Ira Hyman
@irahyman.bsky.social
Professor of Psychology; Rider of Bicycles; Seeker of Justice. Applied cognitive psychologist, studying attention & memory, some disinfo too. (He/him; 1st gen college student). With maybe some pictures of Cookie the bernedoodle.
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Ira Hyman
@irahyman.bsky.social
· Nov 23
A Just Asking Questions Effect for spreading false information.
This thread is an overview of my lab’s research that I presented at Psychonomics this morning. #psynow24
TLDR: Getting people to generate their own false answers leads them to believe that info. 1/
This thread is an overview of my lab’s research that I presented at Psychonomics this morning. #psynow24
TLDR: Getting people to generate their own false answers leads them to believe that info. 1/
Don’t they have reviewers or editors or production people?
Is anyone looking at the content before it is published?
Please stop.
AI slop.
Is anyone looking at the content before it is published?
Please stop.
AI slop.
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Don’t they have reviewers or editors or production people?
Is anyone looking at the content before it is published?
Please stop.
AI slop.
Is anyone looking at the content before it is published?
Please stop.
AI slop.
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can’t fucking catch a breath
make it stop
make it stop
November 25, 2025 at 7:31 PM
can’t fucking catch a breath
make it stop
make it stop
WTF
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
WTF
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Just one week to go to the Anti-Autocracy Summit on 4 December. An overview of the program is now available at: www.scibeh.org/event... An exciting lineup of contributors. Please register if you want to attend, so you will receive Zoom link on the day.
Anti-Autocracy Summit | SciBeh
Image from Jon Tyson on Unsplash
Description
In an era of creeping authoritarianism, increasing threats to academic freedom, and the politicisation of science, many researchers, communicators, and institutions have launched initiatives to safeguard open inquiry and evidence-based discourse. The Anti-Autocracy Summit brings these efforts together.
www.scibeh.org
November 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Just one week to go to the Anti-Autocracy Summit on 4 December. An overview of the program is now available at: www.scibeh.org/event... An exciting lineup of contributors. Please register if you want to attend, so you will receive Zoom link on the day.
For the record, I don’t feel sympathy or empathy for Speaker Johnson.
I am sad that Marjorie Taylor Greene is getting death threats from MAGA types. Because no one should receive death threats.
But they made their beds. They could do something about the situation.
I am sad that Marjorie Taylor Greene is getting death threats from MAGA types. Because no one should receive death threats.
But they made their beds. They could do something about the situation.
November 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
For the record, I don’t feel sympathy or empathy for Speaker Johnson.
I am sad that Marjorie Taylor Greene is getting death threats from MAGA types. Because no one should receive death threats.
But they made their beds. They could do something about the situation.
I am sad that Marjorie Taylor Greene is getting death threats from MAGA types. Because no one should receive death threats.
But they made their beds. They could do something about the situation.
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Seattle in November
November 27, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Seattle in November
This looks cool and promising.
New paper out in @jexpsocpsych.bsky.social !
We (@kwinter.bsky.social, @kaiepstude.bsky.social , Bob Fennis and I) found that encouraging counterfactual thinking reduces engagement with conspiracy theories (i.e., clicks on, and reading times for, conspiracy articles).
A 🧵
1/n
We (@kwinter.bsky.social, @kaiepstude.bsky.social , Bob Fennis and I) found that encouraging counterfactual thinking reduces engagement with conspiracy theories (i.e., clicks on, and reading times for, conspiracy articles).
A 🧵
1/n
November 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
This looks cool and promising.
Conservative Supreme Court Justices wouldn’t allow Biden to cancel student debt.
Pretty sure those same justices will be fine with Trump finding new ways to punish poorer students and discourage people from attending college.
Make higher education and tech schools free. Let people start debt free.
Pretty sure those same justices will be fine with Trump finding new ways to punish poorer students and discourage people from attending college.
Make higher education and tech schools free. Let people start debt free.
Threshold for repaying student loans to converge with minimum wage on.ft.com/3M2AYkD
Threshold for repaying student loans to converge with minimum wage
Surprise move from chancellor means some university graduates in England may have to pay back debts sooner
on.ft.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Conservative Supreme Court Justices wouldn’t allow Biden to cancel student debt.
Pretty sure those same justices will be fine with Trump finding new ways to punish poorer students and discourage people from attending college.
Make higher education and tech schools free. Let people start debt free.
Pretty sure those same justices will be fine with Trump finding new ways to punish poorer students and discourage people from attending college.
Make higher education and tech schools free. Let people start debt free.
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New study led by soon-to-be PhD'd Linyu Yu: Pausing & rewinding math videos predicts struggle, whereas active homework engagement boosts achievement. Aligning digital traces with student verbalizations helps design more supportive learning! #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky doi.org/10.18608/jla...
November 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
New study led by soon-to-be PhD'd Linyu Yu: Pausing & rewinding math videos predicts struggle, whereas active homework engagement boosts achievement. Aligning digital traces with student verbalizations helps design more supportive learning! #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky doi.org/10.18608/jla...
Anyone looking for Christmas gifts for the whole lab?
Doesn’t your research team need something to wear at the next conference or rally?
Doesn’t your research team need something to wear at the next conference or rally?
We've got merch! Instead of giving your bucks to Bezos, why not get a gift that fuels the fight for science? Shop small this holiday season, and stand up for science! www.standupforscience.net/merch
November 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Anyone looking for Christmas gifts for the whole lab?
Doesn’t your research team need something to wear at the next conference or rally?
Doesn’t your research team need something to wear at the next conference or rally?
ICE is completely off the rails.
We desperately need congressional oversight. When/if democrats return to power, they need to dismantle this system that breeds injustice, contempt for normal legal processes, and total disregard for rights and dignity of people.
Read the story.
We desperately need congressional oversight. When/if democrats return to power, they need to dismantle this system that breeds injustice, contempt for normal legal processes, and total disregard for rights and dignity of people.
Read the story.
In Rhode Island, ICE arrested an intern who worked for a court, and then a judge intervened to say they had the wrong person.
All leading to a scene where ICE agents surrounded the judge's car and "threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply." www.wfla.com/news/judge-i...
All leading to a scene where ICE agents surrounded the judge's car and "threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply." www.wfla.com/news/judge-i...
November 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
ICE is completely off the rails.
We desperately need congressional oversight. When/if democrats return to power, they need to dismantle this system that breeds injustice, contempt for normal legal processes, and total disregard for rights and dignity of people.
Read the story.
We desperately need congressional oversight. When/if democrats return to power, they need to dismantle this system that breeds injustice, contempt for normal legal processes, and total disregard for rights and dignity of people.
Read the story.
What could go wrong?
Deregulated banks at a time of a potential AI bubble? Signs of a weakening labor market while wealth inequality continues to increase?
Maybe we should throw a Gatsby themed party at a gold plated club?
Deregulated banks at a time of a potential AI bubble? Signs of a weakening labor market while wealth inequality continues to increase?
Maybe we should throw a Gatsby themed party at a gold plated club?
November 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
What could go wrong?
Deregulated banks at a time of a potential AI bubble? Signs of a weakening labor market while wealth inequality continues to increase?
Maybe we should throw a Gatsby themed party at a gold plated club?
Deregulated banks at a time of a potential AI bubble? Signs of a weakening labor market while wealth inequality continues to increase?
Maybe we should throw a Gatsby themed party at a gold plated club?
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November 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Worrying numbers. Wrongful convictions are horrible. I don’t even know what to call wrongful convictions that result in death penalties.
An astonishing 80 percent of the Louisiana's death sentences between 1976 and 2015 were later reversed.
A judge recently vacated the conviction of Chris Duncan, who had been on the state's death row for decades.
A judge recently vacated the conviction of Chris Duncan, who had been on the state's death row for decades.
He’s Been On Louisiana’s Death Row for Decades. A Judge Just Vacated His Conviction.
Chris Duncan’s longtime claims of innocence were boosted by the discrediting of bite mark analysis, and by recent reforms now under threat from the state’s Republican leadership.
boltsmag.org
November 27, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Worrying numbers. Wrongful convictions are horrible. I don’t even know what to call wrongful convictions that result in death penalties.
Why is the google image a weird green space alien in an apron. Are they admitting something?
November 27, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Why is the google image a weird green space alien in an apron. Are they admitting something?
Anyone need some fresh conspiracy theory to go with your Thanksgiving turkey?
The turkey may be dry but this?
The turkey may be dry but this?
November 27, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Anyone need some fresh conspiracy theory to go with your Thanksgiving turkey?
The turkey may be dry but this?
The turkey may be dry but this?
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Did you know there is a Thanksgiving placemat that, if you follow its instructions, will resolve political conflict?
The brainchild of Tania Israel! More here: taniaisrael.com/dialogue-flo...
The brainchild of Tania Israel! More here: taniaisrael.com/dialogue-flo...
November 27, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Did you know there is a Thanksgiving placemat that, if you follow its instructions, will resolve political conflict?
The brainchild of Tania Israel! More here: taniaisrael.com/dialogue-flo...
The brainchild of Tania Israel! More here: taniaisrael.com/dialogue-flo...
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No contract, no coffee.
We don’t believe in sitting on the sidelines. Join our Transition co-chair @linamkhan.bsky.social , First Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan & @sbworkersunited.org at the picket lines.
We don’t believe in sitting on the sidelines. Join our Transition co-chair @linamkhan.bsky.social , First Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan & @sbworkersunited.org at the picket lines.
November 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
No contract, no coffee.
We don’t believe in sitting on the sidelines. Join our Transition co-chair @linamkhan.bsky.social , First Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan & @sbworkersunited.org at the picket lines.
We don’t believe in sitting on the sidelines. Join our Transition co-chair @linamkhan.bsky.social , First Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan & @sbworkersunited.org at the picket lines.
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My Visual Attention in Crisis paper has finally appeared, along with 30 commentaries and response. I argue that it’s time to rethink attention from the ground up, and suggest key phenomena and possible directions. Requires access, alas. doi.org/10.1017/S014...
Visual Attention in Crisis | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core
Visual Attention in Crisis - Volume 48
doi.org
November 26, 2025 at 1:23 PM
My Visual Attention in Crisis paper has finally appeared, along with 30 commentaries and response. I argue that it’s time to rethink attention from the ground up, and suggest key phenomena and possible directions. Requires access, alas. doi.org/10.1017/S014...
I am ready for the food discourse that comes with the big holidays. Being from the south, I have views.
Yes! Corn syrup was the downfall of serious pecan pie.
My family recipe does not include any corn syrup. It’s more like a praline pie.
Last year’s pies.
My family recipe does not include any corn syrup. It’s more like a praline pie.
Last year’s pies.
November 26, 2025 at 3:08 AM
I am ready for the food discourse that comes with the big holidays. Being from the south, I have views.
Yes! Corn syrup was the downfall of serious pecan pie.
My family recipe does not include any corn syrup. It’s more like a praline pie.
Last year’s pies.
My family recipe does not include any corn syrup. It’s more like a praline pie.
Last year’s pies.
November 26, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Yes! Corn syrup was the downfall of serious pecan pie.
My family recipe does not include any corn syrup. It’s more like a praline pie.
Last year’s pies.
My family recipe does not include any corn syrup. It’s more like a praline pie.
Last year’s pies.
And what about the signs of cognitive decline in Mr Trump?
The times notes his clear physical decline. But the only thing related to cognitive issues is his rambling and incoherent speeches. And his lies which could be considered confabulations if the Times wanted.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
The times notes his clear physical decline. But the only thing related to cognitive issues is his rambling and incoherent speeches. And his lies which could be considered confabulations if the Times wanted.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
Shorter Days, Signs of Fatigue: Trump Faces Realities of Aging in Office
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:47 AM
And what about the signs of cognitive decline in Mr Trump?
The times notes his clear physical decline. But the only thing related to cognitive issues is his rambling and incoherent speeches. And his lies which could be considered confabulations if the Times wanted.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
The times notes his clear physical decline. But the only thing related to cognitive issues is his rambling and incoherent speeches. And his lies which could be considered confabulations if the Times wanted.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
So is Josh Shapiro trying to make it clear that he doesn't want me or any other progressives voting for him in the presidential primaries?
November 25, 2025 at 6:47 PM
So is Josh Shapiro trying to make it clear that he doesn't want me or any other progressives voting for him in the presidential primaries?
I am trying to figure this out.
There is apparently video of Bovino tackling an older man. And Bovino denies that he tackled the man.
Does he really not see what is depicted in the video? I'm not sure any cognitive bias is that strong.
Is he completely used to lying and getting away with it? 1/3
There is apparently video of Bovino tackling an older man. And Bovino denies that he tackled the man.
Does he really not see what is depicted in the video? I'm not sure any cognitive bias is that strong.
Is he completely used to lying and getting away with it? 1/3
Here's how Greg Bovino denies tackling Scott Blackburn, while watching a video showing him tacking Scott Blackburn.
legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
![A 5-question exchange in which Greg Bovino is asked if he sees an older gentleman, "expressing his disagreement with [Bovino's] presence in Chicago [who] doesn't like the fact that you are instructing him to move down, right?"
Bovino responds, no, "That individual is failing to follow instructions to vacate the area."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/bafkreibxlni2hq5i7mycqssosneb3ahdrtvw3ullnbi6y66dtomevhyhh4@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I am trying to figure this out.
There is apparently video of Bovino tackling an older man. And Bovino denies that he tackled the man.
Does he really not see what is depicted in the video? I'm not sure any cognitive bias is that strong.
Is he completely used to lying and getting away with it? 1/3
There is apparently video of Bovino tackling an older man. And Bovino denies that he tackled the man.
Does he really not see what is depicted in the video? I'm not sure any cognitive bias is that strong.
Is he completely used to lying and getting away with it? 1/3
A note for cognitive researchers interested in the spread of misinfo and disinfo.
A lot of our research uses text-based presentation of information.
Most of what people use on social media is video-based.
I suspect more people watch news than read papers.
Maybe we should consider this?
A lot of our research uses text-based presentation of information.
Most of what people use on social media is video-based.
I suspect more people watch news than read papers.
Maybe we should consider this?
UPDATE: Americans who use
YouTube 84%
Facebook 71%
Instagram 50%
TikTok 37%
WhatsApp 32%
Reddit 26%
Snapchat 25%
X (Twitter) 21%
Threads 8%
Bluesky 4%
Truth Social 3%
Full Pew Research Center report: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/11/20/americans-social-media-use-2025/
YouTube 84%
Facebook 71%
Instagram 50%
TikTok 37%
WhatsApp 32%
Reddit 26%
Snapchat 25%
X (Twitter) 21%
Threads 8%
Bluesky 4%
Truth Social 3%
Full Pew Research Center report: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/11/20/americans-social-media-use-2025/
November 24, 2025 at 8:32 PM
A note for cognitive researchers interested in the spread of misinfo and disinfo.
A lot of our research uses text-based presentation of information.
Most of what people use on social media is video-based.
I suspect more people watch news than read papers.
Maybe we should consider this?
A lot of our research uses text-based presentation of information.
Most of what people use on social media is video-based.
I suspect more people watch news than read papers.
Maybe we should consider this?