Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️
@joachim.cidlab.com
Professor of #CogSci and #Stats @UCIrvine; Pursuer of Lofty Undertakings; Purveyor of Articles Odd and Quaint; and Protector of the Realm. #blm #trahr he/him
![XKCD 793
[Cueball stands at a blackboard covered in diagrams, an open laptop and scattered paper at his feet. His fists are balled in anger and there is a little angry squiggle over his head. A Cueball-like physicist stands behind him, arms out in a shrug.]
Physicist: You're trying to predict the behavior of <complicated system>? Just model it as a <simple object>, and then add some secondary terms to account for <complications I just thought of>.
Physicist: Easy, right?
Physicist: So, why does <your field> need a whole journal, anyway?
[Caption below the panel:]
Liberal-arts majors may be annoying sometimes, but there's nothing more obnoxious than a physicist first encountering a new subject.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2ndqg2pxeb45bjhjgtc3z7m4/bafkreieyhofytsyv2lkctn6oh74orkzvgc2toae3vleebdog3avbb7heee@jpeg)
Aaaaaand I'm spent
November 1, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Aaaaaand I'm spent
Now we wait for the dark
October 31, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Now we wait for the dark
Here's the data, the red line is the "no correspondence" model and the histogram is the "best case" data where we censored trials in which the tester did not feel confident or the patient did not trust the procedure. All other censoring plans gave stronger evidence for the null. 13/
October 17, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Here's the data, the red line is the "no correspondence" model and the histogram is the "best case" data where we censored trials in which the tester did not feel confident or the patient did not trust the procedure. All other censoring plans gave stronger evidence for the null. 13/
FYI if you use EZ diffusion for your cognitive psychometrics needs, there's no reason not to use robust statistics
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
October 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
FYI if you use EZ diffusion for your cognitive psychometrics needs, there's no reason not to use robust statistics
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
(whispers) hey there bear
September 18, 2025 at 9:28 PM
(whispers) hey there bear
I think about this quote 6-8 times a day
September 18, 2025 at 5:48 AM
I think about this quote 6-8 times a day
Does anyone know if there's a way to appeal psyarxiv moderation? I can't reply to this email, I can't even see what the file was they deleted; I can upload the paper again since it's under CC4 anyway but that causes DOIs to rot so not a great option... I'd just as soon self-host and be in control.
September 10, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Does anyone know if there's a way to appeal psyarxiv moderation? I can't reply to this email, I can't even see what the file was they deleted; I can upload the paper again since it's under CC4 anyway but that causes DOIs to rot so not a great option... I'd just as soon self-host and be in control.
Went for a hike in an abandoned mine town. Encountered the Summoning Dark
September 5, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Went for a hike in an abandoned mine town. Encountered the Summoning Dark
Reading math paper from 1913 like
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September 1, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Reading math paper from 1913 like
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Several things to enjoy in that reply
August 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Several things to enjoy in that reply
I don't know what I was expecting
August 12, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I don't know what I was expecting
Turning my lack of sophistication into a strength
August 12, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Turning my lack of sophistication into a strength
I grew up on these streets
August 1, 2025 at 11:50 AM
I grew up on these streets
