The Wire is shocked to hear of the sudden death of Steve Albini. Yesterday we were excited to announce the new issue of the magazine with a cover story on his group Shellac. Now it has become a memorial to Steve. We send our condolences to his family, friends and colleagues. RIP.

Exciting news: our paper "Naturalizing Relevance Realization" has just been accepted in Frontiers Psychology! You can downloaded the final submitted version here: osf.io/preprints/osf/…. Many thanks to co-authors Anna Riedl Alex Djedovic @vervaeke_john and Denis Walsh!

I’m super proud to share that we’ve published a unique mixed-methods case study into day-by-day patterns of chronic self-injury and aggression. A thread! doi.org/10.1186/s12888… (1/6)

Bonus edition for a very normal man

1/ The “evidence-based therapy” game—explained with 🥞 I have a pancake recipe. I do randomized controlled trials (RCTs) showing that people like my 🥞 better than getting no breakfast at all My🥞are now “evidence-based” & yours aren’t. I start telling everyone my🥞are superior

I see synthetic data hailed as an exciting solution for a multitude of problems and I find its introduction into complex social systems the most troublesome. 1/

*taps the sign*

This Australian data scientist has some thoughts about AI and the current state of his industry ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fu…

I still can't get over how bad AI has become. And this is coming from a computer scientist who spent over a decade studying and programming AI. I fucking LOVE AI, but here are 10 reasons I absolutely fucking hate it now, a 🧵 ...

Eva Hoeke schreef een brief over de ‘grootstedelijke achtergrond’ die veel columnisten zouden hebben. Naar aanleiding van die brief turfde ik de woonplaatsen van 113 stukjestikkers. Daaruit wordt duidelijk dat kranten inderdaad best andere stemmen kunnen opzoeken. 🌎👇🏼

I’m happy to share that my paper “Is Quantitative Measurement in the Human Sciences Doomed? On the Quantity Objection” has been accepted for publication by The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. Check it out here: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73… Or ask me for a copy!

"The university has an obligation to interrogate the proposition that a world in which AI is widely used is desirable or inevitable. We don’t need to cheer for a vision of tomorrow in which scientists feel comfortable with not reading articles ...." uniavisen.dk/en/cut-the-ai-…

Last week, our article „How to measure and model personality in everyday life“ was officially accepted at JRP🥳 You can find the accepted manuscript here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Philosophers! Uwe Peters is running a survey on the challenges of doing philosophy in English, comparing native & non-native speakers' experiences. It’s anonymous, takes <15 min, and your input would be hugely valuable! survey.uu.nl/jfe/form/SV_7a…

After retraction and the authors providing their narrative, a blog by Joe (who w Berna raised the original concerns) arguing the authors downplay the issues. “virtually none of the analyses matched the preregistration.“ joebakcoleman.com/blog/2024/prot…

Ok I backtrack everything I said, something is *VERY* rotten in the state of Open Science. This doesn't just look very bad, this *IS* very bad. Some serious soul-searching or even better some serious psychoanalysis is needed here. joebakcoleman.com/blog/2024/prot…

It's out! AI as framed is impossible: venture capitalist lies & academic-bro grifting during the rise of fascism & the fall of university funding. And these guys — we all know who they are — side with those destroying consuming and eating the world. Link below!

Newsletter: We need to stop covering everything that Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman and Elon Musk does, and stop acting as if they're somehow smarter, better or superior to the rest of humanity. They're conning the media, and something has to change. wheresyoured.at/rockstars/

This one is now in print - as part of a special issue at Computational Brain & Behavior on "What makes a good theory?" link.springer.com/article/10.100…

The result of 30 years of research and debate in psychology: