Ryan Bartelme
@microbialbart.bsky.social
Bioinformatician/Data Scientist in biotech. Occasional academic. Spending time with microbes, programming, maths, cats, & bicycles. Highly amateur analog photography. he/him
The Cost of 'Waiting for Data': Why Curiosity Without Guardrails Undermines Research. Arbitrary experimental choices disguised as data-driven discovery lead to p-hacking, waste, and irreproducible results. My thoughts on the matter:
rbartelme.github.io/blog/is-wait...
rbartelme.github.io/blog/is-wait...
November 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
The Cost of 'Waiting for Data': Why Curiosity Without Guardrails Undermines Research. Arbitrary experimental choices disguised as data-driven discovery lead to p-hacking, waste, and irreproducible results. My thoughts on the matter:
rbartelme.github.io/blog/is-wait...
rbartelme.github.io/blog/is-wait...
