Andrew Przybylski

Pooh meme: bored, I don't know anything about this... smug: this is beyond the scope of the paper

editing some writing atm...

Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude”

How did these men know to stay away from Epstein? One googled him, one asked his mom for advice, and one actually listened to what Epstein said to him and quickly realized he was a witless misogynist.

It wasn't that hard, and every scientist who claims they didn't know is either lying or stupid.

How Collaboration Can Enable Action on AI and Mental Health Getting AI and mental health right means society must grapple with the responsibility of technology companies to both mitigate risk and center well-being.

For the millions who have no other access to mental health support and who may already rely on AI tools for support in times of need, we must urgently confront how such technologies can be most helpful and least harmful, write Claire Leibowicz and Emily Saltz.

All major typewriters can be used to either commit academic fraud or facilitate junk science, a test of 13 models has found.

I agree that this will be a severe challenge. It takes 2-4 years to train a Speech & Language Therapist. There already are insufficient SLTs for the jobs currently available. Plans may need to include consideration of how to encourage returners, improve retention & increase hours of part-timers.

Please tell me you let the goat play video games... strong vibes.

Hyperion author Dan Simmons dies from stroke at 77 I went into Hyperion blind, decades ago, knowing almost nothing about it. I was never the same.

rip dan simmons arstechnica.com/culture/2026...

This is one of the most interesting developments as it appears that authors are now submitting preprints earlier in the process.

A reminder that our data suggests that the best time to post is approx 1 month prior to journal submission (which ~30% now are).

Scientists face fallout for past associations with Epstein Jack Horner, who was a consultant for the Jurassic Park films, is among the researchers whose work or careers have been affected because of revelations from newly released documents.

Several scientists who are linked to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in files released last month are now facing consequences.

go.nature.com/4qXFkYS

Clear and brief communication on a critical topic. If you care about ways of making social media better give this one a scan!

Open Science, Psychology, and the Art of Not Quite Claiming Causality with Julia Rohrer - Decoding the Gurus In a rare departure from our usual diet of online weirdos, this episode features an academic who is very much not a guru. We’re joined by Julia Rohrer...

Do you sometimes think "oh boy, I would really like to hear Julia ramble some more about the topics about which she doesn't stop talking to begin with?"

The wait is finally over! @guruspod.bsky.social and had a chat about open science, causal inference, and apparently birth order effects.

Clear and brief communication on a critical topic. If you care about ways of making social media better give this one a scan!

Moe from the Simpsons throwing out Barney Gumble, only for Barney to re-appear right behind him.

Me rejecting a review invitation for the same epidemiological paper that honestly just sounds awful for the sixth consecutive time.

How *can* social scientists ethically and reproducibly use large language models for data analysis?

Excited to join folks at SPSP for a practical conversation about how to advance social science, along with collective organizing of support and best practices.

Great to see Germany's largest research society support research assessment reform: less garbage bibliometrics like impact factor and h-index, less emphasis on over-production of papers no one wants to read, more expert assessment of quality and rewards for teamwork.

Epstein and the moral rot of US public intellectuals The disgraced sex offender was able to gather a group of scientists and thinkers around him who shared his anti-woke, anti-women and Silicon Valley techno-fascist views. But it doesn’t end with Epstei...

There hasn't been much media coverage outside the science media of the Epstein scientists. So I wrote about them here for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social. As many in science know, John Brockman was central in linking Epstein to scientific "public intellectuals".
www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-...

Thumbnail is emptiness, and emptiness is thumbnail.

Here's a link to the video tho, in case anybody is wondering what they're apologizing for 😂

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG-6...

This is excellent work lead by Dr. @sabrinanorwood.bsky.social and supported by our @oii.ox.ac.uk team, international scholars, and wider global web of those invested in improving the science of video games.

If you're interested advancing the open science study of video games check this out!

arrested development dead dove meme, "show more replies" in the first frame because I'm a dummy who clicks to see what real dummies say when they continually act like dummies online like it's good for their dummy cv's

📣 New preprint!

We brought together experts from academia, major video game studios, NGOs, funding bodies, and civil society groups to ask: what should be prioritised when it comes to the future of video games? 🧵

Problem about the loneliness epidemic is, it's everywhere except in representative survey data. Let's look at where the claim comes from. 1/

Oh, I could have misunderstood, both the OP and what I shared are about coding, right? Agree on your point, I think it’s hard for managers (or workers) to know how relevant LLM advancements are to workplaces. FWIW, the fear of missing out –> burning out is something I can see happening in academia.

Glad this popped up again because this is one of the best videos on the internet

(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.

I thought this was good. https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-ai-vampire-eda6e4f07163

One approach to the age-period-cohort problem: Just don’t. Just to cause yourself more problems, you seek for something. But there is no need for you to seek anything. You have plenty, and you have just enough problems. Shunryū Suzuki in a 1971 talk A ...

New blog post about the age-period-cohort identification problem!

In which, for the first time ever, I ask "What's the mechanism?" and also suggest that sometimes you may actually *not* be interested in causal inference.

www.the100.ci/2026/02/13/o...

Hate to say it but I believe most, if not all, of my followers can be replaced by AI in 12-18 months

I ran into the same problem described in @malte.the100.ci et al's paper of meta-science authors hiding which papers they've studied.

This anonymization practice is antithetical to scientific norms and the entire purpose of meta-science.

Old blog post about it: