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Increasingly seeing US cultural conflict through a Dr. Spock-like lens—traumatized people who dream of cultivating intergenerational trust, versus traumatized people who think the very idea of trust is a dangerous delusion, and that material incentives are where reality begins and ends

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🚨 New WP on online news consumption (osf.io/h3cn5_v1) 🚨 KEY FINDING: Negativity + identity language is particularly effective at generating engagement—and even more when targeting out-groups With @steverathje.bsky.social, @crobertson500.bsky.social , @jayvanbavel.bsky.social 🧵👇

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As a nation, perhaps we should talk about setting healthy boundaries

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Star Trek except like "Okay computer that was pretty good, but this time make sure each stardate in your response matches the stardates in my original request, do not add any additional stardates, do not add any extra information, and spell all Tzinkethi names correctly"

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we just posted the Expanded Natural History of Song Discography, a corpus of audio & metadata. 1007 songs in many languages, for behavioral experiments, cross-cultural research, etc preprint: osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/d2ftg_v1 corpus: zenodo.org/records/14927216 led by @milabertolo.bsky.social 1/

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Cutting science funding is like trying to save money by stabbing yourself in the eyes

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Feeling like we should talk a lot more about public broadcasting and non-profit journalism and a lot less about "disinformation"

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👀New preprint! In 3 prereg experiments we study how engagement-based algorithms amplify ingroup, moral and emotional (IME) content in ways that disrupt social norm learning (and test one solution!) w/ @joshcjackson.bsky.social and my amazing lab managers @merielcd.bsky.social & Silvan Baier 🧵👇

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So I have to ask you, is this "rational actor" in the room with us right now?

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In soccer, there are literal goals. In Ableton, the goals are a little more abstract, like the goal of exporting a digital file without releasing it on a cassette.

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Hello! I'm looking to hire a post-doc, to start this Summer or Fall. It'd be great if you could share this widely with people you think might be interested. More details on the position & how to apply: bit.ly/cocodev_post... Official posting here: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14723

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good philosophical deep-dive on “value capture”: the phenomenon of people outsourcing their values to external metrics; the mechanisms by which it occurs; the potential benefits and (especially) costs philpapers.org/rec/NGUVCH

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Instead of cutting costs for working families, Donald Trump is slashing the federal investments that fund their lifesaving care, fuel their local economy, and lower their health care costs. It’s cruel, short-sighted, and will cost jobs and devastate millions of families.

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1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

submitted 21 days ago • 270 comments

More "Expert in X says this is definitely an X" and less "These pitiful freaks disagree about X" please

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Great article, clearly addressing a fundamental question about literary change. Events matter, retirements matter, but what really matters is:

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We talk a lot about why adolescent girls report more low mood and anxiety, and why this might be getting worse. But what do girls themselves think might explain this? As you might have guessed, we don’t really know. So, we asked them: doi.org/10.1186/s129... 1/8

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I’m hiring a lab manager to start July 2025! Submit CV and cover letter as soon as possible as review will begin immediately. Link to the job ad is here: tinyurl.com/22ye3wsv Please share with any undergrads or mentees who might be interested!

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I’m glad I’m not a newspaper right now

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b**s-variance tradeoff

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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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Petition to replace astrology with the Pokemon type system

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The strand of thinking that emphasises the seriousness of the situation by stressing the sheer impossibility of doing anything about it as never ever been good, and it seems especially good for people in the US to realise as much right now.

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For a photo op & a bragging media post, Trump minions at the USACoE have thrown away millions of gals of #water farmers were relying on for later this year. This water will not be captured, will not be useful for cities or farms or firefighting. It is now lost. www.latimes.com/environment/...

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It's wild how much of a generational and cultural divide there is over the idea "what if we weren't jerks to children all the time"

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absolutely gutted to learn of the passing of Susan Alcorn, an incredibly gifted improviser, arranger, and musician who bridged so many musical worlds. We just hung out last week at her show in Baltimore with David Grubbs. I am in shock at this loss but grateful to her for her work and her example.

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National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t... Story by @ericboodman.bsky.social

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On here, it’s easy to feel successful when a lot of people see your post. But most of those people already agree with you. The challenge is communicating with people who aren’t really following the news, who swung right in 2024 because their dollar wasn’t going far enough

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New paper in #ProcB with @alexmesoudi.com, @jfbonnefon.bsky.social, @rmcelreath.bsky.social and Rob Boyd. We investigate how social learning shapes the way we explore and show that it can even preserve useless theories! 🧵👇

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Googling "constitutional crisis skin care routine"

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This is how you choose breakfast.

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Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):

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Michael Haneke (bad) vs. Ruben Östlund (good). Both directors dare the audience to say something stupid and fantasize this will cause an epiphany. But Haneke thinks violence has basically one cause (capitalism/filmmakers that aren't him) whereas Östlund is willing to grant the world some complexity

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"We must grapple with the reality that the current models we have for philanthropy are not up to the task of incubating, developing and supporting strategy on the left." on the list of serious election post-mortems, highly worth your time to read www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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