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D. I. Burin
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Universidad de Buenos Aires - CONICET
Collaborating with PsySciAcc, ABRIRpsy, MetaDocencia

Working memory, metacognition, multimedia comprehension
R, open science
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D. I. Burin @diburina.bsky.social · Sep 23
Hi. I am a psychology teacher/researcher in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
I come here for the ex-academictwitter posts: R, PsySciAccelerator, open science, and all the interesting content and community.
diburina.bsky.social
"Much like how Saudi Arabia is a petrostate, the U.S. is a burgeoning AI state—and, in particular, an Nvidia-state"

archive.is/202511021916...
archive.is
November 2, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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markgoodrich.bsky.social
I know he was in last week as well but this might be the most important read of the week. An iconic piece of research on scaffolding just failed replication and @carlhendrick.substack.com has all the details and what it might mean here.

open.substack.com/pub/carlhend...
We Need to Talk About Scaffolding
A new replication challenges the evidence behind one of education’s core ideas.
open.substack.com
October 25, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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improvingpsych.org
We are currently preparing a large scale up of moderators to deal with the big backlog, which has built up to a truly unacceptable size. Again, please accept our apologies, and perhaps also take this as an invitation to join the moderation team? We need all hands on deck. bsky.app/profile/impr...
August 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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forrt.bsky.social
🚀Making Replications Count Hackathon - in-person🚀

3 days. 2 open tools. 1 goal: make replication studies impossible to ignore

📅22–24 Oct 2025 | Münster, Germany ✈️Travel & accommodation covered (UKRI-funded)

Find out more below 👇
#OpenScience #Metascience #Replication #Hackathon #CodingForScience
Making Replications Count Hackathon 22-24 Oct 2025, Munster Join us for a three-day hackathon to boost the visibility of replication studies! Apply by September 7th
August 11, 2025 at 12:17 PM
diburina.bsky.social
Puntos para el self-report
August 12, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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jformoso.bsky.social
🌟 This week I'm curating the @weare.rladies.org account! 💜
I’ll be sharing bits and pieces from the R world — things I find interesting, helpful, or just fun to think about.

Come say hi, share what you're up to, or just drop by for some good vibes! 🦄

#WeAreRLadies #RLadies #RStats
July 14, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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weare.rladies.org
This week's #RLadies curator is @jformoso.bsky.social 🥳
Jesica Formoso, Researcher at National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) | MetaDocencia. They say, "I’m currently using R in my research on reading comprehension at CONICET and for survey analysis as Impact Measurement Lead at MetaDocencia, while also participating in the Forwards R Package Development Workshop summer school because I am starting to develop a package for Spanish readability assessment and this is new for me."
July 13, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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dlevenstein.bsky.social
Does anyone else find it perpetually annoying that what most folks would consider neural "computation" is Marr's "algorithmic" level, while his *computational* level is really just "what's the goal of this thing anyway?" AKA function.
June 26, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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louisteitelbaum.bsky.social
New conceptual review + tutorial on text embeddings out in #APA_Journals w/ @almogsi. Beginner-friendly, but experts will find spicy new takes as well. Tag a colleague who’s still counting words... #RStats #tidyverse #quanteda
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June 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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dbellingradt.bsky.social
Have you dreamed of seeing or reading books recently? Well, according to a German publication about dreams and their meaning from 1603 this means: future sadness and depression.

Access the "Traumbüchlein" (VD17 39:113610Q): resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB0000A4E40...

#booksky #bookhistory
a page from the mentioned book about dreams and their meaning from 1603. the page features the entry: "Bücher sehen oder lesen / Traurigkeit".
June 24, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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metadocencia.org
🚀 Durante las próximas semanas compartiremos una serie de tutoriales sobre proyectos en #GitHub
🙋‍♀️ En nuestro primer video, @patriloto.bsky.social nos guía sobre cómo generar un issue para trabajar y colaborar mejor.

Conoce el resto de los tutoriales y suscríbete: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
June 24, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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levandyck.bsky.social
How is high-level visual cortex organized?

In a new preprint with @martinhebart.bsky.social & @kathadobs.bsky.social, we show that category-selective areas encode a rich, multidimensional feature space 🌈

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroskyence

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www.biorxiv.org
June 18, 2025 at 12:28 PM
diburina.bsky.social
Having tried to estimate power for complex glmm analyses, I feel represented by this image.
michelenuijten.bsky.social Michèle Nuijten @michelenuijten.bsky.social · Jun 16
Fantastic blogpost for our Meta-Research Center: @anoukbouma.bsky.social argues that meta-scientists - especially tool builders - could learn a lot from marketing. Taking a user-perspective when designing a tool can be a crucial missing step that can help us increase take-up of proposed solutions.
anoukbouma.bsky.social Anouk Bouma @anoukbouma.bsky.social · Jun 16
I wrote a blogpost on something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately: how metascientists could (and should) think more about their users when designing tools and reforms.

Would love to hear any thoughts on this topic!

#metascience #usercentered
June 16, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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psych.peercommunityin.org
PCI Psychology is here!! 🎉🥳

After over a year of hard work by so many people, we are thrilled to announce that we are open for submissions! Join us in making publishing more efficient, equitable, and open: psych.peercommunityin.org
#PsychSciSky #scipub
June 11, 2025 at 11:03 PM
diburina.bsky.social
En Instagram podés hacer un chatbot IA con la plantilla "terapeuta". Te decía dónde estudió y un no. de matrícula (todo falso, obvio, ni siquiera es persona). Le pusieron un "guardrail" pero igual no te dice que es un chatbot
www.404media.co/senators-let...
Senators Demand Meta Answer For AI Chatbots Posing as Licensed Therapists
Exclusive: Following 404 Media’s investigation into Meta's AI Studio chatbots that pose as therapists and provided license numbers and credentials, four senators urged Meta to limit "blatant deception...
www.404media.co
June 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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jayvanbavel.bsky.social
An analysis of ~100,000 academics finds that a small subset of academics generate majority of social media posts.

That vocal minority can skew how the public—and even journalists—infer “academic consensus,” potentially fueling false perceptions. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Political expression of academics on Twitter - Nature Human Behaviour
An analysis of nearly 100,000 academics on Twitter reveals strong progressive stances on climate and social issues, driven by a small, vocal subset. The study highlights potential gaps between academi...
www.nature.com
June 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
diburina.bsky.social
"ChatGPT isn't its own, unique problem. It's a symptom of a totalizing cultural paradigm in which passive consumption and regurgitation of content becomes the status quo. It's a symptom of the world of TikTok and Instagram and perfecting your algorithm"
www.404media.co/teachers-are...
Teachers Are Not OK
AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching."
www.404media.co
June 2, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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jcgodoy9.bsky.social
Acá tenés una lista de guías, tutoriales y manuales diseñados para ayudar a la comunidad de psicología a ampliar sus cajas de herramientas de prácticas y métodos de investigación.

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➡️ buff.ly/DrWbr2R via Association for Psychological Science
May 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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caveartfilms.bsky.social
Soon perhaps the AI will be going to university without the unnecessary baggage of bringing a human being along.
May 29, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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gamabita.bsky.social
Situación de CyT en Argentina; 4 partes*.
¡Toda difusión nacional e internacional, nos ayuda!

The situation of science and technology in Argentina.
Any national and international RB/RT helps!

*Subo el video en partes porque excede la extensión máxima admitida en Bluesky.
May 29, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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easystats.github.io
🆕 Introducing check_group_variation() in the {performance} #Rstats package! 🎉

This function makes it easy to checks if variables vary within or between levels of grouping variables.

Perfect for understanding and designing mixed models 🚀

easystats.github.io/performance/...

#stats #easystats
mlmRev::egsingle |> performance::check_group_variation( select = c("female", "grade", "math"), by = c("schoolid", "childid"), include_by = TRUE ) #> Check schoolid variation #> #> Variable | Variation | Design #> ------------------------------ #> childid | both | nested #> female | within | crossed #> grade | both | #> math | both | #> #> Check childid variation #> #> Variable | Variation | Design #> ----------------------------- #> schoolid | between | #> female | between | #> grade | both | #> math | both |
May 27, 2025 at 6:48 AM
diburina.bsky.social
Semantic knowledge does not lie in "modular" ventral occipitotemporal or anterior temporal regions, but their white-matter connection.
Great work here (title might be misleading)
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Object knowledge representation in the human visual cortex requires a connection with the language system
This study shows that communication between the visual cortex and the brain language system is necessary for the representation of object knowledge in the visual cortex and for corresponding behaviors...
journals.plos.org
May 24, 2025 at 9:33 PM
diburina.bsky.social
😔 RIP stack overflow
carnage4life.bsky.social Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · May 24
People asking questions on Stack Overflow has declined to levels not seen in 15 years. Vibe coding and AI chat bots have made this once vibrant and essential developer community obsolete.

It’s unsurprising its parent company now wants to rebrand away from Stack Overflow.

RIP. You were a real one.
Stack overflow is almost dead
Today, Stack overflow has almost as few questions asked per month, as when it launched back in 2009. A recap of its slow, then rapid, downfall.
blog.pragmaticengineer.com
May 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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nature.com
The papers all follow a similar template and make misleading claims

https://go.nature.com/4kucwEH
AI linked to explosion of low-quality biomedical research papers
Analysis flags hundreds of studies that seem to follow a template, reporting correlations between complex health conditions and single variables based on publicly available data sets.
go.nature.com
May 21, 2025 at 12:46 PM
diburina.bsky.social
Ejemplo de reactancia psicológica:
La propuesta "tienen que entender la IA, tener habilidades digitales", "tu futuro profe, psico, médico, abogado, amigo, es IA"
La respuesta
"Almost half of young people would rather live in a world where the internet does not exist"
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · May 19
Almost half of young people would prefer a world without internet, UK study finds
Almost half of young people would prefer a world without internet, UK study finds
Half of 16- to 21-year-olds support ‘digital curfew’ and nearly 70% feel worse after using social media Almost half of young people would rather live in a world where the internet does not exist, according to a new survey. The research reveals that nearly 70% of 16- to 21-year-olds feel worse about themselves after spending time on social media. Half (50%) would support a “digital curfew” that would restrict their access to certain apps and sites past 10pm, while 46% said they would rather be young in a world without the internet altogether. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
May 20, 2025 at 12:19 AM