Nadira Faber

the most annoying shift in my academic career

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Originalbild mit dem die KI gefüttert wurde

Die Forschungsministerin freut sich auf Insta darüber, dass jetzt "Porträts" von Frauen der Geschichte in ihrem Haus hängen. Nur: Die sind mit KI erstellt. Und schleifen die Gesichter der Frauen gemäß moderner westlicher Schönheitsideale glatt.
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Person sitting on a carpeted floor holding a small mirror reflecting their face.

Have you ever caught yourself wondering, "Who am I, really?" or "Why do I feel this way?" New research suggests your sense of self is actually your brain's best statistical guess, constantly updated by your experiences.

Read more in #PSPR: https://ow.ly/lqlO50YpH9N

New open access book 'Protecting Minds: The Right Against Mental Interference' Free to read and download, Professor Douglas' book is an output of EC H2020 grant 819757

New #openaccess book: 'Protecting Minds: The Right Against Mental Interference' - now in print.
Douglas, T., (2026), Protecting Minds: The Right Against Mental Interference @oxfordunipress.bsky.social
Read more and download a free copy: www.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/article/open...

#PhilosophyMatters

I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point.

I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion

People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

What if you find out your own brother is a thief? We asked how people respond when a close other commits a moral transgression. -> It gets people to feel both as the victim + as the perpetrator & changes what punishment they seek. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#socialpsyc #PsychSciSky

Large, cross-cultural study (n > 6k, 25 nations) on international prosociality finds that
- ingroup favoritism is widespread
- more similarities between two nations = more prosociality
- people from rich nations give more to people from poor nations

doi.org/10.1093/pnas...

(PDF) P-hacking with one prompt PDF | This brief note reports a mini-experiment, which tested whether major AI systems (Gemini, Claude, and ChatGPT) readily perform p-hacking when... | Find, read and cite all the research you need o...

"P-Hacking with one prompt" by Shigeto Kawahara.

TL/DR: Ask LLMs to find a significant effect, and they will oblige.

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Changing Norms Following the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election: The Trump Effect on Prejudice Redux Samuel E. Arnold, Jenniffer Wong Chavez, Kelly S. Swanson, and Christian S. Crandall Abstract Following the 2016 U.S. Presidential election of Donald Trump, prejudice toward groups targeted during his campaign (e.g., Asian Americans, Mexicans) become more acceptable. By contrast, both Trump and Clinton voters reported less prejudice of their own. We conducted a 2024 conceptual replication, measuring perceived norms of prejudice and own-prejudice toward 128 groups, both before (N = 362) and after (N = 261) the U.S. election. We separately measured the negativity of Trump's campaign rhetoric toward these groups (N = 188). Levels of prejudice and perceived norms of prejudice acceptability were mostly stable pre-/post-election, but Trump's negative rhetoric predicted an increase in perceived acceptability of prejudice among targeted groups (replicating the 2016 results), and a rise in selt-reported prejudice in the same groups post-election (reversing the 2016 results). Despite changes in the sociopolitical context between elections, the election of a leading politician who campaigned on prejudice was again associated with increases in the acceptability of prejudice.

Did Trump’s 2024 re-election make it okay to be openly prejudiced? New work from @chriscrandall.bsky.social suggests it did. The more negatively Trump spoke about a group, the more okay it became to express prejudice (and the more prejudiced people were) towards that group after the election.

Bilbo looking at his phone top on bottom is ChatGPT After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it? You're absolutely right — you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.

Check out this very interesting tool from Giving What We Can that relies on our data!

Our recent paper discussing why children might care more about animals. A joy to write with @lmcguire.bsky.social @nadirafaber.bsky.social Jared Piazza and Katja Liebal.

academic.oup.com/cdpers/advan...

The development of humans' moral views of other animals Abstract. Humans' moral views of animals vary in important ways across development. In many cases, adults display anthropocentric moral judgments that rela

If you're interested in a quick overview of why children might care more about other animals than adults do, take a look (w. @nadirafaber.bsky.social, @mattiwilks.bsky.social, Katja Liebal and Jared Piazza) - doi.org/10.1093/cdpe...

India’s 60 million street dogs are turning from village scavengers to city territory defenders How an ancient evolutionary bond morphed into a modern urban crisis.

'The nation is divided.'

How an ancient evolutionary bond between street dogs and humans has become a modern urban crisis in India.

Read more from @biology.ox.ac.uk’s Dr Nishant Kumar ⬇️

Oxford University ‘withheld information about harassment claims’ Miles Hewstone, who quit in 2019 but retained his emeritus titles for years, is accused of making unwanted advances towards students and researchers

“We requested information about the case to at least protect attendees of our future events and potentially act against Hewstone, however, Oxford University never provided any information.”

Open Access: archive.is/ue5k8#select...

Paywall: www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

#SocialPsyc #AcademicSky

Law professor sues Germany for 'illegal' border controls German law professor Werner Schroeder is suing his government after police forcibly checked his ID at the Austrian-German border. He argues these controls violate EU law and undermine the Schengen system of borderless travel.

German law professor Werner Schroeder is suing his government after police forcibly checked his ID at the Austrian-German border. He argues these controls violate EU law and undermine the Schengen system of borderless travel.

podcasts

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Everyone agrees on field publishing too much & on reviewers hard to find: yes. But that's perhaps not the only issue here? People just uncritically & enthusiastically use AI for everything. Things like this make me afraid science is doomed: bsky.app/profile/blai...

Why do real research with real people when you can just use our stereotype generator?

The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly | PNAS Science is characterized by collaboration and cooperation, but also by uncertainty, competition, and inequality. While there has always been some c...

This is organized fraud, it's not accidental. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review — often against guidance Policies should reflect the ‘new reality’ of researchers’ increasing reliance on tools that can summarize manuscripts and draft reports.

More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review — often against guidance www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

Proud of this new piece 🚨 in @NatMachIntell, with S. Porsdam Mann, @JulianJKoplin & @HaotianYuan0630 - who is still in high school! ➡️ "LLMs in Scholarly Writing Pose a Provenance Problem" - when LLM's 'fill in the gaps' in your thinking with another's uncredited ideas. Preview/link ⬇️.

Favorite Books of 2025 Because I read for the same reason I write — to fathom my life and deepen my living — looking back on a year of life has always been looking back on a year of reading. Here are the book…

Here are the books I read this year that clarified and magnified my life, that will stay with me for the rest of it — from art and philosophy to memoirs and children's books www.themarginalian.org/2025/12/13/b...

1/3 Self-awareness prior to the mirror test.

It has been three days since this fish passed the mirror test in Masanori Kohda's laboratory in Osaka. It is now experimenting with reflections, grabbing and lifting pieces of shrimp before watching closely as they fall into the mirror.

New experimental paper on intuitions about whether people have obligations *to themselves*

From philosopher Laura Soter (@laurasoter.bsky.social) in JPSP

psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

Call for submissions_Molho&Jin_modified.docx Call for submissions EASP Pre-Conference on ‘Prosocial and Antisocial Behavior: Cross-Cultural Perspectives and Methods’ Deadline: January 5, 2026 Dear colleagues, We are happy to announce the pre-con...

🚨 Call for abstracts 🚨

Join our EASP pre-conference on 'Prosocial and Antisocial Behavior: Cross-Cultural Perspectives and Methods' on June 30, 2026.

We invite flash talk submissions from researchers at all career stages.

📝 Deadline: January 5 2026

🔗 More info: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Best MRI demo I’ve ever seen. Accurate. (Sound on).

Leaders often justify aggression with false claims of self-defense. The general public, and LLMs, easily fall for false defense rhetoric. Framing attack as defense makes followers fight harder and win more often. False signaling benefits attacking leaders while harming everyone else.

"How defence rhetoric escalates untergroup conflict" spkl.io/63325AbcXh

Luuk Snijder, Jorg Gross, & @dedreu.bsky.social
@cp-iscience.bsky.social