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Aristotle was the first to notice honeybees dancing. In 1927 Karl von Frisch decoded the waggle. How it works was "explained" by MV Srinivasan AM FRS in the 1990s. Except Laura Luebbert, PhD found his papers are junk. A 🧵 about her discovery & our report: arxiv.org/abs/2405.12998 1/

⚠️ Your periodic reminder that if you respond to a line chart by saying "y-axis should start at zero", I will assume the following: ⚠️ 1) You know less about data and charts than someone who knows nothing about data and charts 2) You wear a fedora and refer to women as "m’lady"

Excellent blog by the wonderful Tris Papakonstantinou

Please RT: I'm very excited to launch Malengo Inc.'s new Kenya–Germany Vocational Training Program for Refugees! We provide one year of intensive language training in Kenya, followed by 1–3 years of vocational training in Germany to become e.g. a nurse. 1/3 malengo.org

Announcing the launch of the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: oecs.mit.edu! OECS is a freely-available, growing collection of peer-reviewed articles introducing key topics in cogsci to a broad audience of students and scholars.

Bye, Bye Rotterdam 👋. Team UCL Experimental Psychology (here with past and future members and some more even missing) had a lekker time at this year's CogSci Society conference. Thanks for all the great talks, posters, and interactions with awesome colleagues and friends.

One of, if not THE, best visualisation of the meaning of confidence intervals. I love it!

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Free Textbook on Applied Regression and Causal Inference statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/07/30/fre…

One year teaching focused position (0.8FTE) at UCL Experimental Psychology. If you have a PhD in psychology and like London, it might be for you.

Tutorial: Using R’s Distribution Functions in Stan Models (external C++) discourse.mc-stan.org/t/tutorial-usi… Also a good demo of how to include custom c++ code via cmdstanr.

So anyway here's a 7-year-old reddit post with 12 upvotes about higher order moments of statistical distributions that's actually really insightful, even for kurtosis.

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Would you trust tour children’s university education to these people? #uclgrad UCL Psych & Lang Sci John Greenwood (@jagreenwood.bsky.social) Lasana Harris Henrik Singmann Prof Jenni Rodd Anne Schlottmann Benedetto de Martino

Long overdue #tweeprint: ✨The generalised hierarchical Gaussian filter✨ Ever wanted to build your own hierarchical Bayesian learning model without deriving/implementing new equations? Ever wondered how the HGF relates to predictive coding? See here👇 arxiv.org/abs/2305.10937