It’s been described to me as ‘write something, so you have something to change’

Of course Tversky paves the road to interpretable AI: gonzoml.substack.com/p/tversky-ne...

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)

✨New Working Paper!!✨ (w/ Cindy Cryder and @scottianrick.bsky.social) Using real credit card transactions and scenario experiments, we find people restrict their use of co-branded credit cards within featured brands, hurting both cardholders and card issuers. 🧵1/5 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

At the CredibilityLab (currently hosting Aspredicted and Researchbox) we have a new platform in the works, AsCollected, that will help with this. We welcome input from experienced parties. Signup for alpha or beta testing or announcement of release at AsCollected.Org

Really proud of this new work out @psychscience.bsky.social. Led by the amazing but bluesky-less Amanda Geiser and with @deborahsmall.bsky.social. We show that when comparing moral wrongs, people are (much) more willing to “scale up” than to “scale down” condemnation and punishment…

Why is that?

If you think you have a novel idea about Prospect Theory I invite you to check it against this 2,869 page bibliography personal.eur.nl/wakker/refs/...

Statement on academic freedom, diversity, equity and inclusion at the Journal of Consumer Research: consumerresearcher.com/academic-fre...

Also the way I accept free cookies in my seminar lunch box

I really liked this idea of using a histogram as a legend in a choropleth map (since land isn't unemployed; people are), so I made a little guide to doing it with #rstats, {ggplot2}, and {patchwork} www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...

In light of the latest plane crash news, this seems relevant again. www.bbc.com/news/magazin...

A good general epistemic rule of thumb: If you have spent a few hours or weeks studying an area large numbers of smart, educated people have worked in for decades, and you believe you have discoverer an earthshattering truth they all missed, your default should be to regard this as VERY unlikely.

I'm hiring a lab manager to start this summer/fall, to work on transformative experience, identity change, and empathy in the digital age. Details here: www.crockettlab.org/research-spe... Please share!

As someone trained as a trade economist, it is my duty to share the 1929-1933 Kindleberger Spiral, showing the month-month decline in global trade due to the combined factors of the (global) Great Depression and retaliatory tariffs. Smooth Hawley is implemented mid-June 1930.

TIL Abraham Wald, who famously worked on selection bias in assessing aircraft damage, died in a plane crash :(

One of the best things you can do right now is read books. Buy them. Borrow them from the library. Gift them. Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is. Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙

Just used Gemini Live to participate in a beh. experiment without even reading the instructions or speaking the language. LLMs acting as participants on platforms like Prolific could pollute data meant to study humans. With OpenAI’s operator model, this issue is growing. 🎥👇 youtu.be/NujyGZSA7Hg

Karl: “Let me in, I don’t want to miss #Caturday!” Pippin: “You fool, it’s only Friday.”

That is quite a shift “The number of unsigned editorials has gone from three a day…to just one a week” www.cjr.org/analysis/pau...

Anti Nazi demonstration in Berlin. "A Nazi victory will lead Germany into civil war" says the banner. Late 1930.

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

My ✨New Paper✨ (w/ Robyn LeBoeuf) is out in JEP: General! We find a robust discrepancy between people’s prediction and their own likelihood judgment. 1/n🧵 psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

All learning of statistics and econometrics is learning that we live in a house of sticks

Our lack of good deep psychological measures of human creativity, reasoning, empathy, etc. is really a problem in AI right now. A lot of tests that were "good enough" for human research (RAT for creativity, Seeing the Mind in The Eyes for empathy) are not robust enough to be benchmarks for AI.

I was curious about the wonky AI overview results being delivered by Google search, so I looked at this a bit further. "What is heavier: an elephant or an elephant with an ant on its back?"

TELL ME! 👀

Universities and other higher education establishments have joined a retreat among British institutions from Elon Musk's X social media platform, citing its role in spreading misinformation that fueled race riots last year reut.rs/3PrsMsx

I am undercutting your scam by 5%

Fascinating paper by Claudia Goldin on drivers of low fertility in advanced economies. Countries where economic progress outstrips social progress (in particular, gender equality in household division of labour) see the most rapid falls in fertility.. www.nber.org/papers/w33311

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 11 #booksky

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 10 #booksky

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 9 #booksky

Recently accepted by #QJE, “The Effects of Medical Debt Relief: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments,” by Kluender, Mahoney (@nealemahoney.bsky.social), Wong (@francisawong.bsky.social), and Yin: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 8 #booksky

Amazing collective problem solving in ants:

🧪🕰️ Why Cancer Risk Drops After 80 As we age, stem cells lose their ability to grow–including cancerous growth. A new study links this to older cells acting like they lack iron Targeting this process might improve lung health & cancer therapies 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Health #SciComm 🧪

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I got a similar pattern a couple of months ago. Didn’t know it has a name!

People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random. Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 7 #booksky

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 6 #booksky

We're excited to announce the new team of AEs and ERB members at JCR starting in January of 2025. Thank you to the current team for everything you've done for the journal and thank you to the new team for signing on! consumerresearcher.com/2025-associa...

Controversial COVID study that promoted unproven treatment retracted after four-year saga Paper on hydroxychloroquine led by French researcher Didier Raoult is second-most-cited study ever to be withdrawn. @richvn.bsky.social reports at Nature. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Wow I started to use (base) r in 2016 and dplyr 2017. Didn't even know plyr exist

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 5 #booksky

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 4 #booksky