Gorka Navarrete
@gorkang.bsky.social
Bayesian reasoning & shared medical decision making. Facultad de Psicología. Universidad de La Laguna #rstats
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Exactly! Which makes the real climate shift way scarier. Like shown by the data from svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5452/
November 7, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Exactly! Which makes the real climate shift way scarier. Like shown by the data from svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5452/
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Si un aspecto crucial del trabajo científico es la discusión con los colegas, que pueden alertarnos de los sesgos que nosotros no podemos vernos, y resulta que ahora sustituimos a los colegas por complacientes chatbots que nos adulan y punto, nos cargamos también la ciencia!
November 2, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Si un aspecto crucial del trabajo científico es la discusión con los colegas, que pueden alertarnos de los sesgos que nosotros no podemos vernos, y resulta que ahora sustituimos a los colegas por complacientes chatbots que nos adulan y punto, nos cargamos también la ciencia!
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Here a paper version rant on this in Nature Reviews Psychology.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
(PDF: eiko-fried.com/wp-content/u...)
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
(PDF: eiko-fried.com/wp-content/u...)
Revisiting the theoretical and methodological foundations of depression measurement - Nature Reviews Psychology
Depressive disorders are among the leading causes of global disease burden. In this Perspective, Fried et al. argue that limited progress in understanding, predicting and treating depression despite a...
www.nature.com
November 1, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Here a paper version rant on this in Nature Reviews Psychology.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
(PDF: eiko-fried.com/wp-content/u...)
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
(PDF: eiko-fried.com/wp-content/u...)
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Well-written — with no tech rag or fin rag speak — 'splainer abt the unprecedented FAANG incestuous "AI" financial shell game that portends to destroy the U.S. & global economy.
I didn't see the "share" block that usually means an article is paywalled, so I think it's free to read but lemme […]
I didn't see the "share" block that usually means an article is paywalled, so I think it's free to read but lemme […]
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October 31, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Well-written — with no tech rag or fin rag speak — 'splainer abt the unprecedented FAANG incestuous "AI" financial shell game that portends to destroy the U.S. & global economy.
I didn't see the "share" block that usually means an article is paywalled, so I think it's free to read but lemme […]
I didn't see the "share" block that usually means an article is paywalled, so I think it's free to read but lemme […]
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It was, indeed, paywalled…
Bust the wall with this:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/10/data-centers-ai-crash/684765/?gift=SkZXWJCESUtVthsYJQBBH3Mx80H5gDF4sEoT-cwF_Yw&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
Bust the wall with this:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/10/data-centers-ai-crash/684765/?gift=SkZXWJCESUtVthsYJQBBH3Mx80H5gDF4sEoT-cwF_Yw&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
Here’s How the AI Crash Happens
The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state.
www.theatlantic.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:00 AM
It was, indeed, paywalled…
Bust the wall with this:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/10/data-centers-ai-crash/684765/?gift=SkZXWJCESUtVthsYJQBBH3Mx80H5gDF4sEoT-cwF_Yw&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
Bust the wall with this:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/10/data-centers-ai-crash/684765/?gift=SkZXWJCESUtVthsYJQBBH3Mx80H5gDF4sEoT-cwF_Yw&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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dplyr::rows_update() and dplyr::rows_patch() continue to be super helpful functions when you want to fill missing data with data collected from another source. #rstats
More examples: cghlewis.github.io/data-wrangli...
More examples: cghlewis.github.io/data-wrangli...
August 20, 2025 at 1:33 PM
dplyr::rows_update() and dplyr::rows_patch() continue to be super helpful functions when you want to fill missing data with data collected from another source. #rstats
More examples: cghlewis.github.io/data-wrangli...
More examples: cghlewis.github.io/data-wrangli...
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Qué importante!
"La clave es tener autonomía suficiente en servicios estratégicos, cloud para administraciones públicas, salud y defensa.. Europa puede demostrar q es posible desarrollo tecnológico con alto nivel de seguridad.. una soberanía digital sostenible"
www.digitalrealty.es/resources/ar...
"La clave es tener autonomía suficiente en servicios estratégicos, cloud para administraciones públicas, salud y defensa.. Europa puede demostrar q es posible desarrollo tecnológico con alto nivel de seguridad.. una soberanía digital sostenible"
www.digitalrealty.es/resources/ar...
Soberanía digital e infraestructura local: ¿qué necesita Europa? | Digital Realty
En tiempos de incertidumbre y conflictos, la soberanía de los datos de gobiernos y ciudadanos es un asunto de máxima relevancia.
www.digitalrealty.es
October 30, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Qué importante!
"La clave es tener autonomía suficiente en servicios estratégicos, cloud para administraciones públicas, salud y defensa.. Europa puede demostrar q es posible desarrollo tecnológico con alto nivel de seguridad.. una soberanía digital sostenible"
www.digitalrealty.es/resources/ar...
"La clave es tener autonomía suficiente en servicios estratégicos, cloud para administraciones públicas, salud y defensa.. Europa puede demostrar q es posible desarrollo tecnológico con alto nivel de seguridad.. una soberanía digital sostenible"
www.digitalrealty.es/resources/ar...
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Here is the link👇
Vaccine-Preventable Disease: A Global Tracker from Think Global Health
www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/vacc...
Vaccine-Preventable Disease: A Global Tracker from Think Global Health
www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/vacc...
buff.ly
October 29, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Here is the link👇
Vaccine-Preventable Disease: A Global Tracker from Think Global Health
www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/vacc...
Vaccine-Preventable Disease: A Global Tracker from Think Global Health
www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/vacc...
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New story up on the non-existent banned words from NIH grants (based on my grant title, word cloud analysis)
www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n...
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www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n...
1/3
Scientists had to change more than 700 grant titles to receive NIH funding. Health disparities researchers fear what’s next
The titles of more than 700 multi-year NIH grants have been changed this year, according to an analysis by Jeremy Berg, a former agency official
www.statnews.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:07 PM
New story up on the non-existent banned words from NIH grants (based on my grant title, word cloud analysis)
www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n...
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www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n...
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¿Visteis esto de @fernandoblancopsy.com sobre el uso de chatGPT en el aula? (bueno, él lo aplica al aula pero sirve para muchos más casos):
fernandoblancopsy.com/2025/06/09/a...
fernandoblancopsy.com/2025/06/09/a...
Así que quieres usar ChatGPT en el aula, ¿eh? Algunas reflexiones de un docente universitario
Pues resulta que por motivos profesionales llevo unos días pensando y debatiendo mucho acerca de esta cuestión: cómo gestionamos el hecho (real y actual) de que el alumnado utiliza herramientas de …
fernandoblancopsy.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:25 PM
¿Visteis esto de @fernandoblancopsy.com sobre el uso de chatGPT en el aula? (bueno, él lo aplica al aula pero sirve para muchos más casos):
fernandoblancopsy.com/2025/06/09/a...
fernandoblancopsy.com/2025/06/09/a...
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España ya está a la cabeza de Europa en porcentaje de estudiantes en universidades privadas. Solo le superan tres países minúsculos (Chipre, Malta y Montenegro) y dos del Este (Hungría y Polonia).
A nadie parece preocuparle la transformación estructural que esta tendencia supone.
A nadie parece preocuparle la transformación estructural que esta tendencia supone.
October 26, 2025 at 11:44 AM
España ya está a la cabeza de Europa en porcentaje de estudiantes en universidades privadas. Solo le superan tres países minúsculos (Chipre, Malta y Montenegro) y dos del Este (Hungría y Polonia).
A nadie parece preocuparle la transformación estructural que esta tendencia supone.
A nadie parece preocuparle la transformación estructural que esta tendencia supone.
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New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft:
Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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October 4, 2025 at 5:33 AM
New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft:
Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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#rstats/ #databs storytime 🧵
I have a good friend who I haven't talked to regularly for a time. While catching up with her, she lamented having to take stats courses for her PhD program (she's in archeology/anthro). I offered to help her study, and she put me off, saying she couldn't ask that.
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I have a good friend who I haven't talked to regularly for a time. While catching up with her, she lamented having to take stats courses for her PhD program (she's in archeology/anthro). I offered to help her study, and she put me off, saying she couldn't ask that.
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October 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
www.bbc.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.
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A los que se han apresurado a incorporar chatGPT en el aula al grito de "¡Si esto es igual que la calculadora!"
McNeil et al., (2025): "What the Science of Learning Teaches Us About Arithmetic Fluency"
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
McNeil et al., (2025): "What the Science of Learning Teaches Us About Arithmetic Fluency"
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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October 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
A los que se han apresurado a incorporar chatGPT en el aula al grito de "¡Si esto es igual que la calculadora!"
McNeil et al., (2025): "What the Science of Learning Teaches Us About Arithmetic Fluency"
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
McNeil et al., (2025): "What the Science of Learning Teaches Us About Arithmetic Fluency"
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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“Will I die?”
“No! No! All will be well. Don’t worry!”
Police bodycam shows kids rescued after a Russian drone strike on a kindergarten in Kharkiv.
Every politician in the world needs to see this!
Please share!
“No! No! All will be well. Don’t worry!”
Police bodycam shows kids rescued after a Russian drone strike on a kindergarten in Kharkiv.
Every politician in the world needs to see this!
Please share!
October 24, 2025 at 5:36 AM
“Will I die?”
“No! No! All will be well. Don’t worry!”
Police bodycam shows kids rescued after a Russian drone strike on a kindergarten in Kharkiv.
Every politician in the world needs to see this!
Please share!
“No! No! All will be well. Don’t worry!”
Police bodycam shows kids rescued after a Russian drone strike on a kindergarten in Kharkiv.
Every politician in the world needs to see this!
Please share!
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1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv.
There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.
There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.
October 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM
1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv.
There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.
There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.
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The second and third most read papers in the journal Evolutionary Human Sciences are about pseudoscientific racism and the pseudoscientific sexism of the manosphere. Good to see these critical perspectives about the misuse of science being widely read
October 23, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The second and third most read papers in the journal Evolutionary Human Sciences are about pseudoscientific racism and the pseudoscientific sexism of the manosphere. Good to see these critical perspectives about the misuse of science being widely read
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Every time there is a major announcement of cuts to PhD programs at a major institution, it reactivates my own deep worry: to reduce or shutter doctoral programs endangers whole fields, and yet to bring young people into those fields, with no ability to provide jobs for their future, seems wrong.
October 21, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Every time there is a major announcement of cuts to PhD programs at a major institution, it reactivates my own deep worry: to reduce or shutter doctoral programs endangers whole fields, and yet to bring young people into those fields, with no ability to provide jobs for their future, seems wrong.
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Now publicly available: the #TISP dataset. It contains 71,922 survey responses on public perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries. Published in @natureportfolio.bsky.social’s #ScientificData: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📊
January 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Now publicly available: the #TISP dataset. It contains 71,922 survey responses on public perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries. Published in @natureportfolio.bsky.social’s #ScientificData: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📊
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So why do I let AI in my house? Don’t I care about the environmental consequences? What about the theft of intellectual property? Don’t I understand that these are bullshit machines?
Yes, yes, yes, and yes.
It’s what I do all day long.
Yes, yes, yes, and yes.
It’s what I do all day long.
Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines: Introduction
A free online humanities course about how to learn and work and thrive in an AI world.
thebullshitmachines.com
October 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
So why do I let AI in my house? Don’t I care about the environmental consequences? What about the theft of intellectual property? Don’t I understand that these are bullshit machines?
Yes, yes, yes, and yes.
It’s what I do all day long.
Yes, yes, yes, and yes.
It’s what I do all day long.
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Evidence that even when LLMs produce similar results to humans, they “rely on lexical associations and statistical priors rather than contextual reasoning or normative criteria. We term this divergence epistemia: the illusion of knowledge emerging when surface plausibility replaces verification”
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
October 17, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Evidence that even when LLMs produce similar results to humans, they “rely on lexical associations and statistical priors rather than contextual reasoning or normative criteria. We term this divergence epistemia: the illusion of knowledge emerging when surface plausibility replaces verification”
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Las pruebas de conducción real (y no de laboratorio) demuestran que los híbridos enchufables contaminan 4,9 veces más que lo que las marcas publicitan, haciéndolos equivalentes a los de combustión pura
Muestra de 800K vehículos de todo tipo
@groizard.bsky.social , por aquello de etiquetas y Moves
Muestra de 800K vehículos de todo tipo
@groizard.bsky.social , por aquello de etiquetas y Moves
Real-world data from 800k cars on the road - rather than data from distorting lab tests - show plug-in hybrids, with a large battery as well as a combustion engine, are 4.9x worse than official data say, making them essentially as bad as ordinary petrol cars
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Plug-in hybrids pollute almost as much as petrol cars, report finds
Analysis of 800,000 European cars found real-world pollution from plug-in hybrids nearly five times greater than lab tests
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Las pruebas de conducción real (y no de laboratorio) demuestran que los híbridos enchufables contaminan 4,9 veces más que lo que las marcas publicitan, haciéndolos equivalentes a los de combustión pura
Muestra de 800K vehículos de todo tipo
@groizard.bsky.social , por aquello de etiquetas y Moves
Muestra de 800K vehículos de todo tipo
@groizard.bsky.social , por aquello de etiquetas y Moves
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oooh this looks awesome! I’ve been having my students do this with a ton of mutate()s and with lots of tinkering, like this evalsp25.classes.andrewheiss.com/example/synt... but this seems a ton easier #rstats
October 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM
oooh this looks awesome! I’ve been having my students do this with a ton of mutate()s and with lots of tinkering, like this evalsp25.classes.andrewheiss.com/example/synt... but this seems a ton easier #rstats