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Sociological Science @sociologicalsci.bsky.social · 10d

NEW: Mood, "Equalization through Deterioration: The Shrinking Gender Gap in Swedish School Grades" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

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Mirela Zaneva @iammirela.bsky.social · 3d

My pick!

Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 4d

I've said this for about two decades but Anne Carson should receive the Nobel for literature, just on the strength of If Not, Winter, Eros, the Bittersweet, Men in the Off Hours, the "Red" collections, and her Antigonick.

www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/04...

Throwing Yourself Into the Dark: A Conversation with Anne Carson by Kate Dwyer

April 17, 2024 – “Just think about something and follow it down to where it gets true.”

www.theparisreview.org

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 10d

A lot of psych is already conducted with online convenience samples & ppl are probably excited about silicon samples bc it would allow them to crank out more studies for even less 💸

How about we reconsider the idea that sciencey science involves collecting own data.
www.science.org/content/arti...

AI-generated ‘participants’ can lead social science experiments astray, study finds

Data produced by “silicon samples” depends on researchers’ exact choice of models, prompts, and settings

www.science.org

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Mirela Zaneva @iammirela.bsky.social · 12d

Come work on a super cool project with a super cool team, led by the fanstastic @minafazeloxford.bsky.social & @drhollybear.bsky.social

Holly Bear @drhollybear.bsky.social · 12d

🚨 Interested in a fully funded DPhil at Oxford?
🌏 We’re recruiting for an MRC iCASE studentship on conversational AI for youth mental health.

Join an amazing team using youth voice to shape global digital health.

⏳ Deadline: 2 Dec 2025
💡 Get in touch to chat!

🔗 More info: tinyurl.com/4ua4j46h

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Mirela Zaneva @iammirela.bsky.social · 14d

thanks to amazing partners & collaborators - from the Pleasure Project, WHO, The Young and Alive Initiative

Mirela Zaneva @iammirela.bsky.social · 14d

For some coverage, check out this WHO page: www.who.int/news/item/26...

New study reveals sex life impacts are major reasons for contraceptive discontinuation

A new study from the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations’ Special Programme in Human Reproduction (HRP), and The Pleasure Project finds that approximately 1 in 20 people who discontinu...

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Mirela Zaneva @iammirela.bsky.social · 14d

1 in 20 people who discontinue contraception while still needing it – whether for pregnancy prevention or safer sex – do so because they perceive negative impacts on their sex lives. Our new paper is out now at the journal of Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters www.tandfonline.com/doi/metrics/...

The Sex Effect: the prevalence of sex life reasons for contraceptive discontinuation. A systematic review and meta-analysis.: Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters: Vol 0, No ja

Browse all journals

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AmplifyChange @amplifychange.org · 15d

AmplifyChange proudly supports orgs improving access to #SRHR incl. #contraception in their communities. Read a new report that shows that #pleasure drives people’s decision-making around contraceptive use: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/26410397.2025.2552589

#WorldContraceptionDay

An illustration of a puzzle with the title 'What's the Missing Piece of Contraception Discontinuation?'

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Mirela Zaneva @iammirela.bsky.social · 25d

Come to our webinar on the 26th where we'll present results from our latest systematic review on contraceptive discontinuation! W/ colleagues from WHO, Pleasure Project, Young and Alive. events.humanitix.com/sex-satisfac...

Sex, Satisfaction, and Switching: The Questions Contraceptive Research and Implementation Forgot to Ask

Launching a systematic review by the World Health Organization and The Pleasure Project on contraception use and sexual pleasure.

events.humanitix.com

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Mirela Zaneva @iammirela.bsky.social · 28d

a wonderful few days at a writing retreat with @mhrincubator.bsky.social got lots of writing done & met some great colleagues 📝🔬 do check out for future retreat dates and other events mentalhealthresearch.org.uk

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Mirela Zaneva @iammirela.bsky.social · Aug 9

"The character of a growing share of psychological research is determined not by a method-neutral commitment to the best ideas and techniques, but in large part by the capabilities, proclivities and biases of the AI systems driving research activity."

Jess Thompson @tsonj.bsky.social · Aug 9

New preprint by William D'Alessandro and myself:

The promise and peril of AI surrogacy in psychological research

osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Mirela Zaneva @iammirela.bsky.social · Aug 2

"the author did not respond to a request to provide evidence that ethics approval had been received for the study." 🫠

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Mirela Zaneva @iammirela.bsky.social · Jul 25

Thrilled our work received a SIPS Commendation Prize 🥳

Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · Jul 24

✨ The Annotated introductory reading list for neurodiversity is a stepping stone for those wishing to learn more about neurodiversity. buff.ly/67f2F6q. The contributors would like to acknowledge @forrt.bsky.social

Point of View: An annotated introductory reading list for neurodiversity

A collaboratively developed annotated reading list expands upon core themes in neurodiversity, aiming to enhance understanding and to promote rigorous, destigmatizing, and inclusive practices in…

elifesciences.org

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Mirela Zaneva @iammirela.bsky.social · Jun 23

Reward models steer LLM behavior but we’ve never looked this closely at them. This deep analysis reveals big inconsistencies, surprising biases, and base-model effects. Insightful work. Catch @brianchristian.bsky.social & @tsvetomira.bsky.social at #FACCT2025

Brian Christian @brianchristian.bsky.social · Jun 23

Reward models (RMs) are the moral compass of LLMs – but no one has x-rayed them at scale. We just ran the first exhaustive analysis of 10 leading RMs, and the results were...eye-opening. Wild disagreement, base-model imprint, identity-term bias, mere-exposure quirks & more: 🧵

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Mirela Zaneva @iammirela.bsky.social · Jun 6

Congrats on publishing this - what a great commentary! Powerfully written and really appreciate your Figure 1 too.

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Mental Health Research Incubator @mhrincubator.bsky.social · Apr 28

Applications for our 2025 Paper Writing Retreat are open!

Trying to find the time, space & energy to work on that #mentalhealth and/or #addiction #research paper? Apply for our fully-funded retreat with dedicated writing time, tasty food & the chance to network!👇
mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/pwr25/

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Emma Soneson @emmasoneson.bsky.social · May 19

Are adolescents sensitive about sensitive data?

In our new @oxwell.bsky.social publication, we explore students' concerns about taking part in research including sensitive topics such as mental health & maltreatment.

Headlines below, w/ substantial implications for research design & analysis ⬇️

Are Adolescents Sensitive About Sensitive Data? Exploring Student Concerns About Privacy, Confidentiality, and Data Use in Health Research

We quantitively explored adolescents' concerns about privacy, confidentiality, and data use in health research and their potential impact on the accur…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Mirela Zaneva @iammirela.bsky.social · May 6

Congratulations Ben & all! Really wonderful paper with some amazing data viz!

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Ben Goodair @bengoodair.bsky.social · May 6

New paper out today reveals scale of inequalities in social care!

💰 Care homes are better rated with more self-funded residents
👔 But inequalities in care only exist in the for-profit sector
📈 Outsourcing to for-profit sector accelerates inequalities of two-tier care

Link: doi.org/10.1093/agei...

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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · May 6

DON'T MISS: "Moving through the fog: considering #causality in health inequalities research"

The next Alan Turing Institute Causal Inference Interest Group seminar with @mkellyirving.bsky.social on 12th May 2025 at 3pm BST!

Register at: turing-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#CIIG #EpiSky #CausalSky

Advert for the next causal inference interest group seminar with Michelle Kelly-Irving

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · May 6

Updating the HDI is a key function of this report, and the picture is sobering:

We have yet to recover from pandemic-era setbacks; and inequality is increasing. Development pathways through manufacturing and exports are narrowing, as conflicts and crises abound.

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Journal of Robustness Reports @robustnessreports.bsky.social · Apr 17

We are live!

Introducing the "Journal of Robustness Reports" – a Diamond Open-Access journal dedicated to publishing short reanalyses of empirical findings.

Check out our website and blog post about the journal:
🌐 scipost.org/JRobustRep
📄 www.bayesianspectacles.org/introducing-...

[Editorial: Introducing the Journal of Robustness Reports]

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Stefan Schubert @stefanschubert.bsky.social · Mar 15

Daniel Kahneman died by assisted suicide in Switzerland.

I think it's really wrong that most liberal countries don't permit this.

It's an extremely severe restriction of individual liberty not to allow people to decide over their own death in this way.

www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

Essay | The Last Decision by the World’s Leading Thinker on Decisions

Shortly before Daniel Kahneman died last March, he emailed friends a message: He was choosing to end his own life in Switzerland. Some are still struggling with his choice.

www.wsj.com

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Mirela Zaneva @iammirela.bsky.social · Mar 17

And there's this on training effects: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2317294/ I'd be more worried if you had a population very used to doing experimental tasks (undergraduate students!) and not, I assume, older adults.

Training effects on Raven's progressive matrices in young, middle-aged, and elderly adults - PubMed

Previous training studies of fluid intellectual abilities have involved training on either figural relations or induction tasks. In the present study, young, middle-aged, and elderly adults were given...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Mirela Zaneva @iammirela.bsky.social · Mar 17

This comes to mind, though probably doesn't match your experimental setup (thinkng aloud): gwern.net/doc/iq/2009-...

gwern.net

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