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Marco Tullio Liuzza
@mtliuzza.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Psychometrics. Personal account. Views My Own. RTs ≠ Endorsements.
"L’eredità invisibile: microrganismi ed evoluzione umana". Sabato 12/04/2025 presso il Museo di Casal de' Pazzi. Parlerò di come i micro-organismi abbiano plasmato la nostra mente attraverso l'evoluzione di una sorta di sistema immunitario comportamentale.
April 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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People feel closer after 5 minutes of online written conversation, no matter whether the topic is concrete or abstract. Thank you, @chiarafini.bsky.social, Vanessa Era, @mtliuzza.bsky.social, @bodowinter.bsky.social, and all coauthors. @ballabrome.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
February 11, 2025 at 2:33 AM
In occasione del Darwin Day 2025 organizzato dal @cicap.org
parlerò di disgusto e comportamento attraverso le lenti della teoria dell'evoluzione. L'evento avrà luogo il 15/02/2025 alle 17:00 presso il Mondadori Bookstore di Piano Lago Mangone (CS).
January 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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with Tiziana Metitieri @timetit.bsky.social, Marco Tullio Liuzza @mtliuzza.bsky.social, Gian Mauro Manzoni, Claudia Mazzuca, Chiara Fini
January 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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The @psyarxivbot.bsky.social preprint server was created by metascientists who got together at the first meeting of what would become SIPS. The popularity of preprints in psych is completely due to the bottom up initiative of metascientists who met in 2016 at the Centre for Open Science.
January 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
25 Useful Ideas for 2025
www.gurwinder.blog/p/25-useful-...
25 Useful Ideas for 2025
Mental models to kickstart the new year
www.gurwinder.blog
January 3, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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The Spectator reports on the KerFFRFle.

archive.ph/Epo26
January 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM
In questi giorni abbiamo assistito alla demonizzazione della semaglutide da parte di stampa e divulgatori perché ne fa uso Musk. Spesso si è proposta la dicotomia farmaco vs. sana alimentazione. Tuttavia, la semaglutide, come mostra questo studio, cambia anche il comportamento alimentare.
How households with at least one member taking GLP-1s are changing their shopping habits: overall grocery spending goes down ~6%, spending on chips/savory snacks falls ~11%
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January 1, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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I briefly discuss the pros and cons of the death penalty, and find that the only "pro" is the ghoulish desire for retribution via state-imposed murder. The cons far outweigh the pros, but the US is the only Western country that retains capital punishment.

whyevolutionistrue.com/2024/12/24/w...
Why the death penalty?
As I noted yesterday, Biden has commuted the sentences of all but three federal prisoners on death row; they’ll now be serving life behind bars without parole instead. I insisted that this wa…
whyevolutionistrue.com
December 24, 2024 at 3:49 PM
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New post on the 100% Christmas Interval -- after almost 8 years, it's time that we finally talk about CIs.

www.the100.ci/2024/12/05/w...
Why you are not allowed to say that your 95% confidence interval contains the true parameter with a probability of 95%
A shibboleth is a custom, such as a choice of phrasing, that distinguishes one group of people from another. The term goes back to the Hebrew Bible, in which the inhabitants of Gilead identify members...
www.the100.ci
December 5, 2024 at 2:47 PM
Il dibattito pubblico è spesso condizionato da credenze false sulla reale entità delle disuguaglianze. Ecco alcuni miti non supportati dai dati: Six Myths About Gender, Race, and Inequality www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/six-myths-...
Six Myths About Gender, Race, and Inequality
Debunking widespread misconceptions with data
www.stevestewartwilliams.com
December 7, 2024 at 9:46 AM
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November 26, 2024 at 8:26 PM
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In the domains of both energy production and weight loss, lots of people would prefer to continue doing something they know doesn't work (renewables; diet & exercise alone) in case they can manage to make it work in some imaginary future than adopt the measures that already work (Ozempic; nuclear).
November 26, 2024 at 3:03 AM
Vorrei tanto conoscere il genio che ha progettato queste postazioni nella prima classe dell’InterCity. È impossibile inserire le spine nelle prese. In pratica sono delle prese per il c…
November 22, 2024 at 3:34 PM