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tomstafford, 28 days ago to random

Uncertainty in peer review. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/fm6st

• measured within reviewer uncertainty (~ 1/ confidence) in journal paper reviews

• predictions of greater reviewer uncertainty: gender, if the paper was a protocol

• NOT predictive: reviewer experience, time taken on review, reviewer nationality, paper version (first submission vs revision), paper length, readability

#metaresearch #metascience #PeerReview

tomstafford, 30 days ago to random

TODAY: Launch event for our programme

"an Accelerator For Innovation & Research Funding Experimentation"

A-F-I-R-E !

https://researchonresearch.org/project/a-f-i-r-e/

PaulGrahamRaven, 30 days ago to philosophy

merely directions which allow the chauffeur to park the limousine

https://www.velcro-city.co.uk/merely-directions-which-allow-the-chauffeur-to-park-the-limousine/

#Philosophy #Politics

tomstafford, 1 month ago to random

I just been told by a hotel that they do not offer an inclusive breakfast, but a "delicious hospitality concept" is available.

I'll report back, but I'm wondering if a concept is really going to get me through the day better than some toast and a cup of coffee

tomstafford, 1 month ago to random

UK HE shrinking

"This is a live page of all the redundancies and closures taking place across the sector at the moment. "

https://qmucu.org/qmul-transformation/uk-he-shrinking/

Page from QM #UCU, listing 50 #UKHE institutions which are planning for redundancies

tomstafford, 1 month ago to random

Researchers want a ‘nutrition label’ for academic-paper facts

"An ‘at a glance’ approach to publication details, such as journal acceptance rates and the number of peer reviewers, would promote transparency, scientists say."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01135-z

tomstafford, 1 month ago to random

"this meme demonstrated the importance of sample size better and more efficiently than any science class I've ever taken"

tomstafford, 2 months ago to random

"Rule 1 of cybersecurity is to keep your attack surface small; in LLMs the attack surface appears to be infinite."

Gary Marcus nails it https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/an-unending-array-of-jailbreaking

via Data Machina https://datamachina.substack.com/p/data-machina-248

tomstafford, 2 months ago to random

Duolingo call for research proposals

https://drive.google.com/file/d/11Z1kr-LSR2n9Si_MQseUMxIHAagM45qH/view

Up to $80k to design and run a research Study on Duolingo English learners’
real-life communication skills

Deadline: May 31st 2024

#CogSci

PaulGrahamRaven, 2 months ago to random

This is probably a bit of a long shot here, but nonetheless: has anyone caught a New Model Army live show recently, and if so, was it good? They're playing round the corner from me next week, but I don't want to drop >40euro on discovering that they're a pale shadow of the band I saw in 1995...

tomstafford, 3 months ago to random

What nonsense is this? I'm looking at a journal article and I get an institution specific DOI, one that other people can't use to find the article?!

https://doi-org.sheffield.idm.oclc.org/10.1093/qje/qjv030

tomstafford, 3 months ago to random

Trump supporters target black voters with faked AI images

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68440150

"Donald Trump supporters have been creating and sharing AI-generated fake images of black voters to encourage African Americans to vote Republican."

1/

#GenAI #Disinformation

tomstafford, 3 months ago to psychology

NEW NEWSLETTER

How persuasive is AI-generated propaganda? https://tomstafford.substack.com/p/how-persuasive-is-ai-generated-propaganda

Reasonable People #51: Bullet review of a new paper suggesting LLMs can create highly persuasive text and will supercharge covert propaganda campaigns.

I'm not persuaded

#persuasion #disinformation #psychology #psyops #propaganda #ai

tomstafford, 3 months ago to random

Saturday morning technical question:

Is there a way to spoof my location (IP address) so online I appear to be at a different place within the UK?

I don't want a VPN so I can appear to be in the UK when I'm not, I want to be in Sheffield and appear to be in another UK location, so I can receive any geo-targetted adverts for that place

tomstafford, 3 months ago to de

We've had one of these De'longhi espresso machines for ~10 years, and it has reliably made at least 2 coffees a day, nearly every day.

Also, I bought it secondhand for £10

That's ~7000 coffees, or approx 0.1p/coffee.

Is there any way I can identify similarly well engineered, long-lived and great value products? Ideally before purchase!

https://www.delonghi.com/en-gb/ec230-bk-stilosa-manual-espresso-maker/p/EC230.BK

#De'longhi #Coffee #Espresso

tomstafford, 4 months ago to random

We need to have a frank conversation about higher education. These confected rows benefit nobody

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/06/woke-foreign-students-uk-universities-starved-cash

fact check: true

tomstafford, 4 months ago to random

A partially randomised approach to internal funding allocation: A pilot by the University of Leeds’ Research Culture team

https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/208005/

#MetaResearch #Metascience

lakens, 4 months ago to random

You can now sign up for the first full-day workshop of the Paul Meehl Graduate School for Metascience on Meta-Analysis and Bias Detection, co-taught by Robbie van Aert and myself: https://paulmeehlschool.github.io/metaanalysis/ Workshops are free and open for anyone.

tomstafford, 4 months ago to random

This series reboot is really taking Chronicles of Narnia in a new direction

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?