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We're the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) — an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization working to forge practical solutions to climate change.

New research from Janek Kretschmer & Paul Smeets: separating donation decisions into two stages (1. how much to give, 2. which charity to support) increases charitable impact.

Paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

W2 Professorship for Environmental Psychology (Germany)

www.psychjob.eu/de/job/w2-pr...

Rhineland-Palatinate University of Technology Kaiserslautern-Landau

Foreign applicants encouraged. Must be able to teach in German after 3 years, however, I think support is offered to achieve that.

🌟 Excited to share that I'm recruiting PhD students in Psychology for my new lab at Rice University this cycle (Signal boost appreciated!)

To learn more, check out the Learning & Behavior Change Lab website:
www.sinclairlab-rice.com

Applications are due Dec 1st: psychology.rice.edu/graduate/pro...

Need to backup your Qualtrics?
I needed this urgently given a revocation of my Qualtrics account with my former affiliation.

Found William Ryan's R code, but it didn't work for me, so I made some tweaks, and it works now.

Hope it's helpful to others:
github.com/giladfeldman...

Too often, I see people talk about a replication as if the first study has established something, and the replication study is a double-check. What people often fail to understand is that we do not do replication studies to *check* a finding, but to *establish* a finding. 1/x

Just a reminder that this is happening tomorrow :) Feel free to reach out to me or better yet @joebarnby.com for a link!

Illuminating illustration of why folks need to be careful in discussions of the ‘replication crisis’ in science. Lack of replication may arise due to ‘hidden variables’ that, when revealed, are key to understanding the phenomenon under study. 🧪

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Leveraging London's streets as one of its most valuable assets, Strand Aldwych transforms one of Westminster's busiest and most polluted corridors into a vibrant and verdant destination. By filtering out through traffic, 7000 m² of roadway is reclaimed into an accessible and welcoming public space.🧵

For all those at #CogSci2025, @glenspiteri.bsky.social will be presenting this work at 14:15 PDT (22:15 BST for those online and UK based)!

“Communicating Global Income Rank Increases Charitable Donations”

Session: ‘Talks 8: Social Cognition’

@cogscisociety.bsky.social

Fixed that for you, @nature.com

We're hiring!

academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30219

The Cornell Department of Communication is hiring an Assistant Professor in Science, Environment, and Risk Communication!

Applications received by September 15, 2025, will be given full consideration.

In our now published letter in @pnas.org, we raise two wider issues for behavioral science:

1) Intentions are poor predictors of behavior
2) Effects on intentions need not generalize to effects on behavior

We join calls for researchers to measure actual behavior: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A guide to academic event names

Hearing a lot lately that since the UK emits only 1% of greenhouse gases that we shouldn’t bother cutting emissions. Truth is that over 90% of nations in the Paris Agreement can make that same claim. We are not special. All countries must play an ambitious role, & no time to lose

Out in Cognitive Psychology, led by @maxmaier.bsky.social: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A new lottery task with choices that matter across trials; the risky option has a chance of going extinct, which ends the study. We derive optimal policies and develop a strategy-classification model.

Excited to share that this paper is now published in PNAS! (With @maxmaier.bsky.social & Falk Lieder) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Possibly the best thing I've read about ChatGPT yet.

h/t @melaniemitchell.bsky.social

amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

Our lab has a list of papers that use statistical sampling algorithms like MCMC to explain human behaviour. Thanks to @lcastillo.bsky.social, you can select by behaviour or algorithm.

If we've missed any, please let us know!

sampling.warwick.ac....

Coming up in the London JDM seminar! All welcome. For more info, please visit our website www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/events/...