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Ryan Boyd

@ryanboyd.io
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Computational Social Scientist, Social/Personality Psychologist, and Generally Curious Person. University of Texas at Dallas. www.ryanboyd.io

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David Bamman @dbamman.bsky.social · 15h
We've been super busy the past few months getting out some research on the computational analysis of film, so I've put together a page with the highlights. people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~dbamman/fil... Some things to call out: 1/7
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Computational Analysis of Film
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.io · 29/09/2026
Minor typo in your post. Should read as: "Our incredible speaker lineup includes Peter Richerson, Ivuoma Onyeador, Friedrich Götz, Leander Heldring, and Thomas Talhelm. Oh, and also, Ryan Boyd will be there."
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Mohammad Atari @mohammadatari.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Historical Psychology Preconference is coming to Philly for #SPSP2027 ! Please join us on February 11th, 2027 for this year’s theme: How the Events of Yesterday Shaped the Minds of Today. @spspnews.bsky.social
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.io · 28/09/2026
I feel so seen.
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.io · 22/09/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAxz...
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Peter Gregory Hates College - Silicon Valley
YouTube video by lol Valley
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.io · 16/09/2026
Somehow, the image of Vader terrorizing his subordinates by throwing a balance ball chair at them is so much more disturbing than him throwing a regular chair. I suspect that he ordered it from Amazon.
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.io · 16/09/2026
I feel like, in the day-to-day business of running the Galactic Empire, Darth Vader would definitely have a standing desk. He just doesn't seem like an office-chair kind of guy.
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APA Journals @apajournals.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
September is #SuicidePreventionAwarenessMonth. Open access research by @ryanboyd.io et al. published in the Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science explored a multimethod computational framework to better understand suicidal thoughts and behaviors bit.ly/4wKQpAi
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.io · 01/07/2026
Also out today in @biolpsychology.bsky.social, using same attribution classifier. dmPFC activity (recruited when people integrate situational info about others) predicts more situational attributions (and longer explanations) when describing real-life blameworthy behavior. doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
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Redirecting
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.io · 01/07/2026
To code attribution style in open-ended and transcript text, we built a general-purpose sentence-level classifier for dispositional vs. situational attribution. Freely available: huggingface.co/ryanboyd/Att...
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ryanboyd/AttributioNet · Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.io · 01/07/2026
In Study 4, we analyzed real NY State parole hearing transcripts. Candidates using more dispositional (vs. situational) framing to explain their offenses were more likely to have been granted parole, controlling for criminal history, crime severity, etc.
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.io · 01/07/2026
New paper in @pnasnexus.org : a cultural mechanism behind disparities in discretionary parole decisions. Parole candidates who explain their crimes dispositionally (vs. situationally) are more likely to be granted parole — and this attributional style tracks culture. doi.org/10.1093/pnas...
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A cultural explanation for parole decisions in the United States
Abstract. Racial disparities in discretionary parole decisions persist, yet their cultural underpinnings remain poorly understood. The US justice system, s
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Bob Mackey @bobservo.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
any fan of Steamed Hams simply MUST watch My Dinner with Skinner
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.io · 03/03/2026
New paper: PsychAdapter, a method for conditioning language models on psychological traits. Big 5 personality, mental health, and more. Lightweight approach works across multiple model architectures. @handyschwartz.bsky.social @lyleungar.bsky.social @oscarkjell.bsky.social and others! rdcu.be/e6m8H
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PsychAdapter: adapting LLMs to reflect traits, personality, and mental health
npj Artificial Intelligence - PsychAdapter: adapting LLMs to reflect traits, personality, and mental health
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Association for Psychological Science @psychscience.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Learn more about the featured panel sessions taking place at #APS26BCN this May! www.psychologicalscience.org/conven… @jwp001.bsky.social @lewan.bsky.social @dgarcia.eu @ryanboyd.io @nuriaoliver.com
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Association for Psychological Science @psychscience.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Learn about #APS26BCN's Plenary Panel Sessions: The Future of Psychological Science, the Fall of Civilizations, & New Directions in AI & LLMs. www.psychologicalscience.org/conventions/... @jwp001.bsky.social @lewan.bsky.social @dgarcia.eu @ryanboyd.io @nuriaoliver.com @angelagutchess.bsky.social
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Jamie Cummins @jamiecummins.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Can large language models stand in for human participants? Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research. One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want. THREAD 🧵
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The threat of analytic flexibility in using large language models to simulate human data: A call to attention
Social scientists are now using large language models to create "silicon samples" - synthetic datasets intended to stand in for human respondents, aimed at revolutionising human subjects research. How...
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.io · 16/07/2025
Completely agree with other replies. Descriptive work is necessary and foundational. We have to map out what we're studying + what it looks like before diving head-first into "how it works." Publishing it, on the other hand... editors/reviewers can be almost childishly hostile to this kind of work.
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Veerle Eijsbroek @veerleceline.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
The LEADING reporting guideline is now published in Comprehensive Psychiatry 🥳 See www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Or read the previous summary 👇
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The LEADING guideline: Reporting standards for expert panel, best-estimate diagnosis, and longitudinal expert all data (LEAD) methods
Accurate assessments of symptoms and illnesses are essential for health research and clinical practice but face many challenges. The absence of a sing…
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.io · 16/05/2025
This is an incredibly fun and cool paper. Congrats!
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.io · 22/04/2025
I refuse to run any fine-tuning method that can't be powered by AAA batteries.
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agnilsson.bsky.social @agnilsson.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
🎺 Publication in JPSP 🎺 1/7 We automated the coding procedure of the implicit motives of power, achievement and affiliation with at least as high accuracy as human coders while being 99% faster! 🎯⚡️ Article: psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202... #personality #AI #NLProc @apajournals.bsky.social
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.io · 10/04/2025
You're beginning the ascension to a new level of cool.
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.io · 04/04/2025
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a group of cartoon characters with the words stop stop he 's already dead written on the bottom
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.io · 03/04/2025
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.io · 01/04/2025
@davidaellis.bsky.social futurism.com/the-byte/cha...
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Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot
ChatGPT "power users," or those who use it the most, are becoming dependent upon — or even addicted to — the chatbot.
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.io · 12/03/2025
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two men are sitting next to each other in a dark room and one of them is saying hello darkness my old friend .
ALT: two men are sitting next to each other in a dark room and one of them is saying hello darkness my old friend .
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.io · 04/03/2025
It pains me to say this, but I could *absolutely* imagine seeing this in print, verbatim.
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.io · 04/03/2025
Let's go ahead and get this thing published now so that we can spend the next 10 years muddying the literature and facilitating uncritical scholarship.
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.io · 04/03/2025
"How often do you use AI to help write messages to other people (e.g., emails)?" "How often do you use AI to find answers to a question that don't know the answer to?" "How often do you use AI for fun/enjoyment?" 1=never 3=sometimes 5=daily
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.io · 04/03/2025
But, but, but, it's going to have a passable Cronbach's alpha when tested on a sample of 100 people who are between the ages of 16 and 22. And just wait for the inevitable "brief" version of the measure comprised of only the 3 most eye-rollingly bad items.
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.io · 21/02/2025
With all of the big announcements about AI-facilitated scientific research, like OpenAI's Deep Research and Google's AI co-scientist, it appears as though our thinky-piece on AI in the research process might be worth a re-read: www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...
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Frontiers | From silicon to solutions: AI's impending impact on research and discovery
The social sciences have long relied on comparative work as the foundation upon which we understand the complexities of human behavior and society. However, ...
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.io · 31/01/2025
It's a wildly busy upcoming few days, but I genuinely love some good food for thought — I'm very much looking forward to giving it a read and continuing the conversation ☺️
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.io · 30/01/2025
Zero pressure whatsoever — they were mostly just some pre-caffeine early morning musings 😄
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.io · 29/01/2025
A friendly rejoinder :) www.pancakes.wtf/20250110/lan...
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Language Analysis Across Contexts: A Dialogue Between Forensic Linguistics and Psychology — A Rejoinder to Hunter & Grant (2025) – Pancakes? WTF?
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.io · 10/01/2025
New blog post, and (I think?) my first one directly about LIWC-related things. More challenges, and thoughts, about sailing on the choppy seas of interdisciplinary scholarship. www.pancakes.wtf/20250110/lan...
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Language Analysis Across Contexts: A Dialogue Between Forensic Linguistics and Psychology — A Rejoinder to Hunter & Grant (2025) – Pancakes? WTF?
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁 We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Stimulation Clicker is the best thing you'll play today neal.fun/stimulation-clicker
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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.io · 09/12/2024
Me, for the last 4 years...
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a man with a mustache is sitting on a swing in a park
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.io · 31/10/2024
I've had a lot of social scientists asking about using Whisper for transcription but without any Python skills on hand. So, here's "Whispering Wizard" — a simple tool to transcribe audio/video files locally with OpenAI’s Whisper models. No Python needed! github.com/ryanboyd/Whi...
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GitHub - ryanboyd/WhisperingWizard: A GUI wrapper with some nice QoL features for Whisper
A GUI wrapper with some nice QoL features for Whisper - ryanboyd/WhisperingWizard
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Matthias Mehl @mehlmr.bsky.social · 22/09/2024
Excited to share our Registered Replication on whether Women are Really (Not) More Talkative Than Men (in press at JPSP): osf.io/preprints/ps.... The results are complex but describe a reality different from what the photos below show 😊. Kudos to Colin Tidwell, Alex Danvers, and Valeria Pfeifer.
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.io · 24/06/2024
For those who haven't heard already, I am delighted to announce that I'll be joining the Department of Psychology at University of Texas at Dallas this Fall! I look forward to contributing to, collaborating with, and being a part of the outstanding School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences community.
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Evolutionary Social Psychology Co-Laboratory @kenbergerum.bsky.social · 10/06/2024
Think the Earth is flat? Or that aliens experimented on your cow? Don't worry, KNBV has you covered! In a new #AmericanPsychologist piece Michael Barlev & Steve Neuberg explore the deep evolutionary logic behind why people hold irrational (at least to most) beliefs. psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-...
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.io · 31/05/2024
Dive into our paper and join the conversation on how NLP will shape the future of social sciences. Read the full paper here: dx.doi.org/10.1037/amp0.... #NLP #SocialScience #Research #Innovation #Theory #Behavior #Technology
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.io · 31/05/2024
This paper was a long time coming, and we urge people within and across the social sciences to take the next "big leap" in bridging theory and practice, raising NLP methods to their full potential in understanding the human condition. (4/)
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.io · 31/05/2024
Our paper explores how language analysis can uncover insights into human thought, feelings, and actions, driven by recent technological advances, and infusing today's emerging NLP with established principles and theories of behavior. (3/)
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.io · 31/05/2024
NLP is rapidly growing across disciplines, drawing in multidisciplinary researchers with its potential to address central questions in business, psychology, biology, sociology, and the humanities. (2/)
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.io · 31/05/2024
Excited to announce the release of our new paper, "Verbal Behavior and the Future of Social Science"! Co-authored with @davidmmarkowitz.bsky.social, we delve into the transformative potential of Natural Language Processing (NLP) in social sciences. dx.doi.org/10.1037/amp0... (1/)
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.io · 24/05/2024
There are a *lot* of researchers out there asking "How similar is ChatGPT to humans on X psychological test?" @davidmmarkowitz.bsky.social, Kate Blackburn, and I suggest that we can be thinking much, much more broadly about the future potential of generative AI: doi.org/10.3389/frsp...
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From silicon to solutions: AI's impending impact on research and discovery
The social sciences have long relied on comparative work as the foundation upon which we understand the complexities of human behavior and society. However, as we delve deeper into the era of artifici...
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