What happens when AI searches the web for you? Our own Janna Joceli Omena @jannajoceliomena.bsky.social examines GPT-4o's web search over time — and finds that citation diversity only appears when users know how to push the system. 👉 blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... via @lseimpactblog.bsky.social

One year of strife between #Harvard and the #Trump admin, March 2025 - March 2026. www.harvardmagazine.com/harvard-in-t... #AcademicFreedom #AcadSky #AcademicSky #DefendResearch #EduSky #Funding #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics @academic-chatter.bsky.social

The inevitable result of attacks on the freedom to teach and learn. #BrainDrain We wish you the best, Dr. Peterson.

Why global databases are not enough, and why national scholarly infrastructures matter more than we think. The solution is not to replace global systems, but to connect national ones into a network of interoperable, open infrastructures. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... #OpenScience #Bibliometrics

Literally every word of this article. These bastards are largely responsible for the job cuts and all the other atrocities. Management consultancies should have no role in the running of universities, or any public-sector institution for that matter. It’s basically privatisation by stealth.

Sadly, not an April Fool & also not surprising. “An analysis conducted by @nature.com in collaboration with Grounded AI suggests that at least tens of thousands of 2025 publications, including journal papers, books, & conference proceedings, probably contain invalid references generated by AI.” 🧪

New move in academic publishing: The @ec.europa.eu is launching Open Research Europe (ORE), an open access publishing platform for research funded by all EU programmes. @academic-chatter.bsky.social research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/news/all-res...

New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft: Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf... 🧵 1/

There's no singular "scientific method", but rather a collection of different methods that might or might not share the same underlying assumptions about the world.

Pro tip: regardless of the field you want to major in or do graduate work in, favor universities with good humanities and arts. I can give you the long explanation, but you can think of them as hard to fake signals of many things that are important in unis that are hard to evaluate from the outside.

Two good publishing opportunities if you are working on #AI and the environment.

Psychology has a whole cottage industry in which people come up with some construct that is essentially "attitudes/beliefs/expectations/feelings about X", and then the central claim is that this construct is a super important determinant of future X outcomes.>

Do you work in a policy role in local, devolved or national government or in an international policy role ? Stay up to date with the latest evidence-based policy- relevant research from the @ox.ac.uk. Sign up to The Oxford Briefing! #researchtopolicy newsletters.socsci.ox.ac.uk/k/Ouc/oxford...

I wrote a short piece on what funding and hiring committees often overlook when assessing merit. @academic-chatter.bsky.social

Anyone having issues with SageOpen? My article has been waiting for 3 months since proofs because of issues with their payment system and I'm receiving no answers. Wondering if anyone in the same boat? @academic-chatter.bsky.social #Sage #SageOpen #academia

"There are signs that the Bayes Factor is increasingly taking on a role analogous to that of the p-value, serving as a device for the automation of decisions rather than as a tool for substantive inference." Excellent new preprint by Carol Ting on the rise of NHST. #Methodology #stats

“Drastic” cuts to UK humanities departments risk the loss of a new generation of academic talent similar to the brain drain seen in the 1980s, according to the new winner of the Holberg Prize, writes @jgro-the.bsky.social #AcademicSky #braindrain #HolbergPrize https://ow.ly/Zh3N50YuM11

fresh off the press from yours truly: oecs.mit.edu/pub/b61joemo... I offer an overview of algorithmic bias. I trace its historical roots, examine canonical scholarship and notable real-world incidents, and explore how algorithmic bias emerged as a field of study 1/

Nature published another pile of trash i am trying to catch up on some of my reading but this one is getting under my skin so here’s a thread highlighting why this piece is either ill-informed or intentionally ignorant of a wealth of knowledge from embodied cog sci and related fields 1/

US researchers are advising students not to enter academia. "More than two-thirds of the researchers in Massachusetts... who responded to a survey conducted by The Boston Globe recommend their students consider careers outside academia." #AcademicSky www.chemistryworld.com/news/us-rese...

Exciting news! The @yorkpsychology.bsky.social are recruiting 3 new ART (research and teaching) lecturers! One role will be prioritised for cognitive, affective and/or social neuroscience. #neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs

💥New | Do women academics need to work 2.4 times harder to succeed? ✍️Ulf Sandström #AcademicSky #GenderBias

👀ICYMI: "It has evolved into a platform-oriented business model that systematically captures students precisely when they are likely to feel uncertain or anxious" @gengyantang.bsky.social, @saraheaton.bsky.social #AcademicSky #ResearchMisconduct #HigherEducation

People refuse to acknowledge how an LLM actually works, and insist on assigning meaning and understanding to its output. There is no meaning, and the system understands neither the user’s question nor its own “response.”

📚 🗃️ Super excited for this FREE Wed. 3/4 virtual event, when I’ll be in conversation with Tamela Chambers, Colleen Shogan, and Laura McEnaney on #libraries, #archives, & freedoms. Join us for “Defending Democracy in the Stacks” Register here: umass-amherst.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

US citizen researching in New Zealand (hoping to stay after my studies 🤞🏽).

One of the things I value about this space is its international reach. If you’re happy to share, where are you posting from? 🌎❤️

One of the things I value about this space is its international reach. If you’re happy to share, where are you posting from? 🌎❤️

”once misinformation from AI-generated summaries remains uncorrected and seeps into published theses, research papers, and other outputs, it could contribute to a loop of misinformation.”

Our department is hiring an Assistant Teaching Professor!! This is a joint-appointed position with Computational Social Sciences (css.ucsd.edu). It's 75+ degrees F and sunny today, just thought I'd mention apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04461

This recent RCT of an "AI stethoscope" claims the technology "shows promise" for diagnosing cardiovascular conditions. It does not. It is a textbook example of the risks of conducting unprincipled 'per protocol analyses'. Once again, peer review at a major medical journal has failed. 🧵 1/

👀ICYMI: "Through the oral histories, we capture aspects of the experience of research that might be difficult to access in other ways." ✍️ @angecass.bsky.social & Paul Merchant #ResearchMethods #Sustainability #AcademicSKy

There seem to be a whole (older) cohort of eminent social psychologists who essentially do not understand the concept of sampling error, and I wonder to what extent that lack of understanding was an adaptive trait for a career.

198 effect sizes in ego depletion resesrch showed an effect size of d=0.62. Preregistered large replications (including some by original authors) yielded an effect size of 0. No one has been able to offer any other explanation for this huge research waste than massive p-hacking.

Higher Ed is not about job training! STEM has long benefitted from this rhetoric but we are all threatened by this concept. The University is meant to be broad and forward thinking, not something that follows the trends of the market which are inherently short-sighted and lacking imagination.

Peer review is not there for you to tell experts in the field how you'd prefer the style of the paper to be, or what method or analysis you have a clear bias for. Your job is to check for correctness, spot errors or gaps, protect the integrity of the scientific method, not piss on others.

Are you a junior faculty member interested in spending 2-4 weeks at Princeton Psych? Consider applying for our Microsabbatical program! It’s a fully funded visit for professional development and creating long-term collaborations. psych.princeton.edu/diversity/mi...

👀ICYMI: "despite the emphasis on impact, its meaning remains abstract for non-specialist audiences." #Impact #SciComm #PublicEngagement

I appeared as an expert witness before the Joint Committee on AI at the Houses of Oireachtas (parliament of Ireland) to discuss "AI: truth and democracy" this morning. You can read my opening statement here: www.oireachtas.ie/en/publicati...

🗣️"The sector has become a hybrid institution caught between public expectations and market imperatives, governed by leaders rewarded for financial agility, rather than intellectual integrity." #AcademicSky #HigherEducation

New paper, on a worrying trend in meta-science: the practice of anonymising datasets on, e.g., published articles. We argue that this is at odds with norms established in research synthesis, explore arguments for anonymisation, provide counterpoints, and demonstrate implications and epistemic costs.

A variation: Scientists who claim they’re “not interested in causality” because they assume the term only applies to deterministic, law-like relationships that are unrealistic in their field. Instead, they’re interested in how “X drives Y”, the effects of X, the “extent to which X matters for Y”>

🧠 We’ve widened the entry criteria for our MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience at Durham: www.durham.ac.uk/study/course... We now welcome students from a broad range of backgrounds—Psychology, Biology, Engineering, Physics and more as Neuroscience thrives on diverse perspectives

Insights from the Perspectives on Scientific Error (#PSE8) conference 🧵 Day 1: what a thought provoking morning. Replication remains one of the cornerstones of scientific progress, yet replication studies are still notoriously difficult to publish. Many never make it into print at all.

“By demanding that economics education should be more pluralist ethically conscientious, historically aware & oriented towards the real world, Rethinking Economics exposed the staggering deficiency in how economists are educated & induced significant changes in economics teaching around the world”

Dear Blueskies, question: could you recommend a recent-ish, peer reviewed study on implicit/unconscious bias in faculty hiring? I know the classics, but I am wondering what new(ish) research is out there that could be used in a workshop setting. Thank you very much! #AcademicSky #EduSky 🗃️

We just dropped the next 4 essays in Reframing Impact: AI Summit 2026, our new series with Aapti Institute and @themaybe.org – this time with Nikhil Dey, @timnitgebru.bsky.social, @audreyt.org, and @abeba.bsky.social 🧵

The UK *is* losing a generation of scientists. I know lots of brilliant people who have left their jobs / the country because of the limited jobs & funding. Once lost, they cannot ever be replaced. The UK government is overseeing the death of UK academic science, and it doesn't seem to care.

I'm on the edge of the "R Statistics Community" in what looks like an @societyforepi.bsky.social gathering on causal inference with @lizstuart.bsky.social, @jeremylabrecque.bsky.social, @jlrohmann.bsky.social, @idiaz.bsky.social, @mattpfox.bsky.social, @miguelhernan.org, & @noahgreifer.bsky.social

"Studying for an apprenticeship breaks down siloes and widens the perspective to a broader marketplace of ideas and ways of working." @elinorpotts.bsky.social writes on the value of apprenticeships in book publishing for @thebookseller.com ✅ Read more here: www.thebookseller.com/comment/appr...