On my way to #APS24SF to give a talk in the invited symposium on 'Lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic' (SAT, 3:30PM). It’s a long trip, but the program looks exciting. Drop me a line if you are up for a chat. 👋

In 2017, Farin Urlaub of the German punk band “Die Ärzte” put out an album called “Berliner Schule” with songs that had failed to make it onto other albums.

Turns out it was inspired by my CV of failures from 2016!

Interview where he tells the story: musikexpress.de/farin-urlaub-i…

Some cool graphs and interesting headline stats Timothy Caulfield Sander van der Linden Cornelia Betsch 🖖 Philipp Schmid
theconversation.com/154-million-li…

Our review paper “Toolbox of individual-level interventions against online misinformation” is out today in Nature Human Behaviour! Truly a team effort by an international group of experts. Thread 1/10🧵👇
nature.com/articles/s4156…

🚨Updated preprint🚨

Very excited to share this updated preprint with Rui Mata. Now using a fine-tuned LLM predicting personality item correlations with MAE = .068.

The model is freely available at Hugging Face: huggingface.co/dwulff/mpnet-p…

Preprint: osf.io/preprints/psya…

New meta-analysis in The BMJ about the treatment of depression with psilocybin🍄
Despite its positive conclusions, the authors make the most recurrent errors in meta-analyses

Let's see if by pointing them out we can make them less and less frequent🧵
dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj-20…

MTurk is basically junk responses. People often lie about their background characteristics. And they often choose the same answer for most questions, regardless of content, such that you can ask people opposing questions and get completely incoherent results (even after screening

What a wonderful workshop on norms and behavioral change in the climate crisis on the beautiful island Capri. Great talks, discussions, and food. Thank you for the organization and invitation, giulia andrighetto and Eva Vriens!

This is not just a weather report. It’s our children’s future.

This #EarthDay and every day, let’s clear the skies for all the kids in our lives.

Sign our climate pledge NOW: weatherkids.org

#WeatherKids

Happy to share my article “Simulation-Based Power Analyses for the Smallest Effect Size of Interest: A Confidence Interval Approach for Minimum-Effect and Equivalence Testing' is now published in Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science doi.org/10.1177/251524…

Let’s meet in Maastricht Oct 24&25!

Excited to announce the CBEN & MVE joint meeting '24, celebrating 10+25 years! Discuss the 'dark sides' of behavior with our wonderful speakers & fellow researchers.

Submit your abstract by June 17 & spread the word!

tinyurl.com/CBEN-NL

What can you expect more from a PhD position? One of the finest research institutes of the world, an awesome city to live in, and, most importantly, one of the most stellar scientists and wonderful persons I know as a supervisor. Apply!

🚨 New in PNASNews 🚨

We find that people see more of their #biases in #algorithms ' decisions than in their own #decisions , even when algorithms are trained on their decisions and when those decisions are the same. 1/n

pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Big loss for our group but very happy for Simon that he now moves on to a tenure-track position 🥳 after (sadly) being only one year with us as a postdoc. Lucky you, Leeds University Business School. Guess we'll have a job opening soon...

Hi folks! I ran a short workshop on using AI and LLMs in Psych/JDM at the department here in Vienna. The code is publicly available; aimed at beginners. It showcases several language processing capabilities. It uses Google Colab - minimal installation req. github.com/SimonvBaal/wor…

What a great pleasure to have Johannes Keller (feat. Bonnie) as a guest speaker at our department. Vienna is treating us well with a warm evening to sit outside until late evening.