Reproducibility Now!
A bottom-up stack with Nix, uv, and renv
Joe Bak-Coleman
Collective behavior from fish to fascists.
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Sighin’ and M’attitude Errors
The Absurdities and Indignities of False Discovery Rates in Social Science
As if multiple comparison corrections weren't complicated enough.
Our preprint on industry influence in social media research was covered by Science: Nearly one-third of social
Our preprint on industry influence in social media research was covered by Science: Nearly one-third of social media research has undisclosed ties to industry.
Gave the CITP Seminar at Princeton on Scientific Barriers to Evidence-Based Tech Policy — watch the recording.
Gave the CITP Seminar at Princeton on Scientific Barriers to Evidence-Based Tech Policy — watch the recording.
New preprint on The Risks of Industry Influence in Tech Research, with Cailin O’Connor, Carl Bergstrom, and Je
New preprint on The Risks of Industry Influence in Tech Research, with Cailin O’Connor, Carl Bergstrom, and Jevin West.
Taught as faculty at the Santa Fe Institute’s Complexity Global School for Emerging Political Economies in Bog
Taught as faculty at the Santa Fe Institute’s Complexity Global School for Emerging Political Economies in Bogotá, Colombia.
UNDP released Development at Risk: Protecting Gains and Unleashing Opportunities Amid Crisis. I served as a Co
UNDP released Development at Risk: Protecting Gains and Unleashing Opportunities Amid Crisis. I served as a Consulting Expert.
The UNDP’s flagship Human Development Report 2025, A matter of choice: People and possibilities in the age of
The UNDP’s flagship Human Development Report 2025, A matter of choice: People and possibilities in the age of AI, was released, for which I served as a Consulting Expert.
Joined the University of Washington as a Research Scientist.
Joined the University of Washington as a Research Scientist.
Joined the Santa Fe Institute as an External Applied Complexity Fellow.
Joined the Santa Fe Institute as an External Applied Complexity Fellow.
I did not want to write another blog post.
The Preregistration Revelation Part II
Alongside Co-PI Carl Bergstrom, our project Coalescing a Crisis Discipline was awarded funding from Templeton
Alongside Co-PI Carl Bergstrom, our project Coalescing a Crisis Discipline was awarded funding from Templeton World Charity Foundation ($255k).
I did not want to write this blog post.
The Preregistration Revelation
The Protzko et al. study was retracted from Nature Human Behaviour following concerns I raised, as covered by
The Protzko et al. study was retracted from Nature Human Behaviour following concerns I raised, as covered by The Chronicle of Higher Education.
The Preregistration Revelation
On preregistration, open science, and when “contrarian” takes go sideways.
Began work for the United Nations as a Consulting Expert on their 2025 Human Development Report.
Began work for the United Nations as a Consulting Expert on their 2025 Human Development Report.
New paper in Science Advances: Addressing climate change with behavioral science — a global intervention tourn
New paper in Science Advances: Addressing climate change with behavioral science — a global intervention tournament in 63 countries.
Replication failures from fishy science
The title is not what it seems.
Rigor Desiderada
Why Sleuthing Needs Standards
Gave Varying effects and the reliability of the scientific literature for the Frontiers in Social Evolution se
Gave Varying effects and the reliability of the scientific literature for the Frontiers in Social Evolution seminar — watch the recording.
Retire the P-Curve (On Twitter)
It's past time to stop circling P-values
Joined Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center Institute for Rebooting Social Media as an Assembly Fellow for 2022–23.
Joined Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center Institute for Rebooting Social Media as an Assembly Fellow for 2022–23.
The UNDP’s Human Development Report 2021/22, Uncertain Times, Unsettled Lives, was released. I contributed bac
The UNDP’s Human Development Report 2021/22, Uncertain Times, Unsettled Lives, was released. I contributed background research.
Started as an Associate Research Scholar at Columbia Journalism School’s Craig Newmark Center for Journalism E
Started as an Associate Research Scholar at Columbia Journalism School’s Craig Newmark Center for Journalism Ethics and Security.