Random recent posts
A random selection of recent posts from around the mathematical blogosphere.
- (1) “Do you think the culture of research has genuinely changed since the replication crisis became widely discussed, or has it mostly generated new compliance rituals around pre-registration and open data while leaving the underlying incentive structure intact?, (2) Regarding Columbia University, “is there a statistical or social scientific way of understanding how institutions lose the ability to accurately perceive their own situation?”Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- UltrasphericalJohn D. Cook
- Cochran's Q test in R, or the extension of McNemar's test for more than two groupsStats and R
- Editors of economics journal resign after Elsevier doesn’t renew EIC’s contractRetraction Watch
- Failing upward, Norwegian styleStatistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- Mathematical DiscourseWhat's new
- How much of the world isn’t owned by anyone?More or Less
- Quantitative bounds for sets lacking polynomial progressions with shifted prime differenceWhat's new
- My answer is No.Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- The Contingent HOD Dichotomy, CUNY Logic Workshop, October 2026Joel David Hamkins
- Palomar – a registry of Lean verified mathematicsWhat's new
- Michael Rabin Memorial ConferenceWindows On Theory
- Simons Foundation Hosts Pivot Fellowship Annual MeetingSimons Foundation
- Six Cards, One Fact, and a Whole Lot of DifferentiationDr. Nicki's Guided Math Blog
- How Flatiron Institute Mathematicians Helped Make AI More EfficientSimons Foundation
- 💀Thales’ circles
- How NASA’s Mariner 9 probe encoded imagesJohn D. Cook
- Answering some questions about statistics from a high school studentStatistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- Lots of detail on the continuing “Q collar” scandal and why we should probably be doing more coverage of that sort of science-adjacent medical scams and less on repulsively self-promoting but ultimately less harmful academic grifters.Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- Preregistration has a socio-epistemological and a logical rationaleError Statistics Philosophy
- A digestion of the proof of Sendov’s conjectureWhat's new
- Cryptic but consistentJohn D. Cook
- Who were “The Makers of Public Policy” in 1965?Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- Beyond Zipf’s Law: Equifinality and Mechanistic Inference from Scaling LawsFreakonometrics
- Not another Cushing post, but Cushing-relevantWest Coast Stat Views (on Observational Epidemiology and more)
- Information = Comprehension × Extension • Comment 5Inquiry Into Inquiry
- Nour Al Hassanieh: Using Wave Dynamics to Improve Medical ImagingSimons Foundation
- People keep sending me AI slop that they want me to post on the blog.Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
- Repaired!Quomodocumque
- Alternative Fields Medal, awarded August 2026Joel David Hamkins
- AT, BAT, and CATTanya Khovanova's Math Blog