Berna Devezer
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--A warrior, a scholar, a sage-- (this is a joke you monsters!) Uni of Idaho Assoc Prof
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Oh noes the dreaded switch to X just happened and the white-over-black app icon looks positively sinister on my phone. Time to phase out of here. 'Twas good while it lasted.
Find me at bluesky and mastodon as devezer. Will be less and less active here.
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OK I tried this in Turkish, which is another language without gendered pronouns. I’d say there’s a consistent pattern 🤔
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one of my profs during phd used to say “you can drive a truck through the holes in any given paper. so you look for what you *can* learn instead.” and being the smartass grad students we used to think driving that truck was fun. after so many years, i now appreciate her wisdom >>
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Against all odds: First gen...
- College student
- BA
- MS
- PhD
- Assistant Prof
and now
- Associate Prof
I JUST GOT TENURED, MY TWITTER FAM! How are we celebrating?
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proposal: why don’t journals accept/evaluate papers in a simple, generic pdf format at first submission and early revisions, and only impose their unique format requirements after conditional acceptance? would save us all time but still have papers published in desired format.
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@_roryturnbull
@BayesForDays
And as everyone is leaving, one person enters the classroom and approaches you to ask about an old student of yours!
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I compiled a spreadsheet that includes all recommendations (still updating). I included author, title, etc. information as well as twitter handles of those who made the recommendations (follow them!). If the topic categories don't make sense, lmk.
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so college dean and dept chair come to my class unannounced and to inform me, in front of students, that I won the presidential mid-career award and the weirdest part of all that is that I'm now mid-career 😱 too far from grad school and retirement alike. it's the purgatory.
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New preprint alert! "The case for formal methodology in scientific reform" w/
@djnavarro
@VandekerckhoveJ
& Erkan Buzbas. In this paper we advocate for statistically rigorous and scientifically nuanced arguments to make proper methodological claims. /1
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🚨 New preprint 🚨
“The logical structure of experiments lays the foundation for a theory of reproducibility”
In which we show why meaningful replications need to be based on deeper theoretical understanding and stronger empirical foundations.
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What's strange is that it's supposed to be surprising/problematic that we arrive at different results under different models making different assumptions, using different methods that also make different assumptions. It's almost as if our inference depends on the model/method.
Scary: 73 teams tested the same hypotheses with the same data. Some found negative results, some positive, some nada. No effect of expertise or confirmation bias. "Idiosyncratic researcher variability is a threat to the reliability of scientific findings."
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Started reading this book by Hasok Chang and I’m immediately drawn in: “It is neither desirable nor any longer effective to try bullying people into accepting the authority of science. Instead, all members of the educated public can be invited to participate in science”
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ok my final verdict: i absolutely abhor the “methods and materials at the end of the paper” journal format. it didn’t make sense while writing it, still doesn’t while reading. it is so unnatural to talk about results before having introduced methods and ruins the logical flow.
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Our modeling & simulation paper on scientific discovery and reproducibility is finally out at
@PLOSONE
as of today. And I have already received my first obscure, unintelligible mansplaining email that some dude is dubious. Can I display that as a badge? 😂
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At the end of every semester, students thank me for not assigning a textbook. If you haven’t before, consider whether you can teach just as well or better without one (I sure do). Or use an open access textbook instead of asking them to pay hundreds of dollars.
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This 2019 article by Feest makes a strong case against the usefulness of direct and conceptual replication studies (specifically in psych) as well as against the existence of a "replication" crisis. It's sharp, incisive, on point. Five key points:
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I want to highlight some non-mainstream work on reproducibility, open science, replication crisis, meta-science by women. Reading and drawing from a diverse set of authors and ideas will help push this stream of work forward and help make science more open and inclusive.
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We do this all the time with ‘genius’ men but I rarely ever see Alexandra Elbakyan’s name mentioned with her creation. She’s a leading figure in making science open. And we should all thank her. And never use Sci-Hub ofc.
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"I am on sabbatical leave until August 2021 and will not be checking my work email regularly. Please expect long delays in my responses."
DID IT!!!
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From where I stand, it’s not that I have imposter syndrome but that hubris is the norm.
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celebrating being married for 17 years and together much longer (magic!)! we even wore real clothes for the occasion 😯😁
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my very honest but naive opinion about science today: we somehow stopped valuing systematic observation and naturalistic approach to science and started thinking we can keep testing hypotheses instead.
but we’re not spending enough time developing hypotheses worth testing.
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Shall I do this? Yes. Yes I shall.
(Page-long footnotes tho 👀)
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Pls tell me I’m not the only one who notices that in academic threads men’s comments always get more likes/shares than women’s. Part of it, I think, is many women in the thread use “likes” for acknowledgement and men don’t. Part of it is that women’s comments are just invisible.
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It's never been about p-values. It's about broad statistical illiteracy and an undue focus on dichotomous results as a measure of epistemic gain. As we discuss in this paper, the result-centric paradigm must change.
"Not unlike the p-value, also the use of the Bayes factor shows signs of misconceptions" (preprint) Any statistical tool can be misused and hacked. Replacing p-values with Bayes won't solve anything if people don't use Bayes properly
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“Disgraced Professor” should be an official academic designation like Distinguished Prof but one that’s awarded to harassers, abusers, frauds, etc. And once it’s awarded, it should be the established norm to always refer to awardees as Disgraced Prof. [X].
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Finally reading Hasok Chang's Is Water H2O? Evidence, Realism and Pluralism. Yet another sobering historical exposition against simplistic, fairy tale accounts of how science works/should work. If I take any notes, this time it'll be on the other site:
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more than ever. especially now that it’s commonplace to drive trucks, planes, aircraft carriers, and the whole world thru papers on the internets. seriously, all papers have limitations but it’s refreshing when people critically evaluate what’s the actual value of the research.
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My academic position is split into five roles: Teaching, research, service, outreach, advising
I did not get any training on four of those.
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i don’t think i’ll ever understand the rationale behind pouring an ungodly amount of resources into university athletics in the US while paying insultingly low salaries to adjuncts/instructors/grad students and burying undergrads in student loans.
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Native English speakers tend to have these categories in their minds abt what words/phrases sound pretentious whereas we nonnative speakers use whatever we know/comes to mind/can think of in a jiffy. I’m always disappointed in these lists. They signal something not so welcoming.
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Another important paper that I’d have expected to receive more attention and directed effort from methods reform crowd. The piranha problem. This is a theoretical paper so I won’t reproduce the proofs here but I’ll give some highlights below.
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Happy 45! Celebrating with espresso in bed (thanks hubby!) and my body aching in ungodly places. Still feel like a tween but after having taken a roll down a steep, rocky hill 🤣
Anyway, pls no bd wishes but feel free to share what you most like/dislike about getting older!
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looked at my TL after three days of break for a few mins and remembered why i still need the break. let my one tweet today be this:
“kindness costs nothing” is a myth—a harmful one too. kindness is costly. kind people are kind despite that. it’s meanness that’s free, easy, lazy.
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Anniversary! 25 years together. That’s right; quarter of a century! We were supposed to be celebrating it in Mexico but then this whole year happened. Oh well, we’re healthy and together, walking SF city streets under pouring rain instead 😊🥰
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This morning I was chatting with hubby about science and I said something I noticed I believed in only after I heard myself say it: Science works if we are able to hand down better defined problems to next generation of scientists than those we inherited.
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Two of the recent reviews I received:
"My comments here are very concise: I cannot recommend publication."
"I am sorry for not providing a more in-depth review, but these are very busy days and I feel confident enough that this paper should not be considered for publication."
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My research on the history of reproducibility leads to fun discoveries, such as this surprising quote by Leonardo Da Vinci:
“Before making this case a general rule, make a trial of it two or three times, observing whether the experiments produce each time the same effects.”
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Celebrating 18 years of marriage to this sweet, loving, honest, adventurous, stubborn man. We've had a wild and unpredictable ride, been through so much together. I know I've been beyond lucky to have felt his unwavering love and support all along. To many more together ♥️
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I tweeted about Meng’s (2018) Statistical Paradises and Paradoxes paper in Annals of Applied Statistics before but I want to highlight just how much I love the writing in the introduction. This is great stuff. I’ll quote some more below.
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Someone does a bad study. You run a replication. You literally run the same bad study again. I’ll never understand how the latter and only the latter is supposed to be good science.
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can we PUH-LEASE just start using DOIs and forget about styling and other completely inconsequential details already?
hasn't anyone calculated the total cost of time and labor (setting aside the emotional cost for convenience) spent on this yet? we need to act on this.
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my hair has reached the mad scientist length and shape again
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I wish all academics would go talk to people outside of their field. Read their journals, go to their conferences, collaborate with them. The farther away from what they do, the better. If people were to do that, we wouldn’t see so many shortsighted, narrow minded convos here.
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Philosophers of science: Do you have any recommendations specifically for scientists who want to learn about phil of sci? Would be nice to put a reading list together.
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Apparently I’ve married an elf and didn’t notice for 25 years 😄🥰
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This is a good paper: "Ten Simple Rules for Effective Statistical Practice" (Kass et al. 2016) Rules 1 and 5 are my favorites.
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🌲
not reproducible ≠ wrong/false/fluke
reproducible ≠ true
not reproducible ≠ poor science
reproducible ≠ good science
reproducibility of results is not a reliable indicator of truth or research quality or epistemic progress.
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Why can't they just make more movies like Knives Out? Who doesn't wanna watch a good whodunit?!
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Almost a quarter of a century as a couple!! I ❤️ him more than ever before. He gifted this shirt to me 24 years ago as well. Thought it’s a good day to wear it 😍
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This slide is from a talk I gave at an OSF symposium a few years back. It's still relevant and I still think we should have prioritized, we should still prioritize, the set of issues on the right over those on the left.
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@shanewag1
That’s refreshingly honest and only appropriate response to most academic advice requests 👏👏
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Just a thought I'm revisiting: There's nothing intuitive about statistics. Trying to make it intuitive to masses bypassing all the learning that needs to precede it does more harm than good in the aggregate. Intuition is fallible & can't/shouldn't replace hard work or knowledge.
Intuitiveness is not a measure of whether something makes scientific sense, is useful, or is well written. Intuition takes years of hard work, deep thinking, troubleshooting to develop, and even then it's not infallible. Reading research needs just as much rigor as doing it.
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I'm really not a hard worker. I used to be. Then I broke. Now I barely try to keep the remaining pieces together. I don't feel bad about it either. Whatever I do, I try to do well. And then I stop and put my effort and attention into being well. Life is complicated.
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last night of 43. i might just wake up a grown-up tomorrow. who knows
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As of now this is out lucky outfit! Hubby just got TENURED 🥳🎉🎊
when you’ve been together long enough, this sort of thing happens too often. same tshirt, same jeans, same blue-white stripes. no we certainly did not plan this 🤷🏻♀️
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Gatekeeping does not improve quality. It keeps certain people and certain kinds of work out of journals, and biases the published literature. These comments go against the grain of the whole scientific endeavor. Shame on the editors passing them on to the authors as well!
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it's our 20th wedding anniversary. got these from the farmers market this morning. will spend the day cooking fancy food together. maybe some more painting. some exercise and lots of music. life would be so unbearable without love, friendship, camaraderie. we're both so lucky.
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Yeah no, this won't do. This was my first ever gig on an editorial board (I don't get invited much or ever) and I couldn't in good conscience bring myself to continue to full term after reading this. Resigned as of now. This is egregious behavior by the editor.
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Nothing beats the smell of slow brewed Turkish coffee after dinner 💜
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i desperately need to diversify my twitter feed (which currently oscillates between political outrage and scientific outrage). any recommendations for good* stuff? individuals preferred over bots, groups, and anonymous accounts.
*uplifting, creative, exciting, fun, personal,...
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What bros think will happen to science if we remove the harrassers
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I got no external funding at grad school. I just got tenured. As I keep repeating (and it bears repeating), everyone’s academic journey is unique. There’s no one right path. There’s no single template for success, happiness, or job satisfaction.
Students are definitely under the impression that you can't get a tenure track position unless you get an [insert award here]
PIs, please help debunk this myth!!!
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You gotta see my ciabatta. It's art!
(Not fully back here; not sure if I ever will be. Maybe occasional visits.)
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Friends, after 7 months, I finally got a prelim report on the Title IX investigation I testified at. Reading it was just as traumatic as I thought it would be. Things said abt me bec I dared to testify... Unconscionable. There's a reason many women don't speak up. I'm so drained.
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is it just me or does type VIII error pretty much drive scientific progress?
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Grateful to have made it to 43 years on this earth. There was a time I wasn’t sure I’d see the end of my teens. Now I’m looking forward to the future, hopeful, excited.
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OMG is that a bobcat outside the window??!!!! 😍😍😍 Cats went wild. How gorgeous is it!!
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arrived at our sabbatical accommodations. random is a bit sick (bec of the long drive) and is hanging back. pseudo, the skipper, is already out and about using the navigation station. we gotta tidy our new home up and make space for all of us now!
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Everytime I'm faced w overly simplistic views of scientists on what good science is or how it should look, I want them (at the min) to read this stellar book just to get a sense of how messy, indirect, confusing, ambiguous, & full of failure the path to scientific knowledge is.
Started reading this book by Hasok Chang and I’m immediately drawn in: “It is neither desirable nor any longer effective to try bullying people into accepting the authority of science. Instead, all members of the educated public can be invited to participate in science”
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I truly despise “Immigrants. They get the job done!” narrative with all my being. We shouldn’t need a business case for defending immigration. Shouldn’t be measuring people by their economic value. Humanizing immigrants would feel more like: “Immigrants. They are people too!”
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As of freshly 44, I want it to be known that I still do and will probably always have a lot of fucks to give but I’m increasingly picky about what or whom to give them to.
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My cat woke us up by pushing Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature off the shelf onto the floor. What is he trying to tell us? 🤔
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- Automatize the abstract
- Stop the narrative story telling
- Standardize the methods
- Drop the introduction
- Drop the discussion
NEXT UP:
- Let's just post data and metadata and call it a science. We're scientists; who has time to read anyway!
Are we alright?!!
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writing research papers was supposed to be a way to make research accessible. now we’re expected to write blog posts to make papers accessible. and tweet to make blog posts accessible. and...
academics will never run out of things to do but idk... something seems fishy 🤔
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first dinner out in the cockpit and obviously the only way to draw the boys out 😄
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This article is finally accepted for publication at RSOS after four reviewers and two rounds of revision. We’ve had a very pleasant experience with the journal and I’d submit there again. It’s a solid paper that makes multiple theoretical contributions to meta science.
New preprint alert! "The case for formal methodology in scientific reform" w/
@djnavarro
@VandekerckhoveJ
& Erkan Buzbas. In this paper we advocate for statistically rigorous and scientifically nuanced arguments to make proper methodological claims. /1
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Been in academia for over a decade and a half, and it’s still mind boggling to me that every crisis and disaster is merely an opportunity for some academics to engage in performative armchair intellectual olympics.
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As a scientist, what I most get out of reading phil of science is intellectual humility. Not bec philosophers preach or exercise it, mind you, not at all. But bec it opens new doors and presents new challenges every time I try to find evidence to support my own preconceptions. /1
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27 years together. Loopy from colonoscopy; sad and distraught because of the loss of students; feeling confused and old and defeated. But still taking comfort in each other, pushing through these tough times together. Not quite cheerful or joyful as anniversaries should be.
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I think it's worth trying to critique papers, however bad we think they are, without snark, condescension, mean jokes. Meanness toward colleagues makes our already troublesome academic culture even more alienating and deflating rather than screaming rigorous science.
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OK a little subtweet: It’s a bit gross that a colleague would liken himself to my father and feel disappointed by me. What the freaking entitlement?! I’d also like to think that my father, when he was alive, didn’t throw tantrums when his work was critiqued.
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I'm afraid Pseudo is about to give me my performance review and it's not good news 😰
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Theory matters. Models matter. Assumptions and assumption violations matter. Methods are not equivalent in their assumptions or statistical guarantees. We do not make inference in a vacuum. That's also why reproducibility doesn't mean what people think it means. All in the paper.
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Prereg: Any minute now journals will start announcing that they’ll fast track anti-racism research and in the next months we’ll see a surge of sloppy race research primarily from white male academics.
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“Philosophers long made a mummy of science.”
Opening words of Hacking’s Representing and Intervening. Maybe this’ll be a thread too. Maybe not. Only if it inspires interesting thoughts and puzzling questions 😊
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