The Academy
Collection of ideas to do with academic institutions, including comments on trends, innovations and new policies, and common practices
27 cards · 1h
Social Norms and Cultural Evolution
A collection of ideas to do with social norms, cultural evolution, and how we learn from others
122 cards · 20h
AI Predictions, Big and Small
A compilation of ideas and writing where there is some prediction of the future so that we can look back one day and compare.
6 cards · 4d
Scientific Discovery
To do with posts about scientific discovery and the science of discovery
63 cards · 4d
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Making Slides
How to Run Surveys: A Guide to Creating Your Own Identifying Variation and Revealing the Invisible
How Heavily Are PhD Students Offloading Their Scientific Writing to AI? Evidence from US STEM PhD Dissertations
Berna Devezer (@devezer.bsky.social)
Where do PhD economists land?
How Does Media Influence Social Norms? Experimental Evidence on the Role of Common Knowledge
An Experimental Method to Study Opinion Diffusion in Human-AI Hybrid Societies
Social media is populist and polarising; AI may be the opposite
The Dynamics of Distortion: How Successive Summarization Alters the Retelling of News
Generative AI enhances individual creativity but reduces the collective diversity of novel content
Sycophantic AI makes human interaction feel more effortful and less satisfying over time
AI as Social Technology: Astor Lecture by Professor Henry Farrell
Bayesian Inference of Social Norms as Shared Constraints on Behavior
What people learn from punishment: A cognitive model
Spurious normativity enhances learning of compliance and enforcement behavior in artificial agents
Deference, Dissent, and Dispute Resolution: An Experimental Intervention Using Mass Media to Change Norms and Behavior in Rwanda
How Does Media Influence Social Norms? Experimental Evidence on the Role of Common Knowledge
Supernatural explanations across 114 societies are more common for natural than social phenomena
Why Being Wrong Can Be Right: Magical Warfare Technologies and the Persistence of False Beliefs
Niche construction on Bali: the gods of the countryside
Emergent Properties of Balinese Water Temple Networks: Coadaptation on a Rugged Fitness Landscape
Balinese “Water Temples” and the Management of Irrigation
Extreme Rituals Promote Prosociality
Bending the Curve: How AI is Transforming Scientific Discovery
Claude Science (beta)
EurekaBench: Measuring Agentic Ability to Discover New Scientific Insights
Augmenting Research Ideation with Data: An Empirical Investigation...
Hypothesis generation and updating in large language models
Statistical Foundations of LLM-based A/B Testing: A Surrogacy...
Survey Shield
Scimeto - Automated Manuscript Integrity Checker
jusi-aalto/strategic-revision
The Metacheck Manual
Getting Started with Claude Code: A Researcher’s Setup Guide
RegCheck
Natalia Emanuel on Twitter / X
Computational Public Space
Governing the Algorithmic City
The Indian street dog crisis and multispecies coexistence in tropical urban futures
You and Your Research
The Spanish village that wants outdoor chats to be granted World Heritage status
Assessing Moral Judgment by Large Language Models – A Survey of Available Datasets
OSF
Replication Data for: Public Infrastructure and Economic Development: Evidence from Postal Systems
Scale CogSci
openAFRICA
Homepage | IPUMS
Americans’ love affair with big cars is killing them
The High Cost of Not Doing Experiments - Behavioral Scientist
The mistake we all make... and the simple experiment that reveals it
The New Science of Designing for Humans (SSIR)
So you want a behavioral finance job
What You Lose When You Gain a Spouse
AI as Social Technology: Astor Lecture by Professor Henry Farrell
Generative Ethics: How AI Model Choice Shapes Social and Financial Performance
The Anthropic Economic Index
Anthropic Economic Index report: Uneven geographic and enterprise AI adoption
Building pro-worker AI | Brookings
Patterns and problems in multiagent systems
The Red and the Black: Mental Accounting of Savings and Debt
A Mega-Replication of the Effect of Cash Versus Card Payment on Pain of Paying: Magnitude, Behavioral Outcomes, and Moderators
Disclosing the costs of co-holding liquid assets and high-interest debt has limited impact on behavior
Improving Customer Compatibility with Tradeoff Transparency
Is Digital Credit Filling a Hole or Digging a Hole? Evidence from Malawi
Default Effects of Credit Card Minimum Payments
LLM-generated messages can persuade humans on policy issues
The levers of political persuasion with conversational artificial intelligence
Technological risks are not the end of the world
Windfall Policy Atlas | Windfall Trust
Incomplete Contracting and AI Alignment
The lethal trifecta for AI agents: private data, untrusted content, and external communication
Educating Investors about Dividends
The Dividend Disconnect
The Red and the Black: Mental Accounting of Savings and Debt
A Mega-Replication of the Effect of Cash Versus Card Payment on Pain of Paying: Magnitude, Behavioral Outcomes, and Moderators
Credit Access in the United States
Artificial intelligence and personal finance
AI 2040: Plan A
AI 2027
Dean W. Ball on Twitter / X
Dean W. Ball on Twitter / X
OpenAI drops a bomb on maths
How Accurate Have AI Progress Forecasts Been So Far? – Forecasting Research Institute
Generative Ethics: How AI Model Choice Shapes Social and Financial Performance
Political Sorting Can Drive AI Models Apart Through User Feedback
Network dynamics of social influence in the wisdom of crowds
Biased AI writing assistants shift users’ attitudes on societal issues
Generative AI enhances individual creativity but reduces the collective diversity of novel content
How Heavily Are PhD Students Offloading Their Scientific Writing to AI? Evidence from US STEM PhD Dissertations
