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Reposted by: Will M. Gervais, Timnit Gebru, Mark Rubin , and 3 more

olivia.science
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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by Will M. Gervais

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Oh cool, glad to see these are up! And thanks for the kind words

I really enjoyed your commentary! Hope the enthusiasm for the ideas and conversation moving forward comes through in my bit
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by Carl T. Bergstrom — Reposted by: Will M. Gervais, Rosemary A. Joyce, William J. Brady , and 2 more

carlbergstrom.com
Yet again, machine learning — even gussied up via the transformer architecture — encodes and reinforces societal biases.

This study reveals that LLM-based peer review relies heavily on author institution in its decisions.

arxiv.org/abs/2509.15122
Prestige over merit: An adapted audit of LLM bias in peer review
Large language models (LLMs) are playing an increasingly integral, though largely informal, role in scholarly peer review. Yet it remains unclear whether LLMs reproduce the biases observed in human de...
arxiv.org
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Reposted by: Will M. Gervais, Martin McKee, Christian Odendahl , and 13 more

london.gov.uk
In London, hate will never win.
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Reposted by: Will M. Gervais, Timnit Gebru, Dorothy Bishop , and 8 more

oliverdarcy.bsky.social
Scoop: Business Insider informed its staff this week that they are allowed to use ChatGPT to generate first drafts of their stories, while also indicating the newsroom will not disclose such A.I. use to readers.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/business-i...
Business Insider and the Bots
The Axel Springer-owned newsroom is buzzing over new ChatGPT writing guidelines—part of an aggressive A.I. strategy pushed by its German parentco and detailed in a memo obtained by Status.
www.status.news
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by Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò — Reposted by: Will M. Gervais, Southern Africa

olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
what to do when a "let's all respectfully debate the intelligence of Black people" guy pops around is itself a political intelligence test and it's wild how poorly allegedly Serious Thinkers score on it
socio-steve.bsky.social
Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 22d
Maybe but then "let's all respectfully debate the intelligence of black people" was/is a part of that. And if he doesn't understand that then he has an enormous blind spot and I hope someone close to him sits him down for a talk.
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Reposted by: Will M. Gervais, Julie L. Lockwood, Euan G. Ritchie , and 3 more

nadiah.bsky.social
Check out the graphical abstract for a paper recently published in Ecological Modelling.

I have papers published in Ecological Modelling. Never again, I guess.
A diagram titled "Ecological Network Optimisation" with attractive landscapes and networks and very clear AI-generation artifacts.
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saltymactavish.bsky.social
It all went to hell when we quit painting pictures of oryxes on cave walls
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Reposted by: Will M. Gervais, Shannon Vallor, Michelle Everson , and 5 more

earlymodernjohn.bsky.social
When the dust settles, and if universities have meaningfully survived, it will be worth asking how institutions usually so resistant to thoroughgoing change chose to leap with both feet into an untested technology they didn't understand and didn't know how to use.
kbgraubart.bsky.social
Karen Graubart @kbgraubart.bsky.social · Aug 20
Universities doubling down as public sentiment shifts away from dependence upon AI. This is the problem with the buy-in.
theonash.bsky.social
Theo Nash @theonash.bsky.social · Aug 20
The University of Michigan is now claiming that students have an ‘ethical responsibility’ to use AI.
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by Will M. Gervais

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Online reaction seems to have an interesting mix of “I dnf 30% in, too bleak and pointless” and “so glad I pushed through, so worth it, my favorite book 🥰”

Take that for what it’s worth

by Will M. Gervais

willgervais.com
I tried to go a bit immersive for the second read. I’d listen to music from the era/areas (found some rad 70s 🇦🇷 tunes). Followed maps & scoped scenery online. Read up on artists and architects mentioned. Located houses.

Every deep dive was 100% worth it. A 700+ pager with iceberg-like hidden depth
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by Will M. Gervais

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On second read, a masterpiece.

History, power, (in)humanity, all on full display across decades & continents.

Characters you feel deeply for & about. Depth of worldbuilding, tersely and sparingly revealed.

It’s dark, it’s bleak, it has passages that’ll sear.

Not for all, but richly rewarding
Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez
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by Carl T. Bergstrom — Reposted by: Will M. Gervais

carlbergstrom.com
4. Science of Science, with its data-intensive descriptive approach is useful, but insufficient. Metascience, with its laser focus on a replication crisis in psychology, likewise.

We need broader humanistic thinking about the social processes involved in the construction and valuation of knowledge.
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by Paul E. Smaldino — Reposted by: Will M. Gervais

psmaldino.bsky.social
Obviously you need empirical work, and the best mature work integrates both models and empirical data. And obviously there’s a lot of crap modeling (and also tons of crap empirical studies). But the best thing about the field of cultural evolution is arguably its mathematical theoretical foundations
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ryanboyd.bsky.social
Brilliant strategy: become the contemporary version of a Victorian bachelor whose debts keep him from having Prospects
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ryanboyd.bsky.social
Gotta say genius move by me to accumulate student debt in my 20s that would haunt me in my 40s while I struggle at my genteel-precarity brain job
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by Will M. Gervais

willgervais.com
Say what you want about the tenets of Darkseid, Dude, at least it’s
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by Will M. Gervais

willgervais.com
Haven’t been on here much this summer. Have a picture about it
The prettiest mutt ever swimming in a Welsh mountain lake with green-covered ridges and cliffs in the background
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by Will M. Gervais

willgervais.com
Lady Tasting Tea?

Dienes?

Just a bunch of fun blog posts?
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by Will M. Gervais

willgervais.com
Heya stats nerdy friends!

Brainstorming materials for a new 1st year course aiming to teach just the conceptual side of stats -- the kinds of things we're trying to do with stats, how things like NHST work at a purely conceptual level.

Any tips for short/fun/accessible/cheap books to pair?
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by Will M. Gervais

willgervais.com
I'm tentatively game! Will have to see what my fall semester schedule looks like before committing to midnight.

My Brunel email from the website would be best! That gets things into my long-term memory (inbox)
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by Will M. Gervais

willgervais.com
Wow, amazing!!! Thanks so much!

I'd be happy to pop into a Zoom thing to say hi if people would be interested and schedules/time zones align!
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indrapramitdas.bsky.social
My Lambda Award-winning debut novel THE DEVOURERS, a dark, queer, mythic realist tale about sex, love, violence, & shapeshifting, has finally surpassed 20k sales. Those may be rookie numbers to many authors, but for me, it's a big deal, even if not big money. Sincerest gratitude to my readers 🖤
The Devourers by Indra Das: 9781101967539 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
For readers of Margaret Atwood, China Miéville, and David Mitchell comes a striking debut novel by a storyteller of keen insight and captivating imagination. LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER •...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
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by Will M. Gervais

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Enjoy!

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brunelcce.bsky.social
🧵 1/4 🥴 Enough with calling agnosticism the ultimate fence-sit - it's its own philosophical question!

CCE’s @willgervais.com et al pre-print shows religious metaphysics (theism vs. atheism) and epistemology (gnosticism vs. agnosticism) are totally orthogonal (fully unrelated)
OSF
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brunojnavarro.bsky.social
who the @nytimes.com calls an ‘academic’
Jordan Lasker (known as Crémieux) is an American far-right eugenicist and hereditarianism pseudoscientist who is involved with Richard Hanania's Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology (CSPI) and is a writer for the white nationalist Aporia Magazine.
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brunelcce.bsky.social
🧵 1/ New paper by CCE superstars Julieta Baker, Aneeka Shrestha, Ssanyu Kayser & @loraadair.bsky.social on abortion attitudes following experience of abortion in the UK published in Perspectives in Sexual and Reproductive Health

Abortion attitudes aren’t just politics - they’re personal stories 📚
“It Makes It More Real to You”: Abortion Attitudes Following Experience and Contact With Abortion
When positioned as part of a cluster of related social and political attitudes, abortion attitudes are characterized as somewhat fixed from a young age. The extent to which abortion attitudes are mall...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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pessimusprime.bsky.social
Spiderman was named after being bitten by a radioactive spider, ergo He-man was bitten by a radioactive patriarchy
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by Will M. Gervais

willgervais.com
this was how I learned there was a rodeo team at UK

www.kentucky.com/news/local/c...
University rodeo team member lassos runaway UK steer that briefly became a social-media star
The University of Kentucky basketball team can't have all the glory: This time, it was a member of the UK rodeo team (yes, UK has a rodeo team) who saved the day.
www.kentucky.com
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amnh.org
Meet the Indo-Pacific violet blanket octopus. Females grow up to 6 ft (2 m) long—and are more than 10,000x larger than males! They also sport massive “blankets,” or webs of skin connecting their dorsal arms, that they can detach to distract predators.
Photo: Mike Bartick, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist
A photo of the Indo-Pacific violet blanket octopus. It is iridescent in appearance. One of its eyes is fixed directly on the viewer. A long, blanket-like appendage of flesh trails from its tentacles.
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