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Elisabeth Parés Pujolràs @epares.bsky.social · Sep 13

Excellent piece.

We know how to improve writing ability: it's by doing more, not less of it.

"LLMs do not improve one’s writing ability much like taking a taxi does not improve one’s driving ability. Students should hone their writing, thinking, and other academic skills at every opportunity."

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Sep 6

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 18h

Critical AI Literacy Symposium, with Dagmar Monett, @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social & Miquel Pérez Torres, Linda Mannila, and @olivia.science

🎬 Video recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxyg...

📢 Symposium website: www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...

🤔 Critical AI Literacy website: www.ru.nl/en/research/...

Critical AI Literacy: Empowering people to resist hype and harms in the age of AI -- Symposium 2025

YouTube video by Iris van Rooij

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Joshua Curtiss @psychonetrics.bsky.social · 1d

🚨Job Alert!! Please share widely!!🚨

Where: Applied Psychology, Northeastern University

What: Clinical Professor (open rank), as new program director for our Master of Science in Counseling Psychology

Why: We are a fun department 🎉 Please apply!!

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Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington @jsskeffington.bsky.social · 1d

SPSP Economic Inequality & Social Class Preconference is back! Speakers include:
@mwkraus.bsky.social @andreicimpian.bsky.social @frederiqueautin.bsky.social @celbaek.bsky.social
Submit flash talk: tinyurl.com/2r79dwrr
With @sebastiengoudeau.bsky.social, Bruno Gabriel S Casara, Ivan Cano, Paul Piff

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Thùy Vy T Nguyễn @thuyvytnguyen.bsky.social · 1d

What is the latest on VR research in behavioral science? Do we know yet the way participants respond in VR environment would map onto their behavior if they are put in a similar “controlled” real-life environment? Any papers would be appreciated.

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Ronda F. Lo @rondalo.bsky.social · 3d

im very happy to announce that ive transitioned into my new role as an assistant professor at toronto metropolitan university (TMU) and im accepting applications for a graduate student to join my lab starting Fall 2026! joining the psych department at TMU is a literal dream come true 💙💛💙💛

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Jenn Dowd @drjenndowd.bsky.social · 3d

Looks like a great opportunity for pop health researchers... #demography #episky
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Two Postdoctoral Researchers on Health Inequalities

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Dr. Allison G. Harvey @allisonharvey.bsky.social · 21d

Are you applying to a PhD in Clinical or Counseling Psychology? Here is a list of mentors who are taking students. Please circulate widely (and on X) so all applicants can benefit 😀. If you are mentoring please do add your name!
#clinicalpsychology @abctnow.bsky.social

Accepting Clinical or Counselling Psychology Grad Student?

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Scripps Research @scripps.edu · 5d

The NIH has awarded a $14.2M Director’s Transformative Research Award to a team led by Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist @ardemp.bskyverified.social, Prof. @liye-tsri.bsky.social and Assoc. Prof. @xinjin.bsky.social to map interoception and build the first atlas of this hidden sixth sense.

Scripps Research-led team receives $14.2M NIH award to map the body’s “hidden sixth sense”

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Stanley Seah @seeyastanley.bsky.social · 8d

Thrilled to share that I am planning to admit a grad student and will be reviewing applications to the clinical psychology PhD program at Miami University! Excited to mentor and learn from future mentees! For information about my lab and application FAQ, check out: www.seahpepl.com/joincontact-...

Advancing Youth Mental Health - Prospective Graduate Students

Dr. Seah will be reviewing applications from prospective graduate students for the Clinical Psychology PhD Program (Fall 2026 admission)!

www.seahpepl.com

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Leslie Brick @lesliebrickphd.bsky.social · 8d

💥UPDATE: I've got a (rough) website up! I am also looking for 1-2 graduate students and/or postdoctoral fellows to join the team in Fall 2026!

Apply via @casaa.bsky.social for the T32 Fellowship or via @unm.edu psychology for graduate study.

Links to applications here: bricsslab.com/announcements

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Andrew Iwaniuk @evoneuro.bsky.social · Sep 4

For anyone on the neuroscience job market, our ads are up. We are looking for anyone working in systems neuroscience of animals to join us in southern Alberta 🇨🇦
#academicsky #neuroskyence #neuroethology #academicjobs #Canada
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Assistant Professor (Neuroscience, Tenure Track) - Lethbridge (City), Alberta (CA) job with University of Lethbridge | 39049

Assistant Professor (tenure track) of the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 10d

🌟 New preprint 🌟, by @olivia.science and me:

📝 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025). *Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists*. lnkd.in/ewajedAe

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Table 1

Core reasoning issues (first column), which we name after the relevant numbered section, are characterised using a plausible quote. In the second column are responses per row; also see the named section for further reading, context, and explanations.

See paper for full details: ** Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

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Steve Rathje @steverathje.bsky.social · 14d

🚨 New preprint 🚨

Across 3 experiments (n = 3,285), we found that interacting with sycophantic (or overly agreeable) AI chatbots entrenched attitudes and led to inflated self-perceptions.

Yet, people preferred sycophantic chatbots and viewed them as unbiased!

osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Halloween name @bootsmcgoot.bsky.social · 14d

"i just use it to generate ideas"

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Koraly @drkoraly.bsky.social · 23d

Call for Editorial Fellows at Developmental Psychology!

*Early Career (w/i 10yrs PhD)

*Commitment to addressing the needs of underserved populations or increasing access to psychological knowledge & publishing

*1-yr term; $1,000 USD

www.apa.org/pubs/journal...

@apajournals.bsky.social

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Maria Jalbrzikowski @mjalbrzikowski.bsky.social · Sep 3

NeRD lab has a new opening for a long-term position! Clinical Research Manager - need 5+ years of research experience and masters or PhD. Please repost! I'm so excited to find someone who can help me manage the day-to-day research activities in the lab! jobs.bostonchildrens.org/job/22350688...

Clinical Research Manager I

Careers at Boston Children’s Hospital will help you reach your goals – both in and out of the workplace.

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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 21d

If curious about what a virtual Disability Justice 101 workshop from me looks like, here are the slides I used for tonight's hour-long event, so if your organization could benefit from this learning, please know this disabled sociologist could use more paid work! 🫂🫂🫂 docs.google.com/presentation...

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Vera Vine @veravine.bsky.social · 21d

This is an amazing job with an amazing (and amazingly kind) PI 👇

Maria Jalbrzikowski @mjalbrzikowski.bsky.social · Sep 3

NeRD lab has a new opening for a long-term position! Clinical Research Manager - need 5+ years of research experience and masters or PhD. Please repost! I'm so excited to find someone who can help me manage the day-to-day research activities in the lab! jobs.bostonchildrens.org/job/22350688...

Clinical Research Manager I

Careers at Boston Children’s Hospital will help you reach your goals – both in and out of the workplace.

jobs.bostonchildrens.org

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Maria Jalbrzikowski @mjalbrzikowski.bsky.social · 21d

I’ll be at #SRP2025 if you’d like to chat about this position! Anyone graduating soon and interested in a stable, long term high level position (but doesn’t want to be a PI) would be purrrrfect for this position!!!!

Maria Jalbrzikowski @mjalbrzikowski.bsky.social · Sep 3

NeRD lab has a new opening for a long-term position! Clinical Research Manager - need 5+ years of research experience and masters or PhD. Please repost! I'm so excited to find someone who can help me manage the day-to-day research activities in the lab! jobs.bostonchildrens.org/job/22350688...

Clinical Research Manager I

Careers at Boston Children’s Hospital will help you reach your goals – both in and out of the workplace.

jobs.bostonchildrens.org

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Danielle Dick @drdanielledick.bsky.social · 21d

New to NIH grant writing? Join the 5-session virtual mini-course (Jan 5–9, 2026; 2–3:30 pm ET) helps you turn good ideas into competitive K/R apps. Open to trainees, postdocs, faculty & clinicians at U.S. institutions (Rutgers not required): loom.ly/Yg9BkFw

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 21d

We don't support defunding the police, we simply support defunding the police

Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 22d

More from the Suffolk University poll: www.suffolk.edu/-/media/suff...

Do you support or oppose "defund the police"?
Support - 21%
Oppose - 74%

Would you support or oppose cutting some of the police budget and using the money for social services?
Support - 54%
Oppose - 41%

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Brynn Sherman @brynnsherman.bsky.social · 26d

Last month, I launched my lab at Ohio State. Our lab website is now live, and we're recruiting graduate students this cycle! If you're interested in the cognitive (neuro)science of learning & memory, please reach out!

www.momentslab.org

Moments Lab

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26d

Still struggling to take action even after you have figured out your lane? Here is a list of different ways you can contribute: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Some Actions That Are Not Protesting or Voting

Some Actions That Are Not Protesting or Voting A list adapted from & inspired by Frontline Medics. Here was their original list of 25 actions. I’ve added a lot of things and edited other things. [Not...

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 26d

Don't underestimate the effect of the arts—music, dance, visual, gardening, crafts, theater—for promoting health, a systematic review
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The arts for disease prevention and health promotion: a systematic review - Nature Medicine

The arts, according to a systematic synthesis of data from 95 studies (across 26 countries), may support non-communicable disease prevention by providing opportunities for increased physical activity,...

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