Cam Hostinar, Ph.D.

View Jürgen Geuter’s graphic link Jürgen GeuterJürgen Geuter • 2ndVerified • 2nd Research Director @ART+COM | Independent writer/theorist | Keynote Speaker | AI-Deinfluencer | #LudditeResearch Director @ART+COM | Independent writer/theorist | Keynote Speaker | AI-Deinfluencer | #Luddite 22h • 22 hours ago • Visible to anyone on or off LinkedIn Follow Very few narratives piss me off as much as the whole "let's give marginalised people LLM assistants for inclusion". Inclusion does not mean giving marginalised people shittier versions of a thing: Sure you can give kids from poorer backgrounds an LLM to "learn" but what you are saying is that poor people are not worth having trustworthy sources of information. When you say that older or lonely people can talk to chatbots to feel less alone you are saying that some people are not worth a social life. This is a deeply inhumane perspective that goes actively against the ideas and ideals of inclusion. likesupportcelebrate 186 You and 185 others

Regret to report that there has been another good linkedin post

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.

Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

I wrote a piece for The Conversation on the importance of SNAP for reducing food insecurity and improving child health. I’d love it if you would read and share!

A staggering statistic: "North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year." What are we doing?

Asking scientists🧪:

What do you consider the most interesting open questions in your field?

Bonus points if it's a question people alive today actually have a shot at answering.

Stress in Childhood Cambridge Core - Developmental Psychology - Stress in Childhood

It was a wonderful opportunity to contribute to this book, alongside contributions from Geneva Jost, Sally Hang, Joanna Guan (@joannayguan.bsky.social), and Dr. Jamie Lawler.

Link to download PDF: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Check out our new 100-page “Stress in Childhood” book with Cambridge University Press (the fundamentals about stress in childhood presented in an accessible manner), free to download as a pdf for 2 weeks!

Baron and Kenny’s paper on the moderator-mediator variable distinction in social psych research has been cited more than 139,000 times. Not sure where it fits in the matrix but hard to think of other psych papers with that many citations…

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The job market in the age of AI

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"There are many hypotheses in science that are wrong. That's perfectly alright; it's the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting process." — Carl Sagan

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It Is Cruel to Deny Food Assistance to Those Who Truly Deserve It: Corporations “Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of beneficiaries of federal aid programs like Medicaid and food stamps, according to a study by...

"How would less fortunate corporations like Walmart, McDonald’s, and Amazon get by without SNAP and other programs to subsidize their sub-poverty level wages that leave many of their workers reliant on benefits?"

Golden retriever with a lion's mane costume on.

Happy Halloween!

If you have to be in a car, drive safely out there tonight, folks.

Lots of kids and lions will be roaming the streets.

High speed videography of the onion cut with segmentation sequences. The blade sharpness is 13 μm and the speed is 2.0 m/s.

I think we have a serious contender for the next Ig Nobel here - cutting onions with a sharp knife reduces tearing (also probably reduces general ejected droplets when cutting things). 🧪

Maybe time to upgrade my knife-sharpening game.

Link: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Cornell (NYC and Ithaca) is recruiting AI postdocs, apply by Nov 20, 2025! If you're interested in working with me on technical approaches to responsible AI (e.g., personalization, fairness), please email me.

academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30971

Career Award for Richard Robins Among Society for Personality and Social Psychology 2025 Honors Richard Robins is among the 2025 honorees of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), the world’s largest association of social and personality psychologists.

Our very own Rick Robins received the prestigious @spspnews.bsky.social 2025 Block Award in recognition of the many accomplishments throughout his career. Several other members of our Social-Personality Area also received honors and awards from SPSP.

lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu/news-notewor...

Hilarious

Our department is hiring two positions (2026 and 2027 start dates) - come be my colleague!

apply.interfolio.com/175428

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

"Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory"

www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

The most important thing universities should do in a world with AI is to greatly increase the number of professors, so that classes can be smaller and more class time can be spent directly interacting with students as people.

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‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely...

More and more people are using AI chatbots to craft their messages on dating apps, which often makes in-person meetings awkward. I worry that as this trend grows, social skills will decline and loneliness will deepen. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

The Developmental and Brain Sciences PhD program at UMass Boston is recruiting, and I am planning to accept a student for Fall 2026! Join our info session on 10/24 to learn more: go.umb.edu/register/?id... or check out our department website: www.umb.edu/academics/pr...

Managing emotions is not easy - we often get by with a little help. In the NEW Social Interaction and Emotion Lab at Rutgers-Newark, we’ll study how social interactions regulate emotion using experiments, naturalistic data, and multi-modal approaches. ✨ Now recruiting! ✨🙌 Learn more: raziasahi.com

📣 I am excited to be recruiting PhD students to my lab in Psychology and Neuroscience at UGA! If you are applying for Fall 2026 and passionate about environmental effects on brain function, plasticity, and behavior development, consider joining me in Athens!

psychology.uga.edu/how-apply-ou...

Scientist on front lines of overdose crisis receives MacArthur 'genius' award Nabarun Dasgupta was recognized with a MacArthur "genius" award for work studying the deadly overdose crisis. He's also a front-line organizer, helping people survive.

My friend and colleague @nabarund.bsky.social !!!! www.npr.org/2025/10/08/n...

🚨 New publication! Our registered report in Journal of Educational Psychology examines whether common executive function (EF) tasks demonstrated measurement invariance across racial/ethnic groups. Spoiler: they don’t. ⚠️
doi.org/10.1037/edu0...

If you are interested in doing a postdoc in psychology at UC Davis with me (or any other UC professor), feel free to consider applying to the UC Presidential Postdoc position!

ppfp.ucop.edu/info/how-to-...