Sanjay Srivastava
Personality, reputation, lifespan development, research methods, open science. Blog: thehardestscience.com. Podcast: @blackgoatpod.
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102-year-old woman credits her long life to drinking beer every day
She's got a healthy appetite for beer.
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Sanjay Srivastava
If you make it to 102, what unexpected thing will you attribute your longevity to?
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Oregon governor signs bill giving state's electoral votes to national popular vote winner
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown (D) on Wednesday signed a bill into law that will give the state’s Electoral College votes to the presidential candidate who wins the national popular vote.
Sanjay Srivastava
Oregon is the 15th state to join the National Popular Vote Compact. If enough states join, it will functionally do a way with the Electoral College
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This is How We Do It
Many academics have flexibility in when, where, and how they get work done. In this episode we talk about the work habits we’ve developed to be productive, and the ones we’ve tried on t…
The End of the Polling Booth
States are making voting more accessible by allowing citizens to vote at home.
Sanjay Srivastava
"The ballot belongs to the voter, not the government... As long as it can be done with safety and integrity, it’s the obligation of the government to get it to me. It’s not my responsibility to qualify for it and get it"
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How to combat overhyped science news
Hyped-up science erodes trust. Here’s how researchers can fight back.
Counternull - Wikipedia
Sanjay Srivastava
@seriousstats @bmwiernik @daviddesteno Rosenthal proposed that when people want to say an effect is null, they should have to report a “counternull” - the nonzero population effect size that’s just as well supported by the data as the null
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Not naming mass shooters (much) is now the norm
Just one week ago, newsrooms mobilized to cover yet another mass shooting, this time in a municipal building in Virginia Beach. As they told the story of the 12 murders, the vast majority of newspa…
The war to free science
How librarians, pirates, and funders are liberating the world’s academic research from paywalls.
SIPS 2019 Mission Award Nominations for improving psychological science in the face of challenge
This year, the SIPS awards committee is soliciting nomination for a SIPS Mission Award for improving psychological science in the face of challenge (e.g., with limited resources, in the face of opposition, with hard-to-reach populations).
Any SIPS...
Depressive symptoms and immune transcriptional profiles in late adolescents
Rates of depression increase and peak during late adolescence and alterations in immune processes are thought to be both a risk factor and outcome of …
PsycNET
Sanjay Srivastava
@deevybee Wish I knew details (maybe some cog psych ppl know them?), but I remember hearing that Eleanor Rosch's initial work on prototypes was a hard sell (& part of why this paper has so many experiments - reviewers didn't believe it & kept asking for more)
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Returns to education in criminal organizations: Did going to college help Michael Corleone?
Is there any return to education in criminal activities? This paper is one of the first to investigate whether education has not only a positive impac…
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Sanjay Srivastava
A college degree is good for your career prospects, even if your career is crime. "Is there any return to education in criminal activities?... We find that mobsters have significant returns to education of 7.5–8.5%" h/t @uomatters
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When being Asian American means bacon and eggs and hamburgers
In California, it’s easy to find all-American burger spots and doughnut shops owned by Asian immigrants and their families — a fact that breaks down expectations that Asian Americans have a singular way of existing in the food world.
Sci-Hub: устраняя преграды на пути распространения знаний
Первый в мире пиратский ресурс, который открыл массовый доступ к десяткам миллионов научных статей
Vox Media Employees Walk Out On Final Day Of Union Bargaining
CEO Jim Bankoff, meanwhile, said he was disappointed in the walkout and said paying higher wages was "not realistic or smart."
Elizabeth Warren Spends Evenings Tutoring Underperforming Candidates On Creating Comprehensive Policy
AMES, IA—Hoping to give them the tools they will need to succeed in the 2020 election, White House hopeful Elizabeth Warren has been spending her evenings tutoring underperforming presidential candidates on how to craft comprehensive policy...
Unions, Media Companies and TPM
I was on vacation last week when I got the news that the TPM Union had ratified the contract we’d...
Sanjay Srivastava
"I think every media company should unionize" says the executive publisher of @TPM. Wish people everywhere (*ahem*, universities) saw things this way talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/unions-… pic.twitter.com/Vdriu2GoVA
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