If you like Metascience, come by June 25th in Oslo! We are in Norway for a lab retreat, and will present work on effect size interpretation and Metacheck. See you there!
ONH Metascience Symposium 2026 | Oslo Nye Høyskole oslonyehoyskole.no/Arrangement/...
Nice read
As phrases to describe the various ways we make errors, I very much like the concepts of Type S and M error (wrong direction and magnitude, respectively)
But I never considered critiques of their utility as *formal* statistical concepts
Nice nuance in Discussion. Learned a lot
Genuinely unsure how this will play out for science.
We have tools to do better science. Make fewer errors. Eliminate menial tasks
But also to produce sloppier science. Make more errors than ever before. And create even more need for AI to help clean up the mess
The case study has already begun.
The 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics has been awarded to the R Project. #RStats
www.rousseeuwprize.org/2026
Complexity is ubiquitous in the world around us. But different stimuli are complex for different reasons. Does the mind nevertheless represent a ‘unified’ notion of complexity across domains?
In @nathumbehav.nature.com, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I show the answer is: yes! osf.io/preprints/ps...
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.
Funniest workshop I went to in grad school was an even split of cognitive scientists (slides), linguists (15 page 10pt handout), and philosophers (reading prepared text verbatim!!!) We were all so scandalized by each others' talk norms, it was a great ice breaker.
Happy to see my PhD work on birdsong complexity published today! doi.org/10.1098/rspb... 🐦⬛ 🎶 ⬇️
Why are some birdsongs simple and some extremely complex? The answer is long thought to be ‘sexual selection favouring complex signals’. But - really?
Abstract. Acoustic signal complexity varies widely in animals, from single notes to highly sophisticated vocal displays. In birds, vocal complexity can evo
Our new paper, Rethinking Type S and M Errors, is out. We argue that these statistics do not facilitate the proper design of studies or the meaningful interpretation of results.
doi.org/10.1177/2515...
Marko Bajlovic
The R Foundation
Daniel Lakens
Nicholas A. Coles, PhD
Nicholas A. Coles, PhD
Calle Börstell
tal boger
Seeing how these results are based on 2024 AI models, and based on my experience with agentic AI (such as Claude in VS Code, where it has access to data and the paper, and can iteratively run analyses) it seems clear that in the future AI will assist researchers in reproducibility checks.
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