Cinq ans après la pandémie de Covid-19, l’autorité chargée de la politique vaccinale aux États-Unis se réunit à New York. Mais elle est désormais composée d’opposants aux vaccins nommés par le premier d’entre eux, le ministre de la santé Robert Kennedy Jr. www.mediapart.fr/journal/inte...

Journal publishers *are* bundling your papers up in "data licensing agreements" for big tech companies to use for AI model training. Our publisher, T&F, got £75m from Microsoft for that last year alone.

Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):

Wow and wow and WE MUST ALL DO THIS!!

This post has not aged badly unfortunately.

“Chicago has long helped to keep alive tiny fields & esoteric areas of humanistic study... Without the univ’s support, & the continued training of grad students who can keep these bodies of kn going, entire spheres of human learning might eventually blink out.” www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

Plus envie d'argumenter, plus envie de documenter. Tout est là, sous nos yeux. Mais comment faire prendre conscience de ce qu'est une famine?

My dept at the University of Auckland (NZ) will be hiring in social psych at the junior level this cycle. Official ad to follow It's a big research-active dept with fun colleagues, plus you can commute to uni on a boat, paired with a pleasant walk thru Albert Park (this pic from heading home today)

As our kids go #BackToSchool, never forget that we ARE the traffic that we’re afraid of. If more kids walked, biked or rode transit to school, it would erase a massive number of car trips each day, and our kids would be safer, healthier and better at school. HT Ian Lockwood. Spread the word.

[Job] The Policy Lab at @ulbruxelles.bsky.social seeks to recruit a postdoctoral researcher (full time, 2 years) in the framework of the project 'Metropolitan internet meets post-growth' Deadline: 30 August

New blog post! Calculating a correlation is easy enough. But let's say you calculated two of them and they happen to differ. What follows from that? Turns out there are too many moving parts for an easy answer. www.the100.ci/2025/07/28/w...

I'm quoted in this piece. In short: do not use ChatGPT or any generative AI as a “therapist.” It’s not sentient. It doesn’t care. It may even lead people toward harm. And nothing shared is protected by HIPAA or real privacy standards; it's fodder for the machine. www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...

"De grâce, que la Belgique ne réagisse pas trop tard. En commençant par manifester une indignation commune devant des menaces envers les magistrats, car cette indignation est le premier bouclier pour protéger les défenseurs de l’Etat."

Clear advice from @catherinedevries.bsky.social on clear writing. Who could argue with such solid advice? (he naively asks the internet)

Is there a difference between falsification and refutation? Popper used the former in the book about logic of scientific discovery and the latter in the last (conjecture and refutation). And I never understood the difference.

Very sad to learn that Helen De Cruz, who had been a constant online presence for me on Twitter and then here, passed away. Read her last blog post. A little gem on what we leave to others.

La Pride de Budapest interdite par Orban. Rien n’arrête les libertés. Surtout pas le fascisme

Lucky BJSP, who has gained a wise, enthusiastic and witty new associate editor!

Lucky BJSP, who has gained a wise, enthusiastic and witty new associate editor!

Great post on the many bad effects of measles. That Roald Dahl letter of his daughter's death gets me every time tho 😔

Best image of the day:

"Simpson's gender-equality paradox" surely deserve some award for best title 👑 The gender-equality paradox seems really central to some narrative people have constructed (and successfully sold). I absolutely wouldn't be surprised if it turned out 100% confounding.> www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I often see Ioannidis' paper 'Why most published research findings are false' on reading lists. And by all means - I found it educational when I first read it. But you might also want a summary of the criticisms on the paper, and we dive into these in our @nulliusinverba.bsky.social podcast episode.

Entendu à un colloque: selon une enquête faite sur un échantillon français (supposé représentatif), on arrête d’être jeune à 42 ans et on devient âgé à 64 ans…

It can be interesting to read why so many psychological scientists have raised concerns - which twice led to a crisis - about (social) psychology for over half a century. There are important lessons we can learn from our history about why these concerns have not been solved.

Great talk by @rritabajraktari.bsky.social at @bapsciences.bsky.social 2025, with a proud supervisor @olivierklein.bsky.social!

Academic freedom in the United States has found itself periodically under siege, but the current attacks from the federal government raise a new level of alarm. nyer.cm/u405qvQ

"You think evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots. It doesn’t come like that. Look at the language. It begins in the language." —Joseph Brodsky

The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988

“ we have nothing to lose but our chains” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...

Resistance is NOT futile

Goldman: "Think about whether any of us want to vote a certain way but bc we fear for our personal safety, we decide to vote differently. We are no longer representing our constituents. We are representing something else more like the bully threatening us. That is more like Vladimir Putin operates"

Four large Dutch universities, including Leiden University where I work, have decided to throw international psychology bachelor programs under the bus in an effort to appease the rightwing government. Here's my blog why this is a terrible idea. eiko-fried.com/cutting-inte...

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

Meanwhile in the land of the free…

You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.

They are now estimating 2.3 million across the country. Keep it going folks. #handsoff #50501protests

I’m just sayin’. St Augustine FL is a town of 14,000. In a red county. And we’re doing this. #handsoff #50501 #April5 AND we have some spicy signs!

Si il y avait des naïf.ve.s chez nous qui pensent que les restrictions de l'accès aux allocations de chômage auront un effet positif sur l'état du pays, voilà le résultat qu'on peut anticiper

I kind of want to go

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

This is, in large part, pandemic revenge. As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do. They can't keep spewing carbon. They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying. They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.

“During the 50 years that I have lived in Istanbul, I have never seen so many security measures on the street as in the last few days” A somber Orhan Pamuk in @lemonde.fr www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

Important to realize that Trump’s approach to Canada and Greenland is like his approach to Ukraine. It’s not even simply American imperialism. It is America enabling Russian imperialism. (1/3)

This www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/n...

15,000 people protested fascism and racism in Amsterdam yesterday.

New blog post! In which I explain the issue with mediation analysis and sketch out one way to deal with the underlying causal inference problem -- in just a bit over 1,000 words! If you have never found the time to read up on this, now is your chance. www.the100.ci/2025/03/20/r...