Bring on boring

Hi peeps!

Moritz Heene, Ben Domingue, Marcos Jiménez, and I wrote an uncomplicated introduction to representational measurement theory (RMT).

You can read the preprint here: osf.io/preprints/psya…

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Boring science is the new novel in a world where everyone is striving to be novel and no one is answering any questions.

Philosophy, fuck yeah!
Comin' again to save the motherfuckin' day, yeah
Philosophy, fuck Yeah!
Reason is the only way, yeah
Sophists, your game is through
'Cause now you have to answer to
Philosophy, fuck yeah!

I’m seeing some “free market” simps defending Nature’s 12k open access fees. Guess it’s time to bring this back around.

Interested in research training (esp. in open research) and meta-research? BristolUniPsych is advertising a two-year fixed term role, with the possibility of a further two-year extension... jobs.ac.uk/job/DHB970/lec…

This first episode of Christie Aschwanden new Scientificamerican podcast Uncertain was absolutely wonderful... I felt a real pang of emotion walking along listening as she read 'A Note' as well.

Will be recommending to my students in future!

scientificamerican.com/podcast/episod…

The freedom, empowerment & contentness that comes from rejecting formal academic advancement in order to focus on what one knows to be the core ethical & moral reasons for doing good social science is incredible. It's a very privileged position I know, but it is attenable 👌🍄🐬

I genuinely don't understand how #LivingSystematicReviews can be supported by anyone other than a professor with tenure or a government body? They're relatively knew and I've already seen several 'living reviews' die. #EvidenceSynthesis

Sight-reading this new pack is 🔥🔥🔥 Beat Saber

Quote with a celebrity you‘ve been told you look like

How intellectually nihilistic ya feeling today?
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An interesting feature of Brunt's (1917) approach to what we would now call meta-analysis (MA) is that his weights are like fixed effects MA but his overall variance estimation is like random effects MA. jameslindlibrary.org/articles/an-ea…

Check this out! The newest version of the effectsize package looks absolutely awesome. In due time this stuff will be incorporated into the Guide to Effect Sizes and Confidence Intervals!

Been getting back into Beat Saber after a few months of not playing