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Excited to share (over here) that in January, I'll start as an Asst Professor Simon Fraser University Psych! 🏞️ I'm recruiting a lab manager & my 1st grad student. If you're interested in social cognition/perception, stereotyping, & transformative experiences, check out socosci.com~🦉

This could be an incredible revolution in Cosmology. The Dark Energy model of the universe, which won a Nobel Prize in 2011, may be completely wrong. The accelerating expansion instead is simply because time runs faster in the voids between galaxies. Let me explain:

Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 deepseek is a side project. based 🫡

Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 DeepSeek R1 may well be one of first ubiquitous LLMs, now that Developers are running it on mobile, Raspberry Pi, and even in the browser. It's thrilling to think about the offline-first and fallback scenarios the R1 model enables. What a time to be alive.

🚨New paper🚨How do we decide who has the 'moral standing' to call out wrongdoing? New research, led by former YES Lab member Isaias Ghezae and in collaboration with Fan Yang explores folk perception of moral standing to blame. Now in Open Mind direct.mit.edu/opmi/article/d…

Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, Chaz Firestone & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):

…they take up drinking water - yes, drinking water, because of the water quality required to cool these facilities - which threatens to hike water prices for families… 8/ theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

So it doesn’t matter if you're a company in the US, China, or elsewhere. DeepSeek should be a cue to pivot HARD toward investing in far more efficient methods of AI development. Even if you care nothing about community & climate impacts, it’s just better business. 19/

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

📣 Absolutely elated to announce that in 2026, I’ll be joining Rutgers University-Newark as TT Assistant Professor in the Dept of Psychology! 🤩 I’ve got some fun projects ahead as I wrap up my postdoc, but soon I’ll start recruiting at all levels so stay tuned. 1/3

The numbers are in, and infant mortality rates indeed increased after Roe v. Wade was overturned. For example, infant mortality increased by 9.3 percent in the state of Texas alone. jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

🧿New Preprint🧿 We argue for diversifying conceptual diversity, i.e., studying topics that are not well represented in our knowledge base. Topical diversity is related to, but distinguishable from, participant and researcher diversity. Some examples:

Are you a junior faculty member interested in spending 2-4 weeks at Princeton Psych? Please apply for our Microsabbatical program! It’s a fully funded visit for professional development and creating long-term collaborations. psych.princeton.edu/diversity/micr…

Excited to share that our paper is now out in PNASNews! 🎉 Check it out: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Code and data: github.com/baixuechunzi/l… Big shoutout to my amazing coauthors Angelina Wang @angelinawang.bsky.social Ilia Sucholutsky Griffiths Computational Cognitive Science Lab!

Excited to be chairing my first ever symposium today at #SPSP2025! We have a great lineup including Suraiya Allidina, Kyle Ratner, and Leor Hackel. Come check it out! Society for Personality and Social Psychology

Live from #spsp2025: Kristin Laurin giving a talk abt how a small vocal minority (~8%) of politically extreme users on X overwhelmingly like & RT senators' partisan, polarizing tweets. Most users disapprove of partisanship but will fall in line and RT these highly visible tweets

Yikes, it looks like ChatGPT might be widening the productivity gap in science. Men report using ChatGPT more than women—and since its launch, their publishing rate has grown 6.4% more than women's. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/arti…

Look at the distribution of z-values from medical research!

THREAD: Under a new law, thousands of prisoners in Louisiana have been cut off from ever getting a chance at parole. Why? Because an algorithm said so. 1/

A Palestinian artist and photojournalist who is the protagonist of a documentary due to premiere in Cannes in May has been killed in an Israeli air strike. Fatima Hassouna died with nine members of her family in a direct strike on their home in Gaza City on Wednesday. Hassouna,