Nico Trajtenberg 🐝
@nicotrajtenberg.bsky.social
"Animals appear to be so similar to humans that at times it is impossible to distinguish them"
K'nyo Mobutu (antropophagus)
Augusto Monterroso
K'nyo Mobutu (antropophagus)
Augusto Monterroso
Some people can’t help being optimistic to the point of borderline delusion
November 14, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Some people can’t help being optimistic to the point of borderline delusion
Cabo Polonio, Uruguay
November 14, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Cabo Polonio, Uruguay
Virtue signalling is the opium of European academics
November 10, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Virtue signalling is the opium of European academics
JUSTICE
When justice and reason are on your side, try to make them go over to the enemy’s side; then they will pursue you with justice and reason, and will surely lose
Augusto Monterroso
When justice and reason are on your side, try to make them go over to the enemy’s side; then they will pursue you with justice and reason, and will surely lose
Augusto Monterroso
November 7, 2025 at 9:03 AM
JUSTICE
When justice and reason are on your side, try to make them go over to the enemy’s side; then they will pursue you with justice and reason, and will surely lose
Augusto Monterroso
When justice and reason are on your side, try to make them go over to the enemy’s side; then they will pursue you with justice and reason, and will surely lose
Augusto Monterroso
"I love the smell of napalm in the morning. It smells like...reading week"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx5N...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx5N...
I Love The Smell Of Napalm In The Morning ::: Apocalypse Now
YouTube video by Brian Sierzega
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November 3, 2025 at 9:01 AM
"I love the smell of napalm in the morning. It smells like...reading week"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx5N...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx5N...
"The Preregistarian religion requires me to take one very small part of science and blow it all out of proportion to its actual value"
Interesting post by Luke Conway showing the problem of exaggerating preregistration's relevance
Interesting post by Luke Conway showing the problem of exaggerating preregistration's relevance
"I’m actually biased in favor of the intuitive value of preregistration; but things that seem intuitively sensible can turn out to be wrong anyway. Increasingly, I’m wondering if this is one of those things."
Preregistration Isn’t the Chief Executive of Science, It’s a Small Part of the Quality Control Department
And I'm Beginnning to Think It Should Be Fired for Poor Performance
open.substack.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
"The Preregistarian religion requires me to take one very small part of science and blow it all out of proportion to its actual value"
Interesting post by Luke Conway showing the problem of exaggerating preregistration's relevance
Interesting post by Luke Conway showing the problem of exaggerating preregistration's relevance
Real Halloween: giving regular candys to all kids
"Of course children who have nut allergies need to be protected. We need to segregate their food from nuts, have medication available... but maybe if touching a nut kills you, you're supposed to die"
Louis CK
"Of course children who have nut allergies need to be protected. We need to segregate their food from nuts, have medication available... but maybe if touching a nut kills you, you're supposed to die"
Louis CK
October 31, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Real Halloween: giving regular candys to all kids
"Of course children who have nut allergies need to be protected. We need to segregate their food from nuts, have medication available... but maybe if touching a nut kills you, you're supposed to die"
Louis CK
"Of course children who have nut allergies need to be protected. We need to segregate their food from nuts, have medication available... but maybe if touching a nut kills you, you're supposed to die"
Louis CK
🎃 Halloween is every day 🎃
October 31, 2025 at 11:15 AM
🎃 Halloween is every day 🎃
Using DAG and being careful about bad controls in Criminology is not frequent
Great paper on sentencing discrimination
Great paper on sentencing discrimination
October 30, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Using DAG and being careful about bad controls in Criminology is not frequent
Great paper on sentencing discrimination
Great paper on sentencing discrimination
But in order to work and collaborate together in a productive way, shouldn't you need to be less arrogant and mediocre and have minimal curiosity and interest in others' discipline?
I thought you were talking about sociologists and economists....
I thought you were talking about sociologists and economists....
Hot take: More sociologists and economists need to work together.
October 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
But in order to work and collaborate together in a productive way, shouldn't you need to be less arrogant and mediocre and have minimal curiosity and interest in others' discipline?
I thought you were talking about sociologists and economists....
I thought you were talking about sociologists and economists....
There were times when we had to use chains to prevent people from stealing books. Now, you could chain most of our students to one of these bookshelves, and I'm sure that if you came back 10 days later, you'd find their dead bodies, not a single book opened
October 26, 2025 at 11:50 AM
There were times when we had to use chains to prevent people from stealing books. Now, you could chain most of our students to one of these bookshelves, and I'm sure that if you came back 10 days later, you'd find their dead bodies, not a single book opened
Jon Elster distinguishes between soft & hard obscurantism
One of the best examples of hard obscurantism I know is Fredrickson & Losada (2005) use of differential equations from fluid dynamics to describe emotions over time, wonderfully anhilated by Sokal et al
psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
One of the best examples of hard obscurantism I know is Fredrickson & Losada (2005) use of differential equations from fluid dynamics to describe emotions over time, wonderfully anhilated by Sokal et al
psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
APA PsycNet
psycnet.apa.org
October 23, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Jon Elster distinguishes between soft & hard obscurantism
One of the best examples of hard obscurantism I know is Fredrickson & Losada (2005) use of differential equations from fluid dynamics to describe emotions over time, wonderfully anhilated by Sokal et al
psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
One of the best examples of hard obscurantism I know is Fredrickson & Losada (2005) use of differential equations from fluid dynamics to describe emotions over time, wonderfully anhilated by Sokal et al
psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
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October 23, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Very nice paper by Tiago & Aebi showing that the relationship economy - imprisonment that is considered a fact by many critical criminologist is weak and as usual highly sensitive to research design & analysis
It's great that Punishment & Society is publishing this kind of papers!
It's great that Punishment & Society is publishing this kind of papers!
New article in Punishment & Society with M.M. Tiago: reviewing 47 studies, we show how method choice can bias the economy→imprisonment link. Non–time-series methods report significance 82% of the time vs 68% for proper time-series tools. Open Access thanks to@unil.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1462...
Questioning the economic conditions-imprisonment link: A methodological review of the political economy of punishment's empirical literature - Mélanie M Tiago, Marcelo F Aebi, 2025
The relationship between economic conditions and imprisonment has long been debated in the political economy of punishment, with scholars, inspired by Rusche an...
doi.org
October 19, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Very nice paper by Tiago & Aebi showing that the relationship economy - imprisonment that is considered a fact by many critical criminologist is weak and as usual highly sensitive to research design & analysis
It's great that Punishment & Society is publishing this kind of papers!
It's great that Punishment & Society is publishing this kind of papers!
Reposted by Nico Trajtenberg 🐝
Correction for multiple comparisons should be ubiquitous www.nature.com/articles/s41... 👍👏
Correction for multiple comparisons should be ubiquitous - Nature Human Behaviour
Nature Human Behaviour - Correction for multiple comparisons should be ubiquitous
www.nature.com
October 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Correction for multiple comparisons should be ubiquitous www.nature.com/articles/s41... 👍👏
Yesterday we have a visitors in Picadilly Manchester
October 19, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Yesterday we have a visitors in Picadilly Manchester
At the University of Manchester, I check my students’ pulse every now and then just to make sure they’re still alive
October 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
At the University of Manchester, I check my students’ pulse every now and then just to make sure they’re still alive
"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative"
Woody Allen
Woody Allen
Every academic career is built on rejection, but we don’t show it.
CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures.
But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do.
👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...
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CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures.
But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do.
👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...
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Fail Better: Why Your Rejections Will Shape You More Than Your Publications
The Art of Learning from Rejection
catherineeunicedevries.substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 7:47 PM
"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative"
Woody Allen
Woody Allen
My cognitive capacity is limited to keeping track & maintaining stable relationships with just one human: Olga
"Dunbar's Number" is a zombie that lives forever in the science press it seems. Estimates of Dunbar's Number with 95% intervals, for a range of model specifications (from doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... ):
October 14, 2025 at 7:09 PM
My cognitive capacity is limited to keeping track & maintaining stable relationships with just one human: Olga
When it reaches the threshold of being surprising and novel enough for the reviewer
When is it appropriate to deviate from a pre-registration?"
WRONG ANSWERS ONLY
Cc @lakens.bsky.social
WRONG ANSWERS ONLY
Cc @lakens.bsky.social
When is it appropriate to deviate from a pre-registration, and how should this be done? 🧐
Join us to find out from Daniël Lakens @lakens.bsky.social at the next ReproducibiliTea!
October 28, 1pm GMT.
Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/when-and-h...
@tabeasch.bsky.social @reproducibilitea.org
Join us to find out from Daniël Lakens @lakens.bsky.social at the next ReproducibiliTea!
October 28, 1pm GMT.
Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/when-and-h...
@tabeasch.bsky.social @reproducibilitea.org
October 13, 2025 at 11:54 AM
When it reaches the threshold of being surprising and novel enough for the reviewer
Essays/assignments ready for marking
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
rm -rf ~/
rm -rf ~/
"The chancellor approved it"
October 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Essays/assignments ready for marking
Life attitude
October 11, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Life attitude
Very cool episode on what is dark matter and dark energy and how do we know is out there by @tomchivers.bsky.social & @stuartjritchie.bsky.social
ps: doing one future episode on parsimony-complexity, Occam, etc in science, would be amazing!
sciencefictionspod.substack.com/p/episode-83...
ps: doing one future episode on parsimony-complexity, Occam, etc in science, would be amazing!
sciencefictionspod.substack.com/p/episode-83...
Episode 83: Dark matter and dark energy
Listen now | Another (possibly unwise) foray into physics
sciencefictionspod.substack.com
October 10, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Very cool episode on what is dark matter and dark energy and how do we know is out there by @tomchivers.bsky.social & @stuartjritchie.bsky.social
ps: doing one future episode on parsimony-complexity, Occam, etc in science, would be amazing!
sciencefictionspod.substack.com/p/episode-83...
ps: doing one future episode on parsimony-complexity, Occam, etc in science, would be amazing!
sciencefictionspod.substack.com/p/episode-83...