Jens Peter Andersen

@ipoga.bsky.social

Senior researcher: bibliometrics, policy impact, scientific elites & quant studies of gender in research at Aarhus University. #bibliometrics #scientometrics #scisci #metascience

Added context, since polls can only be very short: It seems like a somewhat standard practice now, that editors create reviewer accounts without consent or contact, as a service, so the potential reviewer doesn't have to do it themself. It used to be the opposite. #peerreview #reviewer2

Jens Peter Andersen@ipoga.bsky.social · 2y ago

Journal editors create reviewer accounts automatically, with username and password, without prior consent. What are your thoughts on this? 1️⃣ It's a great service, it saves me some hassle. 2️⃣ I don't really care. 3️⃣ It feels icky and predatory. 📊 Show results

The Christian implications of God creating mankind and our Earth, without a mention of other worlds or life in the vastness of the Universe is historically meaningful, but to me, philosophically sorrowful. And as Carl Sagan (in Pale Blue Dot) goes on to argue, grounds for much chauvinism.

Photo of text reading: “Ann Druyan suggests an experiment: Look back again at the pale blue dot of the preceding chapter. Take a good long look at it. Stare at the dot for any length of time and then try to convince yourself that God created the whole Universe for one of the 10 million or so species of life that inhabit that speck of dust. Now take it a step further: Imagine that everything was made just for a single shade of that species, or gender, or ethnic or religious subdivision. If this doesn't strike you as unlikely, pick another dot. Imagine it to be inhabited by”

Tomorrow at the Interacting Minds Center, Aarhus University, we are delighted to host Ophelia Deroy and Bahador Bahrami. Two talks, starting at 11 am. You can even join online. See the link below for talk abstracts & online participation: interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...

Co-Perception: Sharing experience without coordination // Shared responsibility in collective decisi...

IMC Tuesday Seminar: Talks by Ophelia Deroy and Bahador Bahrami

interactingminds.au.dk

How do we integrate prior beliefs with new experiences to guide metacognitive self-knowledge? psyarxiv.com/knsb4/ A brief 🧵 on our recent preprint👇, in which we found that this capacity for integrating different sources of uncertainty is highly domain specific. #psychscisky 🧠🤖 🧠🟦

abstract for the linked paperA network plot depicitng different subdomains of metacognition.

NEW PUBLICATION.. ..in which fuse negative campaigning and party issue competition & hatch a new+stronger model of party behavior in parliament between elections. 1/

Zeljko Poljak@zeljkopoljak.bsky.social · 3y ago

📚New paper out in Political Communication, co-authored with @henrikseeberg.bsky.social. We investigate how issue salience and ownership influence parties' propensity to attack, and what happens when salience and ownership are (in)congruent. Read more at: doi.org/10.1080/1058...