Another special issue at Psych Science! We invite “submissions that advance the field through critical appraisal of articles previously published by Psychological Science” Please share! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Special Issue Call for Submissions: “Appraising the Foundations of Psychological Science”

Editors: Tom Beckers and Heather UrryOne way a journal can earn its reputation for quality is to take active steps to vet the articles that appear within its pages after publication. To that end, Psyc...

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I spent a year watching school administrators do their jobs—and interviewing the students most impacted. I spoke to @thecut.com in a long-form Q&A about what I saw. Mainly, a system designed to protect perpetrators and punish victims in each and every case.

The Reason Why Colleges Still Fail to Address Sexual Violence

The “Cornell Seven” case highlights what’s wrong with Trump’s Title IX rules — and how the system was always designed to fail.

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Very cool new paper by @aleksakaurin.bsky.social, Mario Wenzel, @paulaphilippi.bsky.social using some of my K99 data: osf.io/preprints/ps... EMA studies often ask people how they feel several times a day. But when is a change bigger than measurement noise? And does the person actually feel change?

Of course, harm to citizens is only one facet of the broader project. Still important to highlight the abject lawlessness and mendacity.

Ken Schwencke@schwanksta.com · yesterday

A year ago, @propublica.org told you immigration agents had detained more than 170 U.S. citizens. We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts. The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...

Nihar Shah did a heroic experiment for TMLR: he spent 20-25 hours over two weeks interviewing authors of seemingly low-quality submissions about their own papers. He confirmed what we all suspected: people submitting these papers have *no idea* what is going on in them.

Transactions on Machine Learning Research@tmlrorg.bsky.social · 3w ago

TMLR has faced a deluge of submissions, necessitating stricter desk rejection policies due to limited reviewer capacity Co-EiC Nihar Shah reached out to authors of 10 papers slated for desk reject. Could they answer questions about their *own* submission? medium.com/@TmlrOrg/ask...

Does spreading mental health awareness online amplify self-diagnosis? In my first PhD pre-print, I empirically examine this question (n =3392) with some kick-ass collaborators and tools from cultural evolution A 🧵

Come join me in the Emotions in Context Lab at the University of Kansas! I will be taking PhD students in Fall 2027.

👀 Florida attorney general to OpenAI: (www.myfloridalegal.com/sites/defaul...)

as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

If you missed my Sonoma State University Center for Ethics, Law, and Justice seminar series talk "On Bullshit Engines: The Socioethical and Epistemic Status of GPTs and other 'AI.'" (or if you just want to dig into it again), the youtube link is now up: youtu.be/9DpM_TXq2ws

On Bullshit Engines: The Socioethical and Epistemic Status of GPTs and other AI. Dr. Williams.

Forum for Law Ethics and Society (FiLES). Dr. Williams takes a deep dive into the propensity for GPT style AIs to not merely present falsehoods but to perpe...

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave@wolven.blacksky.app · 3y ago

If you're interested in hearing me talk more about GPTs and "AI" and the problems they create for the project of shared knowledge and consensus reality and even just, y'know, living, Join me and the Sonoma State University Center for Ethics, Law, and Society today at 12pm PDT/3pm EDT:

When we talk about the costs that LLMs impose on society we should not forget the fact that nothing works anymore because everyone is so scared of getting their shit scraped. I can't even use google scholar from my university or starlink because they send too much traffic.

If my company killed 123 children, the U.S. government would shut us down and send me to jail

Techmeme@techmeme.com · 3w ago

US officials say overreliance on Palantir's Maven AI system was among the factors that contributed to a February missile strike in Iran that killed 123 children (Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

translation - Google hacked three other companies www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Google says its Gemini AI model hacked three other companies

Disclosure comes after OpenAI and Anthropic hacks amid fears that tech firms unable to control powerful AI models

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Remember folks, take notes here: ✅ When your company hacking another one helps with marketing, its "OMG rogue models gone wild hacking other companies." 😱 ❌ When a hacking incident doesn't raise your valuation but shows you to be massive thieves, it's an internal "ah nice"

I did a somewhat deep dive into the recent OpenAI and Anthropic "hacks" for an upcoming interview. IMO, the AI companies are better off running with the "rogue AI" story because the real story is actually pretty embarrassing. Like making your Wi-Fi password "wifi" embarrassing. 🧵

More than any higher ed development in recent memory, institutional subsidies for AI at R1 universities prove that austerity is a choice. It is not “too expensive” to invest in a humanities research infrastructure; rather, it is a choice that R1 universities make not to & subsidize AI instead.

Avery@dyingsignals.love · 3w ago

The amount of money I saw one department paying for several AI services in a school year could cover the University’s pay one price textbook costs for nearly their entire enrolled student body in said department

I was pretty chuffed about science when the doctors at NYU figured out why my face had gone numb and I had lost the ability to speak and swallow. They turned to the scientific literature, which guided them through keeping me from dying from a rare disorder and regaining the ability to speak and eat.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 3w ago

When we talk about how science is broken, maybe at least consider how a huge collaboration measured the ripples in spacetime resulting the collision of two black holes 1.3 billion light years away, as counterweight the guy who had to fake his data to show that people who procrastinate fall behind.

Who is advising students to automate these messages? Why the mass delusion that professors want to read these? What makes me saddest is the erosion of trust. Even the students who take the time to write will now meet readers who are skeptical they wrote the words themselves. Everyone loses.

I'm giving an overview presentation of what my lab does and I think this meme accurately captures it.

I’m pleased to share that I’ll be considering grad students for Fall 2027 admissions to the University of Rochester’s clinical psychology program. I’m working on updating my website (more to come)— check it out to learn more about who we are and what we do www.psych.rochester.edu/research/sta...

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Reviewing applications for the Clinical Psych PhD at UC Berkeley this fall! We develop and test transdiagnostic treatments (soon including sleep-interfering media use) and study how to get them into real-world care. #ClinicalPsychology #PhD #SleepResearch #UCBerkeley

One of my big academic rules: only write papers you really care about on topics you really care about. I try to follow this rule 99% of the time. This paper is one of the best examples of that, and I’m stoked it’s one step closer to being in the world. We’ve corrected proofs & you’ll have it soon!

Prompted by the scandal around Navier-Stokes, Andreas Thom raises the possibility that OpenAI may also have stolen the work on non-sofic groups:

I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign

Dancing very very VERY close to saying “OpenAI stole our almost-complete proof of Navier-Stokes from internal access to our ChatGPT sessions because they were desperate to scoop Anthropic” which is absolutely 100% a believable thing OpenAI would do right now cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...

It seems like there's a new round of "stochastic parrots has been proven wrong" discourse going on, so I'm going to re-up this: medium.com/@emilymenonb... >>

Stochastic Parrots 🦜: Frequently Unasked Questions

It’s been a bit over five years since the Stochastic Parrots paper (Bender, Gebru et al 2021) was published (and somewhat longer since…

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UW-Madison professor engages in multiple sexual relationships with students, disparages another over their sexual orientation and appearance, creates hostile environment, and department leadership covers it all up. And in true “pass the trash” fashion, moves on to ASU once forced to resign.

UW-Madison students, records detail investigation of professor

Dietram Scheufele resigned after investigators determined he had sexual relationships with two students and engaged in unwelcome sexual conduct with one.

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“Steinem made my life better. Yes, my life as a cis hetero male. I couldn’t have my career and my life without the professional women I’ve learned from, worked with, and worked for.” — Elie Mystal @elienyc.bsky.social Ditto.

Buckle your seatbelts before you read this one, it's a wild ride (along the rough road of apparent data fabrication): datacolada.org/139 It would be sublime comedy if it weren't in science; I joke above because I'm frankly annoyed. But, silver lining seeing journal and @simine.com act quickly.

[139] Artificial Deadlines (Part 2): Retrograding Ariely & Wertenbroch (2002)

As described in our previous post (.htm), back in 2006 ariely@mit.edu sent three Excel spreadsheets, each “last saved” by user “Dan Ariely”, to then-PhD-student-but-now-full…

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