Posts by lakens@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #ASrsbuwuEw9QxzpkMS by lakens@mastodon.social
2023-02-16T17:01:15Z
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@raoulvanoosten The editors of that special issue are, regrettably, incompetent biased unscientific individuals who, with their very bad editorial, led to a taskforce that had to correct their mistakes https://doi.org/10.1080/09332480.2021.2003631 so that people like you would not be misguided by them. So, I am very sorry if I just ignore that editorial altogether, and listen to more competent people.
(DIR) Post #ASrsbw3g7FA8PI0fYW by lakens@mastodon.social
2023-02-16T17:45:31Z
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@raoulvanoosten The emotion is strong. I am writing a blog about this (which I rarely do anymore). They also lie that most of the articles in the special issue agree with their view. Not at all true. So unscientific. So misleading.
(DIR) Post #ASrsbx1wVBMtQCCnUO by lakens@mastodon.social
2023-02-17T08:40:52Z
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@raoulvanoosten I added a short review in our revised version of https://psyarxiv.com/af9by/. The screenshots are the relevant paragraphs. I wanted to write a blog about it to discuss this in more detail (we are very brief in the paper).
(DIR) Post #ASrsbygkKxbMZ2ItjE by lakens@mastodon.social
2023-02-17T08:42:14Z
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@raoulvanoosten It would be interesting to hear your thoughts if you manage to read all 43 papers in the special issue :) I might so far be the only person who did so 😅 It is a long read (not all papers are equally good). But it is interesting. Yes, a review would be good! Could be a paper in itself, you are right!
(DIR) Post #ASrsc0cv89jIZkWs2i by lakens@mastodon.social
2023-02-19T07:41:13Z
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@raoulvanoosten @david_colquhoun just a reminder that we can never answer the question 'what is the probability my hypothesis is true' in science. Frequenties is not answering the wrong question. It is answering the right, and only, question.
(DIR) Post #ATbuaa3EGgsfGkh8wC by lakens@mastodon.social
2023-03-14T14:18:49Z
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Just got a request from a publisher (Routledge) to publish a book with them. I of course said no. Academics should not publish books with commercial publishers,. You can nowadays put your book online with bookdown and R and make the content accessible for free. Their main selling point was "The book will be published by a reputable academic publisher". Sorry, but I do not play the prestige game.
(DIR) Post #ATghikdnM3KYw2ChHs by lakens@mastodon.social
2023-03-14T15:53:18Z
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@kfogel Open access can be negotiated indeed. But what is then the added benefit (and what the cost) of having a publisher?
(DIR) Post #ATiX2M2rneYhGUznV2 by lakens@mastodon.social
2023-03-17T05:45:01Z
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@kfogel I agree it is fine to use a publishers as a sort of on demand paper printing service. One would need to make sure libraries are not tricked to buy books that are free online, bit otherwise this is fine and not what I responded against. I could have been more precise: Do not publish with commerical publishers unless your book is available for free and there is no great additional time investment in the paper copy.
(DIR) Post #AUwuIdNUap1YzudKro by lakens@mastodon.social
2023-04-22T12:32:50Z
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It is regrettable that people arguing for 'other ways of knowing' in science don't seem to be able to provide rigorous accounts of what these 'other ways' actually are. I'm all for scientific pluralism if these 'other ways' are able to move beyond their current New Age vibe - such as providing a coherent epistemology. That this does not happen worries me. The current feeling that we should respect all approaches to science equally is not something I can get behind.
(DIR) Post #AV4Kk0NN9VWN3g0c1g by lakens@mastodon.social
2023-03-01T03:51:05Z
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Do you get direct financial compensation (so a certain financial bonus on your personal bank account that you can spend however you like) when you publish papers (or some papers in some journals)? I know several departments where this happens. It is not talked about publicly, it seems. It took me years to hear about this for the first time. There seems little transparency about it. I think it would be good to know where it happens, and how much people get.
(DIR) Post #AVDDGIhHWHdvw6qiXI by lakens@mastodon.social
2023-05-01T12:56:36Z
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My university @TUEindhoven will from June 1 by default make all publications by staff openly available after 6 months, following the Taverne amendment of the Dutch copyright act. This was possible if researchers asked for it before now. The change is that they will now do it, even if not asked - researchers can opt out if they want to. Excellent leadership, that will lead to 100% of publications of our uni to be open access (which is now 83% - also good!) https://www.tue.nl/universiteit/library/library-for-researchers-and-phds/scientific-publishing/open-access/comply-with-open-access-policies/tue-open-access-policy/open-access-regulation
(DIR) Post #AVVNEkFX5eVplLKp0a by lakens@mastodon.social
2023-05-10T07:32:31Z
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My bachelor student wants to interview researchers who joined an interdisciplinary research project but felt the project did not succeed in accomplishing its aim. If this is you, we would love to interview you about what happened and what you learned. Send me a message if you'd like to help her by participating in a short interview. Her goal is to learn about how to improve interdisciplinary collaborations, and which positive outcomes a 'failed' project can have.
(DIR) Post #AYiRPl8M9rNli7Rm3k by lakens@mastodon.social
2023-08-14T06:44:37Z
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When the ego is involved, self-criticism may come hard. Beck -1961 - Modern science and the nature of lifeRead in full on the internet archive: https://archive.org/details/modernsciencenat00beck/page/218/mode/2up
(DIR) Post #AYiRPm3Qjf2IZ89M1I by lakens@mastodon.social
2023-08-14T06:48:22Z
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(DIR) Post #AjBa06h447GZhlneq0 by lakens@mastodon.social
2024-06-22T11:34:21Z
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For all the nostalgia money can buy I spent 50 euros on a tape-deck to listen to the 31 cassette tapes I saved since the 90's. Especially excited to listen back to 10 mix tapes from a Dutch radio show that played punk for an hour once a week.
(DIR) Post #Ao1VCgEJjYlhZ5uhrE by lakens@mastodon.social
2024-11-13T15:37:50Z
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Two podcasts about whether psychology is producing valuable knowledge. The vanilla take by Yoel Inbar and Paul Bloom https://www.fourbeers.com/114 The spicy take by Paul Connor and Rachel Hartman: https://moreofacomment.buzzsprout.com/1207223/episodes/16055645-final-final-final-comments
(DIR) Post #Ao4eWROs3vP2QOE9fU by lakens@mastodon.social
2024-11-15T17:25:05Z
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New episode of Nullius In Verba on induction and the generalizability crisis. I think this is one of our best episodes so far! Can we create generalizable scientific knowledge through induction? How would it work (or why would it not work) in practice? https://nulliusinverba.podbean.com/e/induction-deduction/
(DIR) Post #AoaiSqXsYxgdvxSHcO by lakens@mastodon.social
2024-12-01T04:52:32Z
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Huxley, 1852, on how science is a social process and the pettiness of some peer reviewers. https://mathcs.clarku.edu/huxley/letters/52.html
(DIR) Post #AprlvJLRm13PBTVfwO by lakens@mastodon.social
2025-01-08T07:03:51Z
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New Data Colada blog, nicely illustrating how preregistration allows you to evaluate the severity of a test (and in this case, find it lacking). Especially important with difficult to replicate experiments!https://datacolada.org/122
(DIR) Post #AuhEQCTWny3PdaOXbc by lakens@mastodon.social
2025-05-17T15:58:49Z
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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. https://lakens.github.io/statistical_inferences/