I'd be happy if colleges would at least flunk STEM majors who don't understand basic statistics...
“I'm just *describing* the fact that I'm inferring causation from correlation!”
Just learned about this route finding site for the Roman world!
orbis.stanford.edu
Just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to relying on third-party, proprietary, heavily subsidized, cloud-based LLM-behemoths for everyday work — let alone production pipelines!
Periodic reminder.
Reminds me of the noticeable higher citation counts of @arxiv.bsky.social submissions that appear first in the announcement lists: arxiv.org/abs/0907.4740
A similar effect may be happening here: just appearing first in the journal webpage could boost the citation count.
Occult phrases to strike horror into the souls of overworked academics:
"Account created in manuscript central"
#3/5 of our open Postdoc positions will critically examine mathematical modelling from a human angle and seek to empower people to discuss and question mathematical models.
We believe that if models can be challenged in new ways, modeling can only profit.
#human_progress
hifmb.de/institute/hi...
Reminds me of the noticeable higher citation counts of arxiv submissions that appear first in the announcement lists: arxiv.org/abs/0907.4740
A similar effect may be happening here: just appearing first in the journal webpage could boost the citation count.
I am so excited about this: We are doing a new kind of project with the aim of transporting knowledge and methods from the humanities into a natural science context.
We'll have 5 full 3yr postdoc positions!
I will post more in the coming week. But here is a preview:
hifmb.de/institute/hi...
arXiv.org mediates contact with the literature for entire scholarly communities, both through provision of archival access and through daily email and web announcements of new materials, potentially m...
The HUMAN PROGRESS project aims to advance research in the natural sciences by drawing on methods, insights, and knowledge from across the humanities and social sciences. In doing so it also offers fr...
The HUMAN PROGRESS project aims to advance research in the natural sciences by drawing on methods, insights, and knowledge from across the humanities and social sciences. In doing so it also offers fr...
hifmb.de
arXiv.org mediates contact with the literature for entire scholarly communities, both through provision of archival access and through daily email and web announcements of new materials, potentially m...
Huh — Claude Code won't help me update my website to add a paper about Bundibugyo...
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
Just the presence of the strings in some yml files now flags the Usage Policy. 🙃
This paper and its findings are *nuts* if you start to think about all the irreversible bumps that folks who landed in these “article number 1” slots received… 🫣
5️⃣/🔟 In Scientific Reports, 5 of the top 10 most cited articles have an article number of 1.
5️⃣/🔟 In Nature Communications the same: 5 of the top 10 are article 1s.
Coincidence? 👇
scirate.com/arxiv/2511.0...
I think not.
An ongoing outbreak of Bundibugyo virus disease (BVD) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was deemed a public health emergency of international concern in May 2026. To prevent cross-border importa...
www.medrxiv.org
Tamás Kriváchy
5️⃣/🔟 In Scientific Reports, 5 of the top 10 most cited articles have an article number of 1.
5️⃣/🔟 In Nature Communications the same: 5 of the top 10 are article 1s.
Coincidence? 👇
scirate.com/arxiv/2511.0...
I think not.
Tamás Kriváchy
I'm a radical centrist: I think colleges should flunk STEM majors who can't write a coherent paragraph *and* humanities majors who don't understand basic statistics
