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Emerita Distinguished Professor, U of Illinois Chicago | Michigan & Cal-Berkeley Grad | Social, Political, and Moral Psychologist | Endlessly Curious | https://sites.google.com/view/lindaskitka

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You can also ask Claude, “What else do you need to know?” Which was useful when developing initial models.

06.03.2026 16:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

1000 Monte Carlo simulations, which they can do too. However, their generic model doesn’t have the option to include as many variables in their models.

06.03.2026 16:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

You have to ask it to audit its own work multiple times, and be alert to numbers that don’t make sense, but it nonetheless yielded results that my financial planner and estate attorney seemingly missed. I think this will lead to productive conversations and meaningful changes going forward. 2/2

06.03.2026 11:34 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

I have a complicated situation re: financial planning. AI may suck in many ways, but working with it to come up with a financial plan was one of the most educational experiences I’ve had in years. 1/2

06.03.2026 11:27 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Goes hand in hand with anything invented after you are 35 (or so) means everything is going to hell in a hand basket. It’s so predictable and replicable across decades it’s embarrassing.

06.03.2026 11:12 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Thanks for everything you do!!!

04.03.2026 14:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Incredible chutzpah. Like robbing a bank and then coming back to apply for a loan.

04.03.2026 00:27 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0

Me; been waiting for the opportunity to use them.

04.03.2026 00:36 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Cringe— sorry about “associated associations.”

03.03.2026 16:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Nice application of what we know about strong attitudes to how people feel about their romantic partners, with associated associations with well-being, etc by Adisa and @andyluttrell.bsky.social

03.03.2026 16:36 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

I'm not entirely sure why, but this post made me LOL.

03.03.2026 04:04 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I love this description of Joyce Carol Oates almost as much as I love her word smithing, e.g.,, “Trump’s most essential self is riding a golf cart, fatly…” LOL

03.03.2026 01:36 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Pretty stable opinion on the Iran strikes. No rally around the flag bump for POTUS, and much less popular than previous wars when they started www.gelliottmorris.com/p/polls-trum...

02.03.2026 21:39 👍 455 🔁 161 💬 18 📌 7
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Tracking the Historic Rise of Habeas Cases Filed by Detained Immigrants ProPublica is tracking the historic rise in challenges filed by immigrants claiming their detention is illegal.

For those looking for additional data points about what's happening with immigration enforcement in Minnesota and other states, our habeas case tracker has just been updated. TLDR new cases have dropped: projects.propublica.org/habeas-track...

02.03.2026 21:48 👍 325 🔁 141 💬 3 📌 1

And/or suggest retraction of original paper for its flaws.

01.03.2026 23:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

That seems deeply wrong. Appeal?

01.03.2026 23:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Wow that is bleak

01.03.2026 21:03 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

#Resistance is not futile; keep the pressure on!

24.02.2026 18:14 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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22.02.2026 19:29 👍 6519 🔁 1569 💬 106 📌 67

I'm hiring a postdoc at @cmu.edu (w/ far.ai & @dgrand.bsky.social + @gordpennycook.bsky.social)!

How do LLMs shape human beliefs — and what do we do about it? AI safety meets behavioral science.

Open to technical and social science backgrounds.

23.02.2026 18:46 👍 42 🔁 27 💬 1 📌 3
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Attending @spspnews.bsky.social ews.bsky.social in our home city of Chicago this coming week? Be sure to check out the cool work being done by members of our lab, including postdoc @ncaluori.bsky.social, grad students @marykatz.bsky.social & Zarnab Zahoor, and undergrad Yahel Tirosh!

21.02.2026 14:24 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

It hasn’t stopped—>

21.02.2026 19:19 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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DHS Contracts Visualizer Looker Studio turns your data into informative dashboards and reports that are easy to read, easy to share, and fully customizable.

ICE Warehouse tracker: lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/b0...

21.02.2026 19:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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DoJ cases against protesters keep collapsing as officers’ lies are exposed in court String of embarrassing defeats for prosecutors as experts condemn DoJ effort to cast people as ‘violent perpetrators’

"In Chicago, of 92 people arrested for assaulting or impeding officers last fall, 74 cases have resulted in no charges; in 13 cases, charges were filed and dismissed; and five charged cases were still pending."

21.02.2026 15:52 👍 1691 🔁 608 💬 23 📌 25
Share your experiences with ICE in Minnesota -- Call for research participants 

Objective: To learn about how Operation Metro Surge influences the political actions and attitudes of Twin Cities residents 

Who can participate? You may be eligible if you are 18 years or older and currently live in the Twin Cities metropolitan area 

What does participation involve? Participants may be asked to complete a short online survey and/or take part in a one-hour interview about their experiences and perspectives. Participation is confidential and will be compensated. 

Questions? Contact Dr. Geneva Cole genevacole@arizona.edu 

Take the screening survey here: https://bit.ly/3OjV3nA

This research is being conducted by Dr. Geneva Cole, an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Arizona. This research is approved by U of A IRB #00007587

Share your experiences with ICE in Minnesota -- Call for research participants Objective: To learn about how Operation Metro Surge influences the political actions and attitudes of Twin Cities residents Who can participate? You may be eligible if you are 18 years or older and currently live in the Twin Cities metropolitan area What does participation involve? Participants may be asked to complete a short online survey and/or take part in a one-hour interview about their experiences and perspectives. Participation is confidential and will be compensated. Questions? Contact Dr. Geneva Cole genevacole@arizona.edu Take the screening survey here: https://bit.ly/3OjV3nA This research is being conducted by Dr. Geneva Cole, an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Arizona. This research is approved by U of A IRB #00007587

I’m recruiting Minnesotans for a confidential study about experiences during ICE Operation Metro Surge that includes both surveys and interviews. Please share widely!

20.02.2026 18:10 👍 33 🔁 28 💬 3 📌 6

LOL

20.02.2026 01:59 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Scientists Discover How To “Switch Off” Cancer Genes for Good A new study shows that targeting key epigenetic proteins may permanently switch off cancer genes. Scientists at Monash University, working with Harvard University, report they have found a way to perm...

Oh, my goodness, this is a huge breakthrough in cancer research. This is another example of why it is crucially important to fund basic scientific research.
Scientists Discover How To “Switch Off” Cancer Genes for Good share.google/WFhMJP5m3AK4...

19.02.2026 04:42 👍 12509 🔁 3981 💬 300 📌 242
PNAS Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

Bots have made their way to Prolific experiments. Our lab has stopped online testing of adults entirely now for this reason - we want to know if what we study is real. Probably data collected 2-3 years ago are ok, but moving forward we just can't know. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

19.02.2026 15:14 👍 171 🔁 98 💬 6 📌 11

It’s insane—the $$ being flushed down the toilet of corruption, irrationality, and irrelevance ids unbelievable.

19.02.2026 05:13 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Horrific. It’s not stopping; it’s becoming even more corrupt and insidious...

19.02.2026 03:00 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0