Science Links

1. When the Revolution Came for Amy Cuddy (Susan Dominus in the NYT)

But since 2015, even as she continued to stride onstage and tell the audiences to face down their fears, Cuddy has been fighting her own anxieties, as fellow academics have subjected her research to exceptionally high levels of public scrutiny. She is far from alone in facing challenges to her work: Since 2011, a methodological reform movement has been rattling the field, raising the possibility that vast amounts of research, even entire subfields, might be unreliable. Up-and-coming social psychologists, armed with new statistical sophistication, picked up the cause of replications, openly questioning the work their colleagues conducted under a now-outdated set of assumptions. The culture in the field, once cordial and collaborative, became openly combative, as scientists adjusted to new norms of public critique while still struggling to adjust to new standards of evidence.

2. When correlations don't imply causation, but something far more screwy! (the Atlantic)
2a. John D. Cook follows up with "negative correlations" induced by success.

3. STEM resources for students from K-PhD, and beyond (PathwaysToScience)