This will either increase my course evaluations or get me sent to the dean. Let's see!

This is all p misleading IMO. I just saw this link so haven't read it yet (but will, though I also think lots of the retweets of this haven't read it as well, given its provenance). I don't see how this counters (eg) Dawson 1999 which goes through 13 millennial cults and finds 12 show the effect 1/n

Ok, just wow. If the content of this article is right, this is depressing. We're slowly reaching the point where ~100% of what I was taught in Social Psych was either innocently wrong or plainly frauded onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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What's the take home message? If you're submitting AI slop you're a loser. You're just making these great free services harder to run, and making it more difficult to separate signal (science) from noise (your crappy AI shit.)

On the other hand, this is great for my cognitive dissonance when I ultimately get rejected for my Vidi project. Me to my head of department: "If it weren't for all these pesky US researchers I would've gotten away with it..."

At this point, the first thing everybody is doing when reviewing anything is to scan for AI use. So in that regard, this tech is creating jobs.

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The sheer number of parties in the Dutch election is a data visualisation nerds' moment to shine.

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People be like: Look here are the two things that are destroying you. 1. Paid publishers who sell you stuff you work for free 2. GenAI that sells you stuff based on stolen work Universities be like: I would like to pay to keep these two in business.

If one is to trust polls, because of a large number of still undecided voters, the Dutch election is shaping up to be, unpredictable.

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Have these people ever interacted with a Dutch person. No one here has ever started a sentence with: “that’s a great idea…”

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I like em dashes but every time I use them now, I go back to delete them because I realise people will think it's ChatGPT writing. Another victim of GenAI—my use of em dashes.

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This is a nice summary of one of the main issues in Dutch politics currently: housing. It is also a nice reminder how time and again, right and far right parties scapegoat migrants and immigrants for problems caused by blatant neoliberalism. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

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So LLM's are getting close to performing about as good as super forecasters. This seems like a relatively rigorous test but I have to say I'm still confused how this works and what the LLMs have access to? My guess is that the question set will lead to huge variation in performance.

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Learn something new every day. Points for extra irony given this word's frequent usage in politics and voting patterns.

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This is exactly what doing AI-assisted research looks to me

In advance of next year's (likely dire) job market, here are the 2024-2025 numbers from the psych job wiki: the overall number of tenure-track job listings in psychology and neuroscience fell slightly, from 860 to 822 (this doesn't include canceled searches, which are often not properly reported).

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Adding AI watermark to latest paper...

After all these reports of authors adding language instructions for LLM reviews in their papers I wanted to check this myself and I downloaded the .tex source from one of these papers. Here is an example. (I will not share the identity of the paper)

Is there anyone who keeps this text prediction on in word? Am I missing something. How is this useful?

Quite frankly, they are not going far enough: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJJy...

Day 1 million of me opening up a preregistration link only to find that the authors just kind of describe the vibe of the paper and no actual analytic decisions or predictions in the "preregistration". Yet, they say that the study is preregistered.