Four more days left to apply for a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in the Social Science Collaborartory.
For the right candidate, I'm upping the offer: I will double the supply of toy dinosaurs that come with this position 🦕
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Want to help build and understand the future of scientific collaboration? We are seeking a postdoc in computational meta‑science.
📍 UF (Gainesville, FL)
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Online Studies Psychological Science requires that authors who use samples from online data collection include a statement in the Method section explicitly addressing their approach to preventing and detecting automated or AI-generated responses. Rationale As large language models and other generative AI tools become more accessible, the risk of data contamination by non-human respondents has increased dramatically in research. Psychological science (and the social sciences generally) is particularly susceptible to this issue given its growing reliance on online data collection. Preventing automated responses during data collection and detecting them afterward often involve methodological trade-offs. For instance, technical barriers that aim to prevent LLM use (e.g., blocking copy-pasting functionalities) may eliminate behavioral indicators needed for detection (e.g., pasting rather than typing). This policy aims to enhance transparency and reproducibility of reported results by requiring authors to articulate their approach across both prevention and detection dimensions, enabling readers and reviewers to assess the likelihood of reported data being influenced by automated responses. Scope This policy applies to any submission with at least one study that includes data collected online without direct human supervision (e.g., via crowdsourcing platforms, student participants who complete the study online, online recruitment ads, or remote survey distribution tools). Required Reporting Authors must include in the Methods section either: A statement confirming that procedures were in place to prevent and/or detect and exclude automated or AI-generated responses, including a description of those procedures (e.g., explicit participant instructions against LLM use, disabled copy–paste functionality, CAPTCHA use, IP filtering, consistency checks, attention checks, adversarial prompting) as well as the types of automated responses that these procedures are suitable …
Maybe of interest: The submission guidelines of Psychological Science now demand an explicit statement on measures taken to reduce the risk of AI-generated responses for all online studies!
www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
I'm also equally appalled by a world where we're merely pretending to believe the things we and other scientists publish 🤷🏼
Looking forward to it! One of these days, there will be a fascinating meta-scientific examination of the commit history of chapters like this! I rewrite my lab manual so often that it's more scratchpad than book
OK, Rare Moth Bluesky, you have my attention now.
I did look up "rare moths near me" and enjoy reading about Antaeotricha Floridella: a rare sandy-loooing moth thus far only detected in the Florida panhandle!
"Groups of very smart people often behave like a very stupid system"
Trying to fit this sentence in a grant, but struggling to think of the most appropriate citation. Perhaps: "see state of world"?
"An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into accepting its changes into a mainstream python library." Pubpeer, journals are next!
theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...
I only pay for the API access. Not noticing any difference in actual performance or speed, just like API functionality
Same. A challenging social dilemma is that overhype often co-occurs in spaces with legitimate innovation. I've been so turned off by the overhype that it's been hard to acknowledge and build in places where I feel I'm seeing genuine and important value add.
The US granted visas to Jews but only allowed 30,000 in from Germany a year. You had to wait for your number to come up.
Meet Robert Smallbones. An unassuming British diplomat who 'hacked' this system so effectively (saving 48 THOUSAND Jews) the UK government kept his scheme secret for decades /1 🧵
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screenshots from the nine tasks
Very excited to share the first empirical paper from LEVANTE: we describe the LEVANTE core tasks, a set of nine open source tasks for measuring learning and development in kids ages 5-12 years.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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I didn't write it, but I also don't deny the claim
New ethical dilemma: is it better to drown in "meticulous despair" or a sea of bullshit science?
IMO, despair is easier to swallow than shit. 😉
🥱 filter |> group_by |> mutate
😏 yeet |> squad_up |> glow_up
GenZ version of dplyr in R
Hadley Wickham made a GenZ version of dplyr 😂
hadley.github.io/genzplyr/
people are actually very susceptible to just-so stories about human origins because listening to bullshit helped us survive on the savanna
Why did my brain automatically read that quote in @lakens.bsky.social’s voice 😅
I hate demand characteristics, but many other pre-registered experiments *have* found the effect.
We discuss in this meta:
online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...
Abstract of paper
Figure 1!
What do kids choose to do when they think that someone will help them? What about when no one will help?
New paper: "Young children strategically adapt to unreliable social partners" - led by Kat Shannon, with @hyogweon.bsky.social and Willem Frankenhuis.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Sociological research on emotion labor was supposed to be a warning, not a how-to.
How did Black families travel during the Jim Crow era? Learn the history, explore the data and contribute. Start local: search your city on the Community Map, and add your story to this living history.
greenbookproject.org.ohio-state.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky
Florida's governor is telling public universities to stop hiring anyone on a H-1B visa. Expect other red states to follow suit.
Thank you for sharing. Beautiful
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
My theory is that the cats understand the technology and are trying to export it to humans.
Their requests for food at 3 AM? Just a test to see if you still remember things. One day, you won't. And the food bowls will finally be infinitely full.
Our full 2025 program and schedule are now up on our website! We've got so many great presentations lined up, you won't want to miss it!
bigteamscienceconference.github.io/program/
I didn't know, but HAPPY Birthday!
