Matthew Nielson

Elicit: The AI Research Assistant Use AI to search, summarize, extract data from, and chat with over 125 million papers. Used by over 2 million researchers in academia and industry.

Attended a workshop on how to use AI and learned about elicit.com, a free website that does a great lit review. You type a question and generates a report with helpful tables. Fantastic resource for researchers as well as people who want actual science to inform their opinions!
elicit.com

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Hello, #psychology friends! Want to make science inclusive? We are hiring a new full-time recruitment coordinator for our Duke Child Studies group! Priority consideration if you apply by 4/18 but we will keep reviewing after that until the position is filled!

academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29865

so true. the only wax strong enough for my mustache is called "death grip wax" with a skull on the front. good grief.

Screenshot of the Facebook post where community members opted 76% to 16% to donate incentive money to charity rather than keep it themselves.

Not hard to be outright terrified at the state of science in America, but my heart was gladdened today by community members overwhelmingly opting for survey participation incentives to be donated to charity rather than to themselves, and by several people's enthusiasm about the upcoming study

Recruitment for this study is still going. Would appreciate a repost, folks! 🙏🏻

ugh, what ridiculousness. Sorry that happened :/

Science has been replacing religion as the prevailing explanation for how the world works since the enlightenment era. Genuinely curious what is replacing science now?

"Science is under threat. The Pew Research Center found the share of Americans who say science has had a mostly positive effect on society has fallen and there’s been a continued decline in public trust in scientists." From the recent APA letter to scientists

Excellent research here! "When people think that insecure girls is just someone who thinks, ‘oh, my hair isn’t good enough’, but it’s so much deeper than that and I think a lot of
the insecurities within girls that they just don’t feel
like… a person because of how they’ve been treated."

Good (short?) measures to assess wellbeing?

A positive empathy intervention to improve well-being on Instagram - PubMed With more than half the global population on social media, there is a critical need to understand how to engage it in a way that improves rather than worsens user well-being. Here, we show that positi...

Want to feel better after using Instagram? Our new paper shows how. It's not about what you post, it's about how you respond to others' joy. In 4 studies (N=1327), focusing on sharing & caring about others' positive emotions improved mood & life satisfaction

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39883419/#:~....

DEI is secret sauce of University of Michigan's success | Opinion Critics of DEI often suggest that it leads to inferior outcomes. At the University of Michigan, that's just not true.

The University of Michigan has always prioritized diversity when it comes to faculty hiring and research, and that is why it’s one of the best! An excellent op-ed by the one and only @liliacortina.bsky.social ! www.freep.com/story/opinio...

Thank you for that ❤️

Despite its name, I've been surprised to find that the Oxford comma is far less common here in the UK than it is in the US.

This is SO great! Definitely writing this into the syllabus I'm working on right now. Thank you for sharing! This kind of pedagogy/research improvement is exactly what I was interesting in getting from acaedmic social media :)

Agreed! I’d love to hear the specifics :)

Male victimhood ideology driven by perceived status loss, not economic hardship, among Korean men Research published in Sex Roles suggests that male victimhood ideology among South Korean men is driven more by perceived socioeconomic status decline rather than objective economic hardship.

Despite patriarchy's persistence, growing numbers of men believe they have it worse off than women. And, new research shows this "male victimhood" ideology is most common among men who aren't facing hardship. Which means what they're really feeling is status loss. 1/
www.psypost.org/male-victimh...

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That’s hilarious! I really love when authors boldly make narrow reference that lands

Uh oh! No love for wolf hall? I read that series this year and was completely amazed!!

❗2-year postdoc at the University of York❗
I am looking for a postdoc for my ERC-funded project “The many faces of prejudice: the “what”, the “why”, and the “how” of inferences we make from membership in social groups”.
To learn more and apply (by Jan 13): jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...
#psychjobs

The Accidental Tourist Macon Leary is a travel writer who hates both travel an…

Authors who write lovingly about their characters goes down so smooth. Especially when paired with in-depth analyses of why characters do the good & bad they do. Just finished Anne Tyler's The Accidental Tourist and this is a perfect example
www.goodreads.com/book/show/60...

Am I spending downtime between meetings typing the last decade of my top 100 Spotify songs into a spreadsheet so I can track patterns over time? Maybe

I have a very rigorous personal airport rating system and my first indicator is the prevalence and fanciness of the drinking/bottle filling stations

YouTube video by NPR Music Wicked: Tiny Desk Concert

I thought the road was long to get a tenure track job, but then I watched this Tiny Desk and discovered that Alyssa Fox (current broadway Elphaba) worked for that role from 2008 to 2023. 15 YEARS! Playing the same role over and over!!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alyssa_...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFgW...

A graph titled "Cost of Transport" showing the relationship between body weight (in kilograms) and energy consumption for distance traveled (calories per gram per kilometer) for various animals and machines. It highlights that a person on a bicycle ranks first in efficiency.

A person on a bicycle is by far the most energy-efficient among animals and machines per distance traveled relative to body weight. The bicycle is magic.

www.jstor.org/stable/24923...

Just left there this fall. Sorry to have missed you! It certainly is the best visiting scholar invite one could receive!