Ryan Bruno

Modest Advice for New Graduate Students Throughout the course of my years in graduate school, I kept a running list of the best advice given to me, and the strategies that helped…

Great list. Learned a lot from it. dorsaamir.medium.com/modest-advic...

Does Data Matter in Psychology? Psychology presents itself as deeply empirical and quantitative.

“Psychologists are more like activists or maybe lawyers, and our data are simply things we use to persuade, but the ideas are true, regardless of the data... we could be more like philosophers and simply rely on logic to make our cases.” open.substack.com/pub/michaeli...

🚨 Call for Abstracts!
I'm excited to announce the 2nd workshop on Directions of Polarization, Social Norms, and Trust in Societies
@ MIT on Dec 5-6
Keynotes from
@bgoldberg.bsky.social & @adamberinsky.bsky.social

🗓️ Deadline to submit: July 14, 2025
🔗 sites.google.com/view/polariz...

Assistant Director, Epley Lab Department Booth Roman Family Center for Decision Research About the Department The University of Chicago Booth School of Business is the second-oldest business school in the U.S. and second to none w...

Nick epley is hiring a new asst director:

uchicago.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

Thanks Shane!

Soon, I will (excitingly) be starting my PhD at USC, which means I’ll (sadly) be leaving my pre-doc position with Emma Levine and Jane Risen.

We are accepting applicants now! Please share!

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Soon, I will (excitingly) be starting my PhD at USC, which means I’ll (sadly) be leaving my pre-doc position with Emma Levine and Jane Risen.

We are accepting applicants now! Please share!

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I am hiring a new Lab Manager to help run the NYU Center for Conflict & Cooperation.

We start reviewing apps on MAY 1st and it pays over $58,000. Please share with anyone who might be interested!

Please apply here: apply.interfolio.com/166620

See more details below:

As Famine Rages in Sudan, U.S. Aid Remains Scarce The stark consequences of the rollback are evident in few places as clearly as in Sudan, where a brutal civil war has combined with a staggering humanitarian catastrophe.

Genuinely curious what apologetics for this might sound like.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/w...

Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.

WTF www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...

Treating Friends Like Enemies Podcast Episode · The David Frum Show · 04/09/2025 · 54m

Politics 101 — Being predictable to your allies matters
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‘Uniquely human’ language capacity found in bonobos In a first, researchers have seen a nonhuman animal combine different calls to make new meanings

“Low hoot,” … appears to mean something like “I am excited.” “High hoot” … may mean “Pay attention to me.” But the combination of the two calls doesn’t simply mean “I am excited, pay attention to me”; instead, it conveys a more nuanced message.

www.science.org/content/arti...

He saw me

JANE GOODALL: recognising the animal as an individual Podcast Episode · Lives Well Lived · 06/27/2024 · 58m

Its always cool to hear a conversation between two legends:

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Ocean alkalinity destruction by anthropogenic seafloor disturbances generates a hidden CO2 emission Anthropogenic sediment disturbances reduce natural marine carbon sequestration by 2 to 8 Tg CO2 year−1.

By dragging nets across the seafloor, fishers not only kill countless sensitive species but also weaken the ocean’s natural carbon sink, equivalent to losing 2 to 8 million tons of CO₂ absorption each year.

Another reason to cut fish from your diet!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

U.S. to End Vaccine Funds for Poor Countries (Gift Article) A 281-page spreadsheet obtained by The Times lists the Trump administration’s plans for thousands of foreign aid programs.

Trump administration to cut vaccination funds. "The loss of U.S. support may mean 75 million children do not receive routine vaccinations in the next five years, with more than 1.2 million children dying as a result," reports @stephanienolen.bsky.social Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

I'll be in London on 12 June for an event at the Royal Institution Theatre: The Mystery of Morality.

I'll be joined by Richard Swinburne, Jessica Frazier, and Alex O’Connor to discuss animals, machines, and the origin of ethics.

NEW: Erdogan has banned protests in Turkey. He has threatened to arrest anyone attending one.

This is the people’s response.

Fighting for their democracy with another vast gathering in Istanbul tonight. #Turkey 🇹🇷

(🎥 Credit: Özgür Özel - Chairman, Republican People’s Party)

Excited to share that I will be joining USC Marshall later this year as a PhD student in consumer behavior!!

On Tragedy Math The Strange Arithmetic of Compassion

My latest on Openly Fallible:
ryanbruno.substack.com/p/on-tragedy...

Yikes. Extensions like roundtable.ai will soon become necessary for online research.

Roundtable detects fraud and bots through checks like typing patterns and text analysis. Check it out here: roundtable.ai

Um? Since when has LA had robot delivery drivers? And why are they so polite? This is gregory

Title Authors Abstract (Decision under Risk are Decisions Under Complexity: Comment)

A new working paper with Daniel Banki, @urisohn.bsky.social and Robert Walatka, just submitted to SSRN.

The paper is comment on Ryan Oprea's recent AER paper.

The paper is processing, but you, my friends, get early entry.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I'm hiring a lab manager to start this summer/fall, to work on transformative experience, identity change, and empathy in the digital age.

Details here:
www.crockettlab.org/research-spe...

Please share!

The Tasks of an Anti-Trump Coalition Avoid progressive pieties and rebuild an effective democratic majority

"Trump disavowed the plan during the campaign. He was lying when he did so. Now its authors are his most effective henchmen, and unlike the situation he faced in 2017, Trump can now combine expertise and loyalty in the same body of staffers."

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

He also seems to think he was running against Biden

The Collapse of Ego Depletion Science's Biggest Self-Control Failure

Roy Baumeister called ego depletion "one of the most replicable findings in social psychology." As someone who spent 20 years studying it—and ultimately had to admit it wasn't real—I have to respectfully disagree. Here's my perspective of what went so wrong.

I was trying to make my girlfriend feel better over text and she told me to just ask chatgpt how to comfort your girlfriend.

So I did what she asked and it worked…even though she knew i was using it.

Al isnt far from surpassing humans as superior lovers…

Conspiracy Theories are for Opportunists What happens when the anti-establishment becomes the establishment?

My latest on Openly Fallible: ryanbruno.substack.com/p/conspiracy...