We suggest that people don't fall into conspiracy theory rabbit holes, but some slide into rabbit warrens. Also, no evidence of an increase in beliefs over time, on average. @matthewmatix.bsky.social@lingtax.bsky.social@scicomguy.bsky.social@srhastraea.bsky.social Mollie Hawson &Eddie Clarke
A new study has found no evidence that people’s beliefs in conspiracy theories increase over time. They can even change their minds – just not that often.
"AI image tools have a tendency to spin up disturbing clichés: Asian women are hypersexual. Africans are primitive. Europeans are worldly. Leaders are men. Prisoners are Black." https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-generated-images-bias-racism-sexism-stereotypes/
“The national 'total remuneration' gender pay gap is 22.8 percent, meaning that for every $1 a man makes, women earn, on average, 77.2c. Over a year, that's a $25,596 difference.” www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10...
In early 2024, more than 4.6 million workers are about to find out how much less the company they work for pays female staff. Many companies are working now to fix the problem.
If you've made a feed with @skyfeed.app and want to filter out posts that spam lots of random hashtags, add the following regex filter: ^(?:[^#]*#){0,5}[^#]*$ It will filter out posts with more than 5 hashtags.
They can't help it, some people are just behaviourally addicted to defining new behavioural addictions.
What might you do after a PhD? I interviewed 53 people and mapped out career paths (Interviews are themselves available too!) osf.io/preprints/ps...#PsychSciSky#Neuroskyence#CogSci
New paper identifies the jobs that a sample of 53 psychology PhD students got after completing their PhDs. osf.io/preprints/ps...#Psychology#PhDSky#AcademicSky#PsychJobs
On this same screen, there's also an experimental option to show posts from your feeds in your timeline. (At least, I see it in a web browser.) So far I'm pretty pleased by using this for discovery!
“I don’t even think there’s one Black female physics professor in the UK,” says Wade.“If I had one big aim, it would be to make science a more inclusive and fair place to be.”
Despite some advances, men still dominate science but one academic is working hard to get women and peers of colour the recognition they deserve