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The great European capitals of North America
There are approximately 25 communities named Athens in North America. I say “approximately”, because it depends on how you count. Many of the American Athenses are unincorporated communities, and rely...
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Neurohackademy 2018: A wrap-up
It’s become something of a truism in recent years that scientists in many fields find themselves drowning in data. This is certainly the case in neuroimaging, where even small functional MRI datasets...
View ArticleIf we already understood the brain, would we even know it?
The question posed in the title is intended seriously. A lot of people have been studying the brain for a long time now. Most of these people, if asked a question like “so when are you going to be able...
View ArticleNo, it’s not The Incentives—it’s you
There’s a narrative I find kind of troubling, but that unfortunately seems to be growing more common in science. The core idea is that the mere existence of perverse incentives is a valid and...
View ArticleI hate open science
Now that I’ve got your attention: what I hate—and maybe dislike is a better term than hate—isn’t the open science community, or open science initiatives, or open science practices, or open scientists…...
View ArticleThe parable of the three districts: A projective test for psychologists
A political candidate running for regional public office asked a famous political psychologist what kind of television ads she should air in three heavily contested districts: positive ones...
View ArticleFly less, give more
Russ Poldrack writes that he will be flying less: I travel a lot – I have almost 1.3 million lifetime miles on United Airlines, and in the last few years have regularly flown over 100,000 miles per...
View ArticleInduction is not optional (if you’re using inferential statistics): reply to...
A few months ago, I posted an online preprint titled The Generalizability Crisis. Here’s the abstract: Most theories and hypotheses in psychology are verbal in nature, yet their evaluation...
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Tropic of Zamza
A piece of short fiction very loosely inspired by the development of GPT-3. 100% human-authored. Tropic of Zamza was one of the better novels Vela Hirasawa had proxywritten this quarter. It was the...
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hey, I wrote a book!
It’s a collection of short stories. 18 of them, to be exact. Some of them (3 of them, to be exact) have been previously posted here (specifically, this one, this one, and this one). The other 15 have...
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