Today I finally finished a full draft of the revised manuscript (incl response to reviewer comments) and circulated it to coauthors! Hopefully it won't be too tough to polish and we'll get it submitted by the end of the month

Some day I'll write a paper on dual-processes in cognition that draws on Hemispheres by Rush for inspiration and illustration I mean the first verse ends with: "The gods of Love and Reason sought alone to rule the fate of Man" youtu.be/J0zN0VjA3As?...

Serious moon tonight

@paulbloomatyale.bsky.social @jowylie.bsky.social, and I are starting to study everyday revenge. Have you ever successfully got back at someone after being wronged? We would love to hear about it: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #PsychSciSky #socialpsyc #cognition

Adding irrelevant information to descriptions dilutes moral judgements of them. Looks like neutral, but irrelevant valence info is incorporated into the judgement! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

And Published!!! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... The Moral Dilution effect. Including non-diagnostic (irrelevant) information leads to less extreme evaluations of moral character.

This is going slowly. About a third of the way through the suggested reading list (although there's other extra reading needed that was not specifcally named). Feels like progress is being made... slowly...

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

"I may not be a contrarian, but I am a hater." Such a good line in @edzitron.com's latest, laying out his arguments for why AI industry exists today in a "bubble" www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...

And Accepted: The Moral Dilution Effect: Irrelevant Information Influences Judgments of Moral Character Started writing this one at a writer's retreat in 2022, very happy to get it over the line! Pre-print available: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Reviewers and editor were happy. One or two very minor comments to address but they recommend publication! 🎉🎉🎉🥳🥳🥳🪅🪅🪅🎊🎊🎊

Got an R&R on this registered report last October. It's been a very busy few months, only starting on the revisions now. Some fairly substantial comments, this could take a while, but we have until this October... Here goes...

Wild rabbits in the garden this morning causing great excitement!

Is anyone putting together a symposium for #SESP2025 in 🇵🇹 Lisbon? I would like to go, but the symposium-only format is proving difficult. Looking to present grant-funded research on occupational moral roles, which also fits stereotypes, social categories, etc.

And submitted!!!! Fingers crossed the Reviewers and Editor are happy with the revised manuscript!

Hey y’all! New paper with @lianeleeyoung.bsky.social & @stysyropoulos.bsky.social is out in BJSP! We test ways to expand moral concern to future generations, with spillover benefits for distant others today. #socialpsych #PsychSciSky #psychology bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Want to know why I hate AI? Because 1) I have no need for it. None. 2) And it is constantly being forced into my online work spaces - which I often need to be professionally confidential 3) and with limited tech skill it has been at least extremely onerous and often impossible to deactivate

Been working hard on these revisions over the past few weeks. All R1, and all stats comments addressed. Some theory, and some methods justification still to be done, but the end will be in sight soon (hopefully)

If a model fails to run in R, and crashes it constantly, is it safe to report it as "failing to converge." Or does this have a different name? #PsychSciSky #socialpsyc #devpsyc #AcademicSky

Looking forward to this session on Morality machines and AI (with @jimaceverett.bsky.social and colleagues)

Come hear about moral psychology and AI at 11am today at #SPSP2025! @awad.bsky.social @zoepurcell.bsky.social Anne-Marie Nussberger

Up bright and early on a Saturday at #SPSP2025 to hear about cool new moral psychology from some of my favourite moral psychologists @kathrynbfrancis.bsky.social @cillianmchugh.bsky.social Dries Bostyn, & Connie Chu

Very excited for our Symposium this morning on context effects in Moral Judgment. With @kathrynbfrancis.bsky.social Dries Bostyn & Connie Chiu #SPSP2025

Lovely day in Denver ahead of #SPSP2025 Cold but got to see plenty!

We're just a few days away from this year's Morality Preconference!! Don't miss it! #SPSP2025

You know a replication study that is not yet in the FORRT #ReplicationDatabase? Submit it here in <5min: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Poster for #SPSP2025 in #Denver sent to print. Now back to working on the slides... Looking forward to seeing everyone there! #psychology

Am considering leaving Amazon's Goodreads for Bookwyrm. Always happy to support open-source community infrastructure. Any thoughts about #Bookwyrm, Bookwyrms instances, or an alternative?

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This is solely down to large pseudoscience accounts link spamming 25 papers, variously misrepresented as showing vaccines cause autism. I built this report that aggregates the attention on the web to JUST these 25 items. The number of reshares is in the millions. www.altmetric.com/explorer/rep...

Here's Twitter's descent since 2022

Unexpected laugh from auto-captions. I actually said "bunched around" but captions say "Busta Rhymes" 😅😅

Love teaching across the walking bridge in @unioflimerick.bsky.social when the weather is nice and you get scenes like this on the way to class

Today's todo list failure: I really need to do Task A Before I can start task A, I need to finish Task B, And to do Task B I need to finish Task C But Task C involves this really annoying problem that needs solving. The problem is not solved. Task C is not finished. Tasks A and B are not started

Took the opportunity to make a snow lantern this evening. #snow #sneachta

Dancing to Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree with the five year old. Suddenly she stops and says, “Mummy, what comes after death?” Me: 👀 Her: 👀 Me: 😬 Her: “it goes, voices singing let’s be jolly, DEATH… then what?” Me: 😑

Sitting down to watch the #LateLateToyShow

Moral psychology postdoc opportunity at the University of Toronto! Please repost, and pass on to anyone you think might be interested.

To boldly Gogh… #StarTrek

Really nice to find hard copies of this on my desk after class today 😊 (With @MarekMcGann.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy , Miranda Lucas, & Louise Barrett, and a host of great authors )

This is going around again! Clearly it's time to resurrect this which I made for twitter back when it was less evil. Types of Psych Papers [Note: it is slightly more cynical (for humour value) than I actually am]

University of Limerick journalism department to host general election debate Hear from the Limerick city candidates about the future of the city 📍Bernal Institute, UL 📅 20th Nov 🕐1-2:30pm Find out more & attend: ul.ie/news/univers... #StudyatUL #GE2024

…being undocumented. We must not repeat the mistakes of the past. We can learn from them. I know it feels bleak out there. I know it feels hopeless. But I am living proof that out of that darkness can rise great hope and optimism. I will fight for the principles of this country until my /3

But we did not give up on this country. We rebuilt our lives, and we worked to ensure that something like this never happened again in America. Now, I fear there are echoes from that dark chapter of our history. They are speaking once again of camps to hold people, this time for the crime of /2

I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor. I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.

Hi! I'm on Bluesky now. I'm still on Twitter, for the time being.

Can we call the twitter exodus Xit? Please? I always wanted to get to name something.

Related: Dear Microsoft, I want to use the photo viewer to *view* (and occasionally crop) image files on my device. Nothing else! I have no interest in integration with OneDrive or any AI editing functions. Please stop the popup baloons

AI is not magic--it's drawing on existing data to generate it's output. It is simply reflecting back at us the existing bias in the labor market. There's nothing surprising about this, unless you don't think the bias exists or you misunderstand what AI is doing.