- Me: "write a small function that does one thing" - LLM: would you like me to add a calculation for the answer to the ultimate question to life, the universe, and everything? - Me: [deletes, includes print("42")].

Stephen Turner@stephenturner.us · last yr.

Vibe code is legacy code (quoting Steve Krouse) doi.org/10.59350/d3b...

Self-control in daily life is more than willpower — but how well do commonly used trait scales capture this recent, broader view on self-control? New preprint with @kaihorstmann.bsky.social & @mhennecke.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/ps... Short summary below.

So true. Good to avoid unnecessary suffering!

Crystal Lewis@cghlewis.bsky.social · last yr.

Friends don't let friends collect data without adding data validation. From Rebekah Jacob 😉

I'm happy to share our latest manuscript "Impediments to countering racist pseudoscience", coauthored with @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social @kztwyman.bsky.social & Marcus Feldman.

Dr Sarah Myers@drsarahmyers.bsky.social · last yr.

Excited to see 1st of the Evoluionary Human Sciences special issue on scientific racism come out! @kevinlala.bsky.social @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social @kztwyman.bsky.social & Marcus Feldman discuss impediments to countering racist pseudoscience & present 5 solutions www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

@madselk.bsky.social, @benansell.bsky.social, Laure Bokobza, @aslicansunar.bsky.social, @mhaslberger.bsky.social, and @jacobnyrup.bsky.social. 2025. ‘Why Is It so Hard to Counteract Wealth Inequality? Evidence from the United Kingdom’. World Politics. 77(3): 515–61. muse.jhu.edu/article/964464

Sitting here bleary after another poor night's sleep, disinclined to engage in a day of cognitive effort, this chart from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com really strikes home on.ft.com/4eFZG4l

Great PSA! To echo: please don't use the chat window (your research decisions are being made for you). Send me a message and I will happily provide you with code to prompt OpenAI's model endpoints and store the conversational context throughout.

Jamie Cummins@jamiecummins.bsky.social · last yr.

Social scientists should not use chat interfaces when using LLMs in their research: they are impressively inefficient, and obscure/impose important methodological decisions that require thought. THREAD🧵

WIRED loves Fairphone and everything it stands for—but people just aren’t buying its devices, and the few who have don’t need to upgrade. www.wired.com/story/fairph...

Fairphone Has a New Plan to Get You to Care

WIRED loves Fairphone and everything it stands for—but people just aren’t buying its devices, and the few who have don’t need to upgrade.

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Great article linked below. I was unaware journals could negotiate and inflate the metric by excluding article types. I suppose that is part of the reason why there are always a bunch of different article types. Yet another example of Goodhart's Law! journals.plos.org/plosmedicine...

Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛@rmcelreath.bsky.social · last yr.

While *ideal* impact factor is well known to be a bad proxy of article quality, it is less well known that *actual* impact factor is negotiated and gamed by journals. You think Nature earned that impact factor? You think that's air you're breathing? (see e.g. journals.plos.org/plosmedicine...)

Registration is open for the Summer School on Computational Decision Sciences, 8–12 Sept Join us in London for a week of cutting-edge research on decision-making, AI, cognitive science and more! (free, register by 11Aug) center-decision-sciences.com/cds-summer-s... #PsychSciSky 🧠 #neuroskyence🧪

CDS Summer School

Program Registration Schedule Directions 8th – 12th September, 2025 The Center for Decision Sciences will be hosting a summer school during the second week of September, 2025 and taking place…

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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

#CDRLeeds 's Simon Baal @svanbaal.bsky.social and colleagues have received an AFSG Minor Exploratory Grant (afsg.org) to improve use of the Problem Gambling Severity Index. They'll attempt identifying different problematic gambling profiles using the score and natural language processing tools.

New work by Sudeep Bhatia @sdpbht.bsky.social, Simon van Baal @svanbaal.bsky.social, Feiyi Wang, and @lukaszwalasek.bsky.social Lukasz Walasek -- now out in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Simon van Baal@svanbaal.bsky.social · last yr.

Pleased to announce that @sdpbht.bsky.social, @lukaszwalasek.bsky.social, Feiyi Wang and I published this work in @pnas.org last month. A particularly intricate project I'm thankful to have been part of! Going from unstructured text to an attribute repr. of decisions. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Would you like to extract and exploit textual data from the internet? No matter whether you want to analyse product reviews, or political opinions, #CDRLeeds 4-day workshop Webtext2Insight will teach you how to do it. 9-12 June 2025 in Leeds. More info and registration: shorturl.at/JCiKT

We're running a workshop - Webtext2Insight Intro workshop: Scraping, NLP, and GenAI for Business & Research. 📅 Dates: 9-12 June 📍 Location: Leeds University Business School, UK 👩‍🏫 Instructors: @lukaszwalasek.bsky.social , @xingjiewei.bsky.social, and I. 💻 Python (AI tools: Hugging Face, OpenAI API)

Pleased to announce that @sdpbht.bsky.social, @lukaszwalasek.bsky.social, Feiyi Wang and I published this work in @pnas.org last month. A particularly intricate project I'm thankful to have been part of! Going from unstructured text to an attribute repr. of decisions. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Computational analysis of 100 K choice dilemmas: Decision attributes, trade-off structures, and model-based prediction | PNAS

We present a dataset of over 100 K textual descriptions of real-life choice dilemmas, obtained from social media posts and large-scale survey data....

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🧵New paper out in Cognition Why do people moralize harmless carnal sins (e.g. gluttony, masturbation)? @danielnettle.bsky.social & I find that these behaviors activate reciprocity-based moral judgment—no need for a distinct "purity" module. 50 days free link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1l18D2Hx2-...

We will soon be announcing a workshop 9-12 June at the Centre for Decision Research in Leeds, UK on webscraping, natural language processing and generative AI for research and business. Watch this space! #behsci #ai #scraping #nlp

Thrilled to share @lukaszwalasek.bsky.social, Philip Newall, and I were selected for an AFSG exploratory grant! We'll study how gambling experiences relate to the main gambling harm measuring tool—the PGSI. Understanding the person behind PGSI scores will enable better harm detection/prevention.

Academic Forum for the Study of Gambling@afsguk.bsky.social · last yr.

Delighted to announce the 2025 Exploratory Grant Award winners. Congratulations to @fieldmatt.bsky.social, @chris.themindlab.uk and @svanbaal.bsky.social. To find out more about their work, visit: afsg.org/2025/04/30/e...

Interesting new work on fatigue and self-control! We must keep developing our understanding of when lapses of self-control are likely to occur. The replication failure of ego depletion still leaves a lot to explore.

Leopold Roth@leopoldroth.bsky.social · 2y ago

🎉new pre-print on self-control and fatigue🎉 In this experiment (N = 312), we show how mental fatigue impairs task persistence and performance. Small thread on why this makes sense and what social psychology can learn from sports science. #PsychSciSky #psychsky #AcademicSky osf.io/preprints/os...

A new amazing episode of the Minds Matter podcast - built enviromenment and well-being! #philosophy #neuroskyence

Minds Matter Podcast@mindsmatter.bsky.social · 2y ago

Have you ever wondered how the built environment effects your mood? 💭🏘️ Is it true that red rooms make you angry? 😡 This week we sit down with Dr. Isabella Bower to discuss her on research on how the built environment can impact our mental health 🌇 (links in 🧵) @monash-m3cs.bsky.social

Participant Recruitment! Looking for workers within the healthcare sector to take part in a 15-minute survey about workers' health and engagement in workplace mental health support (Prize draw to win up to £150 worth of shopping vouchers). Survey link - warwick.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

🚨 Out in Decision: are you interested in research on impulsivity, self-control, or time preferences, but are not quite sure how they fit together - look no further! @lukaszwalasek.bsky.social @hohwy.bsky.social A. Verdejo-Garcia and I offer a conceptual analysis with empirical evidence. #behsci

@lukaszwalasek.bsky.social, Philip Newall and I wrote a blog about our recent paper on the lived experiences of gambling harm. The discussions on online gambling fora are striking. From gambling operators reopening accounts after closure to ruined marriages.

@lukaszwalasek.bsky.social, @hohwy.bsky.social, Antonio Verdejo-Garcia and I published an article in Decision on the relationships between time preferences, impulsivity, and self-control. We were invited by the APA to write a non-technical snippet about it here: www.growkudos.com/publications...

Are impatient people impulsive and patient people self-controlled?

Academic research often frames impatience as a result of our impulses and patience as a sign of self-control. We trace this connection back to a 1970s explanation of why we fail to control ourselves: ...

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We have two posts open at lecturer level to candidates working in any subfield of political theory (please note: you need only apply for one of the advertised posts to be considered for both) 2/ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMA319/l...

Lecturer in Political Theory at King's College London

Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Lecturer in Political Theory on jobs.ac.uk!

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Does anybody know when the UK is supposed to be insulated from natural gas determining the marginal price of electricity? Coming off the back of the 6.4% cap increase by Ofgem, it seems consumers are worried about when we will start to see the benefits of all that cheap energy generation.

The custom Behavioral Science feed has reached 100 followers! Testament to the fact that this platform is gaining traction with social scientists bsky.app/profile/did:...

"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

“Our findings highlight that both self-report accuracy and selective participation are competing biases and sources of poor reproducibility for biobank-scale research” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The impact of self-report inaccuracy in the UK Biobank and its interplay with selective participation - Nature Human Behaviour

Biobank data are extensively used. Schoeler and colleagues show that self-report inaccuracy and selective participation are sources of poor reproducibility for biobank-scale research.

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