I was invited to give a talk on open and reproducible science. Sometimes, it is challenging to discuss this topic, so I created The Transparent and Open Science Game. I am sharing here all materials: osf.io/t9ngd
good news about needing to listen to people like Richard Dawkins, though! British people basically don't exist. There are only two nationalities: Chinese and Indian.
Plea to my fellow academics: CITE YOUR SOFTWARE. I'm hearing from several young scholars that they've given up on writing R packages and such because nobody cites them. Yet download stats and rep materials clearly show that they are being used. This is plagiarism, and it slows down innovation
It's finally out! Our large-scaled replication attempt of the induced compliance paradigm in the study of cognitive dissonance: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The latest infuriating thing about this to come to mind: How well did this excuse work for Aaron Swartz and Sci-Hub when they did it for free? How well has it been working for the Internet Archive so far? Why are we only supposed to consider it acceptable when someoneās profiting?
āImpossibleā to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
Pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their productsBusiness live ā latest updatesThe developer OpenAI has said it would be impossible to create tools like its groundbreaking chatbot ChatGPT without access to copyrighted material, as pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their products.Chatbots such as ChatGPT and image generators like Stable Diffusion are ātrainedā on a vast trove of data taken from the internet, with much of it covered by copyright ā a legal protection against someoneās work being used without permission. Continue reading...
A low-carbon future? Individuals with high socioeconomic status in the UK show little willingness to change high-carbon lifestyles for climate change mitigation: http://osf.io/mh8dq/
Emphasizing similarities between Republicans and Democrats improves intergroup relations, with a greater belief that common ground can be reached and warmer feelings toward the opposition, finds Syropoulos & Leidner doi.org/10.1177/0146...
The new important Oxfam and SEI report exposes the incredible carbon footprint inequality. Feels worthwhile to share a reminder that similar #inequality#EnergySky#GreenSkywww.nature.com/articles/s41...
High-socioeconomic-status individuals have a disproportionate effect on greenhouse gas emissions as consumers and through four other key roles they play in society. This Perspective examines the effec...
Preregistration is mainstream in some areas. There are low-hanging fruit opportunities to make them more discoverable and useful for readers. And, plenty of room to increase their quality and impact. Many improvements on the OSF roadmap, and collective action on quality standards is key.
