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Tom Harris @tomontour.bsky.social · 1d

@edzitron.com Anyone could be forgiven for thinking AI is a load of wank!

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Deloitte to partially refund Australia for report with apparent AI-generated errors

Deloitte Australia will partially refund the Australian government for a report filled with apparent AI-generated errors

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INVEST Research Flagship Centre @invest-flagship.bsky.social · 4d

🚨Postdoc! Join us to develop #AI (#LLM) tools for research, governance & lawmaking.

📅 Apply by Oct 21, 16.15 (Finnish time)
⏳ fixed-term 2026–2028

🔗 valtiolle.fi/en/jobs/seni...

@thlfi.bsky.social #openpositions #Hiring
#ResearchJob #AcademicJob #AIResearch #Postdoc #ResearchCareers

Senior Researcher (Postdoctoral Researcher, AI Evaluation of Committee Work Project) - National Institute for Health and Welfare

Open job: Senior Researcher (Postdoctoral Researcher, AI Evaluation of Committee Work Project), National Institute for Health and Welfare - Find all jobs in Valtiolle.fi

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Henrik Dobewall @hdobewall.bsky.social · 5d

From Twitter? That is an age group by period analysis. Would like to see the cohort by age table instead.

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 6d

Next RC28 Spring Meeting will be 20-22 May in Seville.
Submissions until 10 Dec here: eventos.upo.es/137585/detai...

If you're wondering if this is your conference, have a look at what we publish in our journal Research in Social Stratification and Mobility: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/rese...

The Conference

Addressing Social Inequalities in the Global North and South On behalf of the Organising Committee, it is an honour to welcome you to the RC28 Spring Meeting 2026. This academic meeting is proposed a...

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Henrik Dobewall @hdobewall.bsky.social · 6d

Even though the call text is in Finnish, I don't think that this post doc on AI utilization in health and welfare state research requires any other language skills but Stata, R, and Pyhton :-) Join a team of great people to work with at INVEST & THL

Pasi Moisio @pasimoisio.bsky.social · 7d

@thlfi.bsky.social hakee post doc -tutkijaa osaksi @invest-flagship.bsky.social Komiteatyön AI-arviointi -hanketta.

Hankkeessa tutkitaan, miten tekoäly voi vahvistaa lainvalmistelun, parlamentaarisen työn ja sosiaaliturvauudistusten arviointia ja tutkimusta.

👉 Lisää: valtiolle.fi/fi/tyopaikat...

Erikoistutkija (Post doc-tutkija, Komiteatyön AI-arviointi - hanke) - Terveyden ja hyvinvoinnin laitos

Avoin työpaikka: Erikoistutkija (Post doc-tutkija, Komiteatyön AI-arviointi - hanke), Terveyden ja hyvinvoinnin laitos - Valtiolle.fi:stä löydät valtion avoimet työpaikat.

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Pasi Moisio @pasimoisio.bsky.social · 7d

@thlfi.bsky.social hakee post doc -tutkijaa osaksi @invest-flagship.bsky.social Komiteatyön AI-arviointi -hanketta.

Hankkeessa tutkitaan, miten tekoäly voi vahvistaa lainvalmistelun, parlamentaarisen työn ja sosiaaliturvauudistusten arviointia ja tutkimusta.

👉 Lisää: valtiolle.fi/fi/tyopaikat...

Erikoistutkija (Post doc-tutkija, Komiteatyön AI-arviointi - hanke) - Terveyden ja hyvinvoinnin laitos

Avoin työpaikka: Erikoistutkija (Post doc-tutkija, Komiteatyön AI-arviointi - hanke), Terveyden ja hyvinvoinnin laitos - Valtiolle.fi:stä löydät valtion avoimet työpaikat.

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Henrik Dobewall @hdobewall.bsky.social · 8d

As an outsider, I kind of admire this system economists have. It gives negotiation power to those raising stars who receive several offers. And it makes you publish fewer better papers. That only 5 journals matter can be solved by changing it to 6 or oven 7 :-)

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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 10d

The European Research Council offers up to €2M additional funding for PIs relocating to the EU or a Horizon Europe Associated Country from non-associated third countries under Starting, Consolidator or Advanced Grants. @erc.europa.eu ec.europa.eu/info/funding...

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Henrik Dobewall @hdobewall.bsky.social · 13d

Worried about their negative assessment of sibling fixed effects."Only sibling pairs discordant on both exposure and outcome contribute to within-pair association,leading to strongly reduced statistical power..." Power is defined by discordance in the binary outcome only and not the exposure, right?

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Henrik Dobewall @hdobewall.bsky.social · 13d

Mind the heat. Wonder how many have tried already to simulate text that fits their hypothesis.

Joachim Baumann @joachimbaumann.bsky.social · 27d

🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Using LLMs as data annotators, you can produce any scientific result you want. We call this **LLM Hacking**.

Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825

$We present our new preprint titled "Large Language Model Hacking: Quantifying the Hidden Risks of Using LLMs for Text Annotation". We quantify LLM hacking risk through systematic replication of 37 diverse computational social science annotation tasks. For these tasks, we use a combined set of 2,361 realistic hypotheses that researchers might test using these annotations. Then, we collect 13 million LLM annotations across plausible LLM configurations. These annotations feed into 1.4 million regressions testing the hypotheses. For a hypothesis with no true effect (ground truth $p > 0.05$), different LLM configurations yield conflicting conclusions. Checkmarks indicate correct statistical conclusions matching ground truth; crosses indicate LLM hacking -- incorrect conclusions due to annotation errors. Across all experiments, LLM hacking occurs in 31-50\% of cases even with highly capable models. Since minor configuration changes can flip scientific conclusions, from correct to incorrect, LLM hacking can be exploited to present anything as statistically significant.$

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Mary Elizabeth Sutherland @meharpist.bsky.social · 20d

Would you let AI (LLMs) cheat for you? New work out in @nature.com shows that people are indeed willing to instruct AI in ways that will benefit themselves, despite not being totally honest. Great work by @nckobis.bsky.social and @iyadrahwan.bsky.social et al 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Delegation to artificial intelligence can increase dishonest behaviour - Nature

People cheat more when they delegate tasks to artificial intelligence, and large language models are more likely than humans to comply with unethical instructions—a risk that can be minimized by ...

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Henrik Dobewall @hdobewall.bsky.social · 16d

But when looking at intra cohort aging trends of psychotropic medication use (group trends not individual trajectories),usage indeed went up with every generation (cohort trends) but the need for medication decreased when growing older (age,data flaws,higher awareness or success of early treatment?)

Henrik Dobewall @hdobewall.bsky.social · 16d

There is also a recent Helsingin Sanomat article arguing similarly www.hs.fi/visio/art-20... i personally have not studied the u-shape of happiness topic since a decade because I thought the story is told and no further research is needed psycnet.apa.org/record/2011-...

HS Visio | Kokonainen sukupolvi on saamassa pakit maailmalta

Ei työtä, ei parisuhdetta, ei omaa asuntoa, ei lapsia. Nuoret saavat jatkuvasti pakkeja kaikkialla. Se ei lupaa hyvää.

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Henrik Dobewall @hdobewall.bsky.social · 16d

The u-shape was never culturally universally true and a profuct of age period and cohort effects. But that unrealistic optimism of young people could turned into misery i did not see comming.

UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 17d

Important research by our very own @alexbryson.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/se...

Opinion: Lifetime trends in happiness change as misery peaks among the young – new research

Writing in The Conversation, Professor Alex Bryson (UCL Social Research Institute) outlines his new research that highlights a peak of unhappiness among the young, which then declines with age. He exp...

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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 17d

Important research by our very own @alexbryson.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/se...

Opinion: Lifetime trends in happiness change as misery peaks among the young – new research

Writing in The Conversation, Professor Alex Bryson (UCL Social Research Institute) outlines his new research that highlights a peak of unhappiness among the young, which then declines with age. He exp...

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Andrea Ganna @andganna.bsky.social · 21d

Cool work from @ewanbirney.bsky.social Moritz Gerstung, Tom Fitzgerald about modeling health trajectories with generative AI!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Learning the natural history of human disease with generative transformers - Nature

Delphi-2M forecasts a person’s future health, covering more than 1,000 diseases, provides insights into co-morbidity dynamics and generates synthetic data for the training of AI models that have never...

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Henrik Dobewall @hdobewall.bsky.social · Sep 9

Like reading my own thoughts...Thanks Abdel!

Abdel Abdellaoui @dr-appie.bsky.social · Sep 8

Some people call it a minefield. Others call it dangerous, even irresponsible. I call it the most promising field in life sciences.

My love letter to social science genetics: communities.springernature.com/posts/a-love...

A Love Letter to Social Science Genetics

Some people call social science genetics a minefield. Others call it dangerous, even irresponsible. I call it the most promising field in life sciences.

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The Politics of Inequality @excinequality.bsky.social · Aug 8

📣 Call for Papers is open!
In_equality Conference 2026 | 15–17 April | Konstanz
We invite papers on the political causes & consequences of #inequality

Submit Aug 8–Oct 5 ➡️ inequality-conference.de
@uni-konstanz.de

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David M. Luebke @davidmluebke.bsky.social · Sep 2

Here's a list of colleges and universities that have been forced to cut back on faculty and staff, thanks in large part to Tr•mp's War on Knowledge and Education. It's a bloody slaughter.

#Edusky
#WarOnEducation
#Kakistocracy

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Academic closures, mergers, and cuts: heading into fall 2025

Greetings from the onrushing fall semester. Well, for some of us the term has already begun. I’ve taught two of my three classes and the third is coming up fast. Today I’ll share an up…

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Hampton Gaddy @hggaddy.bsky.social · Aug 27

📢 Interested in excess mortality methods, and want a challenge? I'm organising the "One Epidemic, Many Estimates" (1EME) project! Register *now* as a many analyst team (submissions due 15 March 2026), and then join us at LSE for a workshop on 21-22 May 2026! (1/n)

www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-His...

One Epidemic, Many Estimates (1EME)

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Mielenterveyspooli @mielenterveyspooli.bsky.social · Aug 26

100 milj. € lisäleikkaukset ajaisivat alas esim. Kehitysvammaisten Tukiliitton, Kehitysvammaliiton, FDUV:n ja Autismiliiton ohjauksen, neuvonnan, vertaistuen ja oikeuksien puolustamisen kehitys- ja puhevammaisille ja autismikirjon ihmisille ja heidän perheilleen.

www.tukiliitto.fi/ajankohtaist...

Järjestörahoituksen leikkaukset ajaisivat haavoittuvassa asemassa olevat ihmiset pulaan | Tukiliitto

Lisäleikkaukset tarkoittaisivat käytännössä sotejärjestöjen ydintoimintojen alasajoa.

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · Jan 21

Dear community, last time you helped us reach lots of new BlueSky followers. Now that we see that there is an exodus on X, it is important that these people can also find us on BlueSky for all necessary updates about Ukraine.

Would you like to share this message, preferably with a quote? Thanks!

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Emanuele Esposito @emanueleesposito.bsky.social · Aug 23

Are you a clinician and you want to understand how an evolutionary framework can be applied in psychotherapy? 🧬🧠

Here's a good news for you! A new workshop will be held in the beautiful city of Erice, Sicily, in April 2026!

centromajorana.it/evopsychothe...

Evolution in psychotherapy: Current approaches and new directions

'Ettore Majorana' Foundation and International Centre for Scientific Culture Schools

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Kathryn Paige Harden @kph3k.bsky.social · Aug 8

🌟🌟🌟 We are hiring! My group is looking to recruit a postdoc interested in genomic and epigenomic studies of child development. Start date flexible; one-year contract with option to renew.

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Postdoctoral Fellow (Harden)

Job Posting Title: Postdoctoral Fellow (Harden) ---- Hiring Department: Population Research Center ---- Position Open To: All Applicants ---- Weekly Scheduled Hours: 40 ---- FLSA Status: Exempt ---- E...

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Henrik Dobewall @hdobewall.bsky.social · Aug 7

Judging by my personal experience, talking to a PhD level expert is not what people usually enjoy the most :-)

Tyler Borchers @tylerborchers.com · Aug 7

“GPT-5 is the first time that it feels like talking to an expert in any topic — a Ph.D.-level expert,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said.

OpenAI Unveils GPT-5, Its Latest and Most Powerful Model, After Two-Year Wait

CEO Sam Altman said using the chatbot will be like talking with a doctorate-level expert in any topic.

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