Joel Chan
@joelchan86.bsky.social
Professing #hci #cognitivescience #creativity #toolsforthought #metascience at UMD iSchool and HCIL
#firstgen #immigrant (to USA from Malaysia) academic
Also following #scicomm #openscience #sts #histsci #histtech
Also on Mastodon: joelchan86@hci.social
#firstgen #immigrant (to USA from Malaysia) academic
Also following #scicomm #openscience #sts #histsci #histtech
Also on Mastodon: joelchan86@hci.social
Let’s keep hope alive!!!
November 12, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Let’s keep hope alive!!!
Thinking about one-off vs. repeated replication attempts, and what inferences we can draw from either re: false discovery rate. What are the (steelman) grounds for inferring that an initial finding is "false" if a single replication attempt yields a different result?
October 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Thinking about one-off vs. repeated replication attempts, and what inferences we can draw from either re: false discovery rate. What are the (steelman) grounds for inferring that an initial finding is "false" if a single replication attempt yields a different result?
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Join us! We can plot an A-Tea Party where we throw enshittified apps into the sea 🙃
October 21, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Join us! We can plot an A-Tea Party where we throw enshittified apps into the sea 🙃
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What matters is the relationship between your claims, evidence and inference. You probably can’t do this with p<.05, but you certainly can by holding a fernandina tortoise.
October 10, 2025 at 2:18 PM
What matters is the relationship between your claims, evidence and inference. You probably can’t do this with p<.05, but you certainly can by holding a fernandina tortoise.
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ATProto has huge potential for supporting new ways of doing science, but to get there we need discussion & coordination spaces - we opened a new Discourse space for ATProto x Science at discourse.atprotocol.community/c/atproto-sc... 🧪
(w/ @bmann.ca @tgoerke.bsky.social )
Please join! 😄
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Please join! 😄
ATProto Science
ATProto Science is about using ATProto for science applications, such as publishing, curation, data sharing or social discourse around research.
discourse.atprotocol.community
October 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
ATProto has huge potential for supporting new ways of doing science, but to get there we need discussion & coordination spaces - we opened a new Discourse space for ATProto x Science at discourse.atprotocol.community/c/atproto-sc... 🧪
(w/ @bmann.ca @tgoerke.bsky.social )
Please join! 😄
(w/ @bmann.ca @tgoerke.bsky.social )
Please join! 😄
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Join our webinars “Peer Review and its Diversification”!
📅 15-16 October 2025 on Zoom
👉 Registration: forms.gle/1R4Y3d33W8bQ...
📄 Full programme: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
#PeerReview #metasci #academicsky
📅 15-16 October 2025 on Zoom
👉 Registration: forms.gle/1R4Y3d33W8bQ...
📄 Full programme: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
#PeerReview #metasci #academicsky
October 6, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Join our webinars “Peer Review and its Diversification”!
📅 15-16 October 2025 on Zoom
👉 Registration: forms.gle/1R4Y3d33W8bQ...
📄 Full programme: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
#PeerReview #metasci #academicsky
📅 15-16 October 2025 on Zoom
👉 Registration: forms.gle/1R4Y3d33W8bQ...
📄 Full programme: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
#PeerReview #metasci #academicsky
(Systematic) literature reviews should not be published as papers. Instead, they should be living repositories with releases and changelogs, with key conclusions as modules. People should then be able to "import" modules to inform their ongoing work.
September 29, 2025 at 2:28 PM
(Systematic) literature reviews should not be published as papers. Instead, they should be living repositories with releases and changelogs, with key conclusions as modules. People should then be able to "import" modules to inform their ongoing work.
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When I correct someone and they say “I bet you’re fun at parties,” I explain what a terrible bet that would be.
September 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
When I correct someone and they say “I bet you’re fun at parties,” I explain what a terrible bet that would be.
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Therapy.
Lifted heavy.
Blocked internet 18 hours a day.
The good coffee beans.
The good creamy grits from that place I like.
Sit on a bench.
Called three friends.
Sauna time booked.
Cuticle care.
(Inspired by @karenho.bsky.social)
Lifted heavy.
Blocked internet 18 hours a day.
The good coffee beans.
The good creamy grits from that place I like.
Sit on a bench.
Called three friends.
Sauna time booked.
Cuticle care.
(Inspired by @karenho.bsky.social)
September 13, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Therapy.
Lifted heavy.
Blocked internet 18 hours a day.
The good coffee beans.
The good creamy grits from that place I like.
Sit on a bench.
Called three friends.
Sauna time booked.
Cuticle care.
(Inspired by @karenho.bsky.social)
Lifted heavy.
Blocked internet 18 hours a day.
The good coffee beans.
The good creamy grits from that place I like.
Sit on a bench.
Called three friends.
Sauna time booked.
Cuticle care.
(Inspired by @karenho.bsky.social)
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I *literally* wrote a book about all this, and I'm just so tired. We've been trying to get people to pay attention for over ten years.
Gaming Democracy
From #Gamergate to the ongoing Big Lie, the far right has gone mainstream. In Gaming Democracy, Adrienne Massanari tracks the flames of toxicity found in the...
mitpress.mit.edu
September 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I *literally* wrote a book about all this, and I'm just so tired. We've been trying to get people to pay attention for over ten years.
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none of the gotcha examples of "out-of-control scientific spending" bother me in the slightest. isn't science about finding shit out? "they spent a million dollars of taxpayer money to see if they could make mice sexier" okay, well, what was the answer? I want to know too
September 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
none of the gotcha examples of "out-of-control scientific spending" bother me in the slightest. isn't science about finding shit out? "they spent a million dollars of taxpayer money to see if they could make mice sexier" okay, well, what was the answer? I want to know too
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I think 182 year old research articles should be free
I want to read about the man
I want to read about the man
September 1, 2025 at 2:21 AM
I think 182 year old research articles should be free
I want to read about the man
I want to read about the man
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🚀Join us in implementing preprint review across life sciences and #metascience.
It's a wonderful learning and service opportunity with opportunities to engage with scholars and industry experts globally.
Next cycle will be my second year with the initiative!
It's a wonderful learning and service opportunity with opportunities to engage with scholars and industry experts globally.
Next cycle will be my second year with the initiative!
Sign up to be a crowd preprint reviewer!
✴️ develop your reviewing skills
✴️ support trust in preprints
We invite cell biologists, microbiologists, immunologists, and meta-researchers to sign up as crowd preprint reviewers.
✴️ develop your reviewing skills
✴️ support trust in preprints
We invite cell biologists, microbiologists, immunologists, and meta-researchers to sign up as crowd preprint reviewers.
August 11, 2025 at 8:41 PM
🚀Join us in implementing preprint review across life sciences and #metascience.
It's a wonderful learning and service opportunity with opportunities to engage with scholars and industry experts globally.
Next cycle will be my second year with the initiative!
It's a wonderful learning and service opportunity with opportunities to engage with scholars and industry experts globally.
Next cycle will be my second year with the initiative!
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Want $50 to create your own feed with natural language?
We’re a group of researchers at Princeton studying how people could more easily build their own feeds.
Join our study to try it out and tell us what you think of the experience!
👉 Sign up at forms.gle/MkSGKzxDfBEc... (takes less than 1 min)
We’re a group of researchers at Princeton studying how people could more easily build their own feeds.
Join our study to try it out and tell us what you think of the experience!
👉 Sign up at forms.gle/MkSGKzxDfBEc... (takes less than 1 min)
July 22, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Want $50 to create your own feed with natural language?
We’re a group of researchers at Princeton studying how people could more easily build their own feeds.
Join our study to try it out and tell us what you think of the experience!
👉 Sign up at forms.gle/MkSGKzxDfBEc... (takes less than 1 min)
We’re a group of researchers at Princeton studying how people could more easily build their own feeds.
Join our study to try it out and tell us what you think of the experience!
👉 Sign up at forms.gle/MkSGKzxDfBEc... (takes less than 1 min)
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Seems to me it matters that we stop trying to unify science around shared immediate objectives beyond basic norms (such as honesty and integrity), and have communities locally set their priorities and actively work toward them. Such pluralism will provide fertile grounds for learning and progress.
July 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Seems to me it matters that we stop trying to unify science around shared immediate objectives beyond basic norms (such as honesty and integrity), and have communities locally set their priorities and actively work toward them. Such pluralism will provide fertile grounds for learning and progress.
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How can we reform science? I have some ideas. But I am not sure you’ll like them, because they don’t promise much. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...
Which Kind of Science Reform
What hope is there for science reform, if we can't agree on what to reform? Right now, principles are more important than practices.
elevanth.org
July 9, 2025 at 1:40 PM
How can we reform science? I have some ideas. But I am not sure you’ll like them, because they don’t promise much. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...
Hello friends! I am co-organizing a workshop at VL/HCC 2025 (in Raleigh, NC, this October) on human-AI sensemaking, with an emphasis on embodied/visual languages to build common ground between human and AI systems.
Beyond Chat: Visual Languages for Embodied Human-LLM Interaction in Sensemaking
An IEEE VL/HCC 2025 workshop
human-ai-sensemaking.github.io
July 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Hello friends! I am co-organizing a workshop at VL/HCC 2025 (in Raleigh, NC, this October) on human-AI sensemaking, with an emphasis on embodied/visual languages to build common ground between human and AI systems.
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A literal banana takes on learned helplessness and the “fact” that women try to leave their abuser X times before finally succeeding.
carcinisation.com/2020/01/27/i...
carcinisation.com/2020/01/27/i...
Ignorance, a skilled practice
Containment protocol: None. Words can’t hurt you. Words aren’t real. Philosophical ideas don’t affect reality. You won’t notice any changes after reading this. You won’t find yourself, in conversat…
carcinisation.com
June 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
A literal banana takes on learned helplessness and the “fact” that women try to leave their abuser X times before finally succeeding.
carcinisation.com/2020/01/27/i...
carcinisation.com/2020/01/27/i...
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When your ruling class can completely avoid mingling with regular folks you get a fucked up ruling class
June 27, 2025 at 3:52 AM
When your ruling class can completely avoid mingling with regular folks you get a fucked up ruling class
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The thing about interdisciplinary work is everyone gets to misunderstand you from a unique angle
June 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The thing about interdisciplinary work is everyone gets to misunderstand you from a unique angle
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We’re trying to make up for this at the Yale School of Public Health. Check out www.pophive.org for population-level health data info. Not a lot of bells and whistles (yet) but it works.
PopHIVE
Pophive
www.pophive.org
May 29, 2025 at 1:12 AM
We’re trying to make up for this at the Yale School of Public Health. Check out www.pophive.org for population-level health data info. Not a lot of bells and whistles (yet) but it works.
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data.wastewaterscan.org still shows what's going around in many communities across the US.
Also, you can bulk order triple COVID/RSV/Flu tests from Europe for less than what a COVID-only costs retail in the US.
Also, you can bulk order triple COVID/RSV/Flu tests from Europe for less than what a COVID-only costs retail in the US.
WastewaterSCAN Dashboard
WastewaterSCAN Data Dashboard tracks infectious diseases across the US via wastewater surveillance.
data.wastewaterscan.org
May 28, 2025 at 7:45 PM
data.wastewaterscan.org still shows what's going around in many communities across the US.
Also, you can bulk order triple COVID/RSV/Flu tests from Europe for less than what a COVID-only costs retail in the US.
Also, you can bulk order triple COVID/RSV/Flu tests from Europe for less than what a COVID-only costs retail in the US.