Gordon Hodson

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I hear that Reviewer #2 got fired.

Please, please, please-submit to good journals (society + reputed publishers), respect peer review, and do your reviews with integrity. So important. Thanks to all of you who do. @steve-carpenter.bsky.social @esajournals.bsky.social #Ecosystems

@heinersalomon.bsky.social

This 👇

CHE article on why students are using AI, many students use it to study more efficiently.

#AcademicSky

@chronicle.com

IMO, learning isn't really about efficiencies, akin to how going to the gym isn't about finding efficiencies.

It's about doing the hard work yourself, to grow, change yourself. Introspection & metacognition are skills to develop.

www.chronicle.com/newsletter/t...

Radioactive wasp nest found at South Carolina site where U.S. once made nuclear bombs Employees who routinely check radiation levels at the Savannah River Site near Aiken found a wasp nest on July 3 on a post near tanks where liquid nuclear waste is stored.

Radioactive wasps tracks as a very 2025 story

www.cbsnews.com/news/radioac...

I wonder if this would be a microaggression-related topic worthy of study.

Classic #microaggressions often ask Black people (in the US) where they're REALLY from.

Here, you find that men tell women where they're really from.

It shares an air of expressed dominance and exclusion.

Interesting!

(but sorry to hear)

I feel that pain.

Those outside of academia also under-appreciate how far we move from friends and loved ones for our training and/or careers.

And often NEED to.

I hope you settle in and that your moving days are behind you!

Curious, are men more likely to do this than woman?

Are they mansplaining to you where you're from?

Note, effect size is small.

What I'd take from it: American dental outcomes not better than English, as per these measures.

Austin Powers bites back: a cross sectional comparison of US and English national oral health surveys Objective  To compare oral health in the US and England and to assess levels of educational and income related oral health inequalities between both countries. Design  Cross sectional analysis of US ...

Using nationally representative data, dental records show Americans have more missing teeth than the English.

www.bmj.com/content/351/...

Time to hang up the bad-English-teeth stereotype, America?

(also: best article title)

"He was called away on an urgent matter" an admin staff tells a man, while the urgent-matter man is running to an ice cream truck

#AcademicSky

Academics in the summer, when asked to review manuscripts.

Personally, I don't look until they're all in. Not sure what others do. I suspect there's a mix.

I think you can submit now, and then provide updates if more papers get accepted. (but maybe check first if that's possible).

When I was an ECR, I was told that "updates" can even look good!

@bsky.app , my notifications are put in a light blue background when I check them on one of my computers (making them easy to read, differentiated from older ones)

But this doesn't happen on my other computer.

Is this a setting or something?

It's worthy trying to publish, if you agree. You've put so much into it (& it's been vetted already)

But I also know many great researchers who didn't publish theirs, but walked away and published new ideas.

So I'd do it if your heart is in it, but feel no downsides if you are somewhere else now

#AcademicSky #MetaScience

This is a wild figure

As our sample sizes increased, effect sizes decreased.

Exam question: What might that tell us, students?

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

It also benefits from appearing strong, as opposed to being weak.

Part of my thinking is that I wonder how much of this is positioning, rather than genuine experience of emotions.

I wonder if, in the current political climate, moral outrage (& anger) have more currency or legitimacy in rationalizing negative actions, relative to "I'm afraid of them".

That is, I wonder if people now recognize how better to game the social system, citing moral outrage/anger as their reason.

Interesting.

It's a good example of how we might think that X (anger) is greater than Y (fear) in predicting prejudice etc.

But might be that X is more proximal, and that Y still plays a (more distal) role.

Thanks for the nuanced note!

Agreed.

Paper is by Fade R. Eadeh & Alan Lambert.

(I remember meeting Alan when he was a prof and I was a grad student. He was really warm, engaging, genuinely interested in my work. You know, as a prof should be, but often aren't!).

New paper

Terrorism threat predicts conservative reactions, via anger (not fear)

psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

I wonder, is this the "new conservatism"?

That is, in the past, might rightward shifts been more fear-based, but are now more anger-based?

@johnjost.bsky.social, any thoughts?

Social dominance orientation: The motivational basis of intergroup inequality Group-based hierarchies govern much of social life, from relations between ethnic groups to those between nation-states. We review three decades of re…

Freshly dropped paper on SDO you'll want to check out 👇

By Arnold Ho, @nourkteily.bsky.social @jsskeffington.bsky.social & @lottethomsendk.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #PrejudiceResearch #PsychSciSky #SocialPsychology #PoliticalPsych

(to this crew: Jim would be proud!)

This book looks great! Can't wait to read.

(and thrilled to be a part of it. @nourkteily.bsky.social & I have a chapter on dehumanization you might be interested in!)

#PrejudiceResearch #PsychSciSky

Congrats to the Editors on curating such a strong list of chapters.

Thrilled to share that The Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Violent Extremism is now available. Milan Obaidi's and my goal was to create the book we missed as students—a complete overview over every major perspective in the field.

This one is quite good too

I have more, will post tomorrow

Amazing!

Maybe the English lads can learn from the Lionesses how it's done!