@rrrichardzach I’m seeing new commits this past month for forallx:Calgary. Do you anticipate a new edition release right after I finalize my syllabus? :) Sorry, I mean, sometime soon? Thanks much
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Christopher Eliot
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@News4wombats Definitely. Mine are all CC:BY licensed, just not well released/promoted yet. Thanks for sharing yours.
@News4wombats Those are well-motivated cautions about writing a new OER textbook. Yet, I've been watching your Understanding Sci and in Weisberg's O&E because I don't see much else that's very introductory, for replacing Giere/Hacking. So I am using more “handouts” (vs. textbooks), mixed with primary sources, for Sci Reasoning. Your text can usefully be mined for handout excerpts, and I've been writing some of my own. Same-ish materials, but different object-metaphor, less authorial investment?
ivanfrA treasure: the talks of the most recent colloquium on Philosophy of Geosciences are now available to all of us
#philsci #geoscience #science #histsci #enviromental #earthscience
#earth
PTPBioLooking back at the journal's 15 most-cited, as it turns 15:
“Multiple Regression Is Not Multiple Regressions: The Meaning of Multiple Regression and the Non-Problem of Collinearity” by Michael B. Morrissey and Graeme D. Ruxton (2018) is the 2nd most cited. Against widely-held misconceptions about collinearity (correlations among explanatory variables), there is no general sense in which it is a problem! #openaccess → https://doi.org/10.3998/ptpbio.16039257.0010.003
The 15 most-cited articles from 15 years of PTPBio, continued:
“(Mis)interpreting Mathematical Models: Drift as a Physical Process” by Roberta Millstein,* Robert Skipper, and Michael Dietrich (2009) is the 12th most-cited. #openaccess → http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/ptb.6959004.0001.002 *@cepaea (who later became an editor)
@ct_bergstrom I think the feeling of defeat reflects something general about human attention and perception. We look at the eyes and the area around them. Those look roughly the same. It feels WRONG to focus primary extension in relation to overall body geometry. It's like staring at someone's elbow. If we could do that naturally, this would feel pretty easy.
As PTPBio turns 15 this year, let's look back at its 15 most-cited articles from 15 years!
“Agent-Based Models as Fictive Instantiations of Ecological Processes” by Steven L. Peck (2012) is 15th most cited. How do agent-based computer models of ecological and evolutionary processes represent the world? → http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/ptb.6959004.0004.003
@MortenBay @SteveRoth @pluralistic … exclusively as a theory of the basis of law and public policy, right? With respect to utilitarianism a theory of right action vs. jerkitude, I’m not aware of any Rawlsisn criticisms?
NSF-funded phil-sci Summer teaching workshop: “Integrating Statistics Into Your Philosophy Syllabus” at Univ. of Minnesota. I'm going! Hope to connect with some peers. Apply until June 16. → https://samuelcfletcher.com/2023/02/27/summer-teaching-workshop-integrating-statistics-into-your-philosophy-syllabus/
