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This seems like as good a hill to die on as any other?

A few days ago I saw this "bad stats" meme of a plot where somebody binned people into age categories, and then did a t-test to show that the older category was older than the younger category. I cant find it. Does anybody have a link to the tweet/paper?

This paper is the culmination of years of rigorous ideas and thought with @DamienFarine and Meg Crofoot, and is my favorite piece I have worked on to date (and my 1st PhD chapter!). Let's make the field of collective behavior a more predictive science using classical theories!

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I’m very excited to announce that my FIRST first author paper is now out on EHS Evolutionary Human Sciences #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1017/ehs.20…

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Our new medicine laureate Svante Pääbo made a splash when his colleagues at MPI-EVA Leipzig threw him into a pond. Normally throwing a colleague into the pond happens when somebody receives a PhD, and they wanted to do it for Pääbo's #NobelPrize as well. Video: Benjamin Vernot

This work highlights the value of replication efforts on modeling studies, and on the importance of written model descriptions being sufficiently detailed to enable replication. /end

This Lexis plot depicting UK mortality across the 20th century is wild. I had no idea cohort effects (diagonal 'scars') were so strong. Events like the 1918 flu led to not only high annual mortality, but an increase in mortality across one's lifetime. HT: Saloni's newsletter.

🤯 This new PNASNews paper out of Santa Fe Institute is ELEGANT w/an incredible author list & one hell of a dataset. The way this is written w/hypotheses & predictions clearly outlined & theory bridging mammals should make this Eco/Evo/Anthro mandatory reading. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

How do people come together to solve complex problems? In a new paper with Paul Smaldino, Alejandro Pérez Velilla, and Mikkel Werling, we propose that one general principle for complex problem-solving is the maintenance of "transient diversity." journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

I really enjoyed this paper! Check it out.

Anyone have a mirror of kinsources.net? Website seems down.

I first discovered the problem in April 2024, and contacted the journal on April 12, and the authors on April 16. In order to ensure transparency for replication and reanalysis, I placed all the original code as well as my edits into a GitHub repository. github.com/jkangbrown/whe…

An actual hero. This is what America First looks like when it’s a lived ethos, rather than a mask for narcissism and ambition.

So proud to see the hard work of Riana Minocher come out in PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Nuanced analysis of 20 years of longitudinal data in a large rural community shows little evidence that non-nuclear family structures lead to reduced growth, education, or survival outcomes.