Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

How should scientists decide what to try to replicate?

New study surveys psychologists and develops a checklist for transparently communicating the rationale for selecting studies for replication.

Open access: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.210586

Some Mastodonian authors: @mmpittelkow, @smirandafield, @marcjekel, @mVranka, @JelteWicherts, @rolfazwaan

Two quotes follow: 🧵👉

#Science
#OpenScience
#MetaScience
#MetaResearch
#ReplicationCrisis
#Psychology
@psychology

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Had a wonderful premier of planetarium film “Black Hole - first picture”. Docudrama about childhood dreams, scientists, coming together, collaboration, beautiful pictures of telescopes, landscapes, black holes, the universe & a new telescope in Africa https://blackholefirstpicture.com

Introduction to microscopy analysis techniques - anyone have recommendations of resources?

ie How to read a cell not a blob, and the common analysis approaches.

Ideally vignette style with concrete examples (but definitely not video/audio).

My background is transcriptomics/single cell but the with the wave of new spatially resolved technologies it's time to learn to move beyond that!

Appreciate any ideas!

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Big Social not only enables harassment, their so-called "relevancy" algorithms throw gasoline on the fire.

Take the case of Annie Bonelli, a teenager on TikTok, who happens to have a facial scar.

Relentless trolls mock her trauma, demanding an explanation.

Annie owes people no explanation!

We need to build a better, human-focused alternative to TikTok.

We need a better future than a proprietary black box that thrives on uninformed outrage!

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/tiktok-scar-girl-opens-up-1234672291/

“Rolls-Royce could be a part of that ambitious spaceflight future. The venerable company released an early-stage design of a micro-nuclear reactor on Friday (Jan. 27), in the wake of a 2021 agreement with the United Kingdom Space Agency to study future nuclear power options in space exploration.”
https://www.space.com/rolls-royce-early-design-space-nuclear-reactor

"Perhaps the UK government’s concerns would be allayed if they took a look at Ireland. After almost eight years of self-declaration, none of the fear-mongering pushed by some in the UK has come to pass."

Trans woman deftly explains why self-ID laws pose no danger
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/02/01/trans-self-id-laws-gender-recognition-reform-scotland-ireland/

As we plan to send @NASA_Astronauts to the Moon in preparation for one day going to Mars, we need to learn how extended durations in space change the human body.

CIPHER is the first study to assess the whole human response to time spent in space: https://go.nasa.gov/3XWJfYa
#NASAArtemis #Artemis

I am so God damn pissed off with the corruption, the constant whining about problems that aren't, the pretending our problems are not what they are, the pervasive gullible ignorance brought on by that orange jackass and others, and God damn doing nothing about it from sea to shiny fucking sea! And along with my other problems, albeit personal, I am looking forward to death! I don't want any part of what's coming, and rest assured, it's fucking coming!

We also know of wandering exoplanets. These so-called rogues are untethered to any stars. Understanding them means better understanding planetary formation.
https://go.nasa.gov/40pmRID
#NASAExoplanets

A new image from the #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope shows a host of #galaxies including a distant spiral galaxy in sunning detail. #astronomy #Space #SciComm #spaceimages https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-spiral-galaxy-image

🕺🕺 In direct reaction to the global (and American) backlash against abortion rights, France just officially enshrined the right to abort in the constitution 🕺🕺

#AbortionRights #WomensRights #ProChoice

https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2023/02/01/le-senat-vote-l-inscription-dans-la-constitution-de-la-liberte-de-recourir-a-l-ivg_6160176_823448.html

#DeSatan

Ron DeSantis Has Questions About Your Daughter's Tampon https://www.wonkette.com/ron-desantis-has-questions-about-your-daughter-s-tampon

Florida has raided public health employees for doing their job, stripped corporations of their rights for dissenting views, banned all books and threatened teachers with felonies, removed elected officials, asked for liberal students to be placed on a list, asked for children’s menstrual records

…and now removed the liberal New College president and installed one loyal to DeSantis

Time to call republicans what they are: fascists.

Minecraft: 30 Garden Build Ideas and Hacks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xiga6ikA_g

When you forget the salad dressing for your lunch and look at the acetic acid in the chemical cabinet longingly

There is a crisis abrewing this morning on melon dot com, as the right-wing idiorati are having meltdowns due to broken behavior by the app (their own broken behavior a matter for another time).

In response, the owner of the company has…wait for it…locked his own account to test (something something). Totally normal way to debug and troubleshoot! Tech media, please cover this. Lol.

#twitter #debacle #elonmusk #sucks

https://twitter.com/knownothingtv/status/1620706384487784449?s=46&t=sJcKIXRnef_CEtXDLwXaew

#WildlifeWednesday ? Well, once again I have no idea what # is supposed to represent Wednesday, so as @shotsbydaz jogged my memory with his excellent photograph of Common Buzzard, here's a pic of a #Buzzard grabbing a #HenPheasant, being harassed by a #Crow, being ignored by a #Bleaty, as one does. I wasn't expecting that to happen in the field next to the farmhouse. 😜

#Powys #Wales #Cymru #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #UnexpectedPhotos #XploreEverything

The chance that someone integrates this into a plagiarism test and ends up failing students, or job applications, or reports, or anything else where there's some text where a false claim of plagiarism is going to be hard to prove but have severely negative consequences to the accused is going to be large, and cause a lot of problems before its worked out