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My Capstone students were hard at work this semester, culminating in two new digital statistics games to play! The first is Defeat the P, a digital adaptation of a very silly game I used to play in person that involved throwing things at foam bricks in an attempt to alter your p-value on a t-test. Now you can play this using javascript and a digital slingshot! The second is a game that reminds you that it's not just R2 values that matter on linear regressions... their p values do too. Check both of them out in the Games and Interactives link. 

Sometimes you get a concussion and get too mad about a non-peer reviewed PNAS paper and end up writing your first letter to the editor. I didn't quite have the confidence to request inclusion of this figure though it is very accurate to my point.

Emery-Wetherell, M. 2024. "Burrow collapse is not the only explanation for rapid, noncatastrophic preservation of 3D dinosaurs." Letter to the Editor, Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Sciences. 122(3) e2423019122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2423019122

The extremely, extremely alpha version of the video game we are making for our NSF award is up and downloadable! You can download it for play on itch.io here. It is a 3D explorer where you learn about the past through minigames that replicate scientific processes. Currently this includes looking around and then identifying some bones using a somewhat hilariously difficult minigame - good luck!