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CogTex is on BlueSky now!๐
If anyone has half an hour to spare to complete this study for one of my students that would be very helpful. It is a study looking at the underlying cognitive factors associated with political ideology. essex.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
New work from the lab, where we failed to replicate our previous finding of cognitive control contagion. Great work led by @alessandromazza.bsky.social and Hans Stuck, co-authored by myself, Ellen Voorrips, @gethinhughes.bsky.social and @kobedesender.bsky.social
Amazing news!!
The first peer-reviewed article in which I'm featured is out now!
Is Mental Effort Exertion Contagious? A Replication Study | @jcgntn.bsky.social. A huge THANK YOU to all authors:
Ellen V., @gethinhughes.bsky.social, @kobedesender.bsky.social, @evdbussc.bsky.social and Hans S.!
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It's driving me nuts. For every brick she lays to maintain the bridge, Trump is swinging a demolition ball.
What is she doing????
Do it, see this thread as 'the story so far/catch-up thread'.
Also, I'm curious.
Hubris incarnate.
Salvini and his party are members of the government coalition. He's not a friend of Ukraine (see exhibit 1).
Unlike many other populist parties in Italy, she openly was, and is, an atlantist.
In the past days she tried (foolishly and pointlessly) to elevate herself to mediator between the US and the EU.
What certainly influenced a weaker stance on Ukraine is Salvini (the Italian Le Pen/Farage).
We'll see how far Meloni intends to push with the "atlantism" charade.
She wants to be the mediator between the U.S. and Europe. This is ultimately impossible with the current administration.
I hope a miracle occurs and she chooses to cut a significant role for Italy in Europe instead.
They're winning in Ukraine as much as Germany was winning in WW1.
Wait, now that the US doesn't stand by Ukraine anymore, doesn't that mean that they should switch to support Ukraine?
Appunto, non penso ci sia piรน pubblico per questo genere di mosse. Un colpo totalmente a vuoto e privo di senso, francamente patetico.
This is worse than appeasement.
Veramente ridicolo, non capisco il senso di questa mossa.
I hope you're right.
Would you look at that, they did something similar in fascist Italy.
It was all about trying to have people make more children.
It didn't have much success.
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Yeah, that's the bottom line of this reasoning path. It seems so extreme that thousands of people hallucinated like that. Maybe *they* were the AI all along.
I'll wait for more info to know exactly where everyone stands in this. I genuinely hope we won't need Datacenterland to run these models.
This is exactly what I don't understand: they knew that, someday soon, some entity would come and rug-pull their datacenter-building empire. None of these tech giants thought about developing a more efficient model? None of them sought of being where DeepSeek is now? What am I missing?
Hey Andrew, this should be day 153! You wrote 151 a second time on the 23rd.
"Behave or we'll take your business AND everything you have?"
You might argue that obviously this is due to the lower number of users on Bluesky compared to other social networks.
True, however it was a close call!
P.S. To all "Alessandri Mazze" out there: no hard feelings. Your struggle was and is my struggle. Good luck with "alternative-nickname" hunting!
You might underestimate the amount of people called "Alessandro Mazza" out there. Usually, this leads to at least 4/5 tries before finding a username that somewhat resembles my particulars.
Bluesky represents the first instance where I got to register my name and surname without any compromise.
Yesterday, I started my term as the Chair of the Psychonomic Society (@psychonomicsociety.bsky.social). I am honored and proud that I can continue to serve this amazing Society in this role. What a way to kick off the New Year! #psynom25
Especially with Salvini in the government, I don't see anything happening anytime soon.
Here are my book recommendations for the new year:
Read the books you already bought.
I've just started my journey in academia, so perhaps these tools are available and I didn't find them.
I'm also not used to write my thoughts on social media.
If anyone from the #scientificcommunity would like to give some inputs on this topic, I'd appreciate it.
It's no secret that statistical issues are a factor contributing to the #replicationcrisis.
Where do all these underpowered studies come from?
Again, maybe it's the lack of tools available to the level of understanding of a researcher who is not a statistician.
