Just bumped into my pal Claude on the Northern Line!

I reviewed Johann Hari's latest book, on Ozempic, for the Guardian. theguardian.com/books/2024/may… I was not a fan

Apparently, the new The BMJ meta analysis on psilocybin for depression contains errors that inflated effect sizes by 500%.

Really enjoyed this brief 2020 fantasy novel by Susanna Clarke!

Our first Metascience research grant call is now open!

In partnership with Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, Economic and Social Research Council is offering £5m of funding for research into more effective ways of conducting and supporting R&D. Individual projects can be up to £300k. More info here:

ukri.org/opportunity/uk…

Publication day (in the UK)! Go! Buy! Look how pretty it is! Buy! You can't afford NOT to! It's so pretty! Also the content is good but IT'S SO PRETTY geni.us/EIPBook

If the Times ran an article by an anti-vaxxer making arguments about risk that were as baseless as the ones here, they’d (rightly) get lambasted for it.

Hate to be *this* guy, but the p-values associated with these outcomes are p = .044, p = .011, p = .008, p = .076, p = .067, p = .094, p = .058, p = .039, p = .064, p = .05, p = .067, p = .014.

These results are interesting, but need replicating.

Now I know why the IQ test is called 'Raven's Matrices'!

How it started // how it’s going. AI safety is a massively important question and it doesn’t help to have silly nonsense like this on social media, making people take it less seriously!

New post!

I take you through what it's like to explore data through data visualization, focusing on causes of death.

How do you decide which chart is best? What do different visualizations tell you about the data? And why does dataviz matter at all?
scientificdiscovery.dev/p/four-charts-…

Dan Dennett was a great philosopher, skilled with words, images, thought experiments & intuition pumps. But unlike many clever philosophers (to borrow from PB Medawar) he had something important to be clever ABOUT, namely science. Much more yet, he was a dear friend. So very sad.

I’ve got the Studies Show epistemology duo on my shelf now Tom Chivers Stuart Ritchie 🇺🇦

A great use for AI: playing incredibly boring videogames like Red Dead Redemption 2, which no human should ever have to endure.