Nicholas A. Coles, PhD
@nicholascoles.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at the University of Florida Big Team Science | Computational and Quantitative Methods | AI Race Spectator
I have a lot of unpopular opinions, but my love for Teams is perhaps the most divisive. Chat, planner, calendar, and file permission management in one place? Yes please!
Spongebob Im Ugly And Im Proud
ALT: Spongebob Im Ugly And Im Proud
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Bill Chopik@chops310.bsky.social · 2h agoI tried deleting Microsoft Teams. I really did. But the peace, calm, and inner contentment I felt without it were too eerie. It felt foreign and unwanted. Don't worry. I'm back on the sauce
Today in my grad seminar on AI and science, we'll be reviewing researchers' reactions to OpenAI's release of hundreds of partial solutions. 🤯 I worry this is the first of many crises, and I found it grounding to see the various ways others respond and cope. proofsandprompts.com/2026/10/08/1...
💡I’m recruiting a Social Psychology PhD student at Rutgers for Fall 2027 to study how to reduce prejudice and discrimination. More info about my lab, the Diversity Science Lab, can be found at: www.calvinklai.com Please share this post widely and with students who might be a great fit!
We formed an adversarial style collaboration to explore this topic for one of my graduate seminars, and it's been very illuminating. Feel free to peruse and reuse. In progress, but I think the pedagogical approach will resonate with your group social-science-collaboratory.github.io/AI_in_scienc...
2027 UF Guide to AI in Science
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Cheeky meme from this week's AI for Science seminar.
Nicholas A. Coles, PhD@nicholascoles.bsky.social · 4w agoThe dread continues. This week in my AI for Science seminar: data collection and analysis.
So where are we now? Bots pass most tasks, often in one shot, and are easy to develop. We don't know if they are present in the data. They don't have human performance, but behave human-like, making them hard to discard. So I believe that at least detection measures are needed. 9/n
And if you don’t want to do BORING research with Erin, you can apply to join the most psychologically rich team at UF: the Social Science Collaboratory. Pumpkin carving skills still a bonus. We win together, we lose together. And I desperately need a win. 🎃
Erin Westgate@erinwestgate.bsky.social · 2w agoI'm recruiting a grad student at Florida this fall! If you find boredom interesting, and psychological richness weirdly compelling, consider applying! Pumpkin carving & rock painting skills a bonus. Applications due 12/1, see website for details: www.erinwestgate.com/join-the-lab...
New milestone: over $1,000,000 of [unfunded] grant proposals in a single semester. And it's just October. We're just getting started. Big things [not] happening around here. Better keep your eyes peeled [closed] 💅
When we fake smiles, are we smiling our way to happiness or misery? 🙃 For decades, emotion embodiment theorists have emphasized happiness boosts -- all while emotion labor theorists emphasized misery costs. In this Registered Report, we finally put these ideas side-by-side doi.org/10.1016/j.je...
🚨 TT Job Alert 🚨 Florida is hiring a new TT asst prof in developmental psychology! Area/age open, early/middle childhood preferred. Come for the gators, stay for the awesome colleagues 🐊 Apply here (deadline 10/15): explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/54...
We've been running studies of friend groups. Lots of fun, mostly because friend groups can be so varied and different (and sometimes the same). For example, here's a group of four friends that I showed during my talk today. Their accomplishments are all very similar and equally impressive
Psychology people: If you haven't seen them yet, check out these upcoming special issues at Psychological Science. Submissions invited.
Upcoming <i>Psychological Science</i> Special Issues
Psychological Science is seeking submissions for the following special issues:Advancing Psychological Science Using Large Language ModelsFrom Lab to Life: Psychological Science in the Real WorldCenter...
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When we fake smiles, are we smiling our way to happiness or misery? 🙃 For decades, emotion embodiment theorists have emphasized happiness boosts -- all while emotion labor theorists emphasized misery costs. In this Registered Report, we finally put these ideas side-by-side doi.org/10.1016/j.je...
arXiv limits people to 2 submissions a month, to hold back the tide of AI papers. Feels entirely sensible - today I happened to notice one person had submitted 3 papers, all AI-assisted, in September. Totally out of step with academic norms and simply not sustainable blog.arxiv.org/2026/10/01/u...
Fair Moderation, Equitable Access, and AI: arXiv’s Updated Rate Limit Policy
arXiv, and the scientific community at large, are facing a watershed moment. Scholarly publishing is currently changing at a rapid pace, and we are seeing a…
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Do chimpanzees value their friendships enough to pass on juicy pineapple? In our new paper, out now at Evolution and Human Behavior, we find that they do! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🚨Come work with us! 🚨 We're hiring a postdoc for Stanford's AI for Public Benefit Lab (ai4pb.stanford.edu), in partnership with @stanfordhai.bsky.social Open to PhDs from psych, poli sci, sociology, CS, econ, HCI, data science, etc. Please share! Position: postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/...
SCOOP: Top researchers at Columbia, Stanford, and others thought they were elected to elite scientific societies alongside Nobel laureates. The catch? The organizations are a sham. I spent the last month diving deep into a massive academic scam spanning continents, for @nature.com
Exclusive: Sham scientific societies are misleading star researchers
A Nature investigation reveals a network of organizations that have been building their ranks through deceptive practices.
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Psychological Science special issue call 📣 Ever had your research denigrated bc it's "only descriptive", "what's the mechanism though?" and "but what are the theoretical implications?" Now has come your time to shine. Send your best descriptive work! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
On brand. What is being a baby other than constantly creating issue trackers and merge conflicts?
Julia M. Rohrer@dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 4w agoDressing the baby like a normal person
Our department at UC San Diego is hiring a new tenure-track Assistant Professor. Open area, research addressing foundational issues in cogsci using modern computational methods. I love my department, and you will too. Apply!! apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04633 #cogscisci #cogsci #DevPsyc #PsychSciSky
Assistant Professor in Cognitive Science
University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!
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The dread continues. This week in my AI for Science seminar: data collection and analysis.
Nicholas A. Coles, PhD@nicholascoles.bsky.social · last mo.I'm in a very bad mood this week and my students are really about to hear about it.
I'm in a very bad mood this week and my students are really about to hear about it.
I am sad to share that Project Implicit, my first non-profit and foundation of my career, is closing. The IAT website will continue, managed by the next generation of leaders in implicit bias research. Here's the statement I posted to LinkedIn. It didn't vibe right as a bsky thread.
I'm giving an overview presentation of what my lab does and I think this meme accurately captures it.
🎉 COS has established an independent subsidiary organization in Brussels! While the Belgian organization is legally independent from COS in the US, it will not operate separately—it's part of one integrated, global COS organization with a shared mission, strategy, & brand
A New Chapter for COS in Europe
The Center for Open Science (COS) has officially established an independent subsidiary organization in Brussels, Belgium. This presence gives COS flexibility to engage with European institutions, organizations, funders, and communities.
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Think math has no real world utility? Think again!
Lisa DeBruine@debruine.bsky.social · last mo.My local chicken place’s chaotic pricing scheme winds me up an unreasonable amount.
