An analysis of 370,000 college student essays found that human-written essays contain 8X more novel ideas than those generated by A.I! Though AI works often contain more flowery language, story lines are more homogeneous and lack distinctive ideas. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/o...

Highly recommended!

Thanks to the organizers of today’s workshop “Science Informs Policy” @univie.ac.at, especially @juliareiter.bsky.social! Glad to have been one of the presenters and part of such a thoughtful exchange with T. König, @robertboehm.bsky.social, @sandrafrauenberger.bsky.social, and all participants! 🧪

📣 Dear #CitizenScience crowd! 📣 This October (5+6), we are organizing a SYMPOSIUM in collab with @pcstnetwork.bsky.social at the wonderful @mfnberlin.bsky.social in Berlin. We welcome PRACTICAL and RESEARCH perspectives on "Building Knowledge Together: #CitizenScience, #Communication & #Trust".

Today at #24hPolPsy, our team - the #SciReLab (@zpid.bsky.social) - got to share some recent research on #science, #politics and #trust in three talks (🧵👇🏼). Looking forward to further engaging and discussing this tomorrow! 🤩

#24hpolpsy 2026 in Vienna has begun! The 6th annual meeting of @polpsynetde.bsky.social kicked off with a preconference on science communication organised by InMind's @janadreston.bsky.social. Now, presentations are in full swing 😊

You wrote a BA, MA, or PhD thesis in peace psychology, conflict studies, or related fields? Or you know someone who just did? Consider applying for Gert-Sommer-Preis, an award by the German Peace Psychology association! Deadline: 31st January, 2026 Details: www.friedenspsychologie.de?p=1584

Organised by @polpsynetde.bsky.social, hosted at @univie.ac.at, and financially supported by @dgps.bsky.social Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie and @wien.gv.at

The #24hpolpsy2026 conference programme is online - always find the current version of the programme here: 24hpolpsy.univie.ac.at We're excited to have a varied programme of ca. 120 presentations and are looking forward to welcoming many of you to Vienna! You can still sign up to attend until 13.2.

Wie erleben Sie Ihren Menstruationszyklus? @univie.ac.at Masterstudentin Nesa Rexhepi sucht (Cis-)Frauen ab 18 Jahren aus Österreich, die in den letzten 12 Monaten mindestens einmal menstruiert haben und die keine hormonelle Verhütung verwenden, für ihre Studie: sosci.univie.ac.at/UmgangMenstr...

Stop submitting AI slop to journals and preprint servers This is anti-social behavior. It is making life harder for everyone involved except for the person submitting the slop

Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?! & more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Holiday stress isn’t just about the turkey 🦃—when parents feel burned out during the holidays, their genuine emotional expression drops. www.nature.com/articles/s44... @juliareiter.bsky.social

Acceptance e-mails for the #24hpolpsy2026 are out today - register until 1 January! Not presenting and just want to attend and listen? Register via our website below.

Final day to submit to 24h of Political Psychology in February! We hope to see many of you in Vienna! 📚🎊

Tomorrow = final chance to submit 😁

In den letzten Wochen haben viele Fachgruppen der @dgps.bsky.social ihre Jungmitglieder-Vertreter:innen in den Fachgruppenleitungen gewählt. 🗳✨ Wir haben diesen Anlass genutzt, um uns zu vernetzen, Ideen auszutauschen und spannende neue Angebote für unsere Jungmitglieder zu planen. 🚀🤝

Mittlerweile sind 7 der 9 kritischen Belastungsgrenzen des Erdsystems überschritten – 1 mehr als im Vorjahr. Auch wenn mittlerweile rauf und runter gesagt wird, Klima- und Umweltthemen interessiert die Leute nicht: Lasst euch nicht drauf ein. Schauen wir weiter auf die Daten, so wie hier. 1/x

Periodic reminder that abstract submission for #24hpolpsy26 in Vienna is still open for another month!

Periodic reminder that abstract submission for #24hpolpsy26 in Vienna is still open for another month!

R1: "A core limitation is the manuscript's failure to adequately describe the legal, political, and operational context in which the protests occurred." R2: "The authors provide a good context for the study in the Introduction" Well okay then 😅

PSA: If you're currently in Prague for #ISPP2025, you might also like joining the 24 Hours of Political Psychology in Vienna in February! No conference fee, always worth a trip! Approach me with any questions 😊 Submissions are open until the end of September: 24hpolpsy.univie.ac.at #24hpolpsy2026

🎉We're back! 24 hours of Political Psychology is once again coming to Vienna - save the dates: 26 / 27 February 2026 ▶️ Abstract submission is OPEN - find the link & further information here: 24hpolpsy.univie.ac.at Very excited to co-host with @markuswagner.bsky.social and @isabellareb.bsky.social

📢 I am hiring: I am looking for a researcher to work with me in Vienna on my new project on 🎿 climate change adaptation in skiing tourism ⛷️ 💡Requirements: undergraduate degree in social sciences, experience with qualitative data collection through interviews, excellent German skills ‼️ Please share

Speaking of HPV… medicalnewsbulletin.com/five-reasons... Get your boys vaccinated! 🧬 #EduSky 📊🩺 🩺,⚕️ PedSky public health reprosky 🧪

It doesn't get better even after 3–4 papers 😅

📣In case you're still interesting in joining the Heat & Cognition Manylabs🔥🧠 , we are now running the task tournament. Collaborators can suggest tasks, scales, and items to be included in the project! Deadline to submit is May 11th! More info at: heatandmind.wordpress.com

Ob Rauchverbot, Tempolimit oder Zuckersteuer – viele Menschen sind erstmal dagegen. Eine neue Studie unter Leitung der #univie @robertboehm.bsky.social & @tum.de zeigt: Der größte Widerstand gegen systemische Eingriffe entsteht vor der Einführung. Nach ihrer Umsetzung sinkt die Ablehnung deutlich. ⤵️

The conference is free of charge and a wonderful opportunity to catch up with what's new in Political Psychology - I hope to see many familiar and new faces in lovely Vienna (this time flood-free, knock on wood) Spread the word! @polpsynetde.bsky.social

🎉We're back! 24 hours of Political Psychology is once again coming to Vienna - save the dates: 26 / 27 February 2026 ▶️ Abstract submission is OPEN - find the link & further information here: 24hpolpsy.univie.ac.at Very excited to co-host with @markuswagner.bsky.social and @isabellareb.bsky.social

Do a PhD with us! ('us' being @sussex.ac.uk and @ukhsa.bsky.social ) 'Harnessing group psychology to develop a lay person triage tool to facilitate life-saving actions in major incidents' Please share! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

“There is far too much power in the hands of professors in the German system,” says @leising.bsky.social. My latest @nature.com story digs into efforts to tackle the entrenched structural heirarchy that enables academic bullies.

Registration for the 2025 SoDoc Workshop is now open: www.tu-chemnitz.de/hsw/psycholo... We would love to welcome you in Chemnitz! #socialpsychology #phd #chemnitz

Join us today for our next Political Psychology Lunch! Link below⬇️

📣 CfP for a Special Issue on the 2025 German Federal Election 💡 We are looking forward to your proposals (until 30/04/2025)! 👇 All detalis in the post below...

Neulich ein KHK einer Mordkommission(nicht Berlin), nachdem ich über Femizide und Frauenhass gesprochen habe: „Versteh nicht, was Sie da erzählen.Wenn meine Frau mich verlässt,dann bring ich sie doch nicht um, weil sie eine Frau ist, sondern weil sie mich verlässt.Ich mag halt Frauen.“ Wo anfangen?

SHE SAID YES!!!!! 💖🔥✨ to cancelling the meeting

Devastating news, people, you can no longer fax me. In future, please contact me by carrier pigeon.

💥Postdoc call 💥 Join my @erc.europa.eu project #YOPOW at Aarhus University 🎇 3-y position (possibility of 1-y extension) ❓How societal norms give rise to biased beliefs about political power in youth 🤖 Computational social science (large-scale text & image data) Deadline May 15: bit.ly/4hIpSeD

Deadline for applications: 30th of April. We are the Social & Economic Psychology group at @univie.ac.at, in one of the world's most livable cities. We study human judgments and decision making in response to societal challenges. Find out more here: social-econ-psych.univie.ac.at

Looking for a PhD candidate to join a project at the intersection of health comms & computer science! We’ll use LLMs to create synthetic patient populations to test vaccine uptake interventions & build a training tool for better vax communication. jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Project-... Please repost!

Just so we're clear was it not a crisis when it was the other way around?

🌍 We are launching a new #ManyLabs!!! Join the Heat & Cognition project! We're studying how extreme heat affects human thinking, social behavior & well-being — globally. Contribute & co-author: 🔗 Info: heatandmind.wordpress.com 📋 Sign up: www.soscisurvey.de/HeatandCogni... #EnvironmentalPsychology

„Soll Deutschlands Attraktivität und Aufstieg als Wissenschaftsstandort wirklich davon abhängen, dass zunächst die Konkurrenz ihre Attraktivität einbüßen muss?“ THIS. Wenn man in D keine international konkurrenzfähigen (Arbeits-)Bedingungen hinkriegt, muss die Konkurrenz halt schlechter werden, wa?

Ein Wissenschaftssystem, das statt auf Solidarität auf Konkurrenz setzt — zwischen individuellen Wissenschaftler_innen, Institutionen, Nationen — hat den Angriffen auf Wissenschaft, die auf all diesen Ebenen geschehen, nichts entgegenzusetzen. Wir brauchen endlich Zusammenhalt statt Wettbewerb!

I decided to start a #thread 🧵 of stories about legal residents and tourists being (illegally) arrested, detained and/or deported by the Trump regime. I'll only post stories from serious sources, as rumors and conspiracies are really not needed in this authoritarian moment.

📢 Don’t forget to join today’s online colloquium on the topic of East German identity after reunification at 13:00 CET! Join here: univienna.zoom.us/j/6757978307...

Hier kommt noch die eigentliche Frechheit hinterher: "Wieso sollte ich das überhaupt machen?" Äh, vielleicht weil es Teil deines Jobs ist, Hans-Herbert. Abgesehen davon: Interesse? Gegenseitigkeit - ich mach mal eine von jemand anderem, dafür machen andere was für mich? 2/2

Meine Güte. Die Trennung von Betreuung und Bewertung bei Doktorarbeiten ist im Ausland völlig Gang und Gäbe - soviel zu "nicht praktikabel" und "schlicht unmöglich". 1/2