Apply by 15 April for the SAA Early Career Award 2026! This award recognizes an outstanding ECR who has made an important contribution to the field & who is able to communicate this contribution in a keynote presentation.
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Hi everyone! Collabra: Psychology needs a new senior editor for the clinical section as well as several new associate editors for the social section. If you are interested, please fill out the application form before 30 April 2026.
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Postdoc job! I'm looking to recruit a postdoc to work on a project about research evaluation & metadata. More info here: www.yorku.ca/research/wp-...
Salary: CDN$70,000 (+ benefits)
Location: Toronto, ON (can be remote in ON)
Length: 18 months
Deadline: 31 March 2026
Start date: 1 July 2026
Nice timing for @mjcrockett.bsky.social and my article on AI Surrogates and Illusions of Generalizability to be officially published. www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
A Pew Research poll of 20 countries asked if residents thought their fellow citizens had bad ethics & morality. Only Americans were more likely to think that.
ttps://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2026/03/05/in-25-country-survey-americans-especially-likely-to-view-fellow-citizens-as-morally-bad/
Also PS: Even before LLMs, I know software hiring managers who were no longer requiring coding interviews, because people were hiring others to do the coding over Zoom. In the 21st century, the only way to know someone understands a concept is to listen to him/her in person explaining it.
totally. It's the same blindness of "this LLM is terrible at the thing i'm an expert in but surprisingly good at the thing i know nothing about."
I want to take you back, for a moment, to 2020. We are at the beginning of the pandemic and many of us are working remotely. I don't remember this time particularly fondly--this was pre COVID-19 vaccines, and there was a lot of rhetoric around how the virus had come from China. π§΅
We are pleased to announce that the Paul Meehl Graduate School is launching theΒ PMGS Dissertation Award, recognizing outstanding PhD dissertations that advance meta-research.
See the eligibility criteria and apply before June 1st, 2026 at:
paulmeehlschool.github.io/award/
more pink sea creatures ππΈ
#art #fish #sharks
I have just come across a case of academic fraud -- a paper with citations to non-existing papers. I know that this is happening elsewhere but I am furious. Too many people -- editors & referees -- put in too much time (often unpaid) trying to ensure quality for this to be even remotely acceptable.
Postdoctoral Job Opportunity: Join me and the WELLab at WashU in St. Louis to study well-being in daily life and across the lifespan. This position is perfect for folks interested in ESM and longitudinal data analysis and well-being and affective science.
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My latest:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Next column will address needed guardrails for private funding of science, esp. in light of #Epstein/ #Summers etc.
Our institute is hiring
1. an assistant professor (with TT) for Social Psychology (focus: environmental psychology)
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2. an assistant lecturer (with TT) for Experimental Personality Psychology
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One of the worldβs great streets, is getting rid of cars: #Londonβs Oxford St. to be pedestrianized.
www.ft.com/content/37b3...
"Western listeners usually find music in major keys happy and in minor keys sad. By contrast, Papua New Guinean listeners felt no difference in happiness between major and minor keys, and Pakistani listeners found minor keys happier than major ones" www.nature.com/articles/d41...
We have a new paper out on how the AI boom is creating a scientific monoculture! Everything AI.
"The task for social science is to ensure that, in navigating this moment, we do not become artificial ourselves."
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Led by the brilliant @cecilietraberg.bsky.social
A flyer advertising presentations from members of the UChicago DIBS Lab at SPSP. Speakers include Alex Mackiel, Katie Vasquez, Alex Shaw, Erin Kim, Isabella Ramkissoon, and Yutong (Iris) Chen. Find more information on Whova: https://whova.com/portal/webapp/WMg9c84cPufsiZYYC3hP/Agenda
Excited for #SPSP2026 in my home city! The UChicago DIBS Lab (PI: Alex Shaw) has lots of presentations and we would love to see you there! Come learn more about friendship, morality, leadership, intellectual property, and "coolness".
@spspnews.bsky.social @amackiel.bsky.social
The Well-Being and Morality Lab will be at @spspnews.bsky.social 2026! Looking forward to sharing our latest research and seeing everyone before I move to New Zealand in June!
Very cool work!!
When we see something that's moving, our memories about it end up projected forward in time: We remember it further along than it was. In a new paper in ππ΄πΊπ€π©π°ππ°π¨πͺπ€π’π ππ€πͺπ¦π―π€π¦, out today and led by @dillonplunkett.bsky.social, we demonstrate that this happens even when there is π£π€ π’π€π©ππ€π£ π¬πππ©π¨π€ππ«ππ§.π§΅
"If the norms changed so that hiring and promotion hinged on a candidateβs top two or three papers instead, then researchersβ incentives would change and the pressure on peer reviewers would diminish."
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 copyβpaste functionality, CAPTCHA use, IP filtering, consistency checks, attention checks, adversarial prompting) as well as the types of automated responses that these procedures are suitable β¦
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...
1/ New paper in Communications Psychology: Against Frictionless AI. Led by my student Emily Zohar and @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social.
The argument: AI's greatest selling point is also its problem.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Perspective:
Open-ended responses can improve ESM data by grounding it in real-world experiences and phenomena as they are experienced in everyday life. Handbooks and guidelines on ESM should include sections on collecting and analyzing open-ended text items.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Exciting news! We just posted an opening for a Survey Associate on @pewresearch.org's Methods team! This is an amazing opportunity for someone relatively early in their career to join what is, IMO, the most fun methods team in the business. Full description at the link below.
π¨New pre-printπ¨
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What if the relationship between smartphone use and mental health depends not just on specific harmful or beneficial activities, but also on how users transition between activities?
I'm hiring a postdoc at @cmu.edu (w/ far.ai & @dgrand.bsky.social + @gordpennycook.bsky.social)!
How do LLMs shape human beliefs β and what do we do about it? AI safety meets behavioral science.
Open to technical and social science backgrounds.
A university education "The characteristic gift of the university is the gift of an interval. Here is an opportunity for you to put aside the hot allegiances of youth without the necessity of at once acquiring new loyalties to take their place. Here is a break in the tyrannical course of irreperable events; a period in which to look around upon the world and upon oneself without the sense of an enemy at one's back or the insistent pressure to make up one's mind; a moment in which to taste the mystery without the necessity of seeking a solution. And all this, not in an intellectual vacuum, but surrounded by all the inherited learnings and literature and experience of our civilisation." Michael Oakeshott, quoted in The Observer
π―. I've carried this scrap of paper in my wallet for more than five years; occasionally i read out bits in tutorials:
