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Emir Efendić @emire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Somehow, this story is about our current political moment.

Emir Efendić @emire.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The discussion on this is fascinating and yet I’m wondering whether there are estimates on prevalence: how much are people, say on prolific, having an agent do their survey?

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Blair Shevlin @bshev.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Highly recommend checking out some of @kiante.bsky.social recent work. He's developing some great tools for bot detection, including survey-shield.com and kiante-fernandez.github.io/webgazer-qua...

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Klaus Pforr @klauspforr.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026

Interesting paper on increase in LLM assisted paper writing in psychology. They check for a explicite list of fingerprint words. Most hits in MDPI, Frontiers, and Elsevier outlets. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Emir Efendić @emire.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is hilarious but also Žižek understands what an academic talk should be: talking about things you hate.

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Thomas Hansen @thomashansen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New ad from the Norwegian Consumer Council @forbrukerradet.bsky.social about the declining lifespan, repairability and enshittification of products: Planned obsolescence v 2.0 Read their report forbrukerradet.no/shortlife

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Data Colada @datacolada.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Colada[139] Artificial Deadlines Part 2 Evidence of fraud in the 25 year old gradesheet behind the key finding in an influential paper on deadlines and procrastination. datacolada.org/139

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simine vazire @simine.com · 28/08/2026

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!

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Also worth noting how many of the signatories of the letter defending Cofnas call themselves evolutionary psychologists, including those with gatekeeping roles or large public platforms. Concerning to have the discipline represented by those who, at very best, misunderstand academic freedom

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Statement in support of Nathan Cofnas.pdf

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Emir Efendić @emire.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Just spelled "instantaneously" on the first try and was waiting a full minute for the spellchecker to turn red and it never did. So I then googled whether the word is correct. I'm smart.

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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In Star Trek people often complain that replicated food is not as good as naturally produced food, which is weird when replicators are presumably using the same technology as transporters, which can perfectly replicate Spock every time. But is Spock getting less flavoursome over time? In this essay,

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Emir Efendić @emire.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Just used this to download my stuff from OSF and worked great. Can recommend!

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI. We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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Pieter T. L. Beck @ptrbck.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

We were given permission to share it individually. Central administration concurred in it having to be taken off the website "because it might confuse people and make them think that this is Ghent University's position, not just the department's"

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Pieter T. L. Beck @ptrbck.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/t47r5... Statement of the department. Has been taken offline due to complaint of the prof who hired Cofnas

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Lisa DeBruine @debruine.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The following R script downloads your public projects from the OSF. Set the variable "me" to your OSF user ID, which you can find at osf.io/profile after logging in.

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Gilad Feldman @giladfeldman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I keep seeing/hearing people say that there aren't any open-science and meta-research events. Collecting and curating these the past month has shown me there is a LOT going on, just maybe difficult to keep track. See screenshots, take your pick. Metaventory can help: metaventory.vercel.app/events

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Lior Pachter @lpachter.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

One of the major pains of academia is having to click through labyrinths of webpages to submit papers. Now, thanks to Joe Rich (and AI), problem solved! His tool is called PaperPush and is available at github.com/pachterlab/p... It's super easy to use! 1/🧵

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GitHub - pachterlab/paperpush

Contribute to pachterlab/paperpush development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 24/07/2026

Folks!!! You can vote on various designs for the new euro banknotes and some of these look amazing. Also, we could make birb money happen!!!

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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Latest post, on what happened when AI models with knowledge up to Jan 2026 made predictions about current events – and how language can change these assessments: kucharski.substack.com/p/faced-with...

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Modal Foundation @modalfoundation.eurosky.social · 16/07/2026

Pleased to share that our flagship @eurosky.social project is collaborating with Germany's Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation (SPRIND) to explore algorithms to improve online conversations and increase understanding. eurosky.tech/news/eurosky...

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Eurosky is collaborating with SPRIND to test a non-toxic algorithm for the first time - Eurosky

Eurosky is a European initiative to build and operate sovereign social web infrastructure

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

We are hiring an assistant professor in Metascience! Join our lovely department of Human-Technology Interaction, with a very active Metascience group, at Eindhoven University of Technology. Apply here before August 14, or share the vacancy in your network! www.tue.nl/en/working-a...

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Assistant Professor in Metascience

Personal type: Scientific staff

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Jamie Cummins @jamiecummins.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

WE ARE HIRING! Come work with us (me + @malte.the100.ci) on developing and validating RegCheck. PhD or postdoc applications welcome. Folk with backgrounds in meta-science, psychology, (pre)clinical trials, and/or economics are especially invited to apply. jobs.unibe.ch/job-vacancie...

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PhD Student/ Postdoc Position in Meta-Science - Universität Bern

Universität Bern is looking for PhD Student/ Postdoc Position in Meta-Science

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Miroslav Sirota @miroslavsirota.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

We’re recruiting a postdoctoral researcher / Senior Research Officer to join our new project on antibiotic decision-making. Job details and application link: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSE155/s... The project is funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk Please share.

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Emir Efendić @emire.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

It's master thesis defense season. All of the student presentations look the same. I can't believe I'm saying this but AI has ruined presentations.

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Siri Leknes @sirileknes.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Recruiting for a salaried 4-year PhD project (or two) in Oslo We seek someone dynamic, curious & fun! Work closely w other PhDs in neuroscience/biology & w our three brilliant Knockout project postdocs (psychology/pain/behavioural genetics) Please share widely www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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PhD-fellowship (301774) | University of Oslo

Job title: PhD-fellowship (301774), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, June 24, 2026

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Emir Efendić @emire.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Legitimate scathing critique of power posing claims like it’s 2015. Now with GenAI made up stuff. Chefs kiss.

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Krajbich Lab @krajbichlab.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Autonomous AI agents are now built into many browsers. A naive user can take an online survey with as little as the click of a button. For behavioral research, which depends heavily on online samples, this is a real problem. (1/7)

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Sacha Epskamp @sachaepskamp.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I spent the past semester building interactive teaching apps with AI-assisted coding. I used my personal website to share them with my students, but that makes them hard to find for other educators. So I built Galvoro — galvoro.app

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Nicholas A. Coles, PhD @nicholascoles.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Can gratitude interventions make the world happier? We tested 6 gratitude practices across 34 countries with 10,696 participants to find out — and the answer is more interesting than a simple yes 🧵 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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A multinational megastudy of the effects of gratitude practices on subjective well-being | PNAS

Scholars have observed people from a variety of cultures using a variety of gratitude-related practices to change their emotions, outlooks, and soc...

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Are you interested in Shaping an Open Science Culture? Apply for this 2 year post-doc position at UMC Amsterdam. Joeri Tijdink is the PI, but you will work in a large interdisciplinary team (including me). werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org/en/vacatures...

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Vacatures - Postdoc position: Shaping Open Science Culture - Amsterdam UMC

Do you want to help make science more open, transparent, and trustworthy? In this postdoc position, you will study how research culture shapes open science practices and develop interventions that…

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Emir Efendić @emire.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

- Doorbell ringing. Honey, is that my air purifier? - opens package No, it’s another Glock from your mother.

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Emir Efendić @emire.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Tripping this post about a PhD position I have open. Please re share or re skeet or re sky! 🙏

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

We are inviting applications for a two-year postdoctoral position in a collaborative meta-science project on the effectiveness of data and code sharing policies in research-performing organizations. www.tue.nl/en/working-a...

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Postdoc In Meta-science

Personal type: Scientific staff

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Emir Efendić @emire.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Is the discourse now that this website is dying. I really can’t handle another migration. I need a website to skulk and look at what people are talking about while being too afraid to engage myself. Stay alive Bluesky.

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Emir Efendić @emire.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

For all the benefits of the Artemis mission many people are disregarding the obvious: the amount of sick wallpapers this mission is going to produce.

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Emir Efendić @emire.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Do you want to do a PhD in Judgment and Decision Making in two beautiful European locations on human-AI interaction? Well have I got news for you. @bahniks.bsky.social and I are recruiting a candidate to start around September 2026. See here: decisionlab.vse.cz/english/we-a...

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We are hiring

PhD Position in Judgment & Decision Making At a Glance Topic: Human-AI Interaction & Cognitive Biases Locations: VŠE Prague (2 years) + Maastricht University (2 years) Funding: Fully funded (4-year pr...

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

SCORE, a collaboration of 865 researchers, is now released as three papers in Nature, six preprints, and a lot of data (cos.io/score/). SCORE examined repeatability of findings from the social-behavioral sciences and tested whether human and automated methods could predict replicability.

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SCORE | Center for Open Science

SCORE shows that there is no shortcut to producing credible research findings, and there is no single indicator of trustworthiness. Research progress depends on transparency, rigor, and establishing r...

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Emir Efendić @emire.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Teachers going from “Wikipedia is not a resource to use in your citations” to “Wikipedia may be the only resource to use in your citations”.

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Dan Schley @dschley.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I’ve launched a website on measurement, experimentation, and causal inference: danrschley.github.io/Measurement-... I built it to share methods ideas that are often taught separately, but are deeply connected in practice.

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Measurement, Experimentation, & Causal Inference

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Bastian Jaeger @bxjaeger.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Now published in Psych Science: doi.org/10.1177/0956... We explored cultural differences in how people across six different countries attribute moral standing.

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Emir Efendić @emire.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

One thing I keep seeing again and again is how all the democratization claims of social media are falling apart and how the whole system seems to be a successful example of minority influence for the worst of humanity’s qualities.

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Emir Efendić @emire.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Remember that brief period in time when everyone’s presentations had those hyper realistic cartoon AI generated pictures of people working in libraries of Babel.

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Emir Efendić @emire.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Looking at all these fancy people here making jokes about R and pipes and tibbles while I'm just doing basic Qualtrics experiments and my code to clean the data has been the same for the last 4 years.

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homer simpson from the simpsons is standing in front of a grassy field .

ALT: homer simpson from the simpsons is standing in front of a grassy field .

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 25/02/2026

Maybe of interest: The submission guidelines of Psychological Science now demand an explicit statement on measures taken to reduce the risk of AI-generated responses for all online studies! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Online Studies
Psychological Science requires that authors who use samples from online data collection include a statement in the Method section explicitly addressing their approach to preventing and detecting automated or AI-generated responses.

Rationale

As large language models and other generative AI tools become more accessible, the risk of data contamination by non-human respondents has increased dramatically in research. Psychological science (and the social sciences generally) is particularly susceptible to this issue given its growing reliance on online data collection. Preventing automated responses during data collection and detecting them afterward often involve methodological trade-offs. For instance, technical barriers that aim to prevent LLM use (e.g., blocking copy-pasting functionalities) may eliminate behavioral indicators needed for detection (e.g., pasting rather than typing). This policy aims to enhance transparency and reproducibility of reported results by requiring authors to articulate their approach across both prevention and detection dimensions, enabling readers and reviewers to assess the likelihood of reported data being influenced by automated responses.

Scope

This policy applies to any submission with at least one study that includes data collected online without direct human supervision (e.g., via crowdsourcing platforms, student participants who complete the study online, online recruitment ads, or remote survey distribution tools).

Required Reporting

Authors must include in the Methods section either:

A statement confirming that procedures were in place to prevent and/or detect and exclude automated or AI-generated responses, including a description of those procedures (e.g., explicit participant instructions against LLM use, disabled copy–paste functionality, CAPTCHA use, IP filtering, consistency checks, attention checks, adversarial prompting) as well as the types of automated responses that these procedures are suitable …

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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Many are appropriately outraged by Altman’s comments here implying that raising a human child is akin to “training” an AI model. This is part of a broader pattern where AI industry leaders use language that collapses the boundary between human and machine. 🧵/

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