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Professional Advice: If you take a page to explain the metaphor you're using in an academic paper, it's bad science communication.

Excuse me, @Microsoft ?!

Conversation in #SpeedLab: Student: I programmed an LLM with all of your publicly-available papers, and now I ask it for advice instead of bothering you. Me: ...That's like a child building a robot to give out hugs because their parents are absent.

Watching academics beef with each other is just a joyous experience. Low-stakes outcome + utter contempt + (generally) mild-mannered combatants =

Shout out to R2 who caught a copy-paste error that I did not. That would have been an embarrassing erratum...

To the authors refusing modest additions to their analyses because they believe they are unnecessary:

Me [drafting a manuscript]: Hmm. I don't think I need to explain XYZ, it's obvious and the readership will find it condescending. [Six Months Later] R1: Why the hell did you do XYZ?! Me [re-reading the manuscript]: ...That's a great question!

Great job from the #PSYC4111 class. Your collective writing has massively improved over the course of the semester!

"Why did you use threshold X for analysis?" "It was in our pre-registration." Neat. Why was it in your pre-registration?

This has happened several times this term.

Shout-out to a co-reviewer on a manuscript who told the authors not to include 95% CIs because they were archaic, but to keep p-values. Congrats on not understanding either and showing that ignorance is contagious. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

I think the best example of concise and informative writing is legitimately the theme song of Clone High.

Yeah, true love is great and everything, but have you ever found out that your crude way of approximating power is the recommended approach?