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Art that celebrates the reality science has revealed
From Feynman to da Vinci and back
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Michael W. Cole
Advanced Yet Primitive: Gender bias in neuroscience and beyond
Gaining perspective on gender bias in science can help us overcome it
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Nicole Lalta

March 2023

AI chatbots as expectation mirrors
If you think you’ll see something sinister in an AI then you probably will
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Michael W. Cole

February 2023

Making Scientists Obsolete? The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Science
Some thoughts on a recent presentation I gave about ChatGPT and LLMs
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Michael W. Cole

January 2023

Recent AI releases have put us into a new technological era and it’s both exciting and deeply problematic
The best way forward may be to transform these AIs into digital scientists
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Michael W. Cole

December 2022

Time to move from Twitter to Mastodon
What made the move easy for me, and why I prefer Mastodon to Twitter
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Michael W. Cole
Debiasing Science: Toward the creation of an Evidence Quality Index (EQI)
A metric with the potential to reduce bias in science and (through better science communication) society
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Michael W. Cole
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November 2022

Advanced Yet Primitive: A game of scientific and social progress
We believe our modern society is advanced, yet it seems to me that we live in the awkward middle ground between a truly advanced society and a primitive…
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Michael W. Cole
Debiasing Science: The best way to overcome the replication crisis is to simply require replication to fully establish new findings
Why and how this simple idea could work well to reduce scientific bias
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Michael W. Cole
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It is rational to be emotional
Contrary to the classic view of emotions being antirational, a fully rational human would feel life strongly
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Michael W. Cole
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What is Practically Scientific?
Welcome to the first issue of the Bias Research Initiative’s online newsletter, Practically Scientific! The Bias Research Initiative’s purpose is to…
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Michael W. Cole
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This is Practically Scientific, a newsletter about the transformational potential of science & reason, and the cognitive biases holding us back.
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Michael W. Cole
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