We (USyd Psychology) are hiring a continuing position at the Lecturer/Senior Lecturer level (this is equivalent to the tenure-track Assistant Prof level, but you start out with more security than pre-tenure). usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_E...

FYI: Claude will link to the right article to cite, with some correct info but wrong author list. I found citations to my papers in recent published peer reviewed articles without my or my co-authors names. I’ve seen Claude do this so I’m sure this is what the authors did. This is not going well!

New article by me in the Conversation on the psychology of sense-making, and its role in maintaining superstitions.

Was great to be part of this big international collaboration.

The Creative Link Between Words and Ideas is Weakening in the AI Era osf.io/preprints/ps...

What should psychology journals do about this? What’s a reasonable policy/standard to apply to research using online data collection methods?

Apply for this postdoc at the University of Edinburgh, on a cool interdisciplinary funded project between cognitive scientists and archeologists, examining the distortion of archeological findings to support hostile nationalist narratives on social media elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Media release: Unity must guide the Government's response to Bondi attack, not divisive pro-Israel wishlist Full release available at the link in our bio.

First comprehensive investigation shows large support for core ideas of degrowth, but not the label. Conducted by ICTA-UAB researchers @giorgoskallis.bsky.social & @jasonhickel.bsky.social together with the LSE @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-...

After seeing @micahgoldwater.bsky.social speak on memes as forms of argument-making, I've decided to livetweet what I can of the Australasian Society of Philosophy and Psychology conference #ASPP2025. Conservatives can see the effectiveness of liberal memes, whereas the reverse is not observed.

Good on Australia for doing this! It’s such a deceptive practice to tell customers their price is increasing because of AI, when the old price is still available without genAI but only if you try to cancel.

I know we're desensitized, but it's important to note, again, that today's events would have led to the immediate impeachment & removal of any president from at least Truman to at least Obama. We're hundreds of miles on the interstate past Richard Nixon's high school prank-level crimes compared to 👇

this is a very sharp piece on why it makes no sense to run universities as if they are businesses. They're not businesses. www.afr.com/work-and-car...

There is a ton of research that students ratings on aggregate do not reflect learning outcomes, but whatever biases the population has. But in the "run universities like a business" model, student ratings are customer satisfaction surveys, so reflecting learning outcomes is irrelevant.

Excited to announce my first ever published game, for the @halcyonfrequency.bsky.social gamejam. ”Social Media Manager", a shady deskjob simulator with #roguelike elements. I hope you enjoy it and would love to hear any feedback #indiegames #indiedev timothyjgraham.itch.io/social-media...

This is a bizarre thing to publish on the day the federal court awarded a journalist $220,000 for being unfairly dismissed from an on-air role for their political views. In Australia it isn't just private companies that cave to pressure, it's the public broadcaster www.smh.com.au/national/why...

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

"AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor."

Interesting new study! They attributed heatwaves🔥 to emissions of individual companies. Companies that emit a lot of CO2 contribute to climate change, making heatwaves more intense. Can this help in pushing them to reduce emissions and hold them accountable for the damage? doi.org/10.1038/s415...

As the fall semester begins, I'd like to send a call to anyone who would like to get involved in our Consortium on Moral Decision-Making. We're a dedicated network of morality and ethics researchers focused on breaking outside siloes to work together on big questions. moralconsortium.psu.edu 1/n

I often talk about the fact that MAGA does not access the same news as the left wing. I present to you Exhibit A. Dr. Daskalakis’ resignation letter excoriated RFK Jr. and shared that RFK Jr. was lying to the public, manipulating data, and ordering unethical actions. This what Fox News served.

New paper on misperceptions out in PNAS @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Why do people overestimate the size of politically relevant groups (immigrant, LGBTQ, Jewish) and quantities (% of budget spent on foreign aid, % of refugees that are criminals)?🧵👇

"Public health campaigns should consider personality traits for more effective preventive interventions. They can target people high in openness, for example, by presenting health science as dynamic and evolving, not just a set of rules and prescriptions…"

I know it’s gauche to share good news on here, but our university’s IRB (ethics office) just declared that low risk applications will no longer be reviewed by 4 people & then go to a committee. They’ll be reviewed by 1 person. I almost can’t believe a change this positive is possible in this world.

In June, Kathleen Murphy-Hollies hosted a workshop on conspiracy theory and story telling at the University of Birmingham, featuring five exciting academics working on the topic. Today's post presents a brief summary of each of their talks. #philsky #philpsy

In light of the Columbia and Brown deals, I’m bumping these slides again about the Nazi takeover of German science, which includes discussion about how they took over academia, in a manner very similar to the Brown and Columbia deals

New paper: we argue that an individual's propensity to compare items and discover abstract relational rules, rather than focus on surface similarity, is stable across learning tasks, and is independent of working memory capacity. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

bayesians gotta relax with the taking credit for the concept of infering things about the world

Lol @micahgoldwater.bsky.social meme redux at #cogsci2025 in a cool talk about political psych via memes

In our new paper, we motivate giving community health workers the tools to support evidence-based medical decision-making that go beyond a deficit model. journals.plos.org/globalpublic...?

Tufts PhD student in child development, whose research was on the representation of refugees in children's media, was abducted by ICE; video in link. I hadn't seen this on this app, so wanted to spread at least a little. This is very far beyond suppressing free speech. www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

Ho et al. (2025) review three decades of work on social dominance orientation (SDO), which represents "individual differences in the preference for group-based hierarchy and inequality." BSky authors: @nourkteily.bsky.social, @jsskeffington.bsky.social, @lottethomsendk.bsky.social

I hate how accurate this feels right now🫣

Re-upping this again as more people read about the Khalil case. More information to come, but nothing in WP and NYT so far contradicts original reporting. Again, it DOES NOT MATTER what you think about him or his cause. Either government is bound by the law for all of us or we're all at their mercy.

As legal permanent residents, green card holders are protected by the first amendment. Clear and pretty unambiguous precedent: firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/alie...

Neuroscientists and social scientists have abused causal language so severely (e.g. in concluding that something "enhances" from a correlation in an observational study), that now researchers feel the need to redundantly insert the word "causal" to emphasize they really do mean causal!!

we just posted the Expanded Natural History of Song Discography, a corpus of audio & metadata. 1007 songs in many languages, for behavioral experiments, cross-cultural research, etc preprint: osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/d2ftg_v1 corpus: zenodo.org/records/14927216 led by @milabertolo.bsky.social 1/

Elsevier/RELX profit rises 10%, investor call: "continuing to see strong growth" including from pay-to-read and pay-to-publish. From the www.journalology.com newsletter. In my opinion, more researchers and universities need to stop supporting them.

New research led by @zhpinkman.bsky.social investigating the impact of LLMs on the reduction of linguistic diversity and its societal implications. "We're getting the language into its final shape - the shape it's going to have when nobody speaks anything else." George Orwell, 1984

What % is young women dating older men and what % is young men and young women thinking differently about the same situationship? Social psychologists: plz answer, thank you.

It’s crazy how badly the Australian economy is doing. “Cost of living” doesn’t really capture how much things have tanked, and Albanese sharing graphs showing inflation has peaked feels like a Biden-esque move that won’t arrest his decline.

Happy anniversary to all who celebrate

For the entire University of California system- "secretly put spyware on all computers to track our browsing and the CIO is like ‘the mailman can look at where your mail is going if they want this is no different" What is stopping other universities from doing the same? Should we assume they are?

New paper led by Kit Double on how eliciting metacognitive judgments affects learning. Some propose that prompting reflection improves learning outcomes, but we see the opposite- these judgments shift learners away from strategies that promote knowledge transfer. link.springer.com/article/10.1...?

Health officials in Louisiana say a person there has died after catching bird flu. This marks the first reported death in the U.S. from the virus during the current outbreak.

From my colleagues Kyle Harper and David Wolpert at the Santa Fe Institute: Position for two-year postdoc with background in computer science interested in working with social scientists/historians to study social evolution through computational lens. Details here: santafe.edu/about/jobs/p...