Chris Schuck
@chrisschuck.bsky.social
Graduate student in psychology and ambivalence | philosophy of psychology | philosophy of social science | University of Guelph
Wonderful tribute by @nescio13.bsky.social
June 22, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Wonderful tribute by @nescio13.bsky.social
Thoughtful mini-review of a great Black Mirror episode. Always good to see Davood back on YouTube, when he can make it. Check out his Patreon as well!
May 16, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Thoughtful mini-review of a great Black Mirror episode. Always good to see Davood back on YouTube, when he can make it. Check out his Patreon as well!
This is a hell of an essay. (Or should I call it a poem?).
open.substack.com/pub/joyinabu...
open.substack.com/pub/joyinabu...
& life goes on.
"life goes on" is not an ending; it's the beginning of everything you haven't lived yet.
open.substack.com
May 9, 2025 at 7:47 PM
This is a hell of an essay. (Or should I call it a poem?).
open.substack.com/pub/joyinabu...
open.substack.com/pub/joyinabu...
Quite sad to hear Roberta Flack just passed. One of the greats. Do check out her cover of Suzanne (the whole Killing Me Softly album is a classic).
February 25, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Quite sad to hear Roberta Flack just passed. One of the greats. Do check out her cover of Suzanne (the whole Killing Me Softly album is a classic).
Looking forward to discussing @helendecruz.net's Wonder Struck, and wonder & awe, in Myisha Cherry's book group on Tuesday.
www.emotionandsociety.com/events-1/so-...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
www.emotionandsociety.com/events-1/so-...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
‘So Emotional’ Book Club — Emotion and Society Lab
ONLINE EVENT Every 2nd Tuesday at 5PM (Pacific)—8PM (Eastern) Via Zoom Open to the Public!!
www.emotionandsociety.com
February 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Looking forward to discussing @helendecruz.net's Wonder Struck, and wonder & awe, in Myisha Cherry's book group on Tuesday.
www.emotionandsociety.com/events-1/so-...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
www.emotionandsociety.com/events-1/so-...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Not only does this look fantastic from a philosophy-of-science perspective, but as psychology-of-science - a big theme in my grad program, and very connected to some of my own interests. So excited to read and talk about it with people! We need more books exploring this interface. #psych #philsky
I am beyond excited to announce the imminent arrival of my book. Operationism in Psychology. An Epistemology of Exploration: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Brief chapter summaries below (1/10)
Brief chapter summaries below (1/10)
Operationism in Psychology
Analyzes psychological research to offer insights into how methodological and ontological questions are intertwined. Psychology has seen an intense debate about the lack of replicability of results ...
press.uchicago.edu
January 13, 2025 at 10:14 PM
This is my excuse to make a plug for Roberta Flack's 9:43 epic cover of Leonard Cohen "Suzanne."
Forget the “white musicians cover Black musicians and making them more popular.” What are your favorite examples of Black musicians covering songs originally by white musicians?
For me:
-Tina Turner “Whole Lotta Love”
-Sharon Jones “Midnight Rider”
-Hendrix “All Along the Watchtower”
For me:
-Tina Turner “Whole Lotta Love”
-Sharon Jones “Midnight Rider”
-Hendrix “All Along the Watchtower”
January 12, 2025 at 7:54 PM
This is my excuse to make a plug for Roberta Flack's 9:43 epic cover of Leonard Cohen "Suzanne."
This oldie from @lastpositivist.bsky.social is either motivational or de-motivational, depending on how you want to look at it.
January 1, 2025 at 8:25 PM
This oldie from @lastpositivist.bsky.social is either motivational or de-motivational, depending on how you want to look at it.
Klein would resist because he's an expert at resisting ring stuff & made an intuitive snap decision. Haidt would resist because the ring discourse is getting too woke. Gigerenzer would resist because less-ring-is-more. Gladwell would resist because "Resist" makes an awesome book title.
Kahneman would resist so long as he can't see it because wysiati
Thaler would resist so long as it is stored with the cashews
Zimbardo would write up how he resisted, but it would be fake
Freud would be torn, but Id would win
Mischel would pretend it was a picture of a ring, but would give in
Thaler would resist so long as it is stored with the cashews
Zimbardo would write up how he resisted, but it would be fake
Freud would be torn, but Id would win
Mischel would pretend it was a picture of a ring, but would give in
name a famous psychologist who would resist the One Ring
December 25, 2024 at 8:37 PM
Klein would resist because he's an expert at resisting ring stuff & made an intuitive snap decision. Haidt would resist because the ring discourse is getting too woke. Gigerenzer would resist because less-ring-is-more. Gladwell would resist because "Resist" makes an awesome book title.
I love how this is secretly a hack to figure out how old your different follows are. Mine is probably the Three Mile Island nuclear disaster. And guess what: there's a great new documentary on it! radioactivethefilm.com
Turns out exposure for local residents was far, far worse than commonly thought.
Turns out exposure for local residents was far, far worse than commonly thought.
December 17, 2024 at 9:04 PM
I love how this is secretly a hack to figure out how old your different follows are. Mine is probably the Three Mile Island nuclear disaster. And guess what: there's a great new documentary on it! radioactivethefilm.com
Turns out exposure for local residents was far, far worse than commonly thought.
Turns out exposure for local residents was far, far worse than commonly thought.
Crucially, it's not just a hammer but *their* hammer, their brand. Their identity. We definitely see this with some who keep beating the same drum for their pet theory, or become public intellectuals beating the drum even louder for their pet cause (e.g. Haidt).
This is a really useful heuristic that I also use. For many academics, everything is a nail to be hit by their particular hammer. And if you criticize the hammer, the same defensive mechanisms are always present
All this is to say, the moment I can guess what someone’s response is to any form of criticism without the peculiarities of the criticism itself I kinda discount what it is they’re selling.
December 17, 2024 at 1:06 AM
Crucially, it's not just a hammer but *their* hammer, their brand. Their identity. We definitely see this with some who keep beating the same drum for their pet theory, or become public intellectuals beating the drum even louder for their pet cause (e.g. Haidt).
There is now an easy way to visualize complex nested threads with all their branches on Bluesky. Thanks @defenderofbasic.bsky.social for bringing this to our attention!
yes!!! there's already a tool that can take any individual thread and visualize the replies, just need to tie in semantic search/filter/clustering, and keep iterating from there
bsky.app/profile/defe...
bsky.app/profile/defe...
also did you see @paulbutler.org 's treeverse app? you can take any thread, replace "bsky" with "treeverse", then visualize it (and we can throw in semantic cluster view and it'll be 🔥)
bsky.app/profile/paul...
bsky.app/profile/paul...
December 13, 2024 at 9:23 PM
There is now an easy way to visualize complex nested threads with all their branches on Bluesky. Thanks @defenderofbasic.bsky.social for bringing this to our attention!
I don't even like most classic thought experiments, but seeing this book is making me reconsider. I think we could also use an updated batch of new thought experiments for today's world, circa 2024. I wonder what these would look like, what dilemmas and scenarios they would explore.
This book could only succeed because so many people encouraged me, and then so many philosophers lent their expertise so generously in their discussion of these thought experiments, making it a very rich book (as one negative Amazon review put it "thought experiment overload").
December 11, 2024 at 9:24 PM
I don't even like most classic thought experiments, but seeing this book is making me reconsider. I think we could also use an updated batch of new thought experiments for today's world, circa 2024. I wonder what these would look like, what dilemmas and scenarios they would explore.
This piece is epic, depressing and strangely moving.
Incredible read:
“I don’t talk about politics at all,” Brandon says. “It’s like there’s always another opinion. It’s always better to be neutral. I feel like everybody avoids politics on social media. Besides that, though, everyone feels like they have a voice.”
harpers.org/archive/2021...
“I don’t talk about politics at all,” Brandon says. “It’s like there’s always another opinion. It’s always better to be neutral. I feel like everybody avoids politics on social media. Besides that, though, everyone feels like they have a voice.”
harpers.org/archive/2021...
The Anxiety of Influencers, by Barrett Swanson
Educating the TikTok generation
harpers.org
November 22, 2024 at 11:16 PM
This piece is epic, depressing and strangely moving.
Mine is that philosophy has never had people boundaries; only arbitrary institutional ones. Philosophy broadly conceived is actually quite democratic; anyone can wonder, anyone can inquire. And it need not be productive or reach any outcome; it is enough to be doing it, valuable for its own sake.
It's world philosophy day, so post your favorite thing about philosophy.
Mine is that philosophy has never had disciplinary boundaries. Every other field has always been within our purview. Anyone who tells you different has to ignore millennia of examples.
Mine is that philosophy has never had disciplinary boundaries. Every other field has always been within our purview. Anyone who tells you different has to ignore millennia of examples.
November 22, 2024 at 6:17 AM
Mine is that philosophy has never had people boundaries; only arbitrary institutional ones. Philosophy broadly conceived is actually quite democratic; anyone can wonder, anyone can inquire. And it need not be productive or reach any outcome; it is enough to be doing it, valuable for its own sake.
Great to see Jared on here! One of the most thoughtful and curious people I know. I'm enjoying his new Substack.
#introduction I'm an applied researcher interested in
- expert and rational decision making
- motivation and behavior change
- sensemaking and relevance realization
- philosophy of science and how context breaks our models
- AI
- What all this implies for science and industry (1/5)
- expert and rational decision making
- motivation and behavior change
- sensemaking and relevance realization
- philosophy of science and how context breaks our models
- AI
- What all this implies for science and industry (1/5)
November 16, 2024 at 8:54 PM
Great to see Jared on here! One of the most thoughtful and curious people I know. I'm enjoying his new Substack.
Reposted by Chris Schuck
My article "What is the Replication Crisis a Crisis of?" is now finally available (open access!):
doi.org/10.1017/psa....
Many thanks to @penders.bsky.social for helping with the graphics!
doi.org/10.1017/psa....
Many thanks to @penders.bsky.social for helping with the graphics!
March 18, 2024 at 2:13 AM
My article "What is the Replication Crisis a Crisis of?" is now finally available (open access!):
doi.org/10.1017/psa....
Many thanks to @penders.bsky.social for helping with the graphics!
doi.org/10.1017/psa....
Many thanks to @penders.bsky.social for helping with the graphics!