Big paper just published led by Sam Passmore combining The Global Jukebox songs with global genetic and linguistic data to find surprising (to me) dissociations. Coauthors Anna Wood chiara barbieri Dor Shilton ✶ Hideo Daikoku ✶ Quentin Atkinson rdcu.be/dHzzO

Try this Chrome extension I made to make X/Twitter better for science/research! You can highlight/remove posts with links to academic/non-academic sources etc. (thanks David G. Rand for suggesting this!) chromewebstore.google.com/detail/post-fi…

Our "Many Voices" 75-author collaboration led by Yuto Ozaki finding global regularities in music-speech relationships is now out on the cover of Science Advances: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Full video of 18 coauthors singing/speaking in our own languages at youtu.be/a4eNNrdcfDM

The widely used measure of “theory of mind” needs to be re-examined, along with the long-standing claim that autism is linked to a lack of this ability. By Wendy C. Higgins, Rob Ross thetransmitter.org/spectrum/its-p…

My new paper Nature Communications tells us that musical style holds a historical signal. We show that in five dimensions of musical style, there is geographic autocorrelation and treelike structure similar to level that we see in models of language evolution. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Since 2022, generative AI like ChatGPT and Midjourney has captured our public attention, sparking both excitement and concern. But how do citizens in the Netherlands think about these technologies? The AlgoSoc AI Opinion Monitor reveals key insights. #AI #PublicOpinion 1/🧵

New commentary from Wendy Higgins, Rob Ross, etc. on Goodhart’s “law”: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. Proxy failure and poor measurement practices in psychological science | Behavioral and Brain Sciences bit.ly/3Kf2I1f

Publication Alert! 📰✨ Our paper on mindfulness has been published in Nature Human Behaviour! You can read the article here: nature.com/articles/s4156…! Dr Gabriela Jiga-Boy 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 Hans Rocha IJzerman Ivan Ropovik Rob Ross Christoph Spiessens

How "open" are "best paper" awards? Shinichi Nakagawa | 中川震一 &co use cross-disciplinary data to explore the level of #transparency of publicly available awards, finding that they may propagate existing #reproducibility crises & inequities in science #PLOSBiology plos.io/3LEmEes

Brief report of some of our research in New Scientist. newscientist.com/article/244282…

People may not sincerely believe conspiracy theories they endorse in surveys, with big implications for conspiracy theory researchers using surveys, finds Rob Ross et al. doi.org/10.31234/osf.i…

Spoiler alert, people don't sincerely believe anything they endorse in surveys.

As I keep on saying: survey experiment research may be dead soon. It is one thing to say you "believe" sth, it is an entirely different thing to act in ways that are consistent with the conspiracy theory in every day life. Deeds matter more than words. But words can cause harm.

Note to self: in addition to attention checks ✔️ and bot checks ✔️ include sincerity checks in survey design ✔️

Is there any research which finds that in some country (or countries) conservative/right-wing people appear to be significantly more supportive of some form/s of climate change mitigation policies than liberal/left-wing people?

New paper! The Replication Database: Documenting the Replicability of Psychological Science. Check a novel interactive platform hosting 1,239 originals paired w/ replication findings forrt-replications.shinyapps.io/fred_explorer. Published in Journal of Open Psychology Data led by Lukas Röseler doi.org/10.5334/jopd.1…

🚨Out in Science!🚨 Conspiracy beliefs famously resist correction, ya? WRONG: We show brief convos w GPT4 reduce conspiracy beliefs by ~20%! -Lasts over 2mo -Works on entrenched beliefs -Tailored AI response rebuts specific evidence offered by believers science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… 1/