📢 #IRCrES #seminar ‼️#SaveTheDate 🏢“Model uncertainty in the evaluation of the impact of interdisciplinary research in business studies: a multiverse analysis” ✍️ Giulio Giacomo Cantone, Università della Magna Grecia di Catanzaro 🗓️ 21/10  ore 10 🔎ircres.cnr.it/ircres-seminar…

The Nobel Prize in Economics is characterised by extreme institutional concentration: almost every prizewinner has passed through an economics department at an elite US university. Sure, these universities attract top talent globally. But this institutional concentration of

I've made that point before, but if you hear a political leader talk about "credibility" while discussing foreign policy, you can infer with a very high probability that he is about to defend stupid shit that will cost a ton of money or kill a lot of people for no good reason.

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Today they found a dead horse in the street over my home. Gangs organise nocturnal clandestine rides in that street. That poor creature likely died of heart attack by how much cocaine they pumped in their blood. And they not even had the soul to give her a proper burial.

The most worrisome phrases when talking to orgs about AI: "ethical adoption", "responsible AI", "sovereign compute". Responsibility, ethics and sovereignty are good! But when I hear these in the first minute, bureaucracy, slow adoption, and tech nonsense will follow. Never fails.

If a country trains only 23 kids to play football because there are only 23 spots on the national team, it will never defeat a country that trains two million kids. Not once in a billion years. Same with doctors. If we need 100 doctors and we only train 100, we can’t expect all

New paper online on "Citizen Assemblies: a sortition-based way to improve modern democratic systems" researchsquare.com/article/rs-774…

Ever wondered why the Student's t-test was named this way? The story below is interesting! But maybe even more interesting: Sealy-Gosset first thought of his test in a Gaussian logic, making it some sort of Z-score to measure how two samples are far away from each other in their

A lot of people don't understand the core of the problem presented with the metaphor of the existence of the chicken and her eggs.

They make a video game in Sicily: it's literally called Mafia. They make a video game in Calabria: it's about being a gang of raiders in a post-apocalyptic world.

Phew. Passed it. 😅😆

People think that the expression "Swan's song" implies that swans sing before death. But it originates by the Greek "you can hear the swan's song when the jackdaws are silent": jackdaw are very social and noisy, but during famines they die. During famines, swans can be listened.

I don't get why people are freaking out about extending Erasmus programs to arab countries. I cannot think of a better policy to integrate these into the European sphere of values.

We got our first review stating that as p-curve was recently criticized, and z-curve was also not 'vetted by a real statistician', the method should not be trusted. No statistical tool could ever damage science as much as this horrendously flawed authority argument.

I love this story: A wealthy man walks into a Manhattan bank and says: “I’m flying to Europe for two weeks. I need to borrow $5,000.” The banker raises an eyebrow. “Of course, sir but we’ll need some form of collateral.” Without hesitation, the man hands over the keys to

Met this zoomer girl who admitted that since she put on a ring on her nose and dyed her hair blue she felt a strong pulsion to annoy others. Then she proceeded to explain why the music her boyfriend listen should not be tagged as techno. I appreciated her sincerity.

Why is @nature is seen as a top journal? It's because many scholars cite papers Nature publishes in their own publications. By making clear that citations are not based solely on merit, and thus debasing them, Nature is undermining a basis for its claim to prominence.

This same pic, released 20 years ago, would have been on a album of Nu metal band to metaphorically signify the barbarism of western elites.

This is almost disrepectful for people who actually do research with the spirit of, you know, discovering or testing knowlege.