Thinking about leaving this platform? Here are some insights from 7+ years of my lab's research to help you make an informed decision.

Featuring work w/@william__brady & @killianmcl1

This will be my last post on here.

🧵 Main takeaways: Twitter makes money by keeping you online, and a reliable way to do that is to make you outraged and train you to create content that makes others outraged. As a result, we misperceive one another and spread misinformation. This is bad for democracy.

Now out in @nature: Artificial Intelligence and Illusions of Understanding in Scientific Research, coauthored with the brilliant @lmesseri and edited by the supremely talented @meharpist
Link:
Open version:
🧵nature.com/articles/s4158…
rdcu.be/dAv39 Editorial covering our work: “All members of the scientific community must view AI use not as inevitable for any particular task, nor as a panacea, but rather as a choice with risks and benefits that must be carefully weighed.” 2/nature.com/articles/d4158…

I’ve long been a fan of Registered Reports, but only recently got to experience the process first-hand. It was even better than I expected. Some (probably unoriginal) thoughts below

https://twitter.com/mollycrockett/status/1410556855118667779

There are many good scientific arguments for Registered Reports in terms of rigor, reproducibility, etc. (see e.g. this piece by @chrisdc77 nature.com/articles/d4158…)

🚨Registered Report🚨 now out in @NatureHumBehav: Moral dilemmas and trust in leaders during a global health crisis nature.com/articles/s4156… A massive international team effort w/37 coauthors - this thread shares our findings & acknowledges those who made the work possible Leaders face moral dilemmas during a pandemic, e.g. whether to prioritize younger over older people for scarce medical treatments. Utilitarianism is one approach to resolving such dilemmas, but it’s controversial. nytimes.com/2020/04/10/mag…

We’re hiring a postdoc to study the cognitive science of narratives! Position is for up to three years, to begin Fall 2019 or Spring/Summer 2020 (start date flexible). Full details in link, more info below. Please RT!
crockettlab.org/postdoc-2019 This project will benefit from diverse approaches & perspectives – so even if your past work is not directly related to our lab’s core research on morality, you might be a great fit!

Science Tweeps! Three days before this week’s lab meeting we found ourselves with no agenda. You very kindly offered suggestions for how to fill the time – many thanks! From these, we came up with something new I’m excited to share. Friends, I present to you: LabFoo!

https://twitter.com/mollycrockett/status/1099397284939345920

LabFoo is inspired by my great experience at SciFoo, an “unconference” where there is no agenda set in advance. Instead, the attendees set the agenda on the fly. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_F…