Eddie Clarke

Statistical approximation is not general intelligence: https://osf.io/qjrhs

2 two-year postdocs on children’s political socialization at Aarhus University - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University

🔥 POSTDOC POSITIONS ON CHILDREN'S POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION 🔥

Wanna understand young people's beliefs about political leadership, politics, and power? Then this is your chance! I'm looking for two 2-year postdocs to join my ERC-funded research project @au.dk
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Dr Laura K. Taylor receives ERC Consolidator Award to explore how identity can influence peacebuilding

Now hiring at @ucddublin.bsky.social in #psychology

✅ Postdoc: search job ref 019423 here: my.corehr.com/pls/ucdrecru...

✅ 4-year fully funded PhD, details: www.ucd.ie/graduatestud...

Part of @helpingkidslab.bsky.social

Funded by @erc.europa.eu ERC Consolidator Award
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Abstract: This piece critiques the dominant assumption in social and political psychology, as well as in political science and other disciplines, that polarization is inherently undesirable and should therefore be reduced under all circumstances. We argue that this premise reflects a neutrality bias (or depoliticizing bias) that obscures the asymmetrical nature of contemporary political conflict. We distinguish democratic polarization—agonistic contestation among actors who accept multicultural pluralism, democratic institutions and election outcomes, civil and human rights, and epistemic accountability—from anti-democratic polarization, in which conflict is strategically mobilized to delegitimize opponents, erode institutional constraints, and normalize dehumanization, scapegoating, misinformation, anti-scientific, and conspiratorial narratives as a route to political power. In a global context marked by the growing...

“Not all polarization is equivalent nor undesirable”

New preprint by Felipe Vilanova and @flavioazevedo.bsky.social:

osf.io/preprints/ps...

Glasgow Caledonian University to cut 100 jobs as part of £10m saving plan GCU said it follows a drop in international student recruitment

Glasgow Caledonian University is to cut around 100 jobs as part of £10m savings plan.

"It follows a sharp drop in international student recruitment."

#UKHE

Positionality statements are relevant for all research Madeleine Pownall and Sebastian Cordoba make the case for reflexivity and positionality statements as important in all kinds of research Madeleine Pownall and Sebastian Cordoba make the case for refle...

Reflexivity and Positionality Statements in Quantitative Research

"Choices about research questions, data sources, analytical techniques, and interpretation are all influenced by researchers’ epistemological commitments, their lived experiences..."

By @maddipow.bsky.social & @scordoban.bsky.social

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...

A screenshot of prompting chatgpt with "how many new clusters were detected by hunt and reffert". It invents a first author for a paper that doesn't exist and returns a wrong answer (five) instead of ~2300.

I'm starting to find that papers mis-cite my own papers in really, really perplexing ways. It's quite obvious why if you just go to that one hyped up tool and ask it about your own work...

ChatGPT got my supervisor's name right but changed me to be a "William" (lol) and gave the wrong number

Reducing human value to what we can be trained to do is straight up technofascism. Every fascism has its suhumans. To technofascists, humans are the subhumans.

One of our students is conducting interviews with academic staff to learn how we navigate our academic and labour identities - I think about this a lot especially when we navigate strikes. If you work at a Scottish Uni please consider participating and please share widely!

Paper on statistical power necessary for interaction effects
doi.org/10.1177/2515...

How strong is the threat to academic freedom? If you are a publishing psychologist, please help us get a better understanding of the threats due to external pressure and self-censorship in the publication process by taking our 5-10 min anonymous survey: t1p.de/t1qof
Results will be shared here!

Rethinking Open Science • SftP Magazine The Open Science movement promises inclusivity and better science but ignores the economic and political realities that shape research.

"This article looks briefly at exclusive systems of knowledge production. I describe how the Open Science movement that was founded to reform science often recycles the same extractive dynamics of neoliberal capitalism described by dependency theory."
magazine.scienceforthepeople.org/vol27-2-poli...

Postdoc Position in Social and Organisational Psychology at University of Cologne

Application deadline: 15 February 2026

More info: jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...

#SocialPsyc #PhDSky

0.8 FTE 2-year postdoc in social psychology and communication sciences at the University of Groningen looking at "the conversational dynamics of polarization."

Deadline: 16 February 2026

#SocialPsyc #PhDSky #AcademicSky

When survival becomes politics: Necessity activism and identity work under precarity Collective action is essential for tackling social, institutional, and environmental challenges, often fueled by shared identities, common norms, and a belief in the possibility of change. However, t...

When survival becomes politics: Necessity activism
and identity work under precarity

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Job Opportunity at the University of Kent: Lecturer in Psychology The School of Psychology is seeking to appoint a Lecturer in Psychology and a Lecturer in Psychology focusing on Cognition and Neuroscience  to join a collegial, supportive, and intellectually vibrant...

Kent Psychology is hiring 🎓We have two posts: 1) open area and 2) cog neuro. More details can be found here: jobs.kent.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... Feel free to reach out with questions!

Do personal climate actions crowd out collective action and policy support? Evidence from a longitudinal study: https://osf.io/udqxn

It must be very hard to publish null results Publication practices in the social sciences act as a filter that favors statistically significant results over null findings. While the problem of selection on significance (SoS) is well-known in theory, it has been difficult to measure its scope empirically, and it has been challenging to determine how selection varies across contexts. In this article, we use large language models to extract granular and validated data on about 100,000 articles published in over 150 political science journals from 2010 to 2024. We show that fewer than 2% of articles that rely on statistical methods report null-only findings in their abstracts, while over 90% of papers highlight significant results. To put these findings in perspective, we develop and calibrate a simple model of publication bias. Across a range of plausible assumptions, we find that statistically significant results are estimated to be one to two orders of magnitude more likely to enter the published record than null results. Leveraging metadata extracted from individual articles, we show that the pattern of strong SoS holds across subfields, journals, methods, and time periods. However, a few factors such as pre-registration and randomized experiments correlate with greater acceptance of null results. We conclude by discussing implications for the field and the potential of our new dataset for investigating other questions about political science.

I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.

Centering the problem at the individual level is also a politically safe move for psychology. You don't risk challenging the power structures that are responsible for climate change by advocating for a psychology that works for deeper societal change. In my opinion.

There might be room for a bit of both, but if you take the perspective that humans are just cognitively limited, where do you go from there regarding solutions? It also ignores the structural level, which while limiting us in its own right, can offer an opportunity for a positive approach to change.

(PDF) The Perils of Explaining Climate Inaction in Terms of Psychological Barriers PDF | As awareness of climate change and its consequences increases, many have asked, “Why aren't people taking action?” Some psychologists have... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on R...

I strongly recommend this piece: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

Ecosia-CEO: „In drei Monaten sind wir die größte KI-App Europas” | t3n Erst Suche, dann Browser, jetzt KI-Tool: Die Pläne der grünen Tech-Firma klingen ambitioniert. Aber sind sie auch realistisch? Wir haben mit Geschäftsführer Christian Kroll über die Zukunft von Ecosia gesprochen. Fakt ist: Das Suchmonopol von Google ist Stand jetzt nicht überwindbar. Ebenfalls Fakt ist: Der Markt scheint groß genug zu sein, dass sich auch kleinere […]

Since I've been seeing a lot of "switch to Ecosia for search they are sustainable and European" hints lately your evaluation might soon change:
Their boss explicitly wants not just to add "AI" to search but go all in on more "AI" tools.
(German article linked)

The partisans of the "center left" (aka the courtiers of Abundance) won't tell you this, or even try to account for it, but:

Taylor Rehmet, who just flipped a district in TX that Trump took by 17 points, ran on "strong unions and worker power" as well as "environmental justice."

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Climate Action Delay Discourses in the Sports Sector: Insights From Interviews With Athletes and Staff There is a major contradiction between the current model of international elite sport and efforts to mitigate climate change. This study investigates climate action delay discourses within the sports...

How can elite sport become a climate leader?

Read more about the barriers and how to overcome them in our new study:

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Tesla unveils its newest energy product – a rooftop solar panel Tesla has unveiled its newest energy product during and the buzzy new item is, in fact, a rooftop solar panel, launched at a tumultuous moment for the EV maker.

Massive news: techno-genius Elon Musk has just invented an amazing new energy technology known as a "rooftop solar panel". Sunlight hits this "panel" and it generates electricity during the day.

It's a huge bet but Musk is getting in early on this little-known technology

Awful lot of older white academics would would rather have a convicted pedophile as a friend than a lefty as a colleague

Duke professor Dan Ariely had longstanding friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, newly released files show Ariely is named in 636 of the some 3 million newly released files. He was a prominent professor at Duke over the course of his correspondence with Epstein.

"[Epstein] was arrested in 2006 & pleaded guilty in 2008"

"Ariely & Epstein met at least 7 times from 2010-2016"

"Ariely is named 636 times in the more than 3 million additional files released"

"Neither Ariely nor Duke responded to ... requests for comment"

www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...

Psychology Job

🔸 Assistant Professor at Maastricht University

🔸 Focus on group dynamics, in particular teams

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