Excited to unveil our new project & Shiny App: HaGenAI! 🎉 We test if AI can predict study results in behavioral econ: ~50 novel studies where LLMs give forecasts before data collection. 📊 Results are shared live and open here:
02mfnt-tobias-wingen.shinyapps.io/HaGenAI/
@fernunihagen.bsky.social

Trust in science predicted protection intentions 😷 during the pandemic. But does this mean trust in science CAUSED protection intentions? 🤔

Yesterday at #FGSP2025, I presented our experimental work on this and got great feedback 🙌.
If you are curious, here is our preprint: osf.io/preprints/os...

Having a great time at #FGSP2025! Thanks for the laughs, @janaberkessel.bsky.social , and thanks for capturing the moment @marlephie.bsky.social 😊

Yes, we grappled with this in our 2020 Trust and Replicability paper as well. This was our conclusion back then. Unfortunately, it still feels very timely.

It was great having Marlene Altenmüller (@marlephie.bsky.social) at our faculty colloquium today at FernUni Hagen ☺️. Thanks for the great and inspiring talk!

But nope... While we replicated the strong correlation, we found no causal effects of our manipulation as displayed in the forest plot below. Equivalence tests, an internal meta-analysis, and machine learning all confirmed the absence of meaningful effects. 4/5

We put it to the test. We developed and pretested a trust in science manipulation which had a strong effect on trust in science levels. We then checked if changing trust in science affected various protection intentions in current or future pandemics 😷. 3/5

📢 New preprint now out on the causal (?) link between trust in science and pandemic protection intentions. Honestly, the results are not what I originally hoped for 🧐
Link: osf.io/th953_v1 with Simone Dohle & Ann-Christin Posten. 1/5

After an inspiring time in industry, I’m excited that today is my first day BACK IN ACADEMIA
@fernunihagen.bsky.social 🥳🎉!
I am super happy to continue my academic work, with new perspectives from both my time as a data scientist and from my new group (w. Angela Dorrough and Marina Orifici).

Job alert 🚀! An exciting 3-year, 75% PhD position in a DFG project on Cooperation, alongside a great team (with Angela Dorrough and Marina Orifici). Flexible work schedules and remote arrangements possible. Apply here:
jobs.fernuni-hagen.de/job/Hagen-Do...

Yes, exactly. There is certainly some measurement error, but this is due to the axes limits. You can display the full range of the axes in the app; then it will look like this:

Super happy that our research on stereotypes about scientists is now published! Curious which scientific discipline is the most powerful 💪, the most trustworthy 😇, or the most conservative 🐘? Explore the data yourself in our shiny app: 02mfnt-tobias-wingen.shinyapps.io/app-polsci/

Do stereotypes about scientists' political orientation shape trust in science? Check out our new paper with
@marlephie.bsky.social and Anna Schulte:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...