“…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.”
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...
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
It’s shameful verging on collaborationist that universities slashed DEI rather than fighting the administration on this.
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."
“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…”
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
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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.
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.
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.
Holy f@$k!
“ChatGPT exhibits the highest level of anti-Black racism ever experimentally recorded.”
This whole video is jaw-dropping.
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...
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
👋 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 🧵 -->
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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
Abstract and results summary
🚨 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...
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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?
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.
Will do!
Update: I was able to find an ANES dataset with the variables I needed using simple googling that took 5 minutes.
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.
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
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.
“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.”
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.
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.
