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Unfollow Everything is dead! Long live Unfollow Everything 2.0! I'm absolutely over the moon at the news of this lawsuit by Ethan Zuckerman 🍾 wired.com/story/meta-sec…

I no longer visit but for this I’m making an exception: The editors of 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘺 & 𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘈𝘧𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘴 have resigned en masse. We’re starting a new diamond open-access journal with The Open Library of Humanities dailynous.com/2024/05/22/edi…

In the latest Everything Hertz episode we asked listeners for the longest "weak" citation chain they've heard of, and Overly.Honest.Editor. delivered doi.org/10.1016/j.cell…

PSA: All #rstats package on #cran will get an official DOI! This will facilitate bibliometrics and giving credit to R package authors. Registering all 20,000+ packages will still take a few more days. But the first couple of thousand are already live. Example:

People often switch between videos and fast-forward through them on platforms like YouTube & TikTok. Here, we wondered if people consume media this way to avoid boredom; This is ironic because we also found that such viewing behaviour increases boredom and decreases satisfaction

Congratulations to Research Assoc Ulrik Lyngs Ulrik Lyngs who has won an MPLS Early-Career Social Impact Award for his ‘Reduce Digital Distraction’ (ReDD) Workshop, which addresses the harms of digital distractions & provides effective solutions.🎉 Read here: cs.ox.ac.uk/news/2346-full…

As Hetan — the chair of our board — says, the Wellcome Trust has given Our World in Data a major grant. Wellcome is the biggest funder of our nonprofit, and we are very much looking forward to what we can do in the coming seven years!

This paper makes 2 very important points. First, for within designs G*Power has weird defaults that lead to large mistakes. Use our Superpower app instead: arcaldwell49.shinyapps.io/anova-exact/ Second, as I stress in my paper on sample size justification, make power analyses reproducible.

this is the way

What happened when MIT stopped paying Elsevier? Not much except they are saving a lot of money. "MIT is interested in collaborating with other libraries to reinvest these funds in community-controlled open publishing initiatives..." sparcopen.org/our-work/big-d…

Doing good science is 90% finding a science buddy to constantly talk to about the project.

In the US, Google was found to operate an illegal monopoly in online search. Surprising, right? Google it if you've not heard of it. The company now shared their rebuttal to any potential court-ordered remedies. I'll point out what I think of it. ➡️ "Forcing Google to share

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Tried playing around with Grok and not impressed. Its main advantage is supposedly that its real-time access to twitter makes it more accurate. Instead it just confidently makes up non-existing tweets:

The one place an infinitely scrolling feed would really make sense is in Google search results.

At skabe gode digitale rum, der passer til den enkeltes behov, er lettere sagt end gjort. For hvad der fungerer for ét menneske, passer ikke nødvendigvis på andre. 👉 Læs om Ulrik Lyngs #dkforsk på området og få konkrete tips til, hvad du selv kan gøre bit.ly/3RKNbK7

New version out of my open-source Safari extension for hiding distractions online (YouTube shorts, FB / Insta feed, etc) now lets you hide anything on any site (including this one...) 🥳 source code: github.com/ulyngs/mindshi… App Store: apps.apple.com/gb/app/mindshi…

Excited that the ReDD Project's open-source tool for hiding online distractions is now available for all browsers (Safari, Firefox, Chrome, ...): redd-project.org/mindshield 🥳 It can e.g. hide YouTube's recommendations, Instagram's feed, or anything else on any website, really. 🤓

Finally got around to incorporating all Github feedback on my open access textbook, making around 20 minor improvements, and updating some references. 17 chapters of state of the art stats and methods education, freely available for any course you teach. lakens.github.io/statistical_in…

Very impressed with Veo 3 and all the things people are finding on r/aivideo etc. Makes a big difference qualitatively when you add audio. There are a few macro aspects to video generation that may not be fully appreciated: 1. Video is the highest bandwidth input to brain. Not