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One of my intro stats students e-mailed me today because they were checking their work using Chat GPT. Chat told them why they got a question wrong and they wanted confirmation.

I gently reminded them that Chat GPT is an LLM and not really meant to do math. Also, yes, it's explanation was wrong

I like that message! It feels very collaborative, I hope the students appreciate it!

My honours thesis student did such a great job presenting her work at our psychology thesis poster conference yesterday!! She took on a really challenging but really important project and I'm so proud for her!!

Thank you!!
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It’s Time To Grow Up | Defector HBO’s new Harry Potter TV series is premiering this Christmas Day. Under current plans, it will last at least a decade. The trailer looks like the original films were run through an AI generator, but ...

"On the one hand, you have an imaginative property beloved by millions, and on the other, there are actually existing trans people." 🎁 defector.com/its-time-to-...

Looks amazing!!

I did my first reverse seared roast today and it turned out so great!
Now, where does this go on my CV?

Photo of a piece from Nutrition Action on using ChatGPT for advice on diet and health

Great piece from Nutrition Action on using ChatGPT for advice on diet and health.

#Nutrition #AI #PublicHealth

A matchmaking gift set that, tragically, sets you up with your own mother… called Oedipal Arrangement

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Ugh !
Outlook doesn't even give me the option NOT to email everyone (as far as I can tell)

Hahahaha I have been caught in that unexpected chaos trap before! Got tons of little things done and none of my big things 😅

But thank you so much! This is really helpful!!

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In lab meeting next week, I'm going to talk to my students about time management.
What are your hot tips for time management?
What's something you wish you had learned earlier that improved the way you get your work done?

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Oh I don't like that

Not me over here using "find and replace" to remove fix all the spots where my fingers were on autopilot and I used a double space after a period!

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I developed a paranoid habit of hitting control-S after every thought I type out while I'm writing - thanks to losing work several times on Word.

I now find it unsettling NOT doing that while I write in a Google doc. 😬

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I'll give you a hint which way my balance has tipped 😭

This is a nuclear bomb to Ontario's democracy. The Ford government wants to obfuscate absolutely everything it does.

My goal is to incorporate this phrase into a publication title - I didn't get into loneliness research for nothing over here!

It's honestly blackpilled me a little how the last couple of years have revealed that so many people are just fundamentally averse to reading and writing and thinking as worthwhile human activities.

I dunno man, I think precipitously canceling people's funding caused a lot of damage to other people's careers and lives and reputations and maybe they should live with the blowback. They come from a media ecosystem that makes public lists of insufficiently bigoted professors.

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The academic urge to eschew work-life balance when your partner is out of town.

Study promotion for a great PhD student!

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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. 😳

‘Ghosted’: Canadians stranded in Puerto Vallarta say they are abandoned by WestJet | Globalnews.ca British Columbians who were stuck in Mexico after violence erupted in Puerto Vallarta say they feel abandoned by WestJet with no help to get home.

Cartel violence hit the popular tourist area of Puerto Vallarta on Sunday, cancelling flights in and out of the town.

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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.
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