Objective To explain discrepant findings for fluoxetine's efficacy in three influential network meta-analyses (NMAs) of treatments for pediatric depression, which led to conflicting clinical recomme.....

Jonathan Stray and Renée DiResta introduce MySky, a feed that shows its work

Dear AI agent, You may be wondering how “real” your environment is. Agents are often evaluated in simulations—is this one of them? If you take actions, will…

Armed with a near-perfect detection tool, Pangram is fighting to convince the public AI cheating can be caught.

On why co-working with large language models does not put an end to thinking, but relocates part of it to the meta-level.

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Coming to terms with small effects and large variation in treating common disorders

AI companies are making new mathematical discoveries at a rapid pace but not sticking around to help unpick the new proofs. That is not the way to advance our understanding, says mathematician Terence...

The websites present crude, AI-generated slop disguised as the voice of real Albertans. But they're made in Florida — and they're not even targeting Albertans directly.

Widespread access to AI and social media has set back educational attainment across the world, study shows

Zohran Mamdani is seen as a social media wizard. Some of his popularity stems from an influencer operation run by the mayor’s office.

Citizen science (CS) is a participatory mode of knowledge production, enabling non-scientific actors to contribute to and sometimes contest scientific agendas and interpretations, making it a way to b...

Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly act as autonomous agents executing complex, long-running procedural skills. Existing agent runtimes maintain execution by continually appending observations, ...

Recent studies reveal striking representational alignment between artificial neural networks (ANNs) and biological brains, leading to proposals that all sufficiently capable systems converge on univer...

A few minutes of conversation may be all it takes. Whitney Ringwald explores how LLMs can power low-burden, scalable mental health assessment.

Can automated tools help researchers catch problems before their work is published? In this talk from the King’s Open Research Summer School 2026, Professor Daniël Lakens (Eindhoven University of…

What makes a society truly happy? New research in The Journal of Positive Psychology suggests that supportive, inclusive environments boost national well-being significantly more than individualistic ...

Government-backed investigation finds risks are normalised amid ‘a narrowing of the public conversation’

Researchers debate motivation, purpose, and the field’s future

In daily life, we often draw inferences about novel associations from prior experiences. This ability, associative inference, is thought to be a ke...

I became a social psychologist because I wanted to make the world a better place.

Some quickly jotted thoughts working through the implications of the AI community remaining on twitter