Interesting piece in @uk.theconversation.com, my colleague and I just published experimental evidence for the same effect! 👇 "fairness is what you can get away with" doi.org/10.32872/spb... Strengthening collective labor rights can help reduce economic inequality theconversation.com/strengthenin...

Great night on Tuesday presenting my work on power and collective action @pintofscience.uk #pint25. some great questions from the audience 🙂

I made a silly meme about conferences for my private FB account and it was flagged as false information... about billionaires paying tax? Two questions. 1) didn't Facebook stop fact-checking? 2) given the c**p in my newsfeed, why is the algorithm so sensitive to info about billionaires? 🤔

With Google pretending it has invented an AI scientist, how long before 'prompt biochemist' starts appearing in LinkedIn profiles?

Hear a lot about the academic migration to bluesky, but why are there still so few journal accounts here? Maybe we should start making peer review contingent on that? 🤷

Collaborator and I have a paper in the SPSSI special issue on #science denial. "Spite and Science-Denial: Exploring the Role of Spitefulness in #conspiracy Ideation and COVID-19 Conspiracy Beliefs" @bpsofficial.bsky.social Open access @ doi.org/10.1111/josi...

If only the evolutionary social sciences had more Margo Wilsons. Lovely piece from Daniel Nettle on how her work is "a particularly successful example of how you can bring evolutionary understanding to social science topics and be genuinely constructive; rather than just irritating people"

i sent an email to DOGE and suggested replacing the entire Department of Defense with Warhammer 40,000 miniatures but they actually did the math and it turns out that would be much more expensive

My “social brain” solution to the #Fermi Paradox 👽 [short 🧵] 1) Only an evolutionary history of high sociality / cooperativeness can create organisms that have the individual metacognitive problem-solving intelligence necessary to produce a technological society

It's often claimed that tax cuts will "pay for themselves". A thread on when this is and isn't true, the real constraints on tax cuts and tax rises, and the live experiment being conducted by Scotland.

“Charcoal doodling appears 14,000 years ago, as adults drew more proficiently nearby” www.science.org/content/arti...

Came across this video by physicist and YouTuber @acollierastro.bsky.social. I honestly think 'playdough facts' or 'playdough reality' should become a recognised term in conspiracy theory research (skip to 18.00 to see what I mean). Works perfectly. youtu.be/11lPhMSulSU?...

The University of Silent Hill bids you welcome

Driving to/from work with Christmas songs playing, I am worryingly aware I'm in the prologue re-enactment to the festive special of shows called "missing person" or "unsolved murders". 🧑‍🎄☃️💀

NEW: Why do we always think crime is rising, even when it isn’t? This week I looked at one of the big data mysteries. Britain is 2/3 less violent than the 1990s; thefts were higher pre-lockdown Why, then, doesn’t it feel like it? 1/8 @thetimes.com 🔗 www.thetimes.com/article/b63d...

I'm always left with the feeling that the current system the least worst option. 3 concerns on the 👇: #1 Increase in the workload on researchers #2 Amplify the voices of the already influential #3 Provides the perfect ecosystem for alternative facts A 🧵: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

"All three types of flexible working arrangements—reducing hours, increasing work-schedule flexibility, and increasing workplace flexibility— improve fertility intentions. The effects are especially substantial for women, for whom anticipated work–family conflict is an important mediator"

Lovely frosty morning on campus, perfect weather to introduce chi-squares 😅

Great to see this piece of research looking at what actually works for homelessness. We need more evidence-based policy-making. Gut instincts are not good enough. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

Very pleased to announce my paper "Self-Reported Spite Predicts Spiteful Behavior in an Online Crowd-Sourced Sample" was recently published. Nice way to kick of a new social media platform! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....