Ryan Boyd

Completely agree with other replies. Descriptive work is necessary and foundational. We have to map out what we're studying + what it looks like before diving head-first into "how it works." Publishing it, on the other hand... editors/reviewers can be almost childishly hostile to this kind of work.

The LEADING reporting guideline is now published in Comprehensive Psychiatry 🥳

See www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Or read the previous summary 👇

This is an incredibly fun and cool paper. Congrats!

I refuse to run any fine-tuning method that can't be powered by AAA batteries.

🎺 Publication in JPSP 🎺
1/7 We automated the coding procedure of the implicit motives of power, achievement and affiliation with at least as high accuracy as human coders while being 99% faster! 🎯⚡️

Article: psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

#personality
#AI
#NLProc
@apajournals.bsky.social

You're beginning the ascension to a new level of cool.

Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot ChatGPT "power users," or those who use it the most, are becoming dependent upon — or even addicted to — the chatbot.

@davidaellis.bsky.social futurism.com/the-byte/cha...

It pains me to say this, but I could *absolutely* imagine seeing this in print, verbatim.

Let's go ahead and get this thing published now so that we can spend the next 10 years muddying the literature and facilitating uncritical scholarship.

"How often do you use AI to help write messages to other people (e.g., emails)?"

"How often do you use AI to find answers to a question that don't know the answer to?"

"How often do you use AI for fun/enjoyment?"

1=never
3=sometimes
5=daily

But, but, but, it's going to have a passable Cronbach's alpha when tested on a sample of 100 people who are between the ages of 16 and 22. And just wait for the inevitable "brief" version of the measure comprised of only the 3 most eye-rollingly bad items.

Our new paper in PNAS Nexus. County morals > politics for carbon footprints? 🤯 We find that county-level values predict actual green behavior (emissions!), not just attitudes. Stronger than political leaning.

Frontiers | From silicon to solutions: AI's impending impact on research and discovery The social sciences have long relied on comparative work as the foundation upon which we understand the complexities of human behavior and society. However, ...

With all of the big announcements about AI-facilitated scientific research, like OpenAI's Deep Research and Google's AI co-scientist, it appears as though our thinky-piece on AI in the research process might be worth a re-read: www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...

It's a wildly busy upcoming few days, but I genuinely love some good food for thought — I'm very much looking forward to giving it a read and continuing the conversation ☺️

At least one Doctoral student in Psychology The Department of Psychology is now looking for a doctoral student in any field of study in the subject and based on their own proposed project plan. Regarding the doctoral programme The doctoral prog

our department at Lund University has a position for a PhD student.

feel free to reach out if you are interested in applying.

lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Zero pressure whatsoever — they were mostly just some pre-caffeine early morning musings 😄

A friendly rejoinder :)
www.pancakes.wtf/20250110/lan...

I'm glad to announce that I just started as co-Editor-in-chief of EPJ Data Science with @yelenamejova.bsky.social
Looking forward to building the community around one of my favorite journals!
www.epj.org/113-epj-ds/2...

New blog post, and (I think?) my first one directly about LIWC-related things. More challenges, and thoughts, about sailing on the choppy seas of interdisciplinary scholarship. www.pancakes.wtf/20250110/lan...

🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁

We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

Stimulation Clicker is the best thing you'll play today https://neal.fun/stimulation-clicker/

"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research"

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

a man with a mustache is sitting on a swing in a park ALT: a man with a mustache is sitting on a swing in a park

Me, for the last 4 years...

Hey, it's finally up! I'm hiring a postdoctoral researcher for our new and growing computational social science lab! If you're passionate about Computational Social Science, Social/Personality Psychology, and AI/NLP, don't be shy — apply! jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/28227

GitHub - ryanboyd/WhisperingWizard: A GUI wrapper with some nice QoL features for Whisper A GUI wrapper with some nice QoL features for Whisper - ryanboyd/WhisperingWizard

I've had a lot of social scientists asking about using Whisper for transcription but without any Python skills on hand. So, here's "Whispering Wizard" — a simple tool to transcribe audio/video files locally with OpenAI’s Whisper models. No Python needed!
github.com/ryanboyd/Whi...

📢Announcement! I'm planning to recruit 1 PhD student and 1 postdoc to join our research group. If you're passionate about Computational Social Science, Social/Personality Psychology, and AI/NLP, don't be shy — apply! #PhDPosition #Postdoc #AI #NLP #Psychology

Excited to share our Registered Replication on whether Women are Really (Not) More Talkative Than Men (in press at JPSP): osf.io/preprints/ps.... The results are complex but describe a reality different from what the photos below show 😊. Kudos to Colin Tidwell, Alex Danvers, and Valeria Pfeifer.