Matt Berkley
Sentientism, food policy for desired/anticipated consumption patterns, plant-based food for climate, consumption behaviour, history and reporting of global goals, framing.
- Perhaps the Committee on Publication Ethics might include in its guidelines: When an article is retracted, publishers should notify authors of all papers which have cited it.
- Whereas retractions usually expose scandals in science, citations to retracted articles are a bigger scandal, especially when they are post-retraction. XeraRetractions web app: openscience.xera.ac/retractions
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- I try to avoid hyperbole when it comes to Trump policies, but this is absolutely frickin’ insane—on about eleventy different levels. Massive, systemic Fourth Amendment violations because … reasons.
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- Could a US legal expert provide information/views on this, or give context - What are the duties of members of the US armed forces if ordered to: a) consider, b) plan, c) prepare for, d) facilitate, or e) give purported justification for action which would be unlawful if carried out?
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- So the government is letting primary schools tell kids, and imply, that "families have a mummy and daddy, and sometimes just a mummy or daddy"? It's not even factually accurate, or consistent with same-sex marriage being lawful.
- RR: Rigorous Review. RPR: Rigorous Part-Review. Competent, useful critical appraisal does not necessarily need a "peer" as regards ability to assess more than one aspect of a research article - or to cover more than one aspect. PRR: Positive Rigorous Review. PR2: Positive Rigorous Part-Review.
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View full thread... how those concepts may be limited or dubious or based on categories which may be no more justifiable than others. And that there are ways other than thinking which can prompt us to conceptualise differently (intuition, dreams, analogy, fiction) ...
- ...as well as varieties of ways of thinking with the purpose of finding clues to the unknowns that may be useful (visualising, analysing language and so on).
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- It's perhaps worth noting that even when we don't know where we may be wrong, we may still be able to think about how to guess at sources of uncertainty - such as by thinking about - how we've been biased in the past, - what mistakes others have made, - how we have defined key concepts and ...
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- Political bias/prejudice may have changed since the original research found by that search done in 2016, due to factors including: Rise of far right, Trump 1 and 2 "culture wars" Covid/antivaccine Ukraine war Gaza Musk buying Twitter Other social media companies' policies Brexit Economic hardship
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- Thank you - I'm sorry, I should have been clearer. In that post I meant experts publicising their individual lists (more widely) as it might help the development of more unified structures, and/or help raise standards more directly. Could you please say how we can find the material you mentioned?
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- Yes, the media are important context. Could you say what you mean about not in the form I imagine?
- If people expert in research methods publicise lists of research they have assessed as adequate and at least potentially significant, that might help focus attention on deserving work, and less on work that's very-difficult-to-assess-regardless-of-expertise. bsky.app/profile/matt...
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- "If there are two steps in my argument and each has 70% probability then I am probably wrong. 70/100 x 70/100 = 4900/10000 = 49%." web.archive.org/web/20081121...
- Shall we say "published article" (or "draft" if the authors prefer) instead of "preprint" if it's published on the internet, and "traditionally published" or "published with a claim of initial peer review" if it's traditionally "published"?
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- Shall we call traditional peer review (for example, secret, only involving a couple of reviewers who may not between them have all the required skills, knowledge and experience, and unpaid) initial peer review: IPR?
- Is the bigger threat "AI" or "IA", InAttention?
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- Also: the more that statistics on serious attacks are dominated by those who know each other, the less relevance to most people's safety.
- When is the Caracas Oil Party?
- "all Fellows and Foreign Members are expected to follow the Nolan principles of public life, namely: selflessness, integrity, objectivity, accountability, openness, honesty and leadership." royalsociety.org/-/media/abou...
- More than one ethical problem here: "For the purposes of these Regulations, “Misconduct” means all and any behaviour...which Council shall in its reasonable discretion consider to be seriously injurious to the reputation or interests of the Society." royalsociety.org/-/media/abou...
- Moonahead Jupiter now shows ~where we've reached, in Gemini, as we orbit the Sun (Earth/Jupiter orbits are slightly inclined). Also, today's half moon (15.48 GMT) will be in the ~direction of our orbit round the Sun (within ~10 moon "widths": Moon's orbit is inclined to the orbit round the Sun).
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- If warming increases temperature differences between places and that causes higher wind speeds, could those wind speeds: - influence heat transfer between air and sea (and possibly land) and/or - stir up aerosols (including desert dust, and salt from sea) influencing clouds' effects on climate?
- Moonpass The Moon always overtakes Earth on the outside. This is usually a Full Moon; sometimes a Shademoon/Part Shademoon (lunar eclipse). Passmoon Earth always overtakes the Moon on the outside. A New Moon; sometimes a total/partial Moonsun/Sunmoon/Sunblock (solar eclipse).
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- If warming increases heat differentials between places and that causes higher wind speeds, could those wind speeds: - influence heat transfer between air and sea (and possibly land) and/or - stir up aerosols (including desert dust, and salt from sea) influencing clouds' effects on climate?
- Some astronomy words Showsun/Sunshow/Revealsun/Sunreveal/Seesun/Sunsee/Uncoversun/Sununcover/HRS (Horizon Reveals Sun) Hidesun/Suncover/Coversun/HHS (Horizon Hides Sun) Showmoon/Hidemoon/Mooncover etc.
- Happy Nirjup today, and happy Passjup tomorrow! We overtake Jupiter about every 13 months. The "nearest" time and the "overtaking" time are different because of the orbital paths. Tomorrow Jupiter will be sopposite (sort-of-opposite) the Sun: the orbits are inclined.
- From 2003: "the mortality flaw and the inflation flaw....may have contributed to the devising of policies which, though they made the statistics look better, made the condition of poor people worse." econpapers.repec.org/paper/prampr...
- These posts look interesting to me, but claims about how many times something was "read" or "watched" seem to go beyond evidence and reason, if they're based on clicks. Opened page to read later/too long, didn't read? "AI" narration, so stopped the video? Partly read? Read intently?
- 🕰️What were the ten most read blogposts on LSE Impact in 2025? Find out in the last of our annual reviews. #LSEimpact #AcademicSky
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- Also, political leadership explaining costs and benefits of government and individual climate action and inaction, and actually leading, can be important. bsky.app/profile/matt...
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- Has anyone mapped the conflicts of interest that academic publishers and people who work for them may have? Publishers have an incentive not to retract. An independent organisation could make more independent decisions.
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- I'm interested in statements that something "may"/"can"/"could" be the case. When used about conclusions of scientific studies, for example, we might think it doesn't say anything beyond that something is possible - which we "may" have known (or realised if we thought about it) in the first place.
- Degenerative "AI".
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- Agrisol? Agsol? SOC - Solar Over Crops? SOA (pronounced "sower") Solar Over Ag SAA - Solar Above Ag Solar With Ag Below SE/A: Solar Energy/Ag GenAg ASP: Ag with Solar Power SEALS - Solar Energy/Ag Land Sharing (I like the idea of getting "Remote Nuclear" into a term)
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- I quoted this in the earlier reply to @edhawkins.org: bsky.app/profile/matt...
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- What do the free ones do if you specify to take great care to check authenticity of apparent citations?
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- "Plastic rain"?
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- During the presidency a "deal" with a Trump company can also bring valuable access, publicity, relative certainty of more investment from those supporting Trump, and insurance against "unfavourable treatment" from the administration (I would guess).
- Thank you for this work - how unlikely is a scenario counted as in this analysis before it's excluded as implausible, and what light could the work shed on more likely but still very serious risks (taking into account limitations of climate models because of, for example, clouds)?
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- Perhaps you already mean this - if the merger is on favourable terms then that may be enough (which is not to say there won't be other anticipated benefits)
