Interests in psychology and philosophy
Joined June 2018
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1/ Academic conferences can be exciting places to meet old friends, find new collaborators, and learn about the frontiers of knowledge. But the format leaves something to be desired.
Here are 5 ideas that I think would improve academic conferences 🧵
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10/ 💡Post-Conference Impact Tracking
Problem: Conferences often do a poor job of measuring whether an event produced anything of value.
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End/ Solution: Follow up with attendees 6–12 months later and ask about the collaborations, papers, grants, mentorship relationships, and career outcomes that came from the conference.
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Jun 11
New project: an interactive explorer for how Americans spend their time, built on 22 years of BLS survey data. Sleep, work, leisure, childcare. Slice it however you want. Free to use.
nathan98000.shinyapps.io/how…
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Nathan Nguyen retweeted
People sometimes agree to seemingly teleological sentences like:
"The sun produces light so that plants can photosynthesize"
Does this mean that people literally think the sun produces light for that purpose? New paper in Cognition suggests the answer is No
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May 25
New blog post: Evaluating Dr. Cuddy’s Claim that the Debunking of Power Posing is a Myth.
daniellakens.blogspot.com/20…
On an AI generated description of a non-existent study, incorrectly citing findings from studies, and the importance of scientific criticism.
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May 21
New meta-analysis:
In tasks from the fields of behavioral economics, neuroendocrinology, and social neuroscience, the correlation between participant testosterone levels and their risk preferences came out to...
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There was no relationship, and no publication bias!
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May 21
I reported on an experiment this week that blew my mind. Psychologists at @Cornell recruited thousands of people to talk with ChatGPT about a conspiracy theory they believed. They wanted to know: Is it true that conspiracy theories rarely get convinced out of their beliefs? 🧵
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Apr 30
🧵Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) 🧵
Ask any person who has been even suggested to have BPD; they will uniformly tell you that they have been told to try DBT (Dialectical Behavioural Therapy). Reflexively recommended. "Gold standard."
This is not science-supported.
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