Raymond (He/Him)

Forensic & Clinical Psychology | 24 | PhD @SFUPsychology - MSc @UMForPsy - BA @OxExpPsy | Current obsessions: Psychopaths, Violence Risk Assessments, and Cats

[Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill]

Psychologists have posited hundreds of cognitive biases over the years. A fascinating new paper argues that they all boil down to one of a handful of fundamental beliefs coupled with confirmation bias. https://t.co/uZTVbGnH3d

[Carlos E. Perez @IntuitMachine]

1/n Terrence Tao, arguable the most gifted living mathematician has tried GPT-o1 and this is his verdict: "However, this was an improvement over previous models, whose capability was closer to an actually incompetent graduate student. It may only take one or two further iterations of improved capability (and integration with other tools, such as computer algebra packages and proof assistants) until the level of "competent graduate student" is reached."

[Cameron Martel @Cameron_Martel_]

🚨New in @NatureHumBehav 🚨

Will misinfo warning labels backfire for ppl who distrust fact-checkers? No!

Labels reduce belief in & sharing of false news even for those highly distrusting of fact-checkers - warning labels are a key tool for platforms!

https://t.co/Le9nZftM2N

[PHD Comics @PHDcomics]

It's a fairy tale

[Ida Momennejad @criticalneuro]

A thread on the history of RL/ML based on Andy Barto's talk #RLC2024: the Reinforcement Learning Conference.
Beyond seeing friends & giving talks/panel, talking to @RichardSSutton & hearing Andy Barto revived a need for attention to historical psych/neuro influences on AI.
1/n🧵

[PHD Comics @PHDcomics]

Vacation Relaxation?

[C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag]

The Publish or Perish Game™ is a humorous party game about academic publishing. Players race to publish manuscripts with useless nonsense while sabotaging each other's research and delivering "very helpful" comments, Reviewer 2 style: https://t.co/vbHzptGCS0 #STEM

[IAFMHS Students @IAFMHS_Student]

‼️ Self-nominations for the IAFMHS Student Board still open until 𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐰 𝐀𝐮𝐠𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝟒𝐭𝐡, 𝟏𝟐𝐩𝐦 𝐄𝐃𝐓 ‼️

Send in your nominations to [email protected]
We look forward to working with you in 2024-2025🤝🤩

[Tomer Ullman @TomerUllman]

in my decision-making class, students do a Final Thing, rather than a term paper.

One of them was interested in "nudges", and decided to run an experiment to see if a simple label ('this comes from trees') would help reduce paper towel use in the university public restrooms.

[Dorothy Bishop (inactive account) @deevybee]

new preprint by Thibault et al examineds widespread use (and misuse) of G*power by researchers

https://t.co/DcGTEnGy1l

[Social Psych Lab Basel @SocPsychBasel]

🎉 We just hit 40 rejections (as a lab) which means time for our second #Rejection party! Scaling it up to a meal out this time 😋. Kudos for all the hard work submitting papers, applying to grants, and failing all the way! Only by trying can you success ✨️✨️ #AcademicChatter

[Lior Pachter @lpachter]

Aristotle was the first to notice honeybees dancing. In 1927 Karl von Frisch decoded the waggle. How it works was "explained" by MV Srinivasan AM FRS in the 1990s. Except @NeuroLuebbert found his papers are junk. A 🧵 about her discovery & our report: https://t.co/K0rpDPnfop 1/

[Daniel Yudkin @dyudkin]

Excited to be presenting my research on everyday moral dilemmas on Reddit’s “Am I the Asshole?” tomorrow 11am at #SPP2024. Come for the cat jokes 🐱, stay for the important implications for moral psychology 🤓

[IAFMHS @IAFMHS1]

Another wonderful group of people who form the Special Interest Group on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion! We’re grateful for their work that makes our organization better in so many ways! @NijdamJones @jackltomlin @HealeyLindsay #iafmhsconference2024

[Dr Meming @Dr_Meming]

‘Writing a paper sounds like a good idea’

Me while preparing the lit review:

[IAFMHS Students @IAFMHS_Student]

Student Board Panel on academic failures and resilience✨
Thank you to our inspirational panelists @NijdamJones, Dr Kelly A. Watt & Lisa-Marie Sittner !
Day 1 of #iafmhsconference2024 is off to a great start!🚀

[Daniel Yudkin @dyudkin]

This cool new paper by Joseph Siev and colleagues shows that people (wrongly) expect that expressing ambivalence on political issues will make them more relatable. In fact, it makes them *less* likable.

https://t.co/lCTiTzyaPI

[Abigail Marsh @aa_marsh]

Go ahead--pick up litter, recycle, or eat a plant-based meal! Two pre-registered studies (one of them an RCT) find that engaging in pro-environmental behavior increases participants' experiences of happiness and meaning in life. @PsychScience https://t.co/K0njnMplJT