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Road sign showing the way to the Willis Roundabout.

When you feign agraphia:

Always a red flag when people cite a 20yr paper for a question we have much better data on today. On the left is the race/ancestry clustering from Tang et al 2005, and on the right is the race/ancestry clustering for modern biobanks collected over the past few years.

Nice! Here we have an interesting paper using genetic ancestry to classify race/ethnicity in modern data and algorithms. Let's take a look at what this paper found: 🧵

The distrust must be hard to deal with.

Gay men are less prone to violence than straight men; lesbians are more prone than straight women. [Link below.]

Sketchy neuroscience diagrams #3436. An extra lobe between the parietal and frontal, which apparently contains the temporoparietal junction.

The Thai version of the Boston Cookie Theft Picture, from: Gandour, J. (1982). A diagnostic aphasia examination for Thai. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 6(2), 65-76. doi.org/10.32655/LTBA.…

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"Is the list of Highly Cited Researchers losing credibility?" Really interesting article from Lauranne Chaignon writing on LSE Blogs. Lots to take home from this article, but I was drawn to the history of highly cited researchers. I recently wrote an article titled "More

A great biology post, worth a read.

And IQ is educable, so together they make a strong argument for the importance of education.

If you work in psychology in an area without Registered Reports, you will see that the main hypotheses in papers are almost always supported. If your peers publish Registered Reports, you will also have access to null results, which should be very common. doi.org/10.1177/251524…

At this stage you aren't even a real Harvard professor if you haven't been busted for faking data. But Harvard is complicit, running a workplace where profs are pressured to publish dozens of Q1, novel, empirical research studies every year, year in year out- an impossible task.

Only just noticed this (while working a paper about fatal errors), James Reason, the eminent expert on accidents and behavioral control errors, died in February. He had a great name for a man dedicated to the study of why people act they way they do. archive.ph/HYlw5