PhD Candidate in Societal Digitalization (80%) The Department of Sociology at the University of Zurich is offering a fixed-term 80% position for a PhD in Societal Digitalization for the team of Prof. Dr. Gemma Newlands. The starting date is flexible in early 2026, apply until 15 January 2026.

The Department of Sociology at the University of Zurich is offering a fixed-term 80% position for a PhD in Societal Digitalization for the team of Prof. Dr. Gemma Newlands. The starting date is flexible in early 2026, apply until 15 January 2026.

An historian’s perspective on name- and writing-system efficiency, great!

Hey @bolman.bsky.social : seems like you got the elegant log-transformed version of my name

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I'm going to be teaching an intergroup relations graduate seminar next year(!!!), and I'm starting to daydream about what should go into it. Does anyone have an example syllabus they'd be willing to share as inspiration? Or papers they feel really *must* be covered?

#psychscisky #socialpsych

5,9 km with PB on a mile (5:55) #garmin #running

AI and the future of behavioural science | LSE Event YouTube video by LSE

We did a lively session end of last year on AI & behavioural science.. www.youtube.com/live/x1hojUo... Talking to people about a session on ethics on digital influence & manipulation partly in AI personalisation context.

As full RTO seems to have won out over remote/hybrid work, I have a sense the next bad idea to be rediscovered will be electronic performance monitoring (EPM).
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#IOPsych #HRM #monitoring #futureofwork #engagement

10k in 40min

1st long run in a while
#garmin #running

How are we going to look onto the last 40 years and next 10 years of the US in 2050? Thoughtful retrospective speculation by @dacemoglumit.bsky.social (also symptomatic of our times: the strivings for political balance of a Nobel’s Laureate)

ECPA ECPA

Abstract submissions are now open for @ecpa2025.bsky.social
! Abstract Submission Deadline: March 3, 2025
• Notification of Acceptance: End of April 2025
• Presenter Registration Deadline: June 2, 2025. More infromation here: www.ecpa16conferencebcn.com

Developing a list of Org Scholars and Scholarship. Let me know if you would like to be added!!! @aomconnect.bsky.social @aomsim.bsky.social @orgscience.bsky.social @orgstudies.bsky.social @orgtheory.bsky.social @conflictmanagement.bsky.social

You may have heard of Questionable Research Practices and "HARKing" as threats to replicability.

In a new paper led by @sakshighai.bsky.social, we argue that a similar practices -- Questionable Generalizability Practices and "MASKing" -- undermine generalizability.

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

On the Perception of Moral Standing to Blame Abstract. Is everyone equally justified in blaming another’s moral transgression? Across five studies (four pre-registered; total N = 1,316 American participants), we investigated the perception of mo...

🚨New paper🚨How do we decide who has the 'moral standing' to call out wrongdoing? New research, led by former YES Lab member Isaias Ghezae (Harvard) and in collaboration with Dr. Fan Yang (UChicago) explores folk perception of moral standing to blame. Now in Open Mind direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

UK almost 20 points from the top of the world corruption index. #Brexit and Covid let corruption run amok under the Tories. Scotland can do better #ScottishIndependence

Research: Incivility at Work Silences Everyone, But Especially Women Incivility at work isn’t good for anyone. But while both men and women are less likely to speak up in uncivil environments, women are more likely to withhold their ideas due to concerns about gender b...

My team's recent research: at work, women speak up less than men only when groups are uncivil. Maybe it's not a lack of confidence or leaning in that silences women, but actual cues in the environment. Focus on fixing the incivility, not the women! hbr.org/2025/01/rese...

One. Never sent or received a fax.

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Courtesy of @drbensearle.bsky.social This is a Starter Pack for Work, Industrial, and Organisational/Organizational Psychology enthusiasts new to BlueSky.

#iopsych #iopsychology #workpsychology #organizationalpsychology #organisationalpsychology

go.bsky.app/N58LyfX

"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/...

Happy holidays! 🎄❄️🎅🏼

Reminder:
hbr.org/2024/07/rese...

Since this is back…
Unfortunately, academic inflation and toxic productivity culture has all but done away with this. The effects of this on science advancement will be seen for generations. Slowing down and thinking deeply is essential to solve complex problems and it’s undervalued at every level

🗣Job alert:🧑‍🎓 Postdoc-Stelle in einem rechtspsychologischen Projekt zum Thema "Vertrauen in Ko-Kreation mit generativer KI im Rechtssystem" an der LMU München: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/8.... (geleitet von Friederike Funk). Bewerbungsschluss 20.01.25

Only a vague image of the Chernobyl disaster, but much more vivid memory of the fall of the Berlin Wall

People in 26 countries prefer more control over their online environment



In a conjoint study (N = 11,868), we explored preferences for regulating online environments by examining binary choices between different regulation scenarios.

Preprint:https://osf.io/preprints/osf/haqu9

👋🏼 Friend’y neighbor here, may I ask you to add me please?

ruthlessly spot-on

We need to work harder to catch ourselves in the act of staying silent or avoiding uncomfortable information and do more real-time course correcting. We need to guard against lowering our standards for normalcy.