Now @maxprimbs.bsky.social talking about his super exciting Many-Dags project, asking experts in his field of implicit researchers to draw DAGs about a theory in his field.

Good news for a change: Daylight can boost the immune system's ability to fight infections, scientists in New Zealand who focused neutrophils, say. Neutrophils, the most abundant immune cells, apparently possess a circadian clock that alerts them to daytime & boosts their ability to kill bacteria 👇

This meta-analysis of 79 RCTs found that social comparison is an effective behaviour change technique for pro-environmental-, health-, performance-, and service-related behaviours. @tholehoppen.bsky.social @riekemcuno.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is from The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson aired on May 20th, 1977.

Carl Sagan says something very important, a strong message that didn't lose any validity since then.

Humans are driven to deploy their cognitive and neural resources in optimal ways to maintain a kind of cognitive homeostasis. This perspective outlines the case of boredom as a signal of deviation from the optimal cognitive homeostatic range.@jamesdanckert.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Although some researchers manage to perfectly adhere to preregistrations, it is common to need to deviate. Not all deviations are consequential, but some are, and it is important to evaluate the impact of deviations on the severity of a test. online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

Analysis of the confined crowds at the San Fermín festival in Spain shows that dense crowds can self-organize into macroscopic chiral oscillators, coordinating the orbital motion of hundreds of individuals without external guidance, according to a paper in Nature. https://go.nature.com/3WKkb8r 🧪

I am pleased to share that Social Cognition has accepted our work, titled 'Causal Inference for Dummies: A Tutorial on Directed Acyclic Graphs and Balancing Weight.' The project was led by @maxprimbs.bsky.social. For more info, see his excellent thread and the preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps....

Statistically significant group-level effects are often taken to imply an effect is typical in the population. This Resource provides a method and software tool to infer the population prevalence of experimental effects directly.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Now publicly available: the #TISP dataset. It contains 71,922 survey responses on public perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries. Published in @natureportfolio.bsky.social’s #ScientificData: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📊

Memorization and recall of long sequences was aided by learning abstract motifs underlying the superficial sequence elements.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...