Panjabi MC
Very random post, bear with me. So while waiting for some genomics to run... ... I was listening to old music from my teenage years. Had a particular foreign song…
How to circumvent Facebook’s content censorship using archive
There are some websites that specialize in archiving websites for future reference if deleted or censored. Naturally, these things are often used for political combat to expose old tweets by…
How to read SlateStarCodex (Scott Alexander) blog
TL;DR tweet version of this post. The cultural revolution has come to SlateStarCodex (which now also has a Wikipedia page). Journalist is threatening to reveal his real name and endanger…
Professorial ethics
Being a minor celebrity (is that what we call this?) has the amusing side effect that various people will be talking about you elsewhere on the internet. Thanks to the…
Medium censors Coronavirus post
I hate censorship, so here I provide backups. Note that Twitter censors linking to the archive.ph archived version, giving users a false error message. https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1241734643948359680 Twitter apparently auto-throttles tweets that…
Bo Winegard firing — time for action
Bo Winegard. I’ve Been Fired. If You Value Academic Freedom, That Should Worry You. Quillette. So it finally came to pass. This has been a long time in the coming.…
Human Biodiversity 2020 March Research Fundraiser!
We need more money to collect data etc., so donate us some! We set up a charity (US) for this. 'Official' tweet: https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1235907818127048704 Official link: https://charity.gofundme.com/o/en/campaign/hbd2020march Shortlink: http://tiny.cc/HBD2020Mar See also…
Open data and behavioral genetics: room for improvement!
Open data is a fundamental part of getting science to work well. Primary reasons for this: Redundancy is data archiving. Most data are lost because no backups exist! Easy access…
New paper out: Intelligence and Religiosity among Dating Site Users (with Jordan Lasker)
Kirkegaard, E. O. W., & Lasker, J. (2020). Intelligence and Religiosity among Dating Site Users. Psych, 2(1), 25-33. We sought to assess whether previous findings regarding the relationship between cognitive…
The many lies of Ben van der Merwe
Ben van der Merwe (covered by others here, here), the social justice activist journalist, has been working for some years now to produce various hit pieces on researchers associated with…