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Ilya Kashnitsky
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Demographer / Senior Researcher @dst.dk / Affiliate Member @oxforddemsci.bsky.social‬ / Board @demografi.dk
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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · 20d
Was, and hopefully will be
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mpidr.bsky.social Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 27d
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Süßmilch Lecture at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR)
Putting Science Before #Statistics
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📅Oct 21, 2025
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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · 20d
Fantastic discussion lecture at @mpidr.bsky.social by @rmcelreath.bsky.social 😍

I cannot agree more with @ezagheni.bsky.social who introduced the guest as a true renaissance scientist of today 💎

Very thought provoking. I hope it will add to the collection of those "embarrassing" YouTube footage 🙃

Reposted by Richard McElreath, Emilio Zagheni, Ilya Kashnitsky

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 27d
💻Join online! 🎧
Süßmilch Lecture at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR)
Putting Science Before #Statistics
🗣️Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ MPI-EVA Leipzig
📅Oct 21, 2025
🕒3 pm CEST
✏️Sign up now:
https://ow.ly/uxfc50Xb5Yx

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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · 27d
Just brainstorming:

"hunt" instead of "check"?
smth like WeirdHunt, IssueHunt, TroubleHunter

PitStop

Reveal...

OddOneOut

Sniffler

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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · 28d
Yes, I mean it in the best post-blind-metrics-following way

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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · 28d
Oooh! It's sometimes terrifying how prevalent GS bragging is outside the more informed strata of the academics. And if we step just a bit outside academia, it's too often taken non-critically. Also, NL is among the most bibliometrics aware countries, I feel, probably thanks to Leiden

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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · 28d
Can a marriage contract be considered a preregistration that you would rather not fulfill?

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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · 28d
This is interesting. Yes, practices vary wildly. I think, in social sciences the thresholds for defining authorship were usually rather high. And some corners of demography are simply too close to epi/ph/med where norms are different. But I think the blank reliance on metrics is too common around me

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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · 28d
True. But in a way it is a separate problem of seniority power abuse in academia. Inflating the meaning of co-authorship is not a solution to it, I think

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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · 28d
Agree. Co-authorship system is rigid and as dated as publishing model itself. CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) is one approach. But the problem usually lies in the adoption 🙃

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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · 29d
We need fractional counting and a system where co-authors are required to "slice the pie", then adding free-riding passengers will become costly

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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · 29d
Yeah, I'm not saying it is easy to come up with good universally working definitions, nor that ICJME managed to produce such criterions. I'm rather saying that no attempts of authorship definition would elevate partial data curation to full co-authorship

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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · 29d
Different bodies try to standardize what should constitute a contribution worthy of co-authorship. In medical field on of the more reputable ones is ICMJE
www.icmje.org/recommendati...
There are others too. None of them suggest that providing a handful of data points should grant co-authorship

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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · 29d
🚀 ready to launch 🚀

🤝 write to me before Friday if you are in Copenhagen and want to visit the meeting offline at Statistics Denmark
skagerrak.bsky.social Skagerrak Demographic Series @skagerrak.bsky.social · 29d
Our first seminar in the Skagerrak Demographic Series is scheduled in one week, on Monday 20th October 2025, at 11:00 CET.

Lars Thygesen will give a talk titled The History of Admin Based Statistics in Denmark.

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Skagerrak Demographic Series
Vi er en forening for alle med interesse i demografiske processer og ændringer i befolkningens sammensætning | We bring together people in Denmark interested in population dynamics, foster a policy re...
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Skagerrak Demographic Series @skagerrak.bsky.social · 29d
Our first seminar in the Skagerrak Demographic Series is scheduled in one week, on Monday 20th October 2025, at 11:00 CET.

Lars Thygesen will give a talk titled The History of Admin Based Statistics in Denmark.

Join us in Teams by a link here
demografi.dk/skagerrak
Skagerrak Demographic Series
Vi er en forening for alle med interesse i demografiske processer og ændringer i befolkningens sammensætning | We bring together people in Denmark interested in population dynamics, foster a policy re...
demografi.dk

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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · 29d
I wrapped up my scattered comments on IHME into a blog post

🔗 ikashnitsky.phd/2025/ihme-bibl

tl;dr: avoid getting unwarranted co-authorship recognition and do apply some sort of contribution-weighted thinking when evaluating someone's publication record based on bare numbers
Beyond Fraud: How IHME Distorts Academic Metrics
Dr. Ilya Kashnitsky is a demographer @ Statistics Denmark.
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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · 29d
These are produced via perplexity (which I mostly use) that routes image generation requests to openai/dalle

Perhaps worth noting that gemini blankly refused to produce an image. Do I believe this answer? 🙃😅

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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · 29d
Here's a cool prompt that I recently saw and decided to try: "Based on what you know of me, draw a picture of what my life currently looks like"

Lots of curious stuff in the images: runes, a gaming PC connected to a (?) mouse, coffee called data.frame, Dessearch notes, a running shoe on the desk 🤩

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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · Oct 10
In addition to the main message of this presentation, Marco Sanguinetti (www.marcosanguinettimusic.com) showcases his joint work with Laura Varsky (lauravarsky.com.ar) on visualizing his music 🤩
#dataviz

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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · Oct 10
😍 just wow ❤️
www.pechakucha.com/presentation...
Thanks to @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social I learned today of the PechaKucha presentation format — 20 slides, 20 seconds each, auto progressing 💡
So, visiting the website, I just clicked the presentation of the day button — and wow 😍

Reposted by Arthur Charpentier, Ilya Kashnitsky, Baptiste Coulmont

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Guillaume Noblet @gnoblet.bsky.social · Oct 10
One of my graph has just entered the "best" section of the r-graph-gallery.com with a tutorial.

Featuring a waffle chart for time series, where the subtitle serves as a colorful legend.

Thanks a lot to @yan-holtz.bsky.social and @soeundataviz.bsky.social for adding it! #rstats #dataviz #ggplot2

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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · Oct 10
Amazing quote! I also feel a permanent fascination by the world of *open* source/science/books/courses. The best teachers I had designed open-book exams ❤️
#OpenScience #foss #rstats

Let me suggest a beautiful and extremely relevant talk on this by @drob.bsky.social
🔗 posit.co/resources/vi...

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Reposted by Evan Roberts

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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · Oct 7
🤩 here's an exceptionally curious (brilliant?) way of showing disparities that are observed today. Yet, with a caveat that the countries lagging behind will likely cover much of the path much faster. I wonder how critical this limitation is for the most likely reading of the figure? #demography

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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · Oct 6
Nice place! What are those vases/capsules?

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Thom Volker @thomvolker.bsky.social · Oct 6
How cool is this?! Positron opens a HTML color picker when typing a HTML color in your script.

#RStats #dataviz

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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · Oct 6
Becoming run addict 🙃
During summer vacation I started running every day, and so far (to my lasting surprise) I keep it going (or maybe even running). Every day, usually except Mondays and Fridays when I commute to Copenhagen. And I already notice positive changes in muscle tone and general energy 🫶

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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · Oct 6
Thank you! It's very likely that I had exactly this paper in mind. Somehow, I was under the impression that it was very fresh (2024/25), maybe this is just memory's aberration

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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · Oct 5
I would greatly appreciate it if you share the list 🙏

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Ilya Kashnitsky @ikashnitsky.phd · Oct 5
btw do you know of academic papers that critically examine this #bibliometrics exercise? (I vividly remember coming across a very convincing vivisection of this paper/dataset and the harms it casts on scientific community)