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/?
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Since Groundhog's Day we have announced the #2026MMM theme: March Mammal Madness Celebrates LIBRARIES! We've released the calendar, opened the Educator MMMaterials request form, & crafted a sheet of combatant Valentines! All available at the LibGuide: libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalM...
LibGuides: March Mammal Madness: Home
The official home for March Mammal Madness tournament information and resources! If you're learning, you're winning! Welcome to the official home of March Mammal Madness!
libguides.asu.edu
February 12, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Since Groundhog's Day we have announced the #2026MMM theme: March Mammal Madness Celebrates LIBRARIES! We've released the calendar, opened the Educator MMMaterials request form, & crafted a sheet of combatant Valentines! All available at the LibGuide: libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalM...
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we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
February 10, 2026 at 8:18 PM
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
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Online #rstats conference Feb 25-26 is *free* for everyone. Almost all the speakers and workshop leaders are LGBTQ+ 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ and many are members of the rainbowR community 🌈
Sessions include a 2-hour "Intro to R" and closing keynote on Claude Code from @hadley.nz 🧠
16:00 UTC or 11am Eastern ⏰
Sessions include a 2-hour "Intro to R" and closing keynote on Claude Code from @hadley.nz 🧠
16:00 UTC or 11am Eastern ⏰
We have a fantastic programme of talks, workshops, and socials.
Speakers include @hadley.nz, @daphna.bsky.social, @frick.ws, @oberman.bsky.social, @jasminedaly.bsky.social, @ryantimpe.bsky.social, @ursula.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
Full details at conference.rainbowr.org
Speakers include @hadley.nz, @daphna.bsky.social, @frick.ws, @oberman.bsky.social, @jasminedaly.bsky.social, @ryantimpe.bsky.social, @ursula.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy
Full details at conference.rainbowr.org
– rainbowR conference
conference.rainbowr.org
February 10, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Online #rstats conference Feb 25-26 is *free* for everyone. Almost all the speakers and workshop leaders are LGBTQ+ 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ and many are members of the rainbowR community 🌈
Sessions include a 2-hour "Intro to R" and closing keynote on Claude Code from @hadley.nz 🧠
16:00 UTC or 11am Eastern ⏰
Sessions include a 2-hour "Intro to R" and closing keynote on Claude Code from @hadley.nz 🧠
16:00 UTC or 11am Eastern ⏰
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Only British Vogue has the courage to publish true science as it was practiced in the 18th century Transactions of the Royal Society
February 10, 2026 at 10:34 AM
Only British Vogue has the courage to publish true science as it was practiced in the 18th century Transactions of the Royal Society
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crickets from the free speech crowd, of course
FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.
February 8, 2026 at 3:35 PM
crickets from the free speech crowd, of course
I see someone has made a "fun" interface for the Epstein files because everyone seems to be having fun searching them. Trust me: you will regret it after you stumble on a grooming email. *That* stuff is in there, not just powerful people being awful. It isn't fun. Maybe leave it to the journalists.
February 5, 2026 at 6:34 PM
I see someone has made a "fun" interface for the Epstein files because everyone seems to be having fun searching them. Trust me: you will regret it after you stumble on a grooming email. *That* stuff is in there, not just powerful people being awful. It isn't fun. Maybe leave it to the journalists.
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
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Shocking. The argument is so simple but surprising at the same time. I would never have thought about this in practice. Another reason why we should be very careful when operating under "previously established protocols".
February 3, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Shocking. The argument is so simple but surprising at the same time. I would never have thought about this in practice. Another reason why we should be very careful when operating under "previously established protocols".
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Important insight. In a world with all near zero imprecisely-estimated effect sizes, decline would be observed merely because of the convenience of coding originals in the same direction to compare effect size shifts in the aggregate.
How much does it bias systematic replication projects? Good Q!
How much does it bias systematic replication projects? Good Q!
New draft: "Decline effects, statistical artifacts, and a meta-analytic paradox". In this manuscript I show how a common practice in meta-analysis (eg the 2015 Open Science Collaboration) creates artifactual signatures of poor scientific behavior. PDF: raw.githubusercontent.com/richarddmore... 1/x
February 2, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Important insight. In a world with all near zero imprecisely-estimated effect sizes, decline would be observed merely because of the convenience of coding originals in the same direction to compare effect size shifts in the aggregate.
How much does it bias systematic replication projects? Good Q!
How much does it bias systematic replication projects? Good Q!
This also goes for scientific conferences in the USA: just, no.
Professional athletes are being advised not to leave the hotel or go anywhere without their passports while visiting Minnesota.
This is not a country that can safely host international events like the World Cup.
Boycotting is not even a political question anymore. It is a basic issue of safety.
This is not a country that can safely host international events like the World Cup.
Boycotting is not even a political question anymore. It is a basic issue of safety.
The Montreal Canadiens are playing the Minnesota Wild in Minneapolis tonight. The players have been recommended to stay in/eat at the hotel, take the team bus to the arena, and carry passports.
Perhaps we shouldn't be hosting the World Cup and the Olympics...
Perhaps we shouldn't be hosting the World Cup and the Olympics...
February 2, 2026 at 7:04 PM
This also goes for scientific conferences in the USA: just, no.
New draft: "Decline effects, statistical artifacts, and a meta-analytic paradox". In this manuscript I show how a common practice in meta-analysis (eg the 2015 Open Science Collaboration) creates artifactual signatures of poor scientific behavior. PDF: raw.githubusercontent.com/richarddmore... 1/x
February 2, 2026 at 2:56 PM
New draft: "Decline effects, statistical artifacts, and a meta-analytic paradox". In this manuscript I show how a common practice in meta-analysis (eg the 2015 Open Science Collaboration) creates artifactual signatures of poor scientific behavior. PDF: raw.githubusercontent.com/richarddmore... 1/x
there are so many bad things going on in the USA that I don't know what bad stories are intended by the administration to be distractions from which other bad stories
February 1, 2026 at 8:14 PM
there are so many bad things going on in the USA that I don't know what bad stories are intended by the administration to be distractions from which other bad stories
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🧪 It's been 10 years since Dorothy Bishop and I published a commentary in Nature about the risks of transparency. doi.org/10.1038/529459a
1/10
1/10
February 1, 2026 at 6:12 PM
🧪 It's been 10 years since Dorothy Bishop and I published a commentary in Nature about the risks of transparency. doi.org/10.1038/529459a
1/10
1/10
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February 1, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
February 1, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
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Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
January 31, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
the bullshit asymmetry principle strikes again
February 1, 2026 at 9:17 AM
the bullshit asymmetry principle strikes again
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Kernighan's Law
«Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you’re as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?»
-- Brian Kernighan, 1974
«Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you’re as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?»
-- Brian Kernighan, 1974
January 31, 2026 at 12:24 AM
Kernighan's Law
«Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you’re as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?»
-- Brian Kernighan, 1974
«Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you’re as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?»
-- Brian Kernighan, 1974
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As a TA, the syllabus said all code must at least compile or it’d be an instant fail. 1st assignment comes back, I hand out a lot of 0s.
Next day, my supervising prof calls me in saying the admin got a lot of calls from parents and he wants me to recheck all the scores and issue partial credit.
Next day, my supervising prof calls me in saying the admin got a lot of calls from parents and he wants me to recheck all the scores and issue partial credit.
January 31, 2026 at 3:08 AM
As a TA, the syllabus said all code must at least compile or it’d be an instant fail. 1st assignment comes back, I hand out a lot of 0s.
Next day, my supervising prof calls me in saying the admin got a lot of calls from parents and he wants me to recheck all the scores and issue partial credit.
Next day, my supervising prof calls me in saying the admin got a lot of calls from parents and he wants me to recheck all the scores and issue partial credit.
UK government, I beg you: please please ban me from using Teams
France to ban officials from US video tools including Zoom, Teams
The government wants staff to shun Silicon Valley and shift to its home-grown Visio platform instead.
www.politico.eu
January 30, 2026 at 11:39 AM
UK government, I beg you: please please ban me from using Teams
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Take a moment to remember the good things in life; I know it’s hard to do this, when it feels like the world is tipping this way & that, but if my little mouse can help you connect with “la vie en rose” again just for a moment, then my job as an artist is done for today 🩷
January 27, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Take a moment to remember the good things in life; I know it’s hard to do this, when it feels like the world is tipping this way & that, but if my little mouse can help you connect with “la vie en rose” again just for a moment, then my job as an artist is done for today 🩷
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Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
January 27, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
the Overton window is moving so fast the democrats are just standing there looking at a blank wall, wondering what happened
we are witnessing historic backpedaling here
January 27, 2026 at 12:50 PM
the Overton window is moving so fast the democrats are just standing there looking at a blank wall, wondering what happened