Psychological Science is running a special issue on "Advancing Psychological Science using Large Language Models", co-edited by me and @ruben.the100.ci. Check out the calls for submissions below! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

After a break, The HPS Podcast is back for Season 6! 🎙️ In our first episode, I'm joined by Dr. Magdalena Skipper, Editor-in-Chief of Nature, for a conversation about trust in science, transparent peer review, COVID-19's legacy, & the inequities that continue to shape who gets published.

S6 E1 - Magdalena Skipper on Scientific Publishing

Podcast Episode · The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science · 30 July · 39min

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Media shape our memories - but how? Our editorial launches the special collection Memory and Media in the Twenty-First Century, exploring how literature, film, social media, digital archives, and other media influence personal and collective memory. Read it here: doi.org/10.1007/s436...

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EXCELLENT: The Netherlands new OA policy seems to be well thought through obc.copim.pub/when-scaling... Policy explicitly recommends redirection & reallocation of funds from existing ‘big deal’ budgets towards community-driven alternatives, incl university-led diamond OA & Netherlands Uni Presses

When 'scaling small' becomes national policy

The Netherlands' new open access strategy echoes the principles the Open Book Collective was built on - 'scaling small' and community-led publishing

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Do people watch the news they do not trust? We tried to bring nuance to this question in a new paper (w Frank Mangold, Michaela Maier). Like others before us, we argue that “media distrust” comes in two flavors: skepticism and cynicism. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

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Just published: “What is critical metascience and why is it important” doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...

Glad you enjoyed it!

Marlene Altenmüller@marlephie.bsky.social · last mo.

Can you summarize current issues on motivated reasoning in 5min? Well, @fabianhutmacher.bsky.social can! Great overview at #EASP2026! 👏

✨The art of being wrong ✨ My friend & former colleague Lisa Hartke and my former PhD supervisor Christopher Cohrs have published a systematic review on promoting intellectual humility 🌱 Here's what I like about the publication ⬇️

This is both very funny and barely distinguishable from rationalizations I’ve heard people offer absolutely in earnest.

Dr Michele V@micheleveldsman.bsky.social · last mo.

“I have done all of the things that one is supposed to do to earn a tenure-track position. And I have done approximately 85% of them by typing prompts into a large language model and then moderately editing the output.” 🤣🤣🤣 brilliant 👌🏽 open.substack.com/pub/inprepar...

🧵 New paper out in JPSP: Morality Cut Both Ways. Can reading facts make you moralize an issue — or lose a moral conviction? We ran 6 studies, 4,464 participants. The results were surprising. 👇 #MoralPsychology #Attitudes. @icedteas.bsky.social 1/8

@marlephie.bsky.social and I are searching for a postdoc in SciComm research. Feel free to contact us before applying!

Marlene Altenmüller@marlephie.bsky.social · last mo.

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 3 YEAR POSTDOC in #SciComm research at @zpid.bsky.social! @kaisassenberg.bsky.social and me are searching for a postdoc with background in psychology or communication science. Own research ideas are welcome! Focus should be on societies' preparation for future pandemics. Please share!

So excited that this joint project got funded - already looking forward to getting started! 🎉

Jan-Philipp Stein@jpstein.de · 2mo ago

Time to get morbid... but also a bit hopeful? 🕯️😇 I'm beyond thrilled that the DFG has decided to fund the 3-year project "#digitalafterlife"—in which @fabianhutmacher.bsky.social and I will scrutinize the use of existing and emerging digital technologies (#genAI) to cope with mortality and grief 🙌

Time to get morbid... but also a bit hopeful? 🕯️😇 I'm beyond thrilled that the DFG has decided to fund the 3-year project "#digitalafterlife"—in which @fabianhutmacher.bsky.social and I will scrutinize the use of existing and emerging digital technologies (#genAI) to cope with mortality and grief 🙌

Paying peer reviewers works. Expanded Fast & Fair experiment @biologyopen.bsky.social: • 5.5 vs 37.7 working days to decision with reviews • ~3 vs ~9 reviewer invitations per manuscript • no reduction in editor-assessed review quality • similar acceptance rates www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🚨THREATENED BY SCIENCE🚨People often reject science at odds with their prior beliefs. In three studies, we now show that much of this can be explained by feelings of threat and we test how affirmations in #SciComm might help alleviate such threats. Now out in Public Understanding of Science! 🧵1/4

Thrilled this is out! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🧵 Do we have 2 kinds of beliefs? Some beliefs seem insensitive to evidence and rarely guide behavior, etc. To explain this, several theories divide belief into 2 types. I argue the explanation isn't in the *mind* but in the *world*

In the Mind or in the World? Types of Beliefs and the Locality of Evidence

People’s beliefs appear to be divisible into two distinct types. Some beliefs refer directly to the observable world, readily guide behavior, and are easily revised when challenged. Others, includi...

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1/ We've been measuring intellectual humility wrong. Most scales ask "are you intellectually humble?" but the people least humble are the most miscalibrated about it. They overclaim. The #humilityparadox. Out today in Behavior Research Methods. Here's what we did instead. 🧵

Fascinating deep dive into the characteristics of papers and peer reviews at a journal, with a lookback pre-COVID and pre-chatGPT. Papers and reviews showing more signs of AI over time, but also lower writing quality. orgsci.substack.com/p/more-versu... orgsci.substack.com/p/more-versu...

More Versus Better, Part I

AI Is Overwhelming Academic Peer Review. What Next?

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Ma este Európa szíve erősebben dobog Magyarországon. Europe’s heart is beating stronger in Hungary tonight.

Appreciated this history of citation indices, though of course the alternative history where citation indices were never introduced does not seem non-ruinous. open.substack.com/pub/davidoks...

How citations ruined science

The making and breaking of scientific life

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How does Nazi propaganda influence the emotions of Germans today? In a registered report in EJSP Lara Ditrich, Katharina Bernecker and I tested the affective consequences of Nazi propaganda pictures shown among pictures of Nazi terror on recipients emotions. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Vicious Pictures? How National Socialist Propaganda Glorifying Adolf Hitler Affects Contemporary Viewers' Emotions

The atrocities committed during the Nazi era still affect Germany's image in the world and Germans' feelings about their country's past. Herein, we investigate how historical propaganda images glorif...

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New working paper: Rethinking Misinformation Interventions. The field has spent years searching for the one intervention that will solve misinformation. This search is the wrong approach — and our disappointment says more about our expectations than our tools. (1/5) osf.io/preprints/so...

Some lovely diagrams and contrasts in Ziman’s (1981) “Science: The New Model”: doi.org/10.1177/0270...

🔴🔴 dear hive mind: what are your favorite experimental (partisan) identity primes? I only know of a few papers that primed partisan identities, and even fewer that did it successfully.. Any hints would be greatly appreciated 🙏

There is no creative research without academic freedom. In a paper on the history of psychology in #Hungary, I show how political regimes act like sorting machines - shaping what research becomes (im-)possible. A timely reminder with Hungarian elections ahead in April. doi.org/10.1007/s436...

Science under changing ideological conditions: Hungarian psychology in the twentieth century - cultura & psyché

Creative academic thinking and research are inconceivable without academic freedom. This applies to all academic disciplines, including psychology. A concrete example that illustrates this fundamental...

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There is no creative research without academic freedom. In a paper on the history of psychology in #Hungary, I show how political regimes act like sorting machines - shaping what research becomes (im-)possible. A timely reminder with Hungarian elections ahead in April. doi.org/10.1007/s436...

Science under changing ideological conditions: Hungarian psychology in the twentieth century - cultura & psyché

Creative academic thinking and research are inconceivable without academic freedom. This applies to all academic disciplines, including psychology. A concrete example that illustrates this fundamental...

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When you collect data online, are the results from humans or AI? In a project led by Booth PhD student Grace Zhang, we estimate the prevalence of AI agents on commonly used survey platforms: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵

Great post elaborating on how (not) to use AI (and technology) in scientific research!

moin syed@syeducation.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New post! "Valuing the Process vs. the Product in Research," in which I try to describe some of the tensions around using GenAI/LLMs in scientific research, and why it can be so difficult to have productive conversations on the topic. getsyeducated.substack.com/p/valuing-th...

Here's the documentary that 1.1 million Hungarians have watched over the past week, documenting the damage that Viktor Orban's regime has done to health, education and public transportation in Hungary with English subtitles: youtu.be/9NQEcLIiOpM?...

A CSAPDA (THE TRAP) - Az Orbán-korszak elvesztett lehetőségeinek története

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