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I'm reading a paper from 2017 that uses the word "whilst" to an excessive degree and it's making me so annoyed with the review team. 😳
Cartel violence hit the popular tourist area of Puerto Vallarta on Sunday, cancelling flights in and out of the town.
globalnews.ca/news/1170876...
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 …
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...
🚨🚨 My lab is hiring a Postdoc! 🚨🚨
Postdoc opening in my lab at Harvard Psych (start: Summer/Fall 2026).
We study identity, group dynamics, language, & politics.
Rolling review begins 3/14
Apply: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15806
Please repost + tag folks who might be a good fit! 👇
PLEASE.
Use "insert page break" instead of just hitting the return key a few times.
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This is really cool @cbcgem.bsky.social
Scott Galloway recently told Derek Thompson on his podcast that childbirth is “disgusting” and “unnatural” for dads. I’ve studied fathers' experience of childbirth in my lab for years, and I think Galloway is wrong. darbysaxbe.substack.com/p/scott-gall...
"I am special, I am immune to The Algorithm, it will not change me"
you are not special and it will make you worse
you should leave
That said, I have wanted to try the biathlon ever since I saw the Olympic set up in Canmore! I feel like I could do that one! 😂
We always joke about how it would be cool to see an amateur do all the events at the Olympics to show how talented the athletes really are...
But DANG we cannot do this with the winter Olympics -some of these sports are so freaking dangerous!
Do not send me down a bobsled track fam, I wanna live!
Sometimes reddit is an amazing resource.
www.reddit.com/r/Cooking/co...
This year, get her what she really wants for Valentine's Day
Vengeance
It's the anniversary of the Toronto Bathhouse Raids:
Toronto Bathhouse Raids (1981) | The Canadian Encyclopedia share.google/oCFbObk5FvUY...
It seems like you accomplished it!!
Better than me - I switched from a BSc to a BA in my second year because I decided I didn't want to do calculus 👀
Short story long...
I thought I was going a particular direction in my psychology career, then realized I was required to take electives before I was allowed to graduate.😬
I loaded up on electives like music, film, and nutrition in 4th year and it was awesome!
Realized later neuro was not for me.
Tell me five classes you took in university (I'm going to assume undergrad):
My list doesn't tell as clear a story, but...
Neuroscience
Neuropsychology
Advanced Statistics & Research Methods
Music and pop culture
Classical Mythology
Aaaand now I'm an applied social psychologist 🙃
My back deck, filling up with snow over 24 hrs 🫣❄️
I upgraded my phone and one of the most frustrating things is that an app I use regularly has apparently been discontinued and I can't get it for my new phone and I miss it.
Technology is amazing and wild and annoying.
who did this
My Instagram algorithm is showing me a lot of things about how winter is a time to slow down to rest and restore.
I fully agree with this, but I need someone to inform a) my toddler and b) my academic workload about this.
Overall I enjoyed it, but the ending felt like the rug was jerked out from under me!
Speaking of #rstats, my buddy Joey Merrin and his colleagues recently published a paper in AMPPS/had an R package "CATAcode" accepted to CRAN.
Looks like a banger set of resources to navigate those finicky "choose-all-that-apply" (CATA) survey questions! Check it out!
We should no longer trust data collected on MTurk
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
My guess is that other online data is going to drop in quality due to LLMs. This is going to be an existential crisis for the behavioral sciences.
dySEM package logo of two gender/sex-ambiguous figures holding onto a collection of rainbow-coloured balloons in a fashion resembling an SEM path diagram
Pleased to share for those using #rstats for analyzing #dyadic data, that we released a major update of dySEM on CRAN (now ver. 1.4.1) *just* before the winter break.
New functionality for scripting/outputting dyadic SEMs, along with (much) more test coverage! 🧵
cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
Sometimes all you can do is make the world 0.0000000000001% less awful by being a good person and it feels very meaningless but it’s also the only thing that really matters
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