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Joy Losee, Ph.D. @joylosee.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

If an author uses AI as part of their writing process for an academic journal article—how do we feel about requesting the conversation history for the paper? It seems that it would decrease ambiguity about what “minor language adjustments” in an AI declaration means and increase transparency.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

it's always odd when "you should expose yourself to more diverse ideas" always means a certain kind of conservatism instead of like, Indigenous art, new fusion foods, math paradoxes, or the Dvorak keyboard layout

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Joy Losee, Ph.D. @joylosee.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I’m planning to run my first field experiment this Fall on my university’s campus. What’s your go-to best practices resource for this type of work?

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Sasha Gusev @sashagusevposts.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I assigned random gender/ethnicity labels to scientific abstracts from the literature and then asked Claude to do a thematic analysis. Claude identified a clinical versus computational split for female/male authors and a DEI focus for Black/URM authors. All in completely random data.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I'll just note that critical race theory predicts quite a lot about the current racial retrenchment and for being *correct* it was pilloried in the press and by some academics.

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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 08/05/2026

guys we just cant get around it, if we want to solve literally anything in this country we HAVE to begin seriously talking about racism. pushing anti-Black racism to the outskirts of our discourse is the cause of literally all of problems, from class struggle to trans rights. its ALL the same fight.

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 15/04/2026

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

NEW: After months of being too scared to leave their homes, more than 500 children have returned to in-person classes at Columbia Heights Public Schools, a huge moment of celebration for school leaders in this Minneapolis suburb once swarming with ICE agents. www.huffpost.com/entry/minnea...

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Once Targeted By ICE, Minneapolis-Area School District Celebrates Return Of All Students

More than 500 children have been attending school virtually at Columbia Heights Public Schools for months. They were welcomed back with balloons and hugs.

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

We do now know the NSF is proceeding with dissolving the Social and Behavioral Sciences Division. Congress might reverse it, but it is now already underway. YOU CAN NO LONGER SUBMIT FUNDING PROPOSALS TO SBE. Program officers are being moved to different parts of the agency. Call your Congress member

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Trump/Vought are planning to eliminate the program that oversees social science funding from the National Science Foundation, and they are not going to wait for Congress to weigh in because they have already shown they believe they have the power of the purse. bsky.app/profile/lizn...

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Texting daily with a random human peer is more effective at reducing loneliness than texting with a highly supportive chatbot. Next time you feel lonely reach out to a human, any human. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Joy Losee, Ph.D. @joylosee.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

So happy to say I’ve been awarded tenure! My colleagues have been so sweet in reaching out to offer congratulations and hopes that I celebrate. I haven’t celebrated anything in a while and I’m not sure what to do. What have you done or do you plan to do to celebrate tenure?

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Joy Losee, Ph.D. @joylosee.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

The amount of times I’ve been directly told “Oh, I used AI in your online class because I don’t think it’s important…” is too damn high.

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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

“…just 2% of all college students—including 3% of Republicans—say they feel they don’t belong on campus due to their political views…71% said their professors create a classroom environment that supports both students who express unpopular opinions and those who may be upset by such views.”

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Julia Strand @juliafstrand.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Just out—a piece I wrote a piece for the APS Observer (@psychscience.bsky.social) in which I share recommendations and resources for running a research lab at a small, liberal arts college. I hope it helps others in the same boat! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

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How to Set Up and Run an Undergraduate Research Lab

APS Fellow Julia Strand offers resources and recommendations to run a productive research lab.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

There's no way you can keep funding a federal government who's primary mission is to inflict pain on the population. Every federal agency from McMahon at DoE to RFK shredding HHS and everything in between. Every day we let them stay open is more time we'll need to repair the damage they've done

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

It’s shameful verging on collaborationist that universities slashed DEI rather than fighting the administration on this.

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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

There is no way to stop climate change research at NCAR without doing irreparable damage to weather research. "The idea that you can just pull “vital” weather research activities out of a unique, vibrant scientific environment and expect that they will just continue to roll along is ludicrous."

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 08/12/2025

“AI models not only point some users to false sources but also cause problems for researchers and librarians, who end up wasting their time looking for requested nonexistent records…”

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AI Slop Is Spurring Record Requests for Imaginary Journals

The International Committee of the Red Cross warned that artificial intelligence models are making up research papers, journals and archives

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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

More quality evidence is emerging that "pro-environmental behavior" is not a coherent, unitary thing. One behavior is not a proxy for all other behaviors. www-sciencedirect-com.proxy.uba.uva.nl/science/arti... Blankenberg et al. 2025 1/3

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 24/11/2025

Lots of people are calling out the fact that X is filled with fake MAGA influencers from far away countries, but I wanted to point out that this, not "ideological censorship," is why companies have trust & safety teams that work on stopping inauthentic behavior.

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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Holy f@$k! “ChatGPT exhibits the highest level of anti-Black racism ever experimentally recorded.” This whole video is jaw-dropping.

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Fabian Guy Neuner @fabianneuner.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Important paper. So far most of the potential solutions I've seen mentioned (in-person surveys, high-quality/validated panels, address-based sampling) cost lots of money and will thus deepen divides based on resources. Something that we'll also need to grapple with. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/55uok...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/11/2025

it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance

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Danielle Graves Williamson @daniellecgw.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

👋 I'm Danielle, and I'm on the #econjobmarket this year! Let's start with a student describing her segregated school: "The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding . . . I had a slipshod education" The twist? The student is white, and her school is private. A JMP 🧵 -->

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Danielle Graves Williamson @daniellecgw.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

3️⃣ We find white children exposed to academies fared worse as adults. 📉 Human capital index ↓ 0.04 SD 📉 Economic self-sufficiency ↓ 0.06 SD This evidence suggests White families may have sacrificed educational quality to maintain racial segregation. 11/12

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 12/11/2025

An unfortunate effect of AI: for all the talk of it enabling “creativity,” many of us feel forced by its utility for plagiarism to move toward more restrictive and surveillant measures in the classroom. In the last few years the classroom is of necessity becoming more locked down than it ever was.

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 06/10/2025

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors. ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart. ISILDUR: true

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Steve Rathje @steverathje.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

🚨 New preprint 🚨 Across 3 experiments (n = 3,285), we found that interacting with sycophantic (or overly agreeable) AI chatbots entrenched attitudes and led to inflated self-perceptions. Yet, people preferred sycophantic chatbots and viewed them as unbiased! osf.io/preprints/ps... Thread 🧵

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Erin O'Mara Kunz, Ph.D @erinomarakunz.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I'm teaching a psych class to 70 first year students for the first time, ever. For some, my class will be their first college class. Does anyone have an activity you to the first day/week of class w/ first-years to help them feel connected, get to know classmates, & start on a good foot?

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Sean Mackinnon @seanpmackinnon.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

So I have been exploring copilot generative AI to better familiarize myself with its output to recognize it more easily when I see it in the wild. This tool falsifies results sections of papers in a way that is NOT easy to detect. wtf are we going to do in science, peer review can't catch this.

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Joy Losee, Ph.D. @joylosee.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Update: I was able to find an ANES dataset with the variables I needed using simple googling that took 5 minutes.

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Joy Losee, Ph.D. @joylosee.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

I’ll never get the hours back that I spent trying to verify all this false info. And yet, people are encouraged to use this tool more and more. If you have a story about AI wasting your time please share because the hype desperately needs balance.

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Joy Losee, Ph.D. @joylosee.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

I ask for links to academic papers that use these exact variables. It provides 4 links. Link 1–a book that I can’t read because I don’t have a physical copy. Link 2-goes to a different paper than the one listed. Link 3-dead link. Link 4-goes to the paper listed, but does not actually use ANES data

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Joy Losee, Ph.D. @joylosee.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

I look back at the dataset and there is a variable name with the same format as the one in question. And tell ChatGPT. “Thanks for pointing that out! I don’t have access to the variable you’re asking about.” By this point, I’m pretty sure ChatGPT has made these variables up.

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Joy Losee, Ph.D. @joylosee.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

“Oh you’re so right. Thanks for catching that. Try using this variable name.” There is no variable by that name. “Oh you’re so right again! Thanks for catching that. Actually ANES only uses that particular variable name format for internal data and not publicly available data.”

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Joy Losee, Ph.D. @joylosee.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

I ask for the link to the ANES data with the ego networks variables it says have been collected. The link is dead. But I know how to find the datasets on my own. It tells me the variables are in the 2008 time series. I open the data and the variables are not there. I tell ChatGPT.

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Joy Losee, Ph.D. @joylosee.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

I told ChatGPT and of course “Oh thanks! You’re so right! Pew moved their data elsewhere. Try this other link.” New link is dead. Eventually it recommends requesting the data from Pew. So I move on to ANES.

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Joy Losee, Ph.D. @joylosee.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

There was no such dataset with the exact title ChatGPT gave me. No matter, I grabbed the dataset with the closest name. I asked for the exact variable name and searched for it. It was not there…

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Joy Losee, Ph.D. @joylosee.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

It listed dataset like the ESS, World Values Survey, ANES, and Pew Research. After probing, it seemed like Pew and ANES had what I was looking for. First I asked it to link me to the Pew dataset. The link was dead. No matter, I could go to the Pew dataset list and find the data by the title.

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Joy Losee, Ph.D. @joylosee.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

ChatGPT just wasted 5 of my hours by making up info and insisting it wasn’t lying. I was trying to see if it could actually help me find publicly available datasets with questions about politics in people’s ego networks and was thrilled when it output a long list, but things went quickly downhill…

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

"It’s the kind of statistic, several experts said, that is both eye-opening and likely to become more common because of climate change." www.nbcnews.com/science/clim...

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U.S. rocked by four 1-in-1,000-year storms in less than a week

Climate change is making severe storms both more common and more intense.

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

The thing about interdisciplinary work is everyone gets to misunderstand you from a unique angle

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Deborah Pearlstein @debpearlstein.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

I'm genuinely not sure what this is supposed to mean but now worried. The National Archives in College Park houses the public records of DOJ, the military, etc. & is used daily by scholars, students, genealogists, etc. Having govt records accessible to the public is part of what makes the govt ours.

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