Last week, I mentioned this in passing in a workshop:
In 1938 Enrico Fermi won a Nobel Prize for discovering two new elements of the periodic table.
Lise Meitner shortly showed that Fermi was mistaken and instead had produced known lighter elements by fission.
She did not win a Nobel prize.
Richard McElreath 🐈⬛
Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.
Immigration make Britain brilliant
Tim Onion
"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
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Dave Vetter
A review of the proceedings from four major computer-science conferences showed that none from 2021, and all from 2025, had fake citations.
arxiv.org/abs/2602.058...
#AI #LLMs #Hallucinations #Misconduct #ScholComm
In this enormous meta-research project we put claims in social-science papers to the test and the results from the project have now been published in Nature.
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Led By Donkeys
"If I hated to be the bearer of bad news, I wouldn’t have specialized in research methods."
New blog post: Evaluating Dr. Cuddy’s Claim that the Debunking of Power Posing is a Myth.
daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/05/eval...
On an AI generated description of a non-existent study, incorrectly citing findings from studies, and the importance of scientific criticism.
Mysterious citations are routinely appearing in peer-reviewed publications throughout the scientific community. In this paper, we developed an automated pipeline and examine the proceedings of four ma...
One of the arguments put to me re: scientific reform is essentially that it will sort itself (poor science is ignored) but of course things only get sorted if scientists are *constantly* doing the difficult work of evaluating competing claims, so "grey" science doesn't spread.
holy shit
Stop scrolling and learn bayes theorem
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Daniel Lakens
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New blog post: Evaluating Dr. Cuddy’s Claim that the Debunking of Power Posing is a Myth.
daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/05/eval...
On an AI generated description of a non-existent study, incorrectly citing findings from studies, and the importance of scientific criticism.
stop scrolling and learn statistics like 50% is more than half of a pie
In this blog post I will analyse the arguments that Dr. Amy Cuddy provided in a blog post “The "Power Posing Was Debunked" Myth: What the Re...
Today, the SCORE program releases its primary results! 865 researchers examined research credibility across the social and behavioral sciences, publishing three papers in Nature + five preprints.
📑 Explore the papers: www.nature.com/colle...
ℹ️ Read more about SCORE: www.cos.io/score
Daniel Lakens
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Sweeping new investigations probe the replication, robustness and reproducibility of results across the behavioural and social sciences.
stop scrolling and learn statistics like coin flip probability
Richard D. Morey
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New blog post! Let's say an effect you are interested in varies between countries and you want to explain some of that cross-cultural variation.
What could possibly go wrong?
www.the100.ci/2026/05/20/f...
Header image: Moderate cross-country slopes (Photo: By Erik W. Kolstad - Flickr, CC BY 2.0,)
Here’s a particular genre of article that relies on multiple data collection sites, such as studies anal...
