@aidybarnett.bsky.social
Statistician working in meta-research. Deltiologist.
@jabyrnesci.bsky.socialReposted by @aidybarnett.bsky.socialOnline by @baptscc.bsky.social @aidybarnett.bsky.social and David Causeur
Suspected distortion of citations in high-impact cancer journals 🧪
#PaperMills that produce & sell manuscripts may be manipulating citations, but the extent of any manipulation is unknown. 1/5
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
@aidybarnett.bsky.socialA major Australian funder will now use a conditional lottery to award funding. I think this is a great policy change and lotteries are likely to become more common as AI-driven application numbers grow theconversation.com/some-austral...
@meganjherbert.bsky.socialReposted by @aidybarnett.bsky.socialBrilliant work by @mackinnonart.bsky.social
@aidybarnett.bsky.socialBMC Public Health as over 1,500 editors. That seems very high to run any journal. link.springer.com/journal/1288...
@aidybarnett.bsky.socialA satisfying graph after we brought a home battery to go with our rooftop solar
@aidybarnett.bsky.socialWill he be able to speak before he dies? If so, he could use it to espouse terrorism. Or perhaps they will they gag him to stop this? It's all incredibly fucked.
@aidybarnett.bsky.socialIn peer reviewing a paper I told the authors that I didn't know what an acronym they used on page 31 was. They told me it was okay because they'd defined it on page 11. Please, just stop using acronyms.
@aidybarnett.bsky.socialI used to regression to the mean everywhere, but not as much these days.
@aidybarnett.bsky.socialHis attitude was "fake it till you make it", then "keep faking it even after you've made it".
@aidybarnett.bsky.socialJeffrey Archer, a man who was always in the news during my childhood. This obituary is a great read. www.bbc.com/news/article...
@sholtodavid.bsky.socialReposted by @aidybarnett.bsky.socialToday I'm posting a new video! This case report includes AI generated images. Despite being apparently fabricated with OpenAI tools this paper is already suggested by ChatGPT as evidence to be considered for off label treatment of an autoimmune disease. youtu.be/G9KHwXNIJyk
@jayvanbavel.bsky.socialReposted by @aidybarnett.bsky.socialAI bots are flooding researchers with requests for money and time
AI agents are spamming researchers with emails wanting to collaborate or offering services for money
I'm getting these emails and they make it less likely that I will respond to real people
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@carlbergstrom.comReposted by @aidybarnett.bsky.socialDoes my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
@hetanshah.bsky.socialReposted by @aidybarnett.bsky.socialDelighted to let you know the good news that you’ve been elected a Fellow of the British Society (FBS)
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@macsys.bsky.socialReposted by @aidybarnett.bsky.social📢Come work with us in sunny☀️Brisbane!
We are looking for an applied mathematician to join our Centre as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at QUT.
👉 qut.nga.net.au/cp/index.cfm...
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@lavidaenvinetas.bsky.socialReposted by @aidybarnett.bsky.socialDuck/Rabbit
@wehi-research.bsky.socialReposted by @aidybarnett.bsky.socialPlease join us for the next event in our Director's Seminar series, with guest speaker Professor Jennifer Byrne @jabyrnesci.bsky.social
Event details: www.wehi.edu.au/event/profes...
@aidybarnett.bsky.socialGot swooped by a butcher bird today and I turned my head just at the wrong moment so my lips brushed his feathery belly.
@aidybarnett.bsky.socialA really good listen on all things statistical power and why post-hoc power calculations are pointless www.normalcurves.com/statistical-... From @kristinsainani.bsky.social and @reginanuzzo.bsky.social
@teorth.bsky.socialReposted by @aidybarnett.bsky.socialA group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...
