I’m excited to participate in Mass General’s 5th annual Conference on Precision Psychiatry, which will be held virtually on Sept. 25–26. It’s free for trainees and learners and there is a discount code below for everyone else.

A huge development for normalization and support of the scientific sleuth community as an important component of a healthy, high integrity research system.

I'm very happy that Pedram Heydari, @michellemeyer.bsky.social, and I have published our study on the internal inconsistencies in the choices that laypeople and medical clinicians make about rationing scarce treatments (such as ventilators and drugs during the Covid pandemic).

If you are at #WebSci2025, join our "Beyond APIs: Collecting Web Data for Research using the National Internet Observatory" - a tutorial that addresses the critical challenges of web data collection in the post-API era. national-internet-observatory.github.io/beyondapi_websci25/

At Geisinger we have created a new team to conduct and publish rigorous evaluations of important health system initiatives, programs, and interventions. I'm one of the faculty co-directors of this group and I'm happy to say we have two new positions open! (1/2)

We’re hiring! tinyurl.com/GeisingerBIT Geisinger’s Behavioral Insights Team is looking for a new Staff Scientist. We conduct large pragmatic trials of behavioral science-informed interventions to improve health outcomes, with work published/forthcoming in Nature Hum Behav, PNAS, JAMA Netw Open 1/2

Reviewer 2 used an LLM to generate their review of our manuscript—except for the part where they asked for several irrelevant papers, all mysteriously authored by the same person, to be cited. Thank you, Reviewer 1, whoever you are. Not all heroes wear capes.

Nationwide preliminary injunction GRANTED in the three consolidated #NIH #indirects cases. www.scribd.com/document/835...

We are HIRING a clinical ethicist to join the Department of Bioethics and Decision Sciences in the Geisinger College of Health Sciences! There is potential for advancement into a leadership role in the future for a candidate with preferred qualifications. Please share widely! tinyurl.com/4mu4cv2c

BREAKING: 22 states sue NIH over Trump administration's new 15% cap on overhead for federal research grants. Suit filed federal court in Boston contends lifesaving research 'will grind to a halt' under the policy. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

🔊Next conference of the European Social Science Genetics Network (ESSGN) in Bristol, 22-23 May. ✅Keynote by @michellemeyer.bsky.social ✅Panel on the current frontier of MR w/ George Davey-Smith (Bristol), Dalton Conley (Princeton), and Alice Carter (Novo-Nordisk). essgn.org/essgn-confer...

Great postdoc opportunity (work from anywhere in the US) in quantitative decision sciences (plus great coverage of this weekend’s @sjdm-tweets.bsky.social conference #FOMO) 👇

I'm thrilled that our paper on base-rate neglect (BRN) and on-the-job experience (w/ @cfchabris.bsky.social and @michellemeyer.bsky.social) was just accepted at Management Science! TLDR: on-the-job experience with base-rate type problems mitigates, but does not eliminate, base-rate neglect. 1/7

Thrilled to welcome 3 new faculty members to Geisinger's Department of Bioethics & Decision Sciences: Stephanie Kraft, @byrdnick.com & @katesaylor.bsky.social. Looking forward to seeing them continue their great work. You can read more about the department here: www.geisinger.edu/gchs/researc....

Do I have thoughts about peer review? <cracks knuckles> <takes deep breath> <clears calendar for the day>

Oh my. Danny was an inspiration to a generation of social-behavioral scientists and transformed our understanding of decision-making. I can no longer answer the question "who is the most important living psychologist?" with any confidence. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

NEW: Open Letter on the Need for Preregistration Transparency in Peer Review docs.google.com/document/d/1... To work as intended, preregistration needs to be part of peer review process. We make commitments to doing so as authors, editors, & reviewers. Please sign and share widely with colleagues!

‼️We’re hiring for several research positions at the intersection of behavioral science & health, spanning lab studies, big data studies, & field experiments: ✔️Predoctoral fellow (starting asap) ✔️Postdoctoral fellow (starting asap) ✔️Faculty (open rank; timing flexible) Ads: tinyurl.com/BehSciJobs

Harvard is asking for all counts against it to be dismissed for failing to state a claim upon which relief can be granted—except for her Title IX claim (they will of course seek summary judgment on that count after discovery, if it gets that far). Data Colada answer due 11/8.

Also, Harvard wants to publicly post a minimally redacted version of its 1,200-page investigation into the four studies of Dr. Gino's. Her team was on board — then backed out, according to Harvard. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Harvard just filed a partial motion to dismiss Francesca Gino's lawsuit against it, saying that she failed to state claims for breach of contract and defamation, among other things

THE NEW EIC OF PSYCH SCIENCE IS @simine.com WAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

This is a direct link to the Bioethics feed. Use one of these hastags in your post and it will show up in the feed: #bioethics #publichealthethics #healthequity #healthjustice #medicalethics

New in PNAS: the typical way of visualizing trial & other scientific results misleads even experts—doctors, data scientists & TT faculty—about the results’ importance & definitiveness: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2302491120 Tl;dr: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1689383935795404800.html

NEW in Nature Computational Science: Despite today’s remarkable papers in Science, social media & other platforms are making it ever harder to study the Internet’s effects on society & do so ethically. We describe 1 path we’re taking https://www.nature.com/articles/s43588-023-00490-7 👉rdcu.be/dhUn3

Nice @npr.org interview w/ @cfchabris.bsky.social & @profsimons.bsky.social on Nobody’s Fool—how our bias for assuming what we see & hear is the truth can mislead us & “doing our own research” https://www.npr.org/2023/07/16/1187992903/daniel-simons-and-christopher-chabris-on-their-book-nobodys-fool

The Invisible Gorilla guys are back! Happy book birthday to “Nobody’s Fool,” by @profsimons.bsky.social and my better half, @cfchabris.bsky.social. Reviews, excerpts, podcasts, and trailers will accumulate at http://www.dansimons.com/NobodysFool.html

[Link fixed] It's publication day for our new book (@cfchabris), Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do About It! Order today from Bookshop to support your local bookstore and get free shipping! Links to our book at Bookshop and other vendors: http://www.dansimons.com/NobodysFool.html

Congrats to @profsimons.bsky.social & @cfchabris.bsky.social for making the cover of the WSJ Review section with an essay adaptation of their new book, Nobody’s Fool, out Tuesday https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-we-get-scammed-and-what-to-do-about-it-442c2b01

Is there a setting I need to toggle so that when someone I follow decides to engage every person involved their pile-on, my feed doesn’t turn into nothing but their replies? At least on the other site, unless people were QTing, you had only your attraction to drama to blame for getting lost in that.

ANNOUNCEMENT: Seeking multiple bioethicists and decision scientists—both fields broadly construed—at all faculty ranks to join Geisinger’s NEW Department of Bioethics & Decision Sciences. Please RT and circulate widely. https://tinyurl.com/GBDS-Openings

“Data is not available upon request”: the latest paper finding, of articles stating that data were available upon request, only 17%…shared data upon request. 😐 Seriously stop doing this. Put it in a repository while it’s fresh; it will only get *less* convenient to share as time goes on, not more.