I'm not sure why BlueSky are advertising their Twitter alternative platform when people can't actually get on it to try it out!

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https://twitter.com/bluesky/status/1649602264389259264

“When you have the option to connect with someone, do you choose to meet up with a new friend or reconnect with an old friend?”

New theoretical article addresses this question from the perspective of optimal foraging theory and the exploration-exploitation trade-off.

Preprint: https://psyarxiv.com/2wx9t/

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🆕 New Critical Metascience blog post 🆕

"Sabina Leonelli’s “Philosophy of Open Science"

https://open.substack.com/pub/markrubin/p/sabina-leonellis-philosophy-of-open

Motives for Not Sharing Data:

"We found no robust empirical evidence for the claim that not sharing research data for reanalysis is associated with consistency errors."

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article

Musk Handing Out Free Twitter Checkmarks to Certain People

"He once argued that Twitter was arbitrarily giving a verified badge to people based on opaque notability criteria. Musk is now arbitrarily paying for the verified badge of a handful of celebrities seemingly based on personal preferences."

https://www.slashgear.com/1264309/twitter-is-giving-some-celebrities-a-blue-badge-even-if-they-refuse-to-sign-up/

The industrialisation of science

https://open.substack.com/pub/markrubin/p/the-industrialisation-of-science

New study of 9,951 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders finds interpersonal discrimination contributes substantially to their psychological distress.

“We found that up to 49·3% of the total burden of psychological distress among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults could be attributable to everyday discrimination.”

https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(22)01639-7

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Hi all – just joined! Quick #introduction. I’m a professor of psychology at Durham University, UK. I post recent research on:

(1) social psychology (e.g., social identity, social class, social exclusion);

(2) open science, metascience, the philosophy of science; and

(3) academia and higher education.

Nice to meet you all! 😀

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