We're well into "Unsubscribing from any mailing list that sends messages containing the phrase 'No tricks, just treats' or 'Spooktacular'" season. Already Yorkshire Trading and Coursera have, sadly, succumbed.

🌟We are looking for children turning 4 years old to participate in our study 🚲🎉 If your child was born in England just after lockdowns ended (between July 19th and October 19th 2021) you could take part and get a free Amazon Fire Tablet! 🖱️Sign up here: cityunilondon.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Today at #NDAS2025: using #AI for systematic literature review quality assessments with Dr Nick Behn, and checking methodology and designing animated online tasks for kids with Professor @steer-rhinos.bsky.social

Hello, #Econsky! The Department of Economics at City St George’s is now on Bluesky. Follow us for updates on our research, events, and life around the department.

Honest people don’t lie. Or do they? Liars aren’t honest. Or are they? One puzzling conundrum in contemporary politics is that politicians who seem to be estranged from facts and evidence are nonetheless considered honest by their followers. 1/n

Looking forward to speaking at this event - I’ll be talking about how the presentation format of graphical trends influences what people predict will happen next. But whether or not that’s your thing there’s a great selection of interesting talks from both academics and practitioners.

Very much looking forward to this - open to anyone from any walk of life which involves giving informal money guidance to others. Do come along if it's something that might be useful for you.

❗️Norway more than doubled the aid planned for #Ukraine in 2025 Thank you, Norway! 🇳🇴🇺🇦 Norway will spend 85 billion Norwegian kroner (over €7.2bn) on supporting Ukraine this year, up from 35 billion (€3bn). Jonas Gahr Støre said: "We are increasing support because there is a need for it”

⭐ We are still looking for 4-year old children born during lockdown to take part in the BICYCLE study 🧸🎉 We are especially interested in hearing from families living in the East Midlands 📍 please share with those who might be interested! cityunilondon.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

The comments under this week's newsletter, particularly from people who changed their career in their 40s, are extremely lovely. In short: it's not too late. You can still do it iandunt.substack.com/p/happy-new-...

A festive project here, bringing together animation, MIDI input, USB relays to contol low-voltage devices, and smart device management, all run from a browser with JavaScript. The owl tells the students what Chrismas melody to play and when they get it right, the piano gets more festive...

Recently accepted by #QJE, “Do Financial Concerns Make Workers Less Productive,” by Kaur, Mullainathan (@sendhil.bsky.social), Oh, and Schilbach (@fschilbach.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

American Psychiatric Association Adds ‘Obsessive Categorization Of Mental Conditions’ To ‘DSM-5’ theonion.com/american-psy...

Making most of my first video post to show this magnificence from tonight's Taunton carnival. Something I grew up with, but I still get that sense of awe as one of these comes around the corner.

Waking up this morning approaching Penzance on the Night Riviera sleeper. Really is a wonderful way to travel, albeit one entirely unsuited to sleeping.

Judgment and Decision Making (JDM) starter pack Happy to add you go.bsky.app/8nDKmwG

In AI roleplay news, I've built a web app for law students to prepare for consultations with clients in our law clinic. Exciting developments: (a) a point-and-click interface for selecting cases; (b) using openAI's whisper API so users can speak/listen rather than type. Built with GPT-o1 support.

Today has been induction week escape room day: Students learn about the university to crack combination boxes, decode phone numbers, and scan barcodes to open the treasure chest. All modelling collaborative autonomous learning. Six hours and 200 - all successful - students later, ready for a pint.

A starter pack of schools or departments of psychology from around the world. Please share, encourage your school/dept social-media person to join up, and feel free to suggest additions... 😃 go.bsky.app/FmgYgVj

Excitement: I now have a large language model comparable to ChatGPT running on my own PC. As in, without an internet connection. It's a capable model, which opens up use cases in universities where you wouldn't want to pass sensitive data outside the organisation.

Nice to wake up and see a piece about our BICYCLE project in the most read articles on the BBC website. We're looking at development effects of lockdown on children's cognitive and linguistic development. Also there's actually a photo of one of the tasks I developed! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Looking for a full-time research assistant to start in July. I study decision-making, using lab and field experiments, secondary data, text analysis, etc...: home.uchicago.edu/~ourminsky/ Main qualifications: Love of research + strong research methods and data analysis skills.

I do write about things other than ChatGPT. But not today. Because today I built an online experiment in JavaScript without writing any code, just describing it to ChatGPT. I'll explain what I did.🧵 Chat here: chat.openai.com/share/0d8a61... Study here: reimers.co.uk/bicycle/splat/ (NB: audio)

I'm involved in a really interesting project looking at possible effects of being born in lockdown on language and cognitive development. We're advertising for two posts - RA and postdoc - details at the end of these links: www.city.ac.uk/about/jobs/a... www.city.ac.uk/about/jobs/a...

The most impressed I've been with GPT-4 is building browser-based cognitive tasks. I just prompted "...use HTML, css, and JavaScript to implement a Corsi visuo-spatial short-term memory task.", and it's produced a working version (after 1 x feedback). At no point did I explain what a Corsi task was.

As a churchgoing child I loved how the year was marked with the different liturgical colours: The excitement in advent as the altar cloth changed from green to purple meaning Christmas was coming. I miss that. Anyway, here I am on Nov 1 switching over my coffee syrups from Pumpkin Spice to Cinnamon.

Lessons from a foray into using ChatGPT with DALL.E 3 plugin for academic work: It's great for generating simple stimuli for experiments. I needed a rocket to move up the screen as children complete a cognitive task. This is better than I'd have made and took 30 seconds to create.

Hello, this is my first post on here. I research human memory (especially autobiographical) and also music, but am interested in all psychology and neuroscience. Also love art-science collaborations. Looking forward to learning from you all.

Wait, when is my paper due?

Finding GPT-4 useful for teaching activities. I saved my first week's lecture as a pdf, used the AI PDF plugin in ChatGPT, gave the URL for my pdf and asked for 20 multiple choice questions. About 18 of those were great - plausible alternatives, and even showed which slide the question came from.

🚀 We've officially landed on Bluesky! Excited to join this vibrant new platform and (re)connect with all of you! 🗣️💬 Help us spread the word by retweeting and following.

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

Hello Bluesky! New here and looking for the food / psychology / UK reproducibility peeps!

Another day, another social network. But the number of interesting people here definitely makes this one seem promising. Fingers crossed.