After tenure, professors' teaching evaluations get a little bit worse
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

When Big Pharma wants 'Unbiased Academic' support for some new medication, it will write up a manuscript and then pay some academic to be on it, sometimes pretending to be the sole author🤯
Amazing evidence from legal discovery of Merck doing this
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

The interesting thing, the authors note, is how the errors in speed of light measurements are clustered in time:
- a bunch that are too high <1930
- a bunch too low in 1930-40

The pioneers of preregistered reports are ... nuclear physicists?
annualreviews.org/content/journa…

“Scientists with East Asian and African names are less likely to be mentioned or quoted in stories that reference their work.” Findings from a study of US based media coverage by Hao Peng Science of Science David Jurgens summarised by Katie Langin science.org/content/articl…

Pretty funny how inelastic professors' response rates are to $$$

Social scientists are broadly in favor of making code/data available, more mixed on preregistration.
Econ has the largest gap between supporting preregistration and actually doing it.
nature.com/articles/s4146…

Instructors: 'We should teach students the value of organizing and democracy, because they will use those skills to improve society'

The students:
change.org/p/donna-fekete…

Contact hypothesis is probably wrong when it comes to wealthy people's exposure to poor people and support for redistribution, positive link in observational studies is probably selection bias

😍 looks good, adding to the to-read queue.

In general, there should be a *lot* more work in law and any other field that draws on academic research about research quality issues

cornelllawreview.org/2021/03/27/lit…

College admission essay content has a stronger correlation with household income (R2 = 16%) than SAT scores.
This explains how removing standardized tests can increase inequality.
Based on 240,000 admission essays to the University of California. science.org/doi/full/10.11…

SOCIOLOGISTS: we are writing an annual review article about word embeddings in sociology. If you have a published article or draft manuscript you've written using word embeddings (including LLMs like BERT/GPT3/...), please drop me a line with a URL so we can include it.

psycnet.apa.org/record/2019-79…

How to explain different findings on the effects of gun violence? It's because work that has found large effects on vote doesn't account for parallel trends violations.

Once corrected, shootings show little evidence of sparking large electoral change

cambridge.org/core/journals/…

2019: Need NeurIPS papers to get postdoc/faculty position.

2024: Need NeurIPS papers to get PhD student position.

2029: Need NeurIPS papers to get into undergrad program.

2034: Admission to NeurIPS onsite daycare requires accepted paper.

'The cost of peer review was estimated at $1,272 per person, per year'
…rchintegrityjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

One of the greatest MYTHS in cultural psychology is collectivists (e.g. Asians) don't compete––they are a kumbaya/harmonious/lovey dovey bunch who prioritize interpersonal relationships, unlike those individualistic Americans who are self-serving and competitive. 1

💥New: Researchers with minority ethnic names are written out of US science journalism

Hao Peng Science of Science & David Jurgens #AcWri #SciComm wp.me/p4m9em-cXz