📽️ "Inshallah a Boy" is a realistic/real movie about what it means for women to be considered "nothing." It will manage to hurt you without going into visual dramatization. #eXist mubi.com/en/tr/films/...

This is an excellent paper on the effect size. As the authors suggested, standard Cohen's defaults may not be suitable for all types of research and samples. For example, they suggested 0.27, 0.53, and 0.86 for psychotherapy treatment for depressive disorders. #ClinPsych | #PsychSci | #Stats

🧙‍♂️✨ Meet Neilos, your mystical guide in the intricate worlds of #SocialPsyc and #existentialism. Ready to embark on a journey to unravel the mind's and society's mysteries? Let's dive into philosophical debates, explore cultural views, and seek personal growth together! #ArtificialIntelligence

🧪 Scientist? 🟦 New to BlueSky? 👀 Wanna find posts by other people in your area and use the right hashtags in your own posts? 📃 Here’s a regularly-updated list of 190 science-related feeds and their hashtags. #AcademicSky #PhDSky

This is an excellent work in the context of Attachment Theory. It is clear how important it is to study these concepts in "real" and "different" worlds. "Allomothering" is a concept worth discussing from an evolutionary perspective. 🧪 #devpsy #DevSci psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

📽️ N. Morales (actress /director) has made a risky production, but the result is one of the most exciting and best films I have had the chance to see in a long time: "Language Lessons." It is a beautiful film about friendship, kindness, and well-being. mubi.com/en/tr/films/...

ChatGPT starts using images in its chat window. Now, we can ask ChatGPT about the images we uploaded. For example, I used the map of the Wheel of Time and asked ChatGPT what it was about. You can see its answer in the ALT text. #AI&HCI

The fall semester's first course, "Mind and Behavior," starts tomorrow. The graphic below is an example of my standpoint for the whole course. Take no offense. 😎 #BehSci | ##CogPsyc | #Neuroscience | #PhilSci | #PsychSciSky | 🧪

A guide to BlueSky for Scientists * Common questions * Links to resources * An explanation of feeds * A directory of science feeds Please share with scientists on BlueSky! Written by me and @markrubin.bsky.social 🧪 #stats #PsychSciSky #neuroscience

As a #socialpsyc researcher and an amateur photographer, I love to take portrait photographs and photographs of people on the streets. The below is titled "Sonder." 📷 📸 #StreetPhotography __________ *Sonder: The realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own. #eXist

Introducing the new feed on Judgment & Decision Making #DecisionMaking #SocialJudgment #probability Related to: #appliedpsych, #BehEcon, #CogSci, #EconSky, #PsychSciSky, and #SocialPsyc. CC: @markrubin.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/did:...

It is estimated that about 10,000 years ago, the total human population (+ their livestock and pets) was 0.1% of all vertebrates. Today, this estimation is about 98%. 🧪 ___________________ MacCready, P. (1999). An ambivalent luddite at a technological feast. Designfax, 21(8), 26-31.

📽️ A 1929 black-and-white USSR silent film without a script or actors, "Man with a Movie Camera." It has birth, death, marriage, divorce... everything about existence. A movie could not be better. Dzika Vertov was a genius! 🎬 #eXist

📚 I've started Robert Jordan's "The Wheel of Time" series as if there was no semester and I had a lot of time. The problem is that the series consists of 14+1 books = 11,500+ pages. 😱 The first novel is from 1990, but I started reading it with New Spring (2003), which serves as a prequel.

"... We are writing as researchers with some relevant expertise to express our concerns..." The tone of the letter is disappointing. Much more serious evidence is needed 4 the charge of "pseudoscience," & the expertise of some authors is not the evidence we're looking for. #consciousness #philsci

Bluesky is a tiny but very clean social network (especially compared to X). Sometimes, waiting for the network to grow can be discouraging, but I think it is worth waiting. I am one of the new users here, but again, compared to my X account, followed by 23K, I love to be here much more. 💙

Dear BlueSky members, here is the new feed... #AI&HCI --> You can use #HCI, #ArtificialIntelligence, Artificial Intelligence, or Human-Computer Interaction in your posts. Note: #AI was omitted because there are many posts, including #AI, mainly about #AIArt. FYI: @markrubin.bsky.social ☺️

Just made this 10 Step Guide to making a BlueSky Feed 👇

🎧 Happy Birthday, Freddie Mercury 🎂🎉🎊

📽️ It's not a new movie, but Fatih Akın's "Soul Kitchen" - although somewhat underrated - is one of the director's best works. "Soul Kitchen" is a film without exaggeration, full of taste, love, friendship, and perhaps hope. #Filmsky

Smeagol & Gollum (of the Lord of the Rings). I can't draw, but I can imagine. 😊 #Art | #AIArt | #DarkArt

I'm grateful to @gsirma.bsky.social for recommending the The Witcher series to me. Although I am a fantasy fiction fan, I avoided it for no reason, and it was a big mistake. Now, I'm a huge fan of Jaskier (Joan Batey). 🎧

I have begun to believe that replication studies could only be published if the replication failed. I've read this statement many times: "...the research reported does not present enough novelty to be considered for publication in the journal...". 🫤 🧪 | #metasci | #socialpsyc | #philsci

"Why must we seek explanation in either Body or Mind? It is a false dichotomy." __________ Gibson, J. J. (1979/2015). The ecological approach to visual perception. Taylor & Francis. 🧪 | #philsci | #PsychSciSky | #cogpsyc

Defining consciousness as a by-product of the interaction of neurons seems to me to be an unsound presupposition. When this is the assumption, there is an expectation that artificial intelligence will show a similar pattern. And this is a great expectation, too. (1 of 5) 🧪 #philsci

Are the people (account owners) on @bsky.app real or virtual beings? Do their messages have any reality within them? For a phenomenologist, it doesn't matter. She can still talk about them & make philosophy of it. What she needs is a hot coffee, that's all. ☕️ #philsky | #eXist

I'm lazy when it comes to writing, but I always find time to write popular science articles for the lay people. I just sent my new article (about the brain) to a Turkish daily newspaper. The brain is a subject about which there are still dozens of ridiculous misconceptions. 🧪

📚 It's not surprising that Matt Haig is the one doing the existential questioning like in #TheMidnightLibrary. I was able to finish the book on my second start. The places where philosophers were saluted were especially beautiful, but the end of the book is not a surprise. #eXist

📷 "Ex-Loves" | NikonD40, 50mm, f/2.0 at 1/60 with 200 ISO 📸 #photography

"New X" doesn't care if the account holder is racist, sexist, or transphobic when making payments... That's why a guy like Gage gets his share of this distribution, albeit a small one. In other words, Elon says, as long as there is interaction, it doesn't matter what it is. 🤢💵

Mental or neurodevelopmental disorder by type. (2019) Web Source: https://ourworldindata.org/neurodevelopmental-disorders Anxiety and depressive disorders have the first two most prominent frequencies of prevalence. #neuroskyence | #neurosky | #PsychSciSky

Since there are new #BlueSky users, it's time to restate the introduction about me. I'm a social psychologist interested in # philosophy of mind, #consciousness, #existentialism, #decisionmaking, and so on. I also love taking photos, & creating #AI #art. #PsychSciSky #socialpsyc #philsci 🧪

I started watching Netflix's "Manifest" series with some trepidation; it looked like a candidate for a new "Lost" disaster. But, it's not bad at all. It has a lot to talk about #existence & #consciousness. The only negative was the poor performance of the actor playing the lead character, Ben Stone.

Dear #socialpsyc | #PsychSciSky | #PhilSci followers. A new feed, #eXist, is on air from now on. Please use the #eXist tag (not case-sensitive) in posts about existential psychology, existentialism, absurdism,... etc. 💙 @theissep.bsky.social (FYI).

Sigmund Freud is not one of my favorite theorists but I admire his intelligence and creativity. Therefore, I wished to "imagine" him as a Marvel hero. The result is below. #art | #AIArt | #Midjourney

Int. J. of Environmental Research and Public Health is a journal indexed by SSCI and has an impact factor of 4.61. The interesting thing is that this journal published 17,000+ articles in 2022 and the number of articles has reached 1655 in January 2023! 🧪 @danirabaiotti.bsky.social | #metasci

Painting of "Adam" is labeled as "suggestive content". ☺️ - @bsky.app #Art

I wrote a message to Elon Musk. As I mentioned in this message, I have been a very active user of #Twitter for about 14 years. I'm a founder of many other Twitter accounts mostly about psychological sciences (in Turkish & English); therefore, seeing Twitter going down is an unpleasant experience.

📷 The photo below (titled "No Commission") was taken very early in the morning in Prague's famous "Clock Square." #photography | #art | #StreetPhotography | 🇨🇿

I think the main problem with response options is using an odd scale. The middle response (e.g., 3 in a 5-point-Likert scale) is described as "neither... nor...". This is simply wrong! We artificially add "3" to the statistics each time one of the participants does not have any idea/preference.

For a graduate course titled "Mind & Behavior" in the #socialpsyc program, I'm experiencing difficulty in limiting the essential reading list. Adding all the books and articles suitable for this course makes it last 144 weeks rather than 14 weeks. 😎 #PsychSciSky 🧪 🧠

Mind & Behavior Lab (MBLab) is on the BlueSky! It will skeet about (1) the philosophy of mind, (2) attention, perception, and social behavior, (3) consciousness, (4) judgment and decision-making, (5) AI & HCI, and (5) cognitive modeling. #PsychSciSky | #Neuroskyence | #PhilSci 🧪

Social psychology has to rediscover philosophy. Without a philosophical & theoretical background, it is difficult to produce new knowledge. In addition, it would not be bad to take a look at literature (fiction) and art, which has been particularly avoided. #socialpsyc | #PsychSciSky | #PhilSci 🧪

📷 N. Hawthorne’s short story “Birthmark,” tells us how one symbolically vanished when she lost her uniqueness in the world. Even if imperfect, every feature of us is a sign of our #authenticity, which we should be proud of, as in the beauty spot on the model in the photograph above. #existentialism

Interestingly, the #Oppenheimer & #Barbie films were not expected to have anything in common except the release date. However, both are about the thinness of the line between life & death, but perhaps more importantly, about our endless striving for the meaning of life (or the search for meaning).

#Lilith is one of the most important mythic figures of female rebellion, so she can be an alternative or female version of the so-called Byronic (male) hero who is characterized as intelligent, cunning, ruthless, arrogant, depressive, violent, seductive, and so on.

"... physics and chemistry had no reproducibility crisis..." ... but (social) psychology has. I'm sure that there is no single reason, but I think #psychology has been acting like a grown-up adult, although she's just a smarty-pants teenager. #Metascience #PhilSci 🧪

#ErkinKoray, a legendary Turkish folk/rock and psychedelic rock singer, has passed away at 82. He was really an important, authentic figure in Anatolian #RockMusic. 🤘🎸

Next semester, I'll teach two new (& challenging) courses: (1) Cognitive Processes: Brain & Behavior (undergraduate) and (2) Mind & Behavior (graduate). The slide below exemplifies my view on these topics: We need #neuroscience (left) but should not lose the whole picture (right). #PsychSciSky