Nathan Laroy
@nlaroy.bsky.social
MSc theoretical & experimental psychology | Currently in MSc Statistical Data Analysis program | interests: experimental design, measurement error, statistics, philosophy/history of psychology
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Honestly, if this is not your main take away from engaging with #philsci in general, you're probably doing it wrong
My friend and colleague Remco Heesen once told me study of social epistemology of science made him "less trusting of any particular scientific paper but more impressed by science as a whole." I honestly think that's the right lesson to draw. But I think holding both attitudes doesn't come naturally.
The most important thing about science the public needs to remember is that the set of experimental and theoretical methods we refer to as "science" is the best, most reliable way of knowing we currently have.
It's rough around the edges but it works way better than anything else.
It's rough around the edges but it works way better than anything else.
June 24, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Honestly, if this is not your main take away from engaging with #philsci in general, you're probably doing it wrong
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Sober and chilling analysis by @timothysnyder.bsky.social
"It is due process, and due process alone, that allows you to demonstrate that you are a citizen. Without it, the masked men in the black vans can simply claim that you are a foreign terrorist and disappear you."
"It is due process, and due process alone, that allows you to demonstrate that you are a citizen. Without it, the masked men in the black vans can simply claim that you are a foreign terrorist and disappear you."
State Terror
A brief guide for Americans
snyder.substack.com
April 15, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Sober and chilling analysis by @timothysnyder.bsky.social
"It is due process, and due process alone, that allows you to demonstrate that you are a citizen. Without it, the masked men in the black vans can simply claim that you are a foreign terrorist and disappear you."
"It is due process, and due process alone, that allows you to demonstrate that you are a citizen. Without it, the masked men in the black vans can simply claim that you are a foreign terrorist and disappear you."
I'm currently running a Poisson hurdle mixed-effects model and this monstrosity is making me physically sick because of how completely unnecessarily complex it is, and my pc is screaming trying to calculate the estimates. But it's fun, though.
April 13, 2025 at 11:20 AM
I'm currently running a Poisson hurdle mixed-effects model and this monstrosity is making me physically sick because of how completely unnecessarily complex it is, and my pc is screaming trying to calculate the estimates. But it's fun, though.
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A revised version of "Minimum Viable Experiment to Replicate" is up, where we expound why standard expectations from replications are unrealistic and experiments that may deliver on those replications are rare, if not nonexistent.
#metasci #sts #philsci
philsci-archive.pitt.edu/24720/7/Mini...
#metasci #sts #philsci
philsci-archive.pitt.edu/24720/7/Mini...
February 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
A revised version of "Minimum Viable Experiment to Replicate" is up, where we expound why standard expectations from replications are unrealistic and experiments that may deliver on those replications are rare, if not nonexistent.
#metasci #sts #philsci
philsci-archive.pitt.edu/24720/7/Mini...
#metasci #sts #philsci
philsci-archive.pitt.edu/24720/7/Mini...
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Swiss chocolate be like: do you enjoy high quality chocolate but not quite enough that you're willing to tolerate Belgium?
February 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Swiss chocolate be like: do you enjoy high quality chocolate but not quite enough that you're willing to tolerate Belgium?
I guess studying biased estimators in statistics is off-limits now, too.
Apart from all the aweful things these policies entail, of which there are many, it's also just so incredibly stupid.
Apart from all the aweful things these policies entail, of which there are many, it's also just so incredibly stupid.
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 9:16 AM
I guess studying biased estimators in statistics is off-limits now, too.
Apart from all the aweful things these policies entail, of which there are many, it's also just so incredibly stupid.
Apart from all the aweful things these policies entail, of which there are many, it's also just so incredibly stupid.
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Burning books might look a little different in the digital era, but the effect is the same and it's no less of a red flag
This is an outright fascist attack on science
February 2, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Burning books might look a little different in the digital era, but the effect is the same and it's no less of a red flag
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This is an outright fascist attack on science
February 1, 2025 at 10:43 PM
This is an outright fascist attack on science
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If a scientist who uses a microscope in their work never learns how to use a microscope, we find them a new career.
If a scientist uses statistics in their work but never learns how to use statistics, we promote them even faster, and let them decide how other people should use statistics.
If a scientist uses statistics in their work but never learns how to use statistics, we promote them even faster, and let them decide how other people should use statistics.
January 22, 2025 at 8:54 AM
If a scientist who uses a microscope in their work never learns how to use a microscope, we find them a new career.
If a scientist uses statistics in their work but never learns how to use statistics, we promote them even faster, and let them decide how other people should use statistics.
If a scientist uses statistics in their work but never learns how to use statistics, we promote them even faster, and let them decide how other people should use statistics.
I'm not sure if you're aware, but The Onion is a satire website.
If you were already aware, I will leave this as a testament to my inability to see your sarcasm and refrain from mansplaining the obvious (in which case I'm truly sorry).
If you were already aware, I will leave this as a testament to my inability to see your sarcasm and refrain from mansplaining the obvious (in which case I'm truly sorry).
December 19, 2024 at 7:19 PM
I'm not sure if you're aware, but The Onion is a satire website.
If you were already aware, I will leave this as a testament to my inability to see your sarcasm and refrain from mansplaining the obvious (in which case I'm truly sorry).
If you were already aware, I will leave this as a testament to my inability to see your sarcasm and refrain from mansplaining the obvious (in which case I'm truly sorry).
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This is a very reluctant part II in a series of blog posts on the Protzko retraction. The first was motivated by the authors misleading in a .pdf, and this one around false statements in the WSJ, Die Zeit, Nature, and on @spencrgreenberg.bsky.social's podcast.
joebakcoleman.com/blog/2024/no...
joebakcoleman.com/blog/2024/no...
I did not want to write another blog post. | Joe B. Bak-Coleman
The Preregistration Revelation Part II
joebakcoleman.com
November 20, 2024 at 12:44 PM
This is a very reluctant part II in a series of blog posts on the Protzko retraction. The first was motivated by the authors misleading in a .pdf, and this one around false statements in the WSJ, Die Zeit, Nature, and on @spencrgreenberg.bsky.social's podcast.
joebakcoleman.com/blog/2024/no...
joebakcoleman.com/blog/2024/no...
Why must you be so?
November 15, 2024 at 9:37 PM
Why must you be so?
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Revisiting this 2019 article bec it makes me feel less lonely in this fight abt what replications are/aren't. The default expectation of replication based on inferential methods is fraught as it ignores the fact that inference is just as much abt the assumptions.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 11, 2024 at 9:45 PM
Revisiting this 2019 article bec it makes me feel less lonely in this fight abt what replications are/aren't. The default expectation of replication based on inferential methods is fraught as it ignores the fact that inference is just as much abt the assumptions.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Methods sections are generally 1/3 in the methods section, 1/3 in the results section, and 1/3 nonexistent.
#statistics #medsky
#statistics #medsky
November 9, 2024 at 2:25 PM
Methods sections are generally 1/3 in the methods section, 1/3 in the results section, and 1/3 nonexistent.
#statistics #medsky
#statistics #medsky
What is it with all these accounts posting screenshots of That Place here on Bksy? I thought the whole purpose was to leave That Place and build a better one here. I've subscribed to tons of people from these topical lists and I find myself having to mute lots of them bc of this. Really annoying.
November 8, 2024 at 8:03 AM
What is it with all these accounts posting screenshots of That Place here on Bksy? I thought the whole purpose was to leave That Place and build a better one here. I've subscribed to tons of people from these topical lists and I find myself having to mute lots of them bc of this. Really annoying.
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for people who can't find the blocklist bsky.app/profile/fran...
November 7, 2024 at 6:18 AM
for people who can't find the blocklist bsky.app/profile/fran...
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Hi there. We're Retraction Watch -- retractionwatch.com -- and we've joined Bluesky.
Retraction Watch
Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process
retractionwatch.com
November 5, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Hi there. We're Retraction Watch -- retractionwatch.com -- and we've joined Bluesky.
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November 4, 2024 at 3:35 AM
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Ugh. This feels like punching down but when the simmer becomes a boil...
No one should take Lakens seriously on any topic. There are voices more knowledgeable, pleasant, and thoughtful on any topic.
No one should take Lakens seriously on any topic. There are voices more knowledgeable, pleasant, and thoughtful on any topic.
Conversations about open qual are kicking off in the other place- and not for good reasons 😓 There’s a lot of great work being done by qual folks interrogating how, why and when open research is appropriate, and to see that growing work ignored by a prominent figure in open science is frustrating. 😓
November 3, 2024 at 8:23 PM
Ugh. This feels like punching down but when the simmer becomes a boil...
No one should take Lakens seriously on any topic. There are voices more knowledgeable, pleasant, and thoughtful on any topic.
No one should take Lakens seriously on any topic. There are voices more knowledgeable, pleasant, and thoughtful on any topic.
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"The results look pretty replicable. I don’t think the preregistration criticism changes my mind a lot about the paper.”
Do people even know how to read? It's maddening that we wrote an MA documenting problems, there are two independent blog posts reporting on further issues & it's prereg all over!
Do people even know how to read? It's maddening that we wrote an MA documenting problems, there are two independent blog posts reporting on further issues & it's prereg all over!
‘Doing good science is hard’: retraction of high-profile reproducibility study prompts soul-searching
A paper by some of the biggest names in scientific integrity is retracted for issues including misstatements about the research plan.
www.nature.com
October 14, 2024 at 10:27 PM
"The results look pretty replicable. I don’t think the preregistration criticism changes my mind a lot about the paper.”
Do people even know how to read? It's maddening that we wrote an MA documenting problems, there are two independent blog posts reporting on further issues & it's prereg all over!
Do people even know how to read? It's maddening that we wrote an MA documenting problems, there are two independent blog posts reporting on further issues & it's prereg all over!
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My most radical “science reform” idea is that we should scrape 85% of undergrad/early-grad applied stats and methods coursework and replace it with long strong methodological reading comprehension. We should almost exclusively train students to consume, not produce, science.
October 11, 2024 at 7:30 AM
My most radical “science reform” idea is that we should scrape 85% of undergrad/early-grad applied stats and methods coursework and replace it with long strong methodological reading comprehension. We should almost exclusively train students to consume, not produce, science.
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“Replication studies can’t fix science: They barely even begin to address the problem”
Medium post by Mike Hearn
blog.plan99.net/replication-...
#MetaSci #PhilSci 🧪
Medium post by Mike Hearn
blog.plan99.net/replication-...
#MetaSci #PhilSci 🧪
October 7, 2024 at 7:23 AM
“Replication studies can’t fix science: They barely even begin to address the problem”
Medium post by Mike Hearn
blog.plan99.net/replication-...
#MetaSci #PhilSci 🧪
Medium post by Mike Hearn
blog.plan99.net/replication-...
#MetaSci #PhilSci 🧪
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Related to it, two suggestions for anyone interested: Matrix Algebra From a Statistician's Perspective (by David Harville) and Linear Algebra: Theory, Intuition, Code (by Mike X Cohen) have been my late companions over the past two weeks and will most likely continue to be so for the next years
Of course everyone in the Bsky community knows all these results off the top of their head.
But in case you have colleagues or students who may not I thought I'd share.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
But in case you have colleagues or students who may not I thought I'd share.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 5, 2024 at 8:42 AM
Related to it, two suggestions for anyone interested: Matrix Algebra From a Statistician's Perspective (by David Harville) and Linear Algebra: Theory, Intuition, Code (by Mike X Cohen) have been my late companions over the past two weeks and will most likely continue to be so for the next years
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We've just posted a new preprint, "Care for the Soul of Science", by @sarahderijcke.bsky.social, Mare Knibbe (who wisely is not on social media) and myself.
See: osf.io/preprints/me...
#metascience #sts
We bring together crisis framing and religious motifs around scientific reform. A thread: 1/
See: osf.io/preprints/me...
#metascience #sts
We bring together crisis framing and religious motifs around scientific reform. A thread: 1/
OSF
osf.io
October 2, 2024 at 10:31 AM
We've just posted a new preprint, "Care for the Soul of Science", by @sarahderijcke.bsky.social, Mare Knibbe (who wisely is not on social media) and myself.
See: osf.io/preprints/me...
#metascience #sts
We bring together crisis framing and religious motifs around scientific reform. A thread: 1/
See: osf.io/preprints/me...
#metascience #sts
We bring together crisis framing and religious motifs around scientific reform. A thread: 1/
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Over the past year, I've resisted blogging about why Protzko needed retracted.
Unfortunately, the authors have used their platforms to mislead about the cause for retraction. As they cannot be honest, I'm choosing to be fully open and transparent.
#metascience
joebakcoleman.com/blog/2024/pr...
Unfortunately, the authors have used their platforms to mislead about the cause for retraction. As they cannot be honest, I'm choosing to be fully open and transparent.
#metascience
joebakcoleman.com/blog/2024/pr...
I did not want to write this blog post. | Joe B. Bak-Coleman
The Preregistration Revelation
joebakcoleman.com
September 26, 2024 at 2:26 AM
Over the past year, I've resisted blogging about why Protzko needed retracted.
Unfortunately, the authors have used their platforms to mislead about the cause for retraction. As they cannot be honest, I'm choosing to be fully open and transparent.
#metascience
joebakcoleman.com/blog/2024/pr...
Unfortunately, the authors have used their platforms to mislead about the cause for retraction. As they cannot be honest, I'm choosing to be fully open and transparent.
#metascience
joebakcoleman.com/blog/2024/pr...