Extremism at the center: Uncovering political diversity among midpoint responders on the left–right self‐placement item The midpoint of the left-right self-placement item is hiding important political diversity, and may be conflating moderate responders with populists and other political sub-groups. Survey researchers...

Extremely pleased to see this work published! Thank you so much to my excellent collaborators @fmsmallfield.bsky.social @scicomguy.bsky.social @srhastraea.bsky.social @lingtax.bsky.social @mdmarques.com @matthewmatix.bsky.social
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Does Developing a Belief in One Conspiracy Theory Lead a Person to be More Likely to Believe in Others? The monological belief system model suggests that—for at least a subset of people—developing a belief in one conspiracy theory will cause them to be more likely to believe in others. This model has b...

It's often claimed that developing a belief in one conspiracy theory will increase the chance that someone goes on to believe other conspiracy theories... perhaps leading them down a rabbit hole of conspiracist beliefs. But does that really happen?

doi.org/10.1002/ejsp...

The TL;DR? On average, increased belief in one conspiracy theory *does* seem to lead to increased belief in others. But the effects were very small!

People do change their beliefs about conspiracy theories—but not often - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - People do change their beliefs about conspiracy theories—but not often

here's some of our research on the stability of belief in #conspiracytheories over time (curious to see the @altmetric.com )

paper led by @matthewmatix.bsky.social incl @lingtax.bsky.social @scicomguy.bsky.social @srhastraea.bsky.social Mawson & Clarke

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Out of the rabbit hole: new research shows people can change their minds about conspiracy theories A new study has found no evidence that people’s beliefs in conspiracy theories increase over time. They can even change their minds – just not that often.

We suggest that people don't fall into conspiracy theory rabbit holes, but some slide into rabbit warrens. Also, no evidence of an increase in beliefs over time, on average.

@matthewmatix.bsky.social @lingtax.bsky.social @scicomguy.bsky.social @srhastraea.bsky.social Mollie Hawson &Eddie Clarke

"AI image tools have a tendency to spin up disturbing clichés: Asian women are hypersexual. Africans are primitive. Europeans are worldly. Leaders are men. Prisoners are Black." www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2...

How to fix the gender pay gap, according to one of the 'bloke-iest' companies in Australia In early 2024, more than 4.6 million workers are about to find out how much less the company they work for pays female staff. Many companies are working now to fix the problem.

“The national 'total remuneration' gender pay gap is 22.8 percent, meaning that for every $1 a man makes, women earn, on average, 77.2c. Over a year, that's a $25,596 difference.”

www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10...

screenshot of the regex filter

If you've made a feed with @skyfeed.app and want to filter out posts that spam lots of random hashtags, add the following regex filter:
^(?:[^#]*#){0,5}[^#]*$

It will filter out posts with more than 5 hashtags.

They can't help it, some people are just behaviourally addicted to defining new behavioural addictions.

What might you do after a PhD?
I interviewed 53 people and mapped out career paths

(Interviews are themselves available too!)
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#PsychSciSky #Neuroskyence #CogSci

New paper identifies the jobs that a sample of 53 psychology PhD students got after completing their PhDs.

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#Psychology #PhDSky #AcademicSky #PsychJobs

Color palette based on Monument Valley, 2014, ustwo Games

Color palette based on Evening Star No. III, 1917, Georgia O'Keeffe

All the MoMA color palettes

New #rstats color palette package just dropped: {MoMAColors}! It has gorgeous colors from art at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC

On this same screen, there's also an experimental option to show posts from your feeds in your timeline. (At least, I see it in a web browser.) So far I'm pretty pleased by using this for discovery!

‘Why are they not on Wikipedia?’: Dr Jess Wade’s mission for recognition for unsung scientists Despite some advances, men still dominate science but one academic is working hard to get women and peers of colour the recognition they deserve

“I don’t even think there’s one Black female physics professor in the UK,” says Wade.“If I had one big aim, it would be to make science a more inclusive and fair place to be.”

Yeah, where else could I get thoughtful science, food, large cats, and sailing content all in one place?

My bluesky-less UMiami colleagues and I recently published "Who Knowingly Spreads False Political Information Online?" in Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review. A quick explainer 🧵for anyone interested: misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/who-...

Screenshot of the Setting page showing the Accessibility section with the button for “Require alt text before posting” toggled on

FYI for Newskies, there’s a push here to add ALT to your images (you might notice it’s a lot more common then on Twitter). Many folks won’t repost posts that don’t have ALT on them. You can turn on an ALT reminder in your settings!

Adding 🧪 for all the new scienceskies since there seems to be lots