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Kevin M. King

@kevinmking.bsky.social

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He/him. Something something Self control and quant methods. Professor of Psychology at University of Washington. All opinions are my own and correct. Co-host of https://thatimplementationsciencepodcast.podbean.com/ https://faculty.washington.edu/kingkm

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4h

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Ira Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social · Nov 23

A Just Asking Questions Effect for spreading false information.
This thread is an overview of my lab’s research that I presented at Psychonomics this morning. #psynow24

TLDR: Getting people to generate their own false answers leads them to believe that info. 1/

Just Asking Questions: Can an Implication Generate an Illusory Truth Effect?
Ira E. Hyman, Jr., Jasmine Balmelli-Morales, Macallan Enns-Ford, Annika Fiala, Zoe Gadbow, Macy Kneipp, Isabel Nguyen, Gwen Pane
Western Washington University

Madeline Jalbert
University of Washington

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Kevin M. King @kevinmking.bsky.social · 1d

It's so funny what kids develop as their likes/dislikes. My daughter loves garbanzo beans and avocado, but my son hates beans in all forms. They both love ramen and pho (because duh), and hate potatoes unless they're deep fried.

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Kevin M. King @kevinmking.bsky.social · 1d

That seems pretty good TBH. My kids (6 and 9) threw multiple fits about dinner DESPITE serving them steak, Cesar salad, and egg noodles, which are among their top ten favorite foods.

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Kevin M. King @kevinmking.bsky.social · 1d

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Kevin M. King @kevinmking.bsky.social · 1d

Time to make your own pasta Colette. American wheat, American eggs, American cheese. What could be better???!??

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 1d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Katie Wilson for Seattle @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social · 1d

A PAC supporting Bruce Harrell has now raised more than $1 million from wealthy donors, and soon they will use it to attack me so that our city stays unaffordable. With less than a month until election day, I want to make a few things clear. #thisisyourcity

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Kevin M. King @kevinmking.bsky.social · 2d

That professor is definitely a valued member of the faculty! And I'm proud of the students, and honestly sad that this stuff is happening.

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Kevin M. King @kevinmking.bsky.social · 2d

Every time someone wants to decide something on merit alone

Angry goose chasing someone while asking "How do you define merit?"

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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 3d

Here are your 10 -essential- AI prompts for academics ... make your life easy with help from @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/10-ai-prom...

10 AI Prompts for Academics

making those hard jobs a little easier ...

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 4d

New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft:

Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Cover page of Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 1 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

Table 2 Guest, O., & van Rooij, I. (2025, October 4). Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dkrgj_v1

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 3d

I wish the humanitarian abuses and degradation of our constitution were sowing unrest on the right…but that’s not it.

A key difference between Germany in the late 1930’s and the US in 2025, is that the Nazi’s HEAVILY invested in the public and bolstered the economy.

MAGA is doing the opposite.

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Katie Gates @kgates.bsky.social · 4d

UNC is hiring in Quantitative Psychology! Assistant Professor (tenure-track). Please share widely! Find details here: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 4d

Data availability statements are an interesting thing. Commercial publishers have built these into their manuscript submission systems as drop-down menu options. So what happens next?

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 4d

My article "Data is not available upon request" was published in Meta-Psychology. Very happy to see this out!
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LnuOpen | Meta-Psychology

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Kevin M. King @kevinmking.bsky.social · 4d

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 5d

Listen, I PROMISE YOU this is a winnable fight.

This isn’t rocket science, it’s not brain surgery, it’s not solving the climate crisis.

The answer is simple: All we have to do is stand up TOGETHER and say “no, we don’t do that in America”.

If we fight, we will win.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5d

Posted by the President of the United States.

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Kevin M. King @kevinmking.bsky.social · 5d

Um...my student do it. Guessing @drpriscillalui.bsky.social does too. That's probably it in clinical.

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Leslie Brick @lesliebrickphd.bsky.social · 5d

🚨 Position Alert! 🚨
I am looking for a full-time Research Scientist 1 to join my lab in Albuquerque, NM at the Center on Alcohol, Substance Use, and Addiction (CASAA). We will be studying how stress and trauma influence cannabis and substance use. 🧠🌿 (1/5)

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Kevin M. King @kevinmking.bsky.social · 5d

I fully agree that nobody is trained in any of this! And I also think that mandating code sharing is such a low bar. It would be a little tough at first, but we can have grace about that, in the same way we should extend grace to everyone trying this stuff for the first time!

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Kevin M. King @kevinmking.bsky.social · 5d

Yeah, totally. That for a long time WAS my workflow. And knowing that I'd eventually have to post my code has forced me to be better about that.

Kevin M. King @kevinmking.bsky.social · 5d

I think that's the first case I've heard of against not sharing code. That feels pretty reasonable to me, too.

When I think of code sharing I'm mostly thinking of documenting how someone processed and analyzed pretty typical data.

Kevin M. King @kevinmking.bsky.social · 5d

We'll publish on that for *years*. It sounds like we'd agree that's OK.

Where maybe we have diff perspectives is whether or not people would argue you should share the whole dataset immediately. Or am I missing something?

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Kevin M. King @kevinmking.bsky.social · 5d

It sounds like you and I agree here re: data sharing, I think, but we have different perspectives on what's being encouraged as OS practices.

For example, we collect pretty complicated EMA data that takes years to accrue. We share the data underlying each paper, but not the whole dataset.

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Kevin M. King @kevinmking.bsky.social · 5d

Yeah. It can be kind of a pain, but the process of annotating your code for sharing definitely is a good gut check!