I’m planning to run my first field experiment this Fall on my university’s campus. What’s your go-to best practices resource for this type of work?

I assigned random gender/ethnicity labels to scientific abstracts from the literature and then asked Claude to do a thematic analysis. Claude identified a clinical versus computational split for female/male authors and a DEI focus for Black/URM authors. All in completely random data.

I'll just note that critical race theory predicts quite a lot about the current racial retrenchment and for being *correct* it was pilloried in the press and by some academics.

guys we just cant get around it, if we want to solve literally anything in this country we HAVE to begin seriously talking about racism. pushing anti-Black racism to the outskirts of our discourse is the cause of literally all of problems, from class struggle to trans rights. its ALL the same fight.

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

NEW: After months of being too scared to leave their homes, more than 500 children have returned to in-person classes at Columbia Heights Public Schools, a huge moment of celebration for school leaders in this Minneapolis suburb once swarming with ICE agents. www.huffpost.com/entry/minnea...

We do now know the NSF is proceeding with dissolving the Social and Behavioral Sciences Division. Congress might reverse it, but it is now already underway. YOU CAN NO LONGER SUBMIT FUNDING PROPOSALS TO SBE. Program officers are being moved to different parts of the agency. Call your Congress member

Trump/Vought are planning to eliminate the program that oversees social science funding from the National Science Foundation, and they are not going to wait for Congress to weigh in because they have already shown they believe they have the power of the purse. bsky.app/profile/lizn...

Texting daily with a random human peer is more effective at reducing loneliness than texting with a highly supportive chatbot. Next time you feel lonely reach out to a human, any human. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

So happy to say I’ve been awarded tenure! My colleagues have been so sweet in reaching out to offer congratulations and hopes that I celebrate. I haven’t celebrated anything in a while and I’m not sure what to do. What have you done or do you plan to do to celebrate tenure?

The amount of times I’ve been directly told “Oh, I used AI in your online class because I don’t think it’s important…” is too damn high.

“…just 2% of all college students—including 3% of Republicans—say they feel they don’t belong on campus due to their political views…71% said their professors create a classroom environment that supports both students who express unpopular opinions and those who may be upset by such views.”

Just out—a piece I wrote a piece for the APS Observer (@psychscience.bsky.social) in which I share recommendations and resources for running a research lab at a small, liberal arts college. I hope it helps others in the same boat! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

There's no way you can keep funding a federal government who's primary mission is to inflict pain on the population. Every federal agency from McMahon at DoE to RFK shredding HHS and everything in between. Every day we let them stay open is more time we'll need to repair the damage they've done

It’s shameful verging on collaborationist that universities slashed DEI rather than fighting the administration on this.

There is no way to stop climate change research at NCAR without doing irreparable damage to weather research. "The idea that you can just pull “vital” weather research activities out of a unique, vibrant scientific environment and expect that they will just continue to roll along is ludicrous."

“AI models not only point some users to false sources but also cause problems for researchers and librarians, who end up wasting their time looking for requested nonexistent records…”

More quality evidence is emerging that "pro-environmental behavior" is not a coherent, unitary thing. One behavior is not a proxy for all other behaviors. www-sciencedirect-com.proxy.uba.uva.nl/science/arti... Blankenberg et al. 2025 1/3

The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.

Lots of people are calling out the fact that X is filled with fake MAGA influencers from far away countries, but I wanted to point out that this, not "ideological censorship," is why companies have trust & safety teams that work on stopping inauthentic behavior.

Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.

Holy f@$k! “ChatGPT exhibits the highest level of anti-Black racism ever experimentally recorded.” This whole video is jaw-dropping.

Important paper. So far most of the potential solutions I've seen mentioned (in-person surveys, high-quality/validated panels, address-based sampling) cost lots of money and will thus deepen divides based on resources. Something that we'll also need to grapple with. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/55uok...

it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance

👋 I'm Danielle, and I'm on the #econjobmarket this year! Let's start with a student describing her segregated school: "The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education" The twist? The student is white, and her school is private. A JMP 🧵 -->

3️⃣ We find white children exposed to academies fared worse as adults. 📉 Human capital index ↓ 0.04 SD 📉 Economic self-sufficiency ↓ 0.06 SD This evidence suggests White families may have sacrificed educational quality to maintain racial segregation. 11/12

An unfortunate effect of AI: for all the talk of it enabling “creativity,” many of us feel forced by its utility for plagiarism to move toward more restrictive and surveillant measures in the classroom. In the last few years the classroom is of necessity becoming more locked down than it ever was.

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors. ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart. ISILDUR: true

🚨 New preprint 🚨 Across 3 experiments (n = 3,285), we found that interacting with sycophantic (or overly agreeable) AI chatbots entrenched attitudes and led to inflated self-perceptions. Yet, people preferred sycophantic chatbots and viewed them as unbiased! osf.io/preprints/ps... Thread 🧵

I'm teaching a psych class to 70 first year students for the first time, ever. For some, my class will be their first college class. Does anyone have an activity you to the first day/week of class w/ first-years to help them feel connected, get to know classmates, & start on a good foot?

So I have been exploring copilot generative AI to better familiarize myself with its output to recognize it more easily when I see it in the wild. This tool falsifies results sections of papers in a way that is NOT easy to detect. wtf are we going to do in science, peer review can't catch this.

ChatGPT just wasted 5 of my hours by making up info and insisting it wasn’t lying. I was trying to see if it could actually help me find publicly available datasets with questions about politics in people’s ego networks and was thrilled when it output a long list, but things went quickly downhill…

"It’s the kind of statistic, several experts said, that is both eye-opening and likely to become more common because of climate change." www.nbcnews.com/science/clim...

The thing about interdisciplinary work is everyone gets to misunderstand you from a unique angle

I'm genuinely not sure what this is supposed to mean but now worried. The National Archives in College Park houses the public records of DOJ, the military, etc. & is used daily by scholars, students, genealogists, etc. Having govt records accessible to the public is part of what makes the govt ours.

Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state Keep that same energy of support for her

🚨Hiding under 6 sections of science sounding rhetoric is an edict to appoint officers at each agency that will be responsible for detecting research that isn't "Gold Standard Science" as defined by the White House🚨 Stay tuned for rapid response action! www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Scientists are pushing to get their grants reinstated — and some are winning www.statnews.com/2025/05/19/r...

Please consider who benefits from you becoming complacent, doing less critical thinking, less fact checking. Who benefits from devaluing yours and other people‘s labor. From your data.

9 people were killed in a tornado last night in KY. The NWS office responsible for that area has faced some of the most extreme cuts by the Trump administration, including the loss of overnight forecasting. Last night, they were rushing to find help for the office. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/w...

I work in grants. From my POV, the solution is not to compete for crumbs, but to put that effort into banding together across institutions to stand up for research. We need to yell at politicians and make sure Americans know what they’ll lose if university research ends.

And in other NSF news... Take action here: www.savensf.com

After the brutal reality of dealing with student papers in the ChatGPT era finally hit me, here are a few tactics that I've found at least somewhat effective in getting students to do their own writing: 🧵

This! I ranted this semester and some students said it was helpful. Many students I caught using AI said they didn’t think anyone cared.

This is heart breaking. I feel so fortunate to have studied at UF before 2020. It was such a powerhouse which seems to have made it a target.

This is a general thought, not a subtweet, but I increasingly feel like there's a lot of unintentional revisionism about US public opinion during the pandemic. Views obviously shifted, but early on there was *remarkably* broad support for a wide range of mitigation tactics