, 19:00etan. Animatu zaitezte! 0108