metascience loves criticizing how others do research but till this day has not been able to find a way to engage with serious critique directed at it. it's all knee-jerk reactions, language policing, dismissal, and distractions. not a good look.

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It was super. Controversial discussion followed, as the audience attributed to incompetence what Ariel attributed to misinformation. I asked him for his slides.

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i quite like the hand-drawn look of these

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I'm thrilled to share my first foray into nature writing. I describe my travels through Aotearoa New Zealand to see the country's rarest birds—and use this as a vehicle to tell the stories of the islands' evolutionary history and the bold conservation efforts that saved these creatures. Gift link

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Ariel Karlinsky delivered a stunning talk @mpidr.bsky.social where he demonstrated that without institutional constraints and in election years, governments tended to underreport their COVID deaths. Lively discussion followed. The paper is well worth a read. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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