The Beths put on a fun show last night. Highly recommend if they come through your town. Great, energetic playing and really tight vocal harmonies.

Surprisingly large percentage of Gen Xers in line for this show by The Beths. I’m not the oldest one here!

A paper about the effects of generative AI use on confidence in work tasks is under investigation after critics raised questions about the study design, data analysis and ethics approval for the research.

"The psychologist and cognitive scientist Iris van Rooij has argued that the emergence of AI “slop” across scholarly resources portends nothing less than “the destruction of knowledge.”" www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult... open access link: archive.ph/qt59c 3/🧵

This is a horrible idea, & i really need people to stop this shit. A *recurring* $10M for a chatbot we know very little about & which investigation, evaluation, & oversight process seems non-existent? Stop selling out kids to sate your FOMO & justify your sunk costs. (Original image w/ alt text)

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

I've also found this shinyapp tool to be useful as a reference checker in manuscript reviewing: drkap.shinyapps.io/APA_Cheat_Ca...

Interesting retraction notice at JEPG. Looks like major errors in part to inappropriate LLM use. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Is the Microsoft Office Ribbon causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since Office 2007 was introduced nearly two decades ago.

A new preprint introduces SI-hacking: when guest editors publish excessively in their own special issues. More than 1,000 editors SI-hacked special issues are published each year. According to the authors, #MDPI accounts for 85% of them and #Frontiers for another 13%. arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563

I wrote something about Epstein’s gifting relationship with 3 different scientists. This is the first part, which investigates how Epstein leveraged his connection with public intellectual Steven Pinker.

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

As a Bowie Guy, I probably shouldn’t enjoy this as much as I do.

I’m so excited. Our secret (not so secret) observational experiment is about to begin. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for wastewater surveillance. FIFA World cup. 1/ @securebio.org www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

Senior year of high school having to open the racquetball club on Saturday morning at 5am. Unlock the door & immediately blasted by Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go.

"Is this lens better, or this one?" - Optometrist "Is this lens worse, or this one?" - Pessimetrist

Here's an oldie-but-goodie thread I did about that raw milk farm that's in the news right now.

have I mentioned that I teach first year writing here and that I am being laid off

The American Diabetes Association still doesn‘t get it. And hiding behind your 501c3 status doesn’t work. You’re not prohibited from criticizing government policies under this status you cowards. diabetes.org/newsroom/pre...

This makes me fear for what’s about to happen in classrooms. If people aren’t bothering to make their own research slides, what will their teaching slides look like? Yikes.

“The Auburn University Board of Trustees on Friday gave itself complete control over course offerings, curriculum, degree requirements and academic credentials while eliminating shared governance at the Alabama land-grant university… The policy leaves many questions unanswered”

Here's the article. diabetesjournals.org/care/article...

If it were found that CliffsNotes gave, on average, more accurate 90-word summaries of novels than literature profs did, would it follow that literature profs should answer student questions using CliffsNotes?

This timeline is just so f'ing stupid. I almost can't believe it.

🚨Paper alert!🚨 Across 5 expts, @mileritayar.bsky.social's new JEPG paper shows that people explicitly avoid switching between attention control states. Using demand selection tasks, we find that people don't just avoid cognitive conflict, but also switching between congruent and incongruent trials.

Weezer's new Wednesday collab highlights the disparity between the old and new guards of alt-rock. www.pastemagazine.com/music/weezer...

Not too shabby for a first play. www.20-0.com/r/L1cvE5e

OSF has sent me more than a hundred emails today #ReplicationCrisis

Wonderful news! Journal of Research on Research is launched. "if you are a researcher who researches any aspect of research, then this is the journal and community for you." Worth reading the whole editorial for a transparent and thoughtful account of this amazing community-driven effort.

Anyway, this is what MAHA is up to.

Your ten favourite bands in the 90s GO! • Posies • Jellyfish • Poi Dog Pondering • Lemonheads • Morphine • Grant Lee Buffalo • Barenaked Ladies • Phish • Jayhawks • Trip Shakespeare

Oh this is interesting. Limited by the fact that manuscripts were not randomly assigned to paid/unpaid review conditions and editors knew if their reviewers were paid, but promising results nonetheless.

New post is live! 40 years of race science arguments about brain size & the racial IQ gap, nobody bothered to write down the math or do anything beyond gawk at correlations. I did, walking through the data & formalizing it with the Lande equation. It fares worse than you could even imagine.

Subhed from the NYT article on CSU adoption of ChatGPT: “California’s public universities spent $16.9 million on A.I. during a financial crisis, and the result has been chaos.” Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/m...

Cohen’s d is one of the most widely used ways to communicate mean differences across studies. But what, exactly, is it telling us? A perspective on detectability of effects -- just out in PARE: openpublishing.library.umass.edu/pare/article... #openaccess

Psychologists doing clustering be like: #statsmeme

Ok this is a truly great tweet

I’m extremely late to this album, but jeez I love it.

Harvard has two campus papers: The Crimson and the New York Times.

GUY WHO INVENTED SPRINKLES: they're sweet and great for lots of stuff! I'm going to call them sprinkles because you sprinkle them on, heh. yours are neat too! what are you going to call them GUY WHO INVENTED NONPAREILS: *flicking cigarette* you are a fucking joke

Weirdly, for the NYT, Yale and Harvard play essentially the same role in their understanding of American higher education that a small-town diner in Ohio (with an all-white clientele) plays in their understanding of the American electorate.

introduce yourself with ten bands you’ve seen live ramones springsteen the kinks van halen (DLR) james taylor the roches indigo girls the posies semisonic mj lenderman

We just got approved to hire a teaching professor in Quantitative Methods! This is the *very* rare tenure track teaching position at Berkeley. I'll be chairing the search committee. Official job ad coming later this summer!

Teaching DAGs sounds easy, until students actually have to make one themselves. A new tutorial lays out simple steps to make it clear and easy for students to understand. Draw process, selection, outcome, confounds. From Nathan J. Quimpo & Peter M. Steiner files.osf.io/v1/resources... #psych

🧠🎶 Letting participants choose their own music during the SART appears to reduce vigilance decline. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Collabra: Psychology, the official journal of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science, seeks applications for Editor-in-Chief! The SIPS Publications Committee encourages editors with innovative ideas about how Collabra: Psychology can best accomplish its mission to apply.

This is an excellent book series. Music fans should check them out.

Sounds like this will only delay the quackery, not entirely prevent it. The *moment* the Dems take back the house they should impeach this asshole. The very moment.

There's an interesting conversation unfolding on PubPeer. Inconsistencies were flagged in a paper by a "global keynote speaker on AI&neuroscience" and then the author casually mentions on LinkedIn that she also has pre-post-fMRI for 300 people 👀> pubpeer.com/publications...