Berna Devezer

Metascientist @ uidaho. I work at the intersection of behavioral sciences, statistics, and philosophy. Love thinking and talking about science. Post lots of cat and food pics. Allergic to unsolicited advice.

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<Arnold Schwarzenegger Voice> "It's not a crisis!" @devezer.bsky.social & Buzbas make a strong argument against using replication rates to judge a field (e.g., "Field X has a replication rate of Y so research in that field is bad!"). Replication studies are useful, replication…

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many dysfunctions of academic publishing get exposed by way or llm use, and i keep hoping we'll realize how poorly we've been doing so many things, but we end up focusing on llms as the root cause. i've read so many unrealistic, utopic statements about how scientific practice allegedly works.

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re: sycophancy of llms. most people don't seek out a random sample of strangers to ask for advice regarding their personal conflicts, no? we don't actively solicit negative feedback on our relationships. we tend to look for empathy, understanding, affirmation, validation regardless of whether

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watched good luck, have fun, don't die. silly, crazy, esoteric, ai doomerist fun. sam rockwell is always a treat. laughed out loud quite a few times. kinda what you'd get if you put the adventures of baron munchausen, everything everywhere all at once, don't look up, and total recall in a blender.

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