Richard D. Morey
@richarddmorey.bsky.social
Statistics, cognitive modelling, and other sundry things. Mastodon: @richarddmorey@tech.lgbt
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Paper drop, for anyone interested in #metascience, #statistics, or #metaanalysis! @clintin.bsky.social and I show in a new paper in JASA that the P-curve, a popular forensic meta-analysis method, has deeply undesirable statistical properties. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/?
"It’s ironic, of course, that much of the research driving our understanding of AI is produced by universities themselves."
Yeah, maybe think about that one for a minute...?
Yeah, maybe think about that one for a minute...?
Opinion: “It’s difficult to think of another sector that has so dismally failed to strategically engage with the transformative potential of information technology.”
🖊️ Ian Richardson #highered #EduSky
https://ow.ly/zXc850Xpvbu
🖊️ Ian Richardson #highered #EduSky
https://ow.ly/zXc850Xpvbu
November 11, 2025 at 8:36 AM
"It’s ironic, of course, that much of the research driving our understanding of AI is produced by universities themselves."
Yeah, maybe think about that one for a minute...?
Yeah, maybe think about that one for a minute...?
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November 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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OutKast is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame:
“We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”
“We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”
November 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
OutKast is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame:
“We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”
“We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”
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Managers cite concern for students in everything they do, but never actually prioritise student opinion or voices in any of their decision making. They do irreparable harm to student courses and turn around to staff and ask: ‘right: how can we improve student satisfaction and recruitment?’
We've had 2 massive mergers in 2 years. In both cases, QMUL refused to hear students (staff was told not to talk about it with students for fear of repercussions), and *after* both of them, management said 'our bad, we'll talk to students next time'.
#UKHE managers don't prioritise students.
#UKHE managers don't prioritise students.
Did @uniofnottingham.bsky.social consult any students before announcing the proposed course closures? @uonucu.bsky.social
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
November 10, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Managers cite concern for students in everything they do, but never actually prioritise student opinion or voices in any of their decision making. They do irreparable harm to student courses and turn around to staff and ask: ‘right: how can we improve student satisfaction and recruitment?’
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Hard to think of anything in media that regularly brings me as much pure joy anymore as the headline in The New York Times' Trilobites section.
November 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Hard to think of anything in media that regularly brings me as much pure joy anymore as the headline in The New York Times' Trilobites section.
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Someone at a Russell Group university was moved to almost-poetry by their Faculty Meeting… Can anyone do better?
November 7, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Someone at a Russell Group university was moved to almost-poetry by their Faculty Meeting… Can anyone do better?
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Finnur Dellsén got a nice pic of me on my standard Q&A slide, so now I have a stock reply to any time anyone disagrees with me.
November 7, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Finnur Dellsén got a nice pic of me on my standard Q&A slide, so now I have a stock reply to any time anyone disagrees with me.
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I am honestly sick of being told — at a university FFS — that we need to ‘embrace’ this profoundly unethical and irresponsible technology.
He started using ChatGPT for help with homework and eventually it ended up helping him to commit suicide...
"thank you for letting me ride with you to the end"
"may your next save file be somewhere warm"
"see you on the other side"
#NihilismAndTechnology
"thank you for letting me ride with you to the end"
"may your next save file be somewhere warm"
"see you on the other side"
#NihilismAndTechnology
November 7, 2025 at 7:40 AM
I am honestly sick of being told — at a university FFS — that we need to ‘embrace’ this profoundly unethical and irresponsible technology.
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🚨🚨🚨 The jury has reached a verdict. Sean Dunn, aka the DC Sandwich Guy, has been found NOT GUILTY of assault.
November 6, 2025 at 7:25 PM
🚨🚨🚨 The jury has reached a verdict. Sean Dunn, aka the DC Sandwich Guy, has been found NOT GUILTY of assault.
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I'd like to re-up this paper we published last year bec I believe it makes a fundamental contribution to theoretical metascience but it is woefully underappreciated. We address a key challenge in estimating the reproducibility of a result: The distance of a replication study from the original. 1/n
November 5, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I'd like to re-up this paper we published last year bec I believe it makes a fundamental contribution to theoretical metascience but it is woefully underappreciated. We address a key challenge in estimating the reproducibility of a result: The distance of a replication study from the original. 1/n
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NEW: Footage of a US citizen in Chicago being rammed then dragged from her car on her way to work.
Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours.
She was later released with NO CHARGE.
A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”.
You decide…
Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours.
She was later released with NO CHARGE.
A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”.
You decide…
November 3, 2025 at 7:14 PM
NEW: Footage of a US citizen in Chicago being rammed then dragged from her car on her way to work.
Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours.
She was later released with NO CHARGE.
A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”.
You decide…
Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours.
She was later released with NO CHARGE.
A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”.
You decide…
time travel assassination targets
normal people: Hitler, Stalin, Leopold II
data analysts: whoever invented dates
normal people: Hitler, Stalin, Leopold II
data analysts: whoever invented dates
November 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
time travel assassination targets
normal people: Hitler, Stalin, Leopold II
data analysts: whoever invented dates
normal people: Hitler, Stalin, Leopold II
data analysts: whoever invented dates
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If you want to understand the emotional end intellectual malaise of British politics, this piece by @mjrobbins.com is a pretty good place to start. It effectively describes a country that has gone mad. open.substack.com/pub/martinro...
November 3, 2025 at 7:20 AM
If you want to understand the emotional end intellectual malaise of British politics, this piece by @mjrobbins.com is a pretty good place to start. It effectively describes a country that has gone mad. open.substack.com/pub/martinro...
I feel like it would be more fun if the Uni turned mandatory training imto "achievements" and let me track them on Steam
my knowledge of Hume has unexpectedly come in handy for my fire safety training test
October 31, 2025 at 11:09 AM
I feel like it would be more fun if the Uni turned mandatory training imto "achievements" and let me track them on Steam
my knowledge of Hume has unexpectedly come in handy for my fire safety training test
October 31, 2025 at 10:25 AM
my knowledge of Hume has unexpectedly come in handy for my fire safety training test
There's not much in the blog post I disagree with, but I do want to clarify why a request for vetting by statisticians is not an invitation to "arguments from authority". When we "vet" something, we do more than ask someone what they think. Obviously if we just asked for a statistician's 1/x
New blog post: Why we should stop using statistical techniques that have not been adequately vetted by experts in psychology daniellakens.blogspot.com/2025/10/why-... where I reflect on how we should check the quality of novel statistical techniques.
October 30, 2025 at 5:17 PM
There's not much in the blog post I disagree with, but I do want to clarify why a request for vetting by statisticians is not an invitation to "arguments from authority". When we "vet" something, we do more than ask someone what they think. Obviously if we just asked for a statistician's 1/x
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This honestly should be required reading for anyone undertaking (or evaluating) exploratory studies... ⬇️👍 (It's proper funny too 😅)
Which reminds me of this old classic on the Noise Miners.
“'Noise mining is a funny thing,' he said. 'When you first see a bit of noise, it doesn’t look so impressive. But as you work it out of the rock, it gets more and more refined.' This process, he explained, is called 'shucking.'"
“'Noise mining is a funny thing,' he said. 'When you first see a bit of noise, it doesn’t look so impressive. But as you work it out of the rock, it gets more and more refined.' This process, he explained, is called 'shucking.'"
October 30, 2025 at 10:05 AM
This honestly should be required reading for anyone undertaking (or evaluating) exploratory studies... ⬇️👍 (It's proper funny too 😅)
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"All those barely literate rubes using ChatGPT are merely being played like a fiddle by the corporations, and producing worthless slop. Only I, with my towering intellect, have figured out how to make it generate greatness." —every GenAI-using asshole out there
When Using AI, Users Fall for the Dunning-Kruger Trap in Reverse - Neuroscience News
A new study reveals that when interacting with AI tools like ChatGPT, everyone—regardless of skill level—overestimates their performance.
neurosciencenews.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:19 AM
"All those barely literate rubes using ChatGPT are merely being played like a fiddle by the corporations, and producing worthless slop. Only I, with my towering intellect, have figured out how to make it generate greatness." —every GenAI-using asshole out there
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TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
www.python.org
October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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New blogpost on @elife.bsky.social's new Replication study type deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/10/prob.... tldr = I think it's doomed.
#Replication #Publishing #Reproducibility
#Replication #Publishing #Reproducibility
Problems with ELife's new article type: Replication studies
I was interested to receive an email from eLife last week, telling me that "As part of our commitment to open science, scientific rigour ...
deevybee.blogspot.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:33 AM
New blogpost on @elife.bsky.social's new Replication study type deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/10/prob.... tldr = I think it's doomed.
#Replication #Publishing #Reproducibility
#Replication #Publishing #Reproducibility
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Look. At. Him.
Look at him!!!!
Look at him!!!!
October 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Look. At. Him.
Look at him!!!!
Look at him!!!!
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Find a principle and stick to it. That’s my advice. Find a principle you won’t have to abandon because the politician with whom you’re in a very committed parasocial relationship said something dumb again
October 25, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Find a principle and stick to it. That’s my advice. Find a principle you won’t have to abandon because the politician with whom you’re in a very committed parasocial relationship said something dumb again
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This is how UK politics has felt to me for a while now. A group of sensible centrists sitting round like the aristocrat and the tourist in that Bavarian cafe, sure they can control this whole mess as ever more of the country gets up and starts singing along around them. Tomorrow Belongs To Me indeed
Real Tomorrow Belongs To Me vibe in Katie Lam
October 25, 2025 at 8:46 AM
This is how UK politics has felt to me for a while now. A group of sensible centrists sitting round like the aristocrat and the tourist in that Bavarian cafe, sure they can control this whole mess as ever more of the country gets up and starts singing along around them. Tomorrow Belongs To Me indeed