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Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 22h

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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Dr. Devon Cantwell-Chavez @devoncantwell.bsky.social · 15h

Wake up honey, new apple dropped

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 15h

Me to spouse: “I can doomscroll the news OR I can play my little cat game on my phone and put them in little outfits and decorate their tiny rooms.”

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Erin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · 1d

That’s right, it’s time for…..more fall data collection, round three! A chilly (by Florida standards) morning here at Fanning with our new first-time scuba divers 🐊

Research team getting the masks and fins all ready to go for participants

Is there anything better in the fall than a cup of hot coffee and a beautiful spring? Think not.

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Erin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · 1d

Do you procrastinate?! ME TOO!! Fortunately it’s not too late to spend a fun Friday evening submitting your app for our TT job in social psych 🔥

Erin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · 29d

🚨 TT job alert! 🚨 The University of Florida is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology; open to ALL AREAS within social psych.

Review begins 10/10.

Job ad here: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

I'm co-chair of the search committee and happy to answer questions! 🧵

Payne's Prairire, where you could watch the sunset every evening if you came to UF

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Matt Wall @mattwall.bsky.social · 1d

Finally, an award I might stand a chance at winning! 🤣

Erin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · 4d

My undergrads think the Diener Mid-Career Award is hilarious because to them it sounds like it’s for having a “mid” career 🫠

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Society for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · 2d

*Frantically putting the hyphen back in*

Erin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · 4d

My undergrads think the Diener Mid-Career Award is hilarious because to them it sounds like it’s for having a “mid” career 🫠

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Erin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · 2d

Today’s the day! Hope to see your application - tell your friends!! 😁

Erin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · 29d

🚨 TT job alert! 🚨 The University of Florida is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology; open to ALL AREAS within social psych.

Review begins 10/10.

Job ad here: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

I'm co-chair of the search committee and happy to answer questions! 🧵

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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · Sep 23

Our new paper shows that men benefit from couples' long-distance joint moves more than women do, in both Germany and Sweden. Is this just b/c men are usually the main breadwinner? No, it's hard to explain the patterns we see w/o a gender norm prioritizing men's careers. www.nber.org/papers/w32970

Moving to Opportunity, Together

Many couples face a trade-off between advancing one spouse’s career or the other’s. We study this trade-off using administrative data from Germany and Sweden. We first conduct an event-study analysis of couples moving across commuting zones and find that relocation increases men’s earnings more than women’s, with strikingly similar patterns in Germany and Sweden. Using a sample of mass layoff events, we then find that couples in both countries are more likely to relocate in response to the man being laid off compared to the woman. We investigate whether these gendered patterns reflect men’s higher potential earnings or a gender norm that prioritizes men’s career advancement. We provide suggestive evidence of a gender norm using variation in norms within Germany. We then develop and estimate a model of household decision-making in which households can place more weight on the income earned by the man compared to the woman.

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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 4d

We just spent 6 months to add 1 figure to this paper. Some people said, "Couples aren't prioritizing men's careers. Men just have better earnings opportunities when moving."

Earnings effects of moves for couples on the left, singles on the right. Negligible gap between single men and women.

Event study coefficients that show that men's earnings rise more than women's among couples following a cross-commuting zone move (left panels). The pattern is muted or reverses among single men and single women (right panels).

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AKA NickleDave @nicholdav.bsky.social · 2d

Study from @anthropic.com + Turing Institute finds just 250 documents are enough to "poison" any LLM, allowing you to trigger a backdoor with a fixed prompt, here ''

www.anthropic.com/research/sma...

wow LLMs really do learn just like humans

A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size

Anthropic research on data-poisoning attacks in large language models

www.anthropic.com

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 2d

*Lil Jon Voice* States' Rights to What

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Michael Inzlicht @minzlicht.bsky.social · 18d

New review! We synthesized literature on empathic AI: AI-generated emotional support is rated higher than human responses, but people's knowledge of the source shapes their perceptions. W/ @desmond-ong.bsky.social @amit-goldenberg.bsky.social @anatperry.bsky.social

osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 2d

I have to fan-girl for a minute here. My friend @rosvall-lab.bsky.social built an app to gather data on bird behavior during the 2024 solar eclipse. 10,000+ citizen scientists contributed (including my kids), and the resulting paper was published in Science today!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Total solar eclipse triggers dawn behavior in birds: Insights from acoustic recordings and community science

On 8 April 2024, a total solar eclipse disrupted light-dark cycles for North American birds during the lead-up to spring reproduction. Compiling more than 10,000 community observations and artificial ...

www.science.org

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 2d

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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Erin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · 3d

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Erin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · 29d

🚨 TT job alert! 🚨 The University of Florida is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology; open to ALL AREAS within social psych.

Review begins 10/10.

Job ad here: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

I'm co-chair of the search committee and happy to answer questions! 🧵

Erin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · 3d

If you applied to our social psych job at Florida (deadline 10/10!), you two could have spent your last couple weeks splish-splashing around!

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Eliana Hadjiandreou @elianahadtime.bsky.social · 3d

Why do we derogate effective altruists, activists, & other radically prosocial individuals? In new work, we discuss how doing good that deviates from social norms gets stigmatized. New preprint w/ @dcameron.bsky.social @tlau.bsky.social @desmond-ong.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Society for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · 3d

We're excited to announce the recipients of the SPSP Outstanding Single Contribution Awards! Congratulations to Cialdini Prize winners Madalina Vlasceanu and Kim Doell, and Ed O'Brien - winner of the Wegner Theoretical Innovation Prize.

Learn more: ow.ly/gEto50X8v6H

Announcing Winners of SPSP’s Outstanding Single Contribution Awards

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Thomas M. Keck @tmksyracuse.bsky.social · 3d

Weber State administrators told student they couldn't present their research on the state's anti-DEI law at an on-campus conference on censorship(!) unless they removed all mentions of DEI from their slides

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Weber State Censors, Then Cancels, Censorship Conference

University officials said that several planned presentations violated a Utah state law banning diversity, equity and inclusion at public universities.

www.insidehighered.com

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Erin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · 4d

Noooooooooo but yes all the goldens except one are related 😅

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Jibran Khokhar @drjkhokhar.bsky.social · 4d

I definitely feel like a “mid” career scientist right about now!

Erin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · 4d

My undergrads think the Diener Mid-Career Award is hilarious because to them it sounds like it’s for having a “mid” career 🫠

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Erin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · 4d

UPDATE: If you count unborn golden puppies, it’s now 2:1 (or more!!)

Erin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · 29d

Not convinced? We have the highest golden retriever:faculty ratio* in all of social psychology.

*1:1 as of 9/12/25

Good boys and girls Cora, Bravo, and (mama) Harper

My two golden fuzzballs, Teddy and Thea! Did I mention BEACH?

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Erin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · 4d

My undergrads think the Diener Mid-Career Award is hilarious because to them it sounds like it’s for having a “mid” career 🫠

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Erin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · 5d

Just a reminder that Florida is hiring this year - we'd love to see your application! Deadline is 10/10

Erin Westgate @erinwestgate.bsky.social · 29d

🚨 TT job alert! 🚨 The University of Florida is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology; open to ALL AREAS within social psych.

Review begins 10/10.

Job ad here: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

I'm co-chair of the search committee and happy to answer questions! 🧵

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