Reposted by Wes Bonifaypixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy 164116482493
Wes Bonifay @wesbonifay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Just replace "work of fiction" with "research paper" 060
Reposted by Wes BonifayBurak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Come and join us @sriucl.bsky.social We’re looking for an Assistant Professor in Quantitative Social Science with a research agenda on the environment and/or climate change, and expertise in causal inference. See full details and apply 👉🏼 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... 25868
Reposted by Wes BonifayAshley Watts @ashleylwatts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026🌟 Vanderbilt Psychology has an open rank position available in our clinical area! Job ad here: apply.interfolio.com/194049 (Note that this position is separate from our other psych department's asst prof search: apply.interfolio.com/194058) RTs appreciated!! 01818
Reposted by Wes BonifayRuss Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 22/09/2026The published version of my paper "Understanding, Prediction, and Compression" is now online at Synthese: rdcu.be/svRh41KcQytardcu.be 13111
Wes Bonifay @wesbonifay.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I have gifted this book to at least 5 new parents. Kids seem to prefer it over Marcuse's rejection of the performance principle in The Aesthetic Dimension 010
Reposted by Wes Bonifaydomi @domi.zip · 09/09/2026imagine you are killed while your brain is scanned by beings you cannot comprehend to comprehend and you wake up in a virtual purgatory waving swords around 26535107
Reposted by Wes Bonifaykottke.org @kottke.org · 24/08/2026Meat proxy (noun): “A person who forwards AI-generated text, code, or other output without reading, understanding, or validating it. The person acts only as a relay between the AI system and the intended recipient.” [sfisms.org]sfisms.orgMeat proxyA person who forwards AI-generated text, code, or other output without reading, understanding, or validating it. The person acts only as a relay between the AI system and the intended recipient. 14740331
Reposted by Wes BonifayJoseph Sexton @josephfsexton.bsky.social · 21/08/2026📝 Excited to share an accepted first-authored paper at Clinical Psych Science! Why are so many mental disorders treated as unidimensional? We show support for 1-factor models is often just an artifact of conventional psychometric methods -- which weren't designed with psychopathology in mind. 4387
Reposted by Wes BonifayWes Bonifay @wesbonifay.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Some good examples of what I’m trying to find: van der Maas & Wagenmakers (2005) measuring chess ability where items = “choose-a-move” board positions; Moral et al. (2019) measuring soil fertility where items = sand/silt/clay content, etc. Others? 001
Reposted by Wes BonifayMichael "Shapes Dude" Betancourt @betanalpha.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Most people read papers like this, which is why captions are critical to engaging with your audience. Captions need to be self-contained, explaining why the figure/plot is meaningful. (Another insight from www.principiae.be/X0100.php).principiae.beTrees, maps, and theoremsTrees, maps, and theorems 2219
Wes Bonifay @wesbonifay.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Some good examples of what I’m trying to find: van der Maas & Wagenmakers (2005) measuring chess ability where items = “choose-a-move” board positions; Moral et al. (2019) measuring soil fertility where items = sand/silt/clay content, etc. Others? 001
Wes Bonifay @wesbonifay.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I'm looking for published papers showcasing creative uses of item response theory, including studies with unusual item types (e.g., audio stimuli) and/or those in contexts beyond ed/psych measurement (e.g., using chemical mixtures as "items" to measure exposure burden; Liu et al. (2022)). Any ideas? 596
Reposted by Wes BonifayArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Mephisto, by Joaquín Espalter y Rull, 1872, 📸 by Dan Mullan 2682492421
Reposted by Wes BonifayRian Nejar 🦋 @riannejar.bsky.social · 13/07/2026𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐊𝐨𝐥𝐦𝐨𝐠𝐨𝐫𝐨𝐯 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞, 𝐊𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐚'𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐠𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐦, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 [via @sciam.bsky.social] 🧪🥼✖️➕ "Karatsuba’s genius was realizing that you can trade expensive, time-consuming multiplications for cheap, fast additions." www.scientificamerican.com/article/math... #MathSky #complexityscientificamerican.comMathematicians still don’t know the fastest way to multiply numbersA 23-year-old student overturned an ancient conjecture about one of math’s simplest operations 0135
Reposted by Wes BonifayAshley Watts @ashleylwatts.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Excited to share a paper recently accepted at Nature Mental Health! 😄 For decades, we've assumed that covariance among psychopathology informs comorbidity. What if we’ve been wrong? 913461
Reposted by Wes BonifayNorm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026I never had a teacher believe in me like this. 305303726
Wes Bonifay @wesbonifay.bsky.social · 19/06/2026This article doesn’t address the real hack: choose a starting word with common consonants instead of common vowels. Try CRWTH 230
Reposted by Wes BonifayDavid Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Scientific journal editor here: If you're invited to peer review an article and you can't do it, please just click "no." That tells me "this person can't do it, I should invite someone else." Otherwise the system waits 3 weeks to tell me that you didn't respond and I should invite someone else. 211434
Wes Bonifay @wesbonifay.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Agent based model or drone footage of Limp Bizkit in Greece? 010
Wes Bonifay @wesbonifay.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Handmade lino block print of Claude Shannon that I commissioned from www.etsy.com/shop/minouette 030
Reposted by Wes BonifayMaggie Serota @maggieserota.bsky.social · 31/05/2026If I were an action hero, this is what I’d say to the bad guy before the kill shot. 125136952066
Wes Bonifay @wesbonifay.bsky.social · 22/05/2026This semester I taught a new class, Statistical Model Evaluation, that covered frequentist, Bayesian, and information-theoretic philosophies and methods of model evaluation. Each week students had to submit a 1-page reaction to an assigned reading, along with a question to discuss in class 190
Reposted by Wes Bonifay404 Media @404media.co · 17/05/2026Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme... 677129433328
Reposted by Wes BonifayEize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 05/05/2025I will never stop talking about this: The lovely and profound "If we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known" is from an NYT article about the author accidentally being CC'd on an email where his friends were making fun of him for renting goats. 262803921
Wes Bonifay @wesbonifay.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Graphic designers: I designed this in PowerPoint but printing company needs a PDF. But export to PDF messed up the kerning (see “ia” in “Williams”). It looks great in pptx, just not after exporting. Any ideas? 420
Reposted by Wes BonifayAidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Classic academic's wikipedia page arc 710125
Reposted by Wes BonifayCabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 11/05/2026this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't. 991272896878
Wes Bonifay @wesbonifay.bsky.social · 02/05/2026If only psych measurement was as straightforward and practical as physical measurement 070
Wes Bonifay @wesbonifay.bsky.social · 23/04/2026This is great! (Paper was helmed by the brilliant @winterstat.bsky.social and two former students from my IRT course.) 050
Reposted by Wes BonifaySimon Hammann @simonhammann.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey. 191958537
Wes Bonifay @wesbonifay.bsky.social · 07/04/2026If you're attending @ncme38.bsky.social this week, stop by the "Majestic" room on Thursday @ 1:45p to hear about our majestic new project on "Corroborative factor analysis." 001
Wes Bonifay @wesbonifay.bsky.social · 06/04/2026If I had any students to advise, I'd start a reading club where we'd talk about the composition of creative prose. I'd have them dissect Nicholson Baker's novella about riding an escalator to buy shoelaces & they'd probably hate it but at least learn that boring topics don't require boring writing 170
Reposted by Wes Bonifayceej @ceej.online · 04/03/2025how lucky I am to have fifty incredible years of posting ahead of me 2665643
Wes Bonifay @wesbonifay.bsky.social · 14/03/2026That which can be depicted with a simple photograph need not be generated with a complex prompt 051
Reposted by Wes BonifayMiguel Ohnesorge @miguelohn.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Now out: How did earthquakes come to have a (quantitative) size? How can we quantify without experimental control? @cristianlarph.bsky.social and I answer both questions and show their implications for human science measurement. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #philsci #histsci #seismologysciencedirect.comLessons for human science measurement from the quantification of earthquake sizeIt remains controversial whether the human sciences can quantify the phenomena they study. The feasibility of quantification is usually assessed by id… 13717
Reposted by Wes BonifayDavid Powell @davidpowell.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Believe in your work. Stop ending papers with “More research is needed” and start concluding with “No more research on this topic is needed.” 1118332
Reposted by Wes BonifayDavid Powell @davidpowell.bsky.social · 02/03/2026I know I’m a good reviewer because authors always thank me for my helpful comments. 09913
Reposted by Wes BonifayRuth Graham @ruthgraham.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Costco Connection magazine just published a full article about why and how to stop your car 811243167
Wes Bonifay @wesbonifay.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Interesting story about legendary Bayesian Sir Harold Jeffreys refusing to update his priorlindahall.orgHarold JeffreysHarold Jeffreys, an English geologist, was born Apr. 22, 1891. Jeffreys was perhaps the leading geophysicist of the early 20th century, and in 1924, 020
Reposted by Wes BonifayJon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 25/02/2026where do you think the term occam’s razor comes from? i suspect it originates from the Oceanic Coastal and Continental Alliiance of Magistrates (OCCAM), an ancient global court system that was founded in what we understand to be the 14th century, but what they know to be the 32nd. they were feared t 1795396
