Extremely pleased to see this work published! Thank you so much to my excellent collaborators @fmsmallfield.bsky.social @scicomguy.bsky.social @srhastraea.bsky.social @lingtax.bsky.social @mdmarques.com @matthewmatix.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

It's often claimed that developing a belief in one conspiracy theory will increase the chance that someone goes on to believe other conspiracy theories... perhaps leading them down a rabbit hole of conspiracist beliefs. But does that really happen? doi.org/10.1002/ejsp...

The TL;DR? On average, increased belief in one conspiracy theory *does* seem to lead to increased belief in others. But the effects were very small!

here's some of our research on the stability of belief in #conspiracytheories over time (curious to see the @altmetric.com ) paper led by @matthewmatix.bsky.social incl @lingtax.bsky.social @scicomguy.bsky.social @srhastraea.bsky.social Mawson & Clarke www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We suggest that people don't fall into conspiracy theory rabbit holes, but some slide into rabbit warrens. Also, no evidence of an increase in beliefs over time, on average. @matthewmatix.bsky.social @lingtax.bsky.social @scicomguy.bsky.social @srhastraea.bsky.social Mollie Hawson &Eddie Clarke

"AI image tools have a tendency to spin up disturbing clichés: Asian women are hypersexual. Africans are primitive. Europeans are worldly. Leaders are men. Prisoners are Black." https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-generated-images-bias-racism-sexism-stereotypes/

“The national 'total remuneration' gender pay gap is 22.8 percent, meaning that for every $1 a man makes, women earn, on average, 77.2c. Over a year, that's a $25,596 difference.” www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10...

If you've made a feed with @skyfeed.app and want to filter out posts that spam lots of random hashtags, add the following regex filter: ^(?:[^#]*#){0,5}[^#]*$ It will filter out posts with more than 5 hashtags.

What might you do after a PhD? I interviewed 53 people and mapped out career paths (Interviews are themselves available too!) osf.io/preprints/ps... #PsychSciSky #Neuroskyence #CogSci

New paper identifies the jobs that a sample of 53 psychology PhD students got after completing their PhDs. osf.io/preprints/ps... #Psychology #PhDSky #AcademicSky #PsychJobs

New #rstats color palette package just dropped: {MoMAColors}! It has gorgeous colors from art at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC

On this same screen, there's also an experimental option to show posts from your feeds in your timeline. (At least, I see it in a web browser.) So far I'm pretty pleased by using this for discovery!

“I don’t even think there’s one Black female physics professor in the UK,” says Wade.“If I had one big aim, it would be to make science a more inclusive and fair place to be.”

My bluesky-less UMiami colleagues and I recently published "Who Knowingly Spreads False Political Information Online?" in Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review. A quick explainer 🧵for anyone interested: misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/who-...

FYI for Newskies, there’s a push here to add ALT to your images (you might notice it’s a lot more common then on Twitter). Many folks won’t repost posts that don’t have ALT on them. You can turn on an ALT reminder in your settings! Adding 🧪 for all the new scienceskies since there seems to be lots