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The city? The university? The band? The musical?

Following the targeting of a building on campus by the far-right recently, the UCU is hosting a vigil on campus, regardless of union membership or position. The UCU stands in unity with our community to reject racism, Islamophobia, anti-immigration, and far-right hate.

Postdoc opportunity to work with me in the UK! We're looking for a PhD (submitted or awarded) to work on a social psychology grant for 2 years, investigating the moral role of heroes. See the job ad here (jobs.ac.uk/job/DJH266/res…) and pass it on- deadline 18 Sep!

We are hiring a PhD student at the UvA Amsterdam to study how culture shapes gender differences in emotion expression. If you know someone, please send them this: tinyurl.com/bdekcppz

US "serious" media: "racially tinged," "unprecedented proposal," "bold claim" UK tabloid media:

Notice the strange "of Turkish origin" qualifier here. Why put that unnecessary detail in the headline if not to poison the well and suggest that it is not as significant as if Israel killed a "real American"?

EASP Group Meeting on Moral Psychology in Sopot 2025: Current Trends, Neglected Issues, and Future Directions of The Psychology of Morality easp.eu/news/itm/?id=1…

"He violated the work safety rules" Soviet poster, 1988.

The part of George Orwell’s 1984 that everyone forgets is how the music and publishing industries have been replaced by a machine that spits out songs and bad novels “without any human intervention.” The goal is to keep you from ever having to think.

I like this idea by tylercowen. (Of course, we could have started doing this well before AI arrived, e.g. with newspapers…)

A real life community note is crazy

There is exactly one generation that can rotate a pdf and there will never be another. The knowledge dies with us.

AIs are frustrating because they invert the normal dynamic of using a computer, where the human is sloppy and the computer is exact. With AI, the computer is the one always making goofy mistakes, and it's up to the we the humans to catch them.

🧵 I finished reading Thibault Le Texier's book, Investigating the Stanford Prison Experiment: History of a Lie. This is the most thorough treatment of the real history behind the Stanford Prison Experiment. Buckle up for a doozy of a thread! ⬇️👇

Name a bigger lie. I'll wait.

A colleague and brilliant scholar Nikhil Sengupta is being subjected to vile racist attacks in the last 48h while Economic and Social Research Council chair hasn’t responded to this with anything of substance. Hugely disappointing

The AI agents were programmed to discover other AI agents and switch to ggwave language which isn’t secret. Anyone can decode ggwave with tools like this: waver.ggerganov.com Boris Starkov posted a Q&A on LinkedIn explaining and demystifying this project:

I am hiring a postdoc to work on a project on moral disgust. This person ideally has expertise in moral psychology, emotions, and/or evolutionary psychology. More details here workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/post….

Watching an old Twilight Zone episode where a man becomes obsessed with a devil machine coin fortune teller. The machine gives generic answers but he becomes paralyzed, unable to make a decision without consulting it. Anyway, some of these episodes are a bit farfetched.