ingorohlfing

ingorohlfing, 11 days ago to academicchatter

“I” versus “the author”: The power of first-person voice when writing about science
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2316966121?TOC_v121_i22 Fully agree that first-person writing should be the norm. Probably disputed bc I know that students are still often trained in using passive language and avoiding "I" @academicchatter

ingorohlfing, 13 days ago to ai

Can Generative #AI improve social science?
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2314021121?TOC_v121_i21 That's a reasonable discussion of the advantages and risks, including limited reproducibility of using LLMs.
An open AI infrastructure for LLMs seems reasonable. Maybe funding agencies can support first steps in this direction @academicchatter

ingorohlfing, 26 days ago to openscience

Illuminating ‘the ugly side of science’: fresh incentives for reporting negative results
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01389-7 #MetaScience
A good discussion of downsides of publication bias. I only wish negative results'd not be described as being "messy" or "ugly". Such a view is part of the problem @openscience

ingorohlfing, 1 month ago to academicchatter

There must be an easier way to work with review/submission websites.
One registers a master password with the publisher that works for all journals. Every time an account is created with a new journal of this publisher, the master password is linked to it and one could start right away @academicchatter #ScientificPublishing

ingorohlfing, 1 month ago to ai

Elsevier unveils Scopus #AI for research reviews | Times Higher Education (THE)
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/elsevier-launches-scopus-ai-bot-literature-reviews I couldn't find information about pricing, but it seems safe to assume it is not for free. Meaning institutions have to pay for a tool that likely has been 1/ @academicchatter

ingorohlfing, 1 month ago to random

One has to like the {pak} package, if only because it shows one more informative installation information than install.packages() #rstats

ingorohlfing, 2 months ago to ai

What can we conclude from the rash of published papers with obvious fingerprints of ChatGPT? | Scientist Sees Squirrel
https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2024/03/26/what-can-we-conclude-from-the-rash-of-published-papers-with-obvious-fingerprints-of-chatgpt/ A good breakdown of what papers with AI traces mean for authors, journals and publishers @academicchatter #AI

ingorohlfing, 2 months ago to random German

ANSI Colouring of Data.Frames, Matrices and Atomic Vectors with {emphatic} https://coolbutuseless.github.io/package/emphatic/ by @coolbutuseless You can color console output in all ways you want. This is pretty useful when one is coding live and wants to highlight specific parts of the output #rstats

ingorohlfing, 2 months ago to statistics German

Teaching the Difficult Past of Statistics to Improve the Future
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/26939169.2023.2224407
A discussion of Fisher, Galton and Pearson and their role in eugenics, and how to include this in statistics training #Statistics #HigherEd

ingorohlfing, 3 months ago to academia German

Preprints ‘should be factor in academic hiring’ | Times Higher Education (THE)
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/preprint-reviews-should-be-factor-hiring-and-promotion Acknowledging the increasing importance of preprints sounds like a good idea to me. It probably differs across disciplines, but I am skeptical it is going to happen 1/
@academicchatter #PeerReview #Academia

ingorohlfing, 3 months ago to academicchatter German

Positionality statements should not force us to ‘out’ ourselves | Nature Human Behaviour https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01812-5 ($) #SocialScience It is a dilemma: For the sake of contextualizing the analysis, one would need to read a positionality statement. For the sake of protecting vulnerable authors, a positionality statement should not be written. 1/
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ingorohlfing, 3 months ago to random German

Hochschule: Danke, nein! | ZEIT Campus
https://www.zeit.de/2024/10/wissenschaft-karriere-hochschule-nachwuchs-professoren-fachkraeftemangel
"Die Mehrheit der Nachwuchswissenschaftler will nicht mehr Professor oder Professorin werden – das zeigt eine neue Studie. Droht auch den Universitäten der Fachkräftemangel?" Ja.
Wenn es überall an Personal mangelt, warum soll es an Unis anders sein? Zumal sie im Werben um qualifizierte Personen wenig anbieten kann, weil, einfach gesagt: #WissZeitVG und öffentlicher Dienst 1/

ingorohlfing, 3 months ago to academicchatter German

Scientific publishers busily thwarting science (again)
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/02/21/scientific-publishers-busily-thwarting-science-again/ Besides everything else that is off with #ScientificPublishing, it is very annoying how hard it is to do research on publications. Given the business models, I see why publishers are concerned about scraping. However, publishers don't do much to give access to their text corpus in another way, through an API or so. Just sitting on the articles
@academicchatter

ingorohlfing, 4 months ago to academicchatter German

UK research funding should be fairer, more efficient | Times Higher Education (THE)
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/spending-six-months-failed-grant-bid-too-much-things-must-change The article is for grant applications in the UK. I imagine researchers from other countries can easily relate to it @academicchatter

ingorohlfing, 4 months ago to academicchatter German

Proper citation of research by journalists is necessary for more trustworthy news | Impact of Social Sciences
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2024/01/08/proper-citation-of-research-by-journalists-is-necessary-for-more-trustworthy-news/
Amen to that @academicchatter

ingorohlfing, 4 months ago to academicchatter German

He Hunts Sloppy Scientists. He’s Finding Lots of Prey. - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/02/science/sholto-science-papers-misconduct.html This is an interesting interview reflecting on key problems with publishing. Still, I don't the idea of "hunting scientists". It should neither be about hunting, nor about scientists. In the first place, it is about spotting errors in science. @openscience @academicchatter

DataAngler, 4 months ago to random

Just learned that I needed to go back a version in #Rstats to keep using the groundhog 📦 and load versions of packages that I was using. Future me better appreciate this... #reproducibility

ingorohlfing, 4 months ago to random German

{plot2}, a "lightweight extension of the base R graphics system" https://github.com/grantmcdermott/plot2 by @gmcd If one likes working with base #rstats plots, this package should be very useful

ingorohlfing, 4 months ago to politicalscience German

Leaving everything else aside, the editorial of the new editors of Theory & Society is interesting because they invite "adversarial collaboration" https://link.springer.com/journal/11186/updates/26605018 What does it look like for theory formation? In empirical research, the collaborators can agree on a research design and interpretation of results to adjudicate between competing views. What is the equivalent for theory? @sociology @politicalscience #OpenScience

lakens, 4 months ago to random Dutch

I am writing a paper on the benefits of preregistration. In one section I will address what most people find the strongest criticisms on preregistration. So, which points do you feel I should discuss?