Original preprint thread here bsky.app/profile/andr...

And also reiterating that researchers should care more about humans than about bots if we care about data quality doi.org/10.31234/osf...

We have a new preprint that underscores some key claims here: even if one *can* design an agent that gets through a survey fine, it doesn't follow that such agents are undetectable or common. We find that they are far from common! Preprint link in thread👇

New preprint out today (osf.io/preprints/ps...). We tested whether AI agents are actually infiltrating online surveys.

Spoiler alert: they aren't

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Rare intersection of Black Mirror and Hallmark Christmas movie. "It'll all be over by Christmas"

Do people trust science less today? And if so, why? That’s the question we asked researchers including
@justinsulik.bsky.social at our social cognition labs Mi3 (we're part of the @lmu.de) for our video series 'Interactive Minds' - episode on YouTube: youtu.be/1qD1bnzxbVI

#behaviour #SciComm

It's been a long journey to this point but very rewarding. Check out the app I built to support it---it was fun working out how to make this static image into something dynamic/interactive (though still room for improvement, especially accessibility). academic-privilege-2177e04480f1.herokuapp.com

The Academic Wheel of Privilege showing the 24 socio-cultural identities. The 24 socio-cultural identity types span six sectors: health and wellbeing, society, culture and communication, gender and sexuality, education and career, living arrangements and lastly childhood and development. These identity types are shown as circles connected to three concentric rings (outer, middle and inner) of “identity” circles with increasing privilege as you go towards the centre.

Out now!

The Academic Wheel of Privilege 🎡

We developed a framework & app to guide authorship teams in making equitable and thoughtful authorship decisions.

@saralilplants.bsky.social, @justinsulik.bsky.social, Bethan Iley, Mahmoud Elsherif, @flavioazevedo.bsky.social

🔗 osf.io/preprints/me...

Thanks. Gosh! What a rant.

Is there an abstract or something for this session? Curious to know who was proposing what

Imagine trying to solve a puzzle using one of the most personal human senses: smell. A new study, led by Mi3's Mustafa Yavuz, asks: can people actually make better decisions about smells by working together? tinyurl.com/ub9xvm4y

#SocialCognition #Olfaction #perception #GroupDecisions

I am hiring a postdoc for a DFF-funded project on social influence, and the decision processes that fuel rich-get-richer dynamics in the online/offline world. The position is for up to a year, competitive Danish salary, remote work possible. Interested or know somebody? DM me or share!

No arguments from me. It's both weird and unethical (I had initially focused on the weirdness but I'm very behind calling it unethical too).

I do. That's why I just admitted that "happy" was a poor choice of words in the original post. I was wrong to read it uncritically at first. I can see why it's driving frustration.

I know what the bother is, and it is a *very* serious bother. I have made that explicit several times. If I'm "coming off" a certain way, it's because you're insisting on foregrounding subtext and interpretation over what I'm actually typing.

Ok, the OP "happy to live" was misstating the situation. Can we accept that surveillance is commonplace, and that it's surprising to many people just how common place it is?

Again, I stress that I know the problems are immense and must be fought and are awful, scary, or whatever negative adjective you want to insert here. Please continue to shit on people acting otherwise. But I'm also interested in the social history of your country so don't shit on me for that.

It would be if we were all pretending that the invasive tech is the same as a bit of plastic. We're not (at least, I'm not). I'm sure the OP, too, is aware that Starmer is not proposing a bit of plastic. But we're still allowed to ask "why has Britain historically taken such-and-such an attitude?"

Nobody said you're all thrilled about it. But visitors to your country often remark on how commonplace it is. So we're allowed to say "it's odd that Britain has done X but been so adverse to Y". I know you're having a different discussion, but no need to get aggro about a parallel discussion.

I don't think you're overreacting. I think the current proposal is beyond awful. I just think calling people stupid for wondering about some features of how Britain got to this point is unnecessary.

Yes, but we (globally) are also allowed to discuss historic backgrounds to current events, including commenting on ID cards more generally. It is interesting how Britain has long been gung ho for surveillance but not little plastic ID cards, isn't it? I don't think it's stupid to comment on that.

Yes, but the OP explicitly said they were wondering about long-standing British attitudes to "a piece of plastic that confirms who you are and has existed in Europe for ages" (in the 2nd post of their thread), not the new digital monstrosity, so I'm following that specific aspect.

The post I responded to mentioned ID cards which so many countries have, not the new proposal for digital weirdness in the UK. Brits have been expressing disdain for little ID cards long before this new stuff came up, and that was the topic of this thread as far as I can see.

I was struck by a train conductor checking tickets on a Scotrail service having a small camera clipped onto his tie! Bizarre. No idea why that's ok but a little credit-card sized thing in my wallet is a step too far.

Common statistical tests are linear models (or: how to teach stats)

Common statistical tests are linear models (or: how to teach stats) share.google/LyqBE6V5Zl41...

Differences in psychologists’ cognitive traits are associated with scientific divides - Nature Human Behaviour Scientific disagreements are not just a matter of using different methods or having conflicting data. Sulik et al. surveyed psychological scientists and found that disagreements are also associated wi...

Similar to what we find (including for visual imagery) in psychology, with cognitive differences predicting researchers' stances on controversial topics/explanatory preferences www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Crowdsource the crowdssourcers

Guess it would only really be useful if people are as likely to report good batches as bad ones...

Would anyone have any interest in a lightweight app where people could easily report current quality failure rates? Would then display smoothed averages for different platforms, helping track temporary blips vs consistent declines

How do you argue with a science denial meme? Memed responses may be counter-productive for responding to science denial online - Hannah Little, Justin Sulik, 2025 Science denial ‘memes’ are a viral form of communication that attempt to undermine complex scientific ideas using memorable soundbites. These memes misrepresent...

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Published in Public Understanding of Science with @justinsulik.bsky.social: "How do you argue with a science denial meme?"

People rate response strategies to a science denial meme (specifically the "If humans evolved from apes, why are there still apes?" meme)