Matt

Consciousness, Open science, Critical thinking. Research Software Engineer at the University of Oxford.

[Matt @MJaquiery]

@joshdeleeuw This setup definitely has potential!
I'm working on something similar for hosting complex questionnaires -- GitHub pages instance where the user experience and data flow are governed by querystring variables.

[Matt @MJaquiery]

@Saffello96 @FraserSneden That would be @ulyngs -- I used it for my thesis and @OrbenAmy used it, too, I think.

[Matt @MJaquiery]

If you're going to get lost on a large Greek island at midday in the height of summer with no water, choose @PaulPcf22 as your running mate.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - Would get lost again.

[Paul Fletcher @PaulPcf22]

That escalated quickly.
One minute I'm enjoying the morning cool, pleased with myself for setting out early for my run.
The next, it's >30 degrees and I'm still 5 miles from home.

(Reminded me of getting lost in Aegina @MJaquiery - a 30 min run turning into a 2.5 hour slog)

[Matt @MJaquiery]

@PsychOllygy @cnhstreet @CathLoveday @PsychologyRich @Alex_Lamont @NorburyJames

[Matt @MJaquiery]

Anil Seth adding some very valuable nuances to the #LaMDA discussion.

[Anil Seth @anilkseth]

1/ A little late to the #LaMDA party, but here's my 2p for what it's worth 🧵. Basically, I agree with @GaryMarcus (& the vast majority of the AI/neuro community) that there is no reason whatsoever to believe that #LaMDA is conscious https://t.co/M0Ur1fc4zH

[Anil Seth @anilkseth]

1/ A little late to the #LaMDA party, but here's my 2p for what it's worth 🧵. Basically, I agree with @GaryMarcus (& the vast majority of the AI/neuro community) that there is no reason whatsoever to believe that #LaMDA is conscious https://t.co/M0Ur1fc4zH

[Matt @MJaquiery]

@will_ngiam Ha, I obviously haven't made Jekyll play nice with rich preview stuff yet!

[Matt @MJaquiery]

@matthewmatix Fair point, but note asserting authorship is not just about copyright. Preprinted manuscripts are timestamped so proving authorship shouldn't be hard, and any outlet refusing to address this kind of fraud would (hopefully) incur major reputational damage.

[Matt @MJaquiery]

Remind me again why we set up the journal system to incentivise building the best barriers to accessing papers?

[Matt @MJaquiery]

@deevybee From the press release. *ducks*

[Matt @MJaquiery]

This is important. There are some great examples of non-boring experiments out there, and in most cases there's no good reason why tasks must be dull.

[Micah G. Allen @micahgallen]

A participant asks today, why must all the tasks be so boring and repetitive? The only honest answer I can give is because gamification is super difficult and our time is always short. But it should absolutely be a career goal to one-day only run tasks that are not boring.

[Matt @MJaquiery]

Good to see additional work coming out of previously-collected data.

[Doby Rahnev @DobyRahnev]

New paper in Psych Science!🥳Using 3 large datasets from the Confidence Database, I show that response bias reflects individual differences in sensory encoding. Decision biases may thus partly reflect normative computations. https://t.co/iQXtr0obl1

[Matt @MJaquiery]

@DP_JEDI The article is well-argued. Introducing money into ecosystems like peer review is very dangerous (money in academic publishing is a problem, not a solution).

It may also break up the equality of researchers as reviewers by gigifying review.

[Matt @MJaquiery]

@wooldridgemike @deevybee 👍

[Matt @MJaquiery]

@smithbarryc "All mouth and no trousers"... the perfect government for the Zoom era.

[Matt @MJaquiery]

From a well-written thread about the perverse effect of open publishing initiatives on the quality of academic literature.

[Mara Mather @MaraMather]

Now researchers can pay directly to have their work published. And this means that the quality of the research matters a lot less to publishers than it did before. Quantity is the new name of the game. 10/

[Matt @MJaquiery]

Helpful collection of tips on tweaks to data visualisation which can make things easier for people to understand.

[Joey Cherdarchuk @cherdarchuk]

Sorting by the data values instead of alphabetically creates a cleaner chart and makes rankings immediately apparent. #VizBits

[Micah G. Allen @micahgallen]

To state the obvious: the relentless persuit of capital (impact factor, publication quantity, patents, etc) is the downfall of science. It turns us all into bean counters, & devastates the ability and incentive to persue knowledge for it's own sake.

[Matt @MJaquiery]

@BonamyOliver @lfoulkesy Your task _should_ work just the same. You'll definitely want to test it, though!
PHP have a few notes on migrating from v5 to v7: https://t.co/uubTEyk0b9

Depending how much PHP you use it should be pretty straightforward - there may be some code you need to tweak.

[Matt @MJaquiery]

Come work without me because I'll be finished by the time you start! (it's an added bonus to an already great position)