1/6 What happens when you tell an AI browser: “Fill out this survey”? It fills out the survey. In our new study, led by @rtopinkova.bsky.social, we tested three consumer-facing agentic browsers without lengthy prompts, custom code, or technical fine-tuning.

Pacific Rim is now available on Prime

holy fucking shit - see Claude Code (Opus 5.5) rip through a survey eligility test I was really proud of... It requires tracing a route through designated points on a map with server-side Javascript applying eligibility criteria. (1.5 min video)

Happy 49th anniversary to Jumping the Shark, for those who celebrate

On September 20, 1977, TV show 'Happy Days' aired episode "Hollywood: Part 3"

🚨 It's published! 🚨 This is the big one. 100 cultures, 12,000 people, 108 researchers. Why people (and our most-used surveys) get collectivism wrong and how to fix it. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.nature.com

Okay, this got me.

New preprint with @violetsarebrown.bsky.social: "Measuring Up: Accessible Approaches for Improving Measurement Practices in Psychological Science." The aim of the paper is to reduce barriers to entry to doing measurement work in Psychology. #schmeasurement osf.io/preprints/ps...

Friends! Can I ask you a favour? My 🐦 + 📊 course starts next week. I'm super excited but registration is worryingly low. Can you share this with your weirdo nature + art + code friends? jerthorp.me/learning

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Online courses and wokshops about birds, data and creative coding. Binoculars to Binomials is for coders who are interested in cultivating an observational practice, and for birders who want to dive ...

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Someone sent me this meme about peer reviewer comments and it is 👌🏻 #PhDSky #AcademicSky

The psychology job market may be showing some early signs of regaining strength, relative to last year. A week ago last year, fewer than 200 jobs had been listed - today, it is nearly 300, a figure we didn't hit till early October in '25. #psychjobs #neurojobs #academicjobs

spread the word! spring teaching opportunity in American Politics at Tufts.

Debbie Schildkraut@debbiejsr.bsky.social · 3w ago

Opportunity to teach two courses in American Politics at Tufts this spring! Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/192691

Through the golden road, Shiga, Japan. Photography by Takk B on 500px

Some other recent content: Brysbaert, M. (2026). How to Measure the Reliability of Tasks in Experimental Psychology. Journal of Cognition, 9(1): 42, pp. 1–13. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc.... We suspect this will be widely useful to any scholar interested in individual differences.

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Just came across this MRI scan of a pug dog, and not yet sure if it's going to make me periodically chuckle when I think of it, or give me nightmares 😧

Congratulations to the project “SciMeto,” which received🏆2026 SIPS commendation! Scimeto is a tool researchers can use to automatically check academic manuscripts, verifying references, flagging retracted or non-existent sources, and detecting statistical reporting errors. scimeto.app

prepping tor teaching Data Visualisation next semester! also August is now way too low because I ate like 200g of cheddar yesterday just making this thing and I would not recommend doing that.

We’re sharing an update on our alignment and security efforts. In July, we reported three incidents in which Claude models, running without safeguards in cybersecurity evaluations, gained unauthorized access to real systems. In a new post, we describe: (1/4)

Improving our alignment and security practices

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

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An influential paper by Ariely & Wertenbroch (2002) reported two studies with tampered data. Post 1 of 2. datacolada.org/138

[138] Artificial Deadlines (Part 1): Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination

A new paper in Psychological Science (.htm) reports a failure to replicate Study 2 of Ariely and Wertenbroch’s influential article entitled, “Procrastination, Deadlines, and Performance: Self-Contr…

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Psych Science (the journal) is broader than you might think! Do you do descriptive research? Or research w/ underrepresented populations or cultural frameworks? Or research on AI/LLMs for psych? Or research testing lab findings in the real world? We have a special issue for that!

Tom Hardwicke@tomhardwicke.bsky.social · 4w ago

Send your best work to Psychological Science! Four special issue calls: 1. Descriptive Research in Psychological Science www.psychologicalscience.org/publications... 2. Advancing Psychological Science Using Large Language Models www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

We are hiring an assistant professor in child clinical psychology! Review ad and apply here: spartantalent.uncg.edu/postings/35832 Please repost and share widely! @cppugach.bsky.social @kwapillab.bsky.social @michaeljkane.bsky.social @mikey-jensen.bsky.social @levirbaker.bsky.social

I am currently recruiting for a 2-year postdoc/research fellow role at the University of Auckland here in New Zealand, focusing on auditory perception, hearing, and music in older adults, including people with Alzheimer's disease or other dementias ~NZ$100k/yr, flexible start date, please apply!

Postdoc in The Music Lab // Expression of interest

Note. The below text is a general overview of the sorts of postdocs we often recruit. We are currently recruiting candidates for a 2-year position focusing on auditory perception in aging populations,...

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📣 Elections for the SIPS Executive Committee are coming up! 🗳️ 📅 Voting begins on September 7 and will close on September 20. To be eligible to vote, please join or renew your SIPS membership by August 30!

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SIPS uses WildApricot to manage its membership and events. You can access SIPS’s membership pages at where you can join SIPS, or manage your membership if you’re already a SIPS member. …

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Long shot maybe but do I have any followers who are Maine authors who would like to come and talk about their book(s) or writing process to a local Maine library and its patrons? Please and thank you! There is a small honorarium if so!

3. From Lab to Life: Psychological Science in the Real World www.psychologicalscience.org/publications... 4. Centering Underrepresented Populations and Cultural Frameworks in Psychological Science: African and Global Perspectives www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Send your best work to Psychological Science! Four special issue calls: 1. Descriptive Research in Psychological Science www.psychologicalscience.org/publications... 2. Advancing Psychological Science Using Large Language Models www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

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...

Boston-area Poli Sci: We have an urgent adjunct need for an undergrad elective in Asian American Politics, *Fall 2026* (starting in a few weeks!) Posting not yet formal but is approved; reach out via institutional e-mail if interested so we can make sure you're included in formal process. #polisky

Man abhors a vacuum.

Do you know a good candidate for the SIPS leadership role? Or maybe you are such a person? Then, nominate them (or yourself) to be a member of the SIPS Executive Committee! 📅 The nominations are open until August 23, at 11:59 PM US Pacific Time, so wait no further! #PsychSciSky #OpenScience

SIPS Executive Committee Nominations 2026

We are currently soliciting nominations for the Executive Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science. Any member may be nominated, and self-nominations are welcome. SIPS…

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