Daniel Dennett: How to compose a successful critical commentary

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In this preprint, we connect (1) surveys from 400,000 Danes obtained during the pandemic with (2) registry-data on the results of 128 million COVID-19 tests: osf.io/preprints/psya…

What psychological states reduced infection risk during this major crisis? 1/14

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🟢🚘La fin du véhicule thermique : une question stratégique pour l'avenir des #mobilités dans l' #UE
🟢Pourquoi et comment y parvenir : l'expertise et les propositions de JeanPhilippe Hermine pour Terra Nova➡️tnova.fr/ecologie/trans…

College admission essay content has a stronger correlation with household income (R2 = 16%) than SAT scores.
This explains how removing standardized tests can increase inequality.
Based on 240,000 admission essays to the University of California. science.org/doi/full/10.11…

One of my main motivations for founding Our World in Data was to overcome the mad reality in academia that much of the most important research and data is locked away behind paywalls.

I wanted research and data to be a public good, accessible to *everyone*.

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This is as official is it gets. This week I resigned from my role at University of Oxford and accepted a position of Chaire de professeur junior en «Analyse computationnelle des cultures écrites de l’espace occidental (Moyen Âge – premier XXe siècle» at the École des chartes | PSL.

When parents maltreat their children, they cause massive damage. Maltreatment is directly predictive of adult trauma, obesity, and inflammation and indirectly of brain structural changes. PLEASE take good care of your kids! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Impressive experimental demonstration of the power of argumentation. We had chatbots align people's opinion with the scientific consensus on COVID vaccines drive.google.com/file/d/1sYrQLI… and GMOs drive.google.com/file/d/11E89gE…, but that one seems to work even better, maybe thanks to LLMs.

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this is how statisticians computed linear regressions prior to the invention of the computer:

Terrible to see the many reports about rising suicide rates among young people in the US.

I wanted to see whether this is also happening in other countries.
In many other countries it isn't happening, and rates are mostly constant or falling

Et pour prolonger le troisième constat de ce rapport parlementaire réalisé par les députés Christopher Weissberg (Renaissance) et Paul Vannier (LFI), 'Vers la sécession scolaire ? - Mécaniques de la ségrégation au collège' sort le 10 avril aux Fayard

Many thanks to Jay Richardson & Tanay Katiyar for for hosting me on their lovely Cognitations Podcast! 🙏

Are people gullible? Watch my interview with Dr. Dan Sperber (dan sperber @dansperber.bsky.social): #culture , Cultural Attraction Theory, Epistemic Vigilance, and Reason. #Anthropology #psychology #CognitiveScience #Science

Full interview: youtu.be/inCsk5vY3Wk

🗞️Rapport au #travail : les #jeunes sont aussi investis dans leur emploi que les autres générations : l'analyse de notre étude avec Apec_Etudes 🔎 dans Forbes France
Laurent Theodore ⬇️forbes.fr/management/rap…

Human capital diversification in the form of double majoring is associated with less earnings risk, from Andrew S. Hanks, Shengjun Jiang, Xuechao Qian, Bo Wang, and Bruce A. Weinberg nber.org/papers/w32095

👩‍🔬 La Journée internationale des femmes et des filles de science nous rappelle que l' #égalité d'accès aux filières scientifiques est plus que jamais une priorité. L'ENS Université PSL lance un #Wikithon pour mettre en lumière les femmes de science. Infos 👉psl.pulse.ly/bpvwo0f1oo

Interesting graph! Psychology is becoming less insular, along with Economics and Political Science. Sociology is the most open to extra-disciplinary influence. Management and Anthropology are becoming less open.

#VendrediLecture 📖
Cette semaine les fossiles cognitifs : 'Cognitive fossils: using cultural artifacts to reconstruct psychological changes throughout history' par Lou Safra CEVIPOF - Sciences Po, Nicolas Baumard, Mauricio Martins & Coralie Chevallier Cognition ENS
➡️ tinyurl.com/2023CognitiveF…

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