leonhard volz @levolz@qoto.org
Psychological Methods Research Master | Universiteit van Amsterdam | he/they | Open Science
Joined Nov 2022
@brembs I don't think it's in there either, but there's definitely a plethora of crises going on - so adding *this* reproducibility crisis seems fine by me
@brembs
I am not sure if the title necessarily implies there is no reproducibility crisis yet? The point that there might be a crisis purely based on misapplied AI methods, regardless of a repro crisis for other reasons, seems to be reasonable to me
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New preprint on data citations in OpenAlex:
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2308.04379
What I find most interesting about this study is that it investigates who produces and who cites datasets. The production of cited datasets is concentrated in a few countries, whereas data reuse is distributed more evenly. Still, it appears that the reuse and citation of datasets produced in another region is common in all regions.
@juli_nagel
The DMC code can be found here (it's only a suite on OSF): https://osf.io/5yeh4/
However, the lab is currently developing an encompassing R package with new sampling procedures etc - the DDM tutorial is here: https://bookdown.org/reilly_innes/EMC_bookdown/using-emc2-for-eams-i---ddm.html
Feel free to reach out if you have questions
@brembs
The Netherlands have this rolled out nationally (via @surf@social.edu.nl) - contrary to what the article suggests, this is accessible to everyone with a Dutch university account (uptake is a different issue, though)
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Finally, a solution to the unfairness of authorship ordering in scientific papers! 😂
"Every Author as First Author"
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I find it weirdly striking of how much in this debate just seems like a "affirming the consequent" fallacy - in what world is the brain is a computer => a computer is a brain sound in any way?!
Similarly, granted that a bunch of human learning is associative - that doesn't mean all of it is, or that any associative learning would be human
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Here is your must-read article for the day, a profile of @emilymbender, and her efforts to deflate the ridiculous hype around large language models such as ChatGPT.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-emily-m-bender.html
#openscience / #datasharing in the 1980s, everyone...
@ https://physionet.org/content/mitdb/1.0.0/
Pretty interesting take on ChatGPT and education - thoughts that can be viewed more broadly than writing: https://biblioracle.substack.com/p/chatgpt-cant-kill-anything-worth
(h/t @puntofisso)
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@adam42smith @petersuber @mike @alexh
I was surprised to learn some onths ago, that the expertise at the European Commission on the academic publishing sector is excellent. Every time there is a market analysis they routinely come to the same conclusion, for more than 20 years now, namely that it is a monopolistic sector:
http://bjoern.brembs.net/2022/04/eu-academic-publishers-are-monopolists/
Got around to read "Things Could Be Different" by Adam Mastronni & Ethan Ludwin-Peery (https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/things-could-be-better / https://psyarxiv.com/2uxwk) and something about it just hits different - it's accessible to a degree that less interesting studies of the same quality just are not
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This is fascinating! The Braille Institute has developed a font - free to download - that's designed to be clearer for readers with lower vision.
An example of one of the aspects of low legibility that they tackled attached.
It's named Atkinson Hyperlegible. Atkinson was the Institute's founder - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Atkinson
Here's where you can read about the font and download it: https://brailleinstitute.org/freefont
Via @tombofnull
@ivanflis that hits a bit close to home... "remember these days where you actually had snow in the winter?"
Psychological Methods Research Master | Universiteit van Amsterdam | he/they | Open Science
Joined Nov 2022
