Americans are more polarized in their trust in scientists than in virtually any other societal institution. — James N. Druckman.
(@umisrcps.bsky.social)
More, via Opinion Today:
opiniontoday.substack.com/p/260420-top...
This looks like something we should worry about a lot.
I am one of the co-organizers of this event, and there has been some upset about it elsewhere on Bluesky. I cannot speak from anybody's perspective other than my own about this, but will express my own position briefly here. 1/X
Survey research is often interpreted as showing that belief in conspiracy theories can be surprisingly widespread, including belief in conspiracy theories that would be astonishing if true. For example, in The Atlantic we learn that “12 million Americans believe lizard people run our country”
New paper documenting a negative association between childhood exposure to local wealth inequality and inter-class social ties in adulthood. If children have fewer chances to meet peers from different class backgrounds, those divides may persist far beyond childhood.
Virtual Event April 16 // 1 pm ET NEW EVIDENCE ON REPRODUCIBILITY ACROSS SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH Moderator: Tim Errington Speakers: Katrin Auspurg, Abel Brodeur, and Andrew Tyner
What can large-scale studies tell us about reproducibility? In our webinar on April 16, researchers from COS, I4R, and META-REP will discuss findings from three papers—one from the recently published SCORE effort—and insights on reproducibility, transparency, and credibility
cos-io.zoom.us/webin...
Finally this long-last meta-research is done!
We examine the demographics of subject from 1000 Chinese psych journal articles & 27 big-teams science.
Findings: these participant are not representative of the 🇨🇳population, in terms of sex, age, & edu.
@btscon.bsky.social @sakshighai.bsky.social
This looks awesome!
Three recent papers examined reproducibility of a large sample of findings. Join this webinar to discuss them and explore where the findings converge and differ.
1. SCORE: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
2. I4R: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
3. Meta-Rep: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...
That’s so cool!! Congrats!
Come join us! We have two research coordinator positions open with the Stanford IRISS predoctoral program, a program designed to mentor students for graduate study:
LEVANTE: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/iriss-p...
BabyView: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/iriss-p...
(deadline 5/1)
How do we know if research is credible? In Abatayo et al., 86 of us combined evidence across the SCORE program including replicability, reproducibility, robustness, human and machine assessments to understand relationships among many potential credibility measures. 1/
Paper: osf.io/preprints/me...
Very curious about the results
Ideologically rating social science academic article abstracts (using a fixed contemporary ideological scale) finds that 90% lean left & all disciplines showed leftward movement from 1990-2024, especially on cultural issues.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Useful lessons in building self-efficacy. This applies to really any programming language.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
Interesting paper. I’ve always wondered about the role of selection into bad jobs.
Hope it gets better soon. So sorry you’re going through this.
1/ Has life expectancy fully recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic? In a new pre-print, we find that 31 of 34 high-income countries had still not returned to their expected life expectancy trajectories five years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... #demography
Cool extension of the construct of "role captivity" to capture the subjective experiences of work.
Effects are asymmetric: transitioning out of captivity does not improve wellbeing.
Mismatch of preference for + lack of control over work location (a.k.a. "workplace captivity") predicts lower job and life satisfaction. Becoming "captive" additionally accompanies higher psychological distress.
doi.org/10.1177/0190...
We have written a simple, plain-language, no equations & minimal jargon tutorial for experimentalists on why you can't drop people who don't take your treatments or follow your instructions.
with re-analyses & recommendations!
with @samanthajamesbrown.bsky.social
osf.io/preprints/ps...
#psych
Congrats Fumiya! Look forward to reading this!
NYU is hiring two postdocs at the Center for Social Media, AI & Politics:
csmapnyu.org/jobs
And a grant manager in Sociology with the Social Science Research Hub:
uscareers-nyu.icims.com/jobs/15327/g...
I'm part of both groups--please share with anyone who is interested!
This is really cool! Congrats, BK!
Happy to share our new paper published in PNAS!
Using epigenetic clocks and egocentric network data, we find each additional "hassler" in your close social network is associated with ~9 months of extra biological age and 1.5% faster pace of aging.
SPQ is excited to announce a Special Issue on Social Status! We are inviting scholars to submit their theoretical and empirical articles that examine status by December 15th, 2026.
Below is the information for the Call for Papers. #SPQ
A counterintuitive example where a strong prior pulls an estimate in the wrong direction–and how to see the problem
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/02/02/a...
Is academia a job, career, or calling? Yes, yes, and yes. The answer is not defined by the role, it is defined by the person in the role.
It is perfectly acceptable to decide it is any of these for one's interests and well-being, and to live and work accordingly.