Excited to announce a new paper in PNAS today! An illusion of predictability in scientific results: Even experts confuse inferential uncertainty and outcome variability pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Joint w/ great coauthors Sam Zhang is logged off, Patrick Heck, Michelle N. Meyer, Christopher Chabris & Dan Goldstein

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Weird getting an email with a $10K bill for a journal publication fee, followed by an email requesting to review a paper for the same journal for free. Feels like being a victim in some kind of a pyramid scheme

This does not mean that biodiversity is not declining, simply the uncertainty is too high to detect trends in biodiversity, and for a whole bunch of reasons that’s actually not too surprising - we discuss this in the #OA paper.

New study - using methods that appropriately recognise uncertainty, the authors could not find a single increasing or decreasing trend in 10 major biodiversity datasets They say this emphasises how little is known about biodiversity change at large scales nature.com/articles/s4158…

Postdocs are already the most exploited segment in the academic system, but this great article lays bare how harsh the reality can be in Africa. The figure on pay disparity is jarring. Is the knowledge created by African scientists really worth 5-10x less than their US colleagues

Something in the pipeline for the #EarthEngine data catalogue Simon Ilyushchenko ? I can register a dataset request if that would help. #LULC #EOChat

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Never felt so ethically conflicted when considering journals for my paper. It is mind-boggling that the article processing charge costs as much as a Macbook Pro. Scientific publishing industry is exploitative and broken. Shame on you Nature Portfolio

Academic ironies

Israel is hellbent on taking N. Gaza. The IDF burns, destroys, and razes every building after pushing out the Palestinians it does not kill or bury inside the rubble. No war crime like it has occurred anywhere since WW2. And the US-EU look on... theguardian.com/world/2024/nov…