Borysław Paulewicz
@boryslaw.bsky.social
Intro to causal inference for psychologists:
https://czasopisma.uwm.edu.pl/index.php/pp/article/view/9731/7171
A causal-theoretic definition of measurement invariance (see p. 14):
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A new ordinal regression family
https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/e7a3x
https://czasopisma.uwm.edu.pl/index.php/pp/article/view/9731/7171
A causal-theoretic definition of measurement invariance (see p. 14):
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A new ordinal regression family
https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/e7a3x
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Borysław Paulewicz
@boryslaw.bsky.social
· Jan 25
Surely, all scientists will now finally agree that being right-wing is a form of extremely dangerous intellectual disability and that people who are leaning to the right need help and should not be laughed at.
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"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
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November 27, 2025 at 4:04 AM
"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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Getting journal rejections like
November 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Getting journal rejections like
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You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
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This is not the worst book we've ever read but it is the meanest episode we've ever done.
Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
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November 20, 2025 at 2:53 PM
This is not the worst book we've ever read but it is the meanest episode we've ever done.
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Universal first-name basis is a great and wondrous gift that the Nordics are offering to the world, that we've been impatiently waiting for like half a century for them to pick up.
November 16, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Universal first-name basis is a great and wondrous gift that the Nordics are offering to the world, that we've been impatiently waiting for like half a century for them to pick up.
Philosophy does not have a method. It has "techniques," "approaches," and "schools," but no agreed-upon standards for accepting results, even within schools. So, all philosophy is just vibes. And that's great, if you ask me. Vibes-based reasoning may be extremely useful, surprising, or beautiful.
November 16, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Philosophy does not have a method. It has "techniques," "approaches," and "schools," but no agreed-upon standards for accepting results, even within schools. So, all philosophy is just vibes. And that's great, if you ask me. Vibes-based reasoning may be extremely useful, surprising, or beautiful.
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Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
If, when reading a "scientific paper" in a psychology journal, you find it difficult to identify or reconstruct a clear step-by-step reasoning from some premises to the main conclusion(s), know that it is not your fault. If the authors knew how to properly justify their claims, they would.
November 11, 2025 at 7:25 PM
If, when reading a "scientific paper" in a psychology journal, you find it difficult to identify or reconstruct a clear step-by-step reasoning from some premises to the main conclusion(s), know that it is not your fault. If the authors knew how to properly justify their claims, they would.
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Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement.
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
Scientists call on the President of the European Commission to retract AI hype statement
Experts in AI call on the President of the European Commission to retract unscientific AI hype statement she made in the budget speech.
www.iccl.ie
November 10, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement.
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
@olivia.science
@abeba.bsky.social
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rocher.lc
@danmcquillan.bsky.social
@robin.berjon.com
& many others have signed
www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
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For millions of us with #LongCovid, every day is #LongCovidAwarenessDay. As #DrAmirKhan says in this video, it’s a public health crisis. It’s not just “feeling a bit tired” or needing to exercise* more, but a debilitating condition that affects the whole body and immune system. #CovidIsntOver
🚨 Mythbusting #LongCovid with Dr Amir Khan🚨
Long Covid is real. It’s serious. And it’s affecting millions.
On #LongCovidAwarenessDay, #DrAmirKhan joins us to bust harmful myths.
Watch, learn, and share—because the more we talk about Long Covid, the harder it is to ignore.
Long Covid is real. It’s serious. And it’s affecting millions.
On #LongCovidAwarenessDay, #DrAmirKhan joins us to bust harmful myths.
Watch, learn, and share—because the more we talk about Long Covid, the harder it is to ignore.
November 8, 2025 at 9:38 AM
For millions of us with #LongCovid, every day is #LongCovidAwarenessDay. As #DrAmirKhan says in this video, it’s a public health crisis. It’s not just “feeling a bit tired” or needing to exercise* more, but a debilitating condition that affects the whole body and immune system. #CovidIsntOver
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The lack of transparency on covid is airborne, failure to roll vaccines and provide the correct advice on PPE five years on is truly unforgivable at this point.
November 8, 2025 at 7:58 AM
The lack of transparency on covid is airborne, failure to roll vaccines and provide the correct advice on PPE five years on is truly unforgivable at this point.
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November 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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This is a special case: People often confuse the sound of someone's voice or facial expressions, which are pretty easy to control, with the actual willingness to do good.
people often confuse sentimentality with kindness. being sentimental is easy and common. being kind is hard and rare
November 7, 2025 at 10:17 AM
This is a special case: People often confuse the sound of someone's voice or facial expressions, which are pretty easy to control, with the actual willingness to do good.
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Microsoft Teams is just awful. Why oh why do we (universities) insist on using it??
(This is by no means a hot take)
(This is by no means a hot take)
November 6, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Microsoft Teams is just awful. Why oh why do we (universities) insist on using it??
(This is by no means a hot take)
(This is by no means a hot take)
I just heard Anthony Hopkins say, in an interview, that no deep truths manifest in acting. That may be so, I thought, but *you*, Anthony, had to discover many deep truths for yourself to become such a great actor. It may be the artist who learns the most from art.
November 4, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I just heard Anthony Hopkins say, in an interview, that no deep truths manifest in acting. That may be so, I thought, but *you*, Anthony, had to discover many deep truths for yourself to become such a great actor. It may be the artist who learns the most from art.
Fun fact: Ppl are dumb af. Even the smartest are at best only locally & temporarily smart. Think about what you did or thought just today. Yup. Or think about who the POTUS is. Scientists are also not super smart; there's waaaay too many of them for the whole group to be very smart on average.
Fun fact: it has been 56 days since I notified the editors of Neurology about glaring statistical errors in this peer-reviewed study on sweeteners and cognitive health.
No expression of concern, no correction, no retraction.
No expression of concern, no correction, no retraction.
"Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds"
Or does it? Let's take a look at this "study"...
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...
Or does it? Let's take a look at this "study"...
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...
November 4, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Fun fact: Ppl are dumb af. Even the smartest are at best only locally & temporarily smart. Think about what you did or thought just today. Yup. Or think about who the POTUS is. Scientists are also not super smart; there's waaaay too many of them for the whole group to be very smart on average.
Could the key to understanding what most ADHD-diagnosed people mainly struggle with be what they tend to *ignore*? E.g., many seem to behave as if other people cease to exist as soon as they are out of sight. They also seem to ignore *their own future interests*, which is also kind of social.
November 2, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Could the key to understanding what most ADHD-diagnosed people mainly struggle with be what they tend to *ignore*? E.g., many seem to behave as if other people cease to exist as soon as they are out of sight. They also seem to ignore *their own future interests*, which is also kind of social.
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New York knows how to do Halloween!
November 1, 2025 at 7:50 AM
New York knows how to do Halloween!
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Between this and the Louvre prosecutor describing the suspects’ statements as “minimalist” while bragging that they had worked on the case over a weekend it’s an absolutely incredible week for Frenchness
A French cyclist survived for three days after a horrendous 130-foot fall into a ravine, kept alive by the bottles of red wine he had in his shopping bag, police said.
Cyclist falls down 130-foot ravine in France, survives 3 days by drinking wine he had in shopping bag
A helicopter airlifted him to hospital, with a rescue doctor calling his survival "a miracle."
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October 31, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Between this and the Louvre prosecutor describing the suspects’ statements as “minimalist” while bragging that they had worked on the case over a weekend it’s an absolutely incredible week for Frenchness
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“To leave our students to their own devices—which is to say, to the devices of #AI companies—is to deprive them of indispensable opportunities to develop their linguistic mastery, and with it their most elementary powers of thought.” #HigherEducation #academia www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
Opinion | Why Even Basic A.I. Use Is So Bad for Students
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October 31, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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It all works out in the end, so if it hasn’t worked out yet, it isn’t the end. So I’m told, anyway.
October 30, 2025 at 7:19 PM
It all works out in the end, so if it hasn’t worked out yet, it isn’t the end. So I’m told, anyway.
That is a special case of a larger point. If you are a researcher, turn your *story* into a *reasoning*, i.e., *a text where the conclusion f o l l o w s f r o m data and assumptions* rather than passes the very low bar of *apparent plausibility*.
Sometimes the DAGs implied by the statistical analysis people do is just so bonkers.
The worst part?
If you drew these DAGs and presented them to those same people - they would 100% agree that those DAGs make no sense.
always 👏 draw 👏 your 👏 DAGs!
The worst part?
If you drew these DAGs and presented them to those same people - they would 100% agree that those DAGs make no sense.
always 👏 draw 👏 your 👏 DAGs!
October 31, 2025 at 6:48 AM
That is a special case of a larger point. If you are a researcher, turn your *story* into a *reasoning*, i.e., *a text where the conclusion f o l l o w s f r o m data and assumptions* rather than passes the very low bar of *apparent plausibility*.