Nicholas A. Coles

New ethical dilemma: is it better to drown in "meticulous despair" or a sea of bullshit science?

IMO, despair is easier to swallow than shit. 😉

🥱 filter |> group_by |> mutate

😏 yeet |> squad_up |> glow_up

GenZ version of dplyr in R

Hadley Wickham made a GenZ version of dplyr 😂

hadley.github.io/genzplyr/

people are actually very susceptible to just-so stories about human origins because listening to bullshit helped us survive on the savanna

Why did my brain automatically read that quote in @lakens.bsky.social’s voice 😅

I hate demand characteristics, but many other pre-registered experiments *have* found the effect.

We discuss in this meta:
online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

Abstract of paper

Figure 1!

What do kids choose to do when they think that someone will help them? What about when no one will help?

New paper: "Young children strategically adapt to unreliable social partners" - led by Kat Shannon, with @hyogweon.bsky.social and Willem Frankenhuis.

osf.io/preprints/ps...

Sociological research on emotion labor was supposed to be a warning, not a how-to.

How did Black families travel during the Jim Crow era? Learn the history, explore the data and contribute. Start local: search your city on the Community Map, and add your story to this living history.
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Florida’s Public Universities Should No Longer Hire Foreign Employees, DeSantis Says The Republican governor’s directive on H-1B visas comes as President Trump has initiated his policy of charging employers a new $100,000 fee to hire people from outside the United States.

Florida's governor is telling public universities to stop hiring anyone on a H-1B visa. Expect other red states to follow suit.

Thank you for sharing. Beautiful

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

My theory is that the cats understand the technology and are trying to export it to humans.

Their requests for food at 3 AM? Just a test to see if you still remember things. One day, you won't. And the food bowls will finally be infinitely full.

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Our full 2025 program and schedule are now up on our website! We've got so many great presentations lined up, you won't want to miss it!

bigteamscienceconference.github.io/program/

I didn't know, but HAPPY Birthday!

You best get out of my way in the gym when you see me dosing 200mg of ✨sparkling peach✨ caffeine

Oh wow I didn't know that. Thanks for educating!

"duckweed-infested swamp hole" is what I will yell for now on when I'm mad at UF lol

Summary of design and results from our three studies. (A: Design) Each study used a similar experimental design, measuring both positive and negative demand in an online experiment, with three commonly-used task types (dictator game, vignette, intervention). Our experiments had ns ≈ 250 per cell. (B: Results) Observed demand effects were statistically indistinguishable from zero. The plot shows means and 95% confidence intervals for standardized mean differences derived from frequentist analyses of each experiment and an inverse variance-weighted fixed-effect estimator pooling all experiments (solid bars). Prior measurements of experimenter demand from a previous dictator game experiment (de Quidt et al., 2018; standardized mean difference from regression coefficient) and a meta-analysis primarily including small-sample, in-person studies (Coles et al., 2025; Hedge’s g statistic) are also shown for comparison (striped bars). The main text includes Bayesian analyses that quantify our uncertainty.

We often hear from reviewers: "what about demand effects?" So we developed a method to eliminate them. Something weird happened during testing: We couldn’t detect demand effects in the first place! (1/8)

We've updated a paper on the 3-year, $1000/month U.S. guaranteed income study.

New results, in 3 figures: 🧵

1) Subjective well-being significantly improved in the treatment group in year 1, but there were no significant differences between the treatment & control group after that. 1/

This evergreen post is my go to.

Anything that makes future Associate Professor Erin Westgate happy has my vote 😁

Dayum

Why do societies reliably develop strikingly similar traditions like dance songs, hero stories, shamanism & justice institutions?

In a new BBS target article, I propose a theory for such "super-attractors" + cultural evolution more broadly. Now open for commentary: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Meta Research Symposium 2025 PMGS PMGS Meta Research Symposium 2025 16-17 October 2025, TU/e Eindhoven Conference website: https://paulmeehlschool.github.io/workshops/ Program Day 1 - Pre-Symposium Mini-Workshop Time Activity…

The full program for the PMGS Meta Research Symposium 2025 is online: docs.google.com/document/d/1... If you are interested in causal inference, systematic review, hypothesis testing, and preregistration, join is October 17th in Eindhoven! Attendance is free!

Our department is seeking applicants for an Assistant Professor position with a focus on affective science. Please apply and/or pass this along to anyone who might be interested! facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

Thanks!