Emir Efendić
@emire.bsky.social
Asst. prof. Maastricht University, Netherlands.
I study judgment and decision-making.
Psychology, Research methods, Statistics, Music.
These short bios are really difficult to write.
I study judgment and decision-making.
Psychology, Research methods, Statistics, Music.
These short bios are really difficult to write.
Somehow, this story is about our current political moment.
September 24, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Somehow, this story is about our current political moment.
The discussion on this is fascinating and yet I’m wondering whether there are estimates on prevalence: how much are people, say on prolific, having an agent do their survey?
So… we just found out that GPT sol can complete a complex online behavioral/cognitive study producing nearly indistinguishable behavior and subjective reports… right as we are about to launch. Is this doomsday for online cognitive testing?
September 23, 2026 at 5:23 AM
The discussion on this is fascinating and yet I’m wondering whether there are estimates on prevalence: how much are people, say on prolific, having an agent do their survey?
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Highly recommend checking out some of @kiante.bsky.social recent work. He's developing some great tools for bot detection, including survey-shield.com and kiante-fernandez.github.io/webgazer-qua...
September 22, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Highly recommend checking out some of @kiante.bsky.social recent work. He's developing some great tools for bot detection, including survey-shield.com and kiante-fernandez.github.io/webgazer-qua...
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Interesting paper on increase in LLM assisted paper writing in psychology. They check for a explicite list of fingerprint words. Most hits in MDPI, Frontiers, and Elsevier outlets. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
September 22, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Interesting paper on increase in LLM assisted paper writing in psychology. They check for a explicite list of fingerprint words. Most hits in MDPI, Frontiers, and Elsevier outlets. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
This is hilarious but also Žižek understands what an academic talk should be: talking about things you hate.
Slavoj Žižek has my dream job. I watched him speak in front of a crowd for 45 minutes uninterrupted about whatever he felt like while the host watched helplessly. when he finally finished she said "wise words" and he said "I HATE WISDOM" then started talking again
September 20, 2026 at 5:55 AM
This is hilarious but also Žižek understands what an academic talk should be: talking about things you hate.
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New ad from the Norwegian Consumer Council @forbrukerradet.bsky.social about the declining lifespan, repairability and enshittification of products:
Planned obsolescence v 2.0
Read their report forbrukerradet.no/shortlife
Planned obsolescence v 2.0
Read their report forbrukerradet.no/shortlife
September 16, 2026 at 9:23 PM
New ad from the Norwegian Consumer Council @forbrukerradet.bsky.social about the declining lifespan, repairability and enshittification of products:
Planned obsolescence v 2.0
Read their report forbrukerradet.no/shortlife
Planned obsolescence v 2.0
Read their report forbrukerradet.no/shortlife
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Colada[139] Artificial Deadlines Part 2
Evidence of fraud in the 25 year old gradesheet behind the key finding in an influential paper on deadlines and procrastination.
datacolada.org/139
Evidence of fraud in the 25 year old gradesheet behind the key finding in an influential paper on deadlines and procrastination.
datacolada.org/139
September 2, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Colada[139] Artificial Deadlines Part 2
Evidence of fraud in the 25 year old gradesheet behind the key finding in an influential paper on deadlines and procrastination.
datacolada.org/139
Evidence of fraud in the 25 year old gradesheet behind the key finding in an influential paper on deadlines and procrastination.
datacolada.org/139
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An influential paper by Ariely & Wertenbroch (2002) reported two studies with tampered data.
Post 1 of 2.
datacolada.org/138
Post 1 of 2.
datacolada.org/138
[138] Artificial Deadlines (Part 1): Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination
A new paper in Psychological Science (.htm) reports a failure to replicate Study 2 of Ariely and Wertenbroch’s influential article entitled, “Procrastination, Deadlines, and Performance: Self-Contr…
datacolada.org
August 31, 2026 at 1:11 PM
An influential paper by Ariely & Wertenbroch (2002) reported two studies with tampered data.
Post 1 of 2.
datacolada.org/138
Post 1 of 2.
datacolada.org/138
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Psych Science (the journal) is broader than you might think!
Do you do descriptive research?
Or research w/ underrepresented populations or cultural frameworks?
Or research on AI/LLMs for psych?
Or research testing lab findings in the real world?
We have a special issue for that!
Do you do descriptive research?
Or research w/ underrepresented populations or cultural frameworks?
Or research on AI/LLMs for psych?
Or research testing lab findings in the real world?
We have a special issue for that!
Send your best work to Psychological Science! Four special issue calls:
1. Descriptive Research in Psychological Science
www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
2. Advancing Psychological Science Using Large Language Models
www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
1. Descriptive Research in Psychological Science
www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
2. Advancing Psychological Science Using Large Language Models
www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
August 28, 2026 at 11:58 AM
Psych Science (the journal) is broader than you might think!
Do you do descriptive research?
Or research w/ underrepresented populations or cultural frameworks?
Or research on AI/LLMs for psych?
Or research testing lab findings in the real world?
We have a special issue for that!
Do you do descriptive research?
Or research w/ underrepresented populations or cultural frameworks?
Or research on AI/LLMs for psych?
Or research testing lab findings in the real world?
We have a special issue for that!
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Also worth noting how many of the signatories of the letter defending Cofnas call themselves evolutionary psychologists, including those with gatekeeping roles or large public platforms. Concerning to have the discipline represented by those who, at very best, misunderstand academic freedom
March 21, 2026 at 11:15 AM
Also worth noting how many of the signatories of the letter defending Cofnas call themselves evolutionary psychologists, including those with gatekeeping roles or large public platforms. Concerning to have the discipline represented by those who, at very best, misunderstand academic freedom
Just spelled "instantaneously" on the first try and was waiting a full minute for the spellchecker to turn red and it never did.
So I then googled whether the word is correct.
I'm smart.
So I then googled whether the word is correct.
I'm smart.
August 20, 2026 at 8:22 AM
Just spelled "instantaneously" on the first try and was waiting a full minute for the spellchecker to turn red and it never did.
So I then googled whether the word is correct.
I'm smart.
So I then googled whether the word is correct.
I'm smart.
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In Star Trek people often complain that replicated food is not as good as naturally produced food, which is weird when replicators are presumably using the same technology as transporters, which can perfectly replicate Spock every time. But is Spock getting less flavoursome over time? In this essay,
August 18, 2026 at 9:36 PM
In Star Trek people often complain that replicated food is not as good as naturally produced food, which is weird when replicators are presumably using the same technology as transporters, which can perfectly replicate Spock every time. But is Spock getting less flavoursome over time? In this essay,
Just used this to download my stuff from OSF and worked great. Can recommend!
Here is a clunky but decently functional script to make a local copy of all your private and public OSF projects. You'll have to decide where to keep them. Maybe a flash drive under your mattress? levarilab.com/osf-backup-t...
OSF Backup Tool — Levari Lab
An R script to make a local copy of projects in your OSF account.
levarilab.com
August 18, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Just used this to download my stuff from OSF and worked great. Can recommend!
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New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI.
We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
www.404media.co
August 17, 2026 at 1:23 PM
New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI.
We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
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We were given permission to share it individually. Central administration concurred in it having to be taken off the website "because it might confuse people and make them think that this is Ghent University's position, not just the department's"
August 15, 2026 at 12:08 PM
We were given permission to share it individually. Central administration concurred in it having to be taken off the website "because it might confuse people and make them think that this is Ghent University's position, not just the department's"
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www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/t47r5... Statement of the department. Has been taken offline due to complaint of the prof who hired Cofnas
www.dropbox.com
August 15, 2026 at 12:05 PM
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/t47r5... Statement of the department. Has been taken offline due to complaint of the prof who hired Cofnas
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The following R script downloads your public projects from the OSF. Set the variable "me" to your OSF user ID, which you can find at osf.io/profile after logging in.
August 11, 2026 at 10:59 PM
The following R script downloads your public projects from the OSF. Set the variable "me" to your OSF user ID, which you can find at osf.io/profile after logging in.
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I keep seeing/hearing people say that there aren't any open-science and meta-research events.
Collecting and curating these the past month has shown me there is a LOT going on, just maybe difficult to keep track.
See screenshots, take your pick.
Metaventory can help:
metaventory.vercel.app/events
Collecting and curating these the past month has shown me there is a LOT going on, just maybe difficult to keep track.
See screenshots, take your pick.
Metaventory can help:
metaventory.vercel.app/events
August 5, 2026 at 10:02 AM
I keep seeing/hearing people say that there aren't any open-science and meta-research events.
Collecting and curating these the past month has shown me there is a LOT going on, just maybe difficult to keep track.
See screenshots, take your pick.
Metaventory can help:
metaventory.vercel.app/events
Collecting and curating these the past month has shown me there is a LOT going on, just maybe difficult to keep track.
See screenshots, take your pick.
Metaventory can help:
metaventory.vercel.app/events
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One of the major pains of academia is having to click through labyrinths of webpages to submit papers.
Now, thanks to Joe Rich (and AI), problem solved!
His tool is called PaperPush and is available at github.com/pachterlab/p...
It's super easy to use!
1/🧵
Now, thanks to Joe Rich (and AI), problem solved!
His tool is called PaperPush and is available at github.com/pachterlab/p...
It's super easy to use!
1/🧵
GitHub - pachterlab/paperpush
Contribute to pachterlab/paperpush development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
July 30, 2026 at 1:50 PM
One of the major pains of academia is having to click through labyrinths of webpages to submit papers.
Now, thanks to Joe Rich (and AI), problem solved!
His tool is called PaperPush and is available at github.com/pachterlab/p...
It's super easy to use!
1/🧵
Now, thanks to Joe Rich (and AI), problem solved!
His tool is called PaperPush and is available at github.com/pachterlab/p...
It's super easy to use!
1/🧵
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Folks!!! You can vote on various designs for the new euro banknotes and some of these look amazing.
Also, we could make birb money happen!!!
Also, we could make birb money happen!!!
The euro banknotes seem to get a new look, and the @ecb.europa.eu has hosted a survey, asking which desing is the preferred one.
I really like the stork on the 50€ banknote.
surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/banknote...
I really like the stork on the 50€ banknote.
surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/banknote...
July 24, 2026 at 7:32 AM
Folks!!! You can vote on various designs for the new euro banknotes and some of these look amazing.
Also, we could make birb money happen!!!
Also, we could make birb money happen!!!
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Latest post, on what happened when AI models with knowledge up to Jan 2026 made predictions about current events – and how language can change these assessments: kucharski.substack.com/p/faced-with...
July 24, 2026 at 12:10 PM
Latest post, on what happened when AI models with knowledge up to Jan 2026 made predictions about current events – and how language can change these assessments: kucharski.substack.com/p/faced-with...
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Pleased to share that our flagship @eurosky.social project is collaborating with Germany's Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation (SPRIND) to explore algorithms to improve online conversations and increase understanding. eurosky.tech/news/eurosky...
Eurosky is collaborating with SPRIND to test a non-toxic algorithm for the first time - Eurosky
Eurosky is a European initiative to build and operate sovereign social web infrastructure
eurosky.tech
July 16, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Pleased to share that our flagship @eurosky.social project is collaborating with Germany's Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation (SPRIND) to explore algorithms to improve online conversations and increase understanding. eurosky.tech/news/eurosky...
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We are hiring an assistant professor in Metascience! Join our lovely department of Human-Technology Interaction, with a very active Metascience group, at Eindhoven University of Technology. Apply here before August 14, or share the vacancy in your network! www.tue.nl/en/working-a...
Assistant Professor in Metascience
Personal type: Scientific staff
www.tue.nl
July 15, 2026 at 5:38 AM
We are hiring an assistant professor in Metascience! Join our lovely department of Human-Technology Interaction, with a very active Metascience group, at Eindhoven University of Technology. Apply here before August 14, or share the vacancy in your network! www.tue.nl/en/working-a...
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WE ARE HIRING!
Come work with us (me + @malte.the100.ci) on developing and validating RegCheck. PhD or postdoc applications welcome. Folk with backgrounds in meta-science, psychology, (pre)clinical trials, and/or economics are especially invited to apply.
jobs.unibe.ch/job-vacancie...
Come work with us (me + @malte.the100.ci) on developing and validating RegCheck. PhD or postdoc applications welcome. Folk with backgrounds in meta-science, psychology, (pre)clinical trials, and/or economics are especially invited to apply.
jobs.unibe.ch/job-vacancie...
PhD Student/ Postdoc Position in Meta-Science - Universität Bern
Universität Bern is looking for PhD Student/ Postdoc Position in Meta-Science
jobs.unibe.ch
July 8, 2026 at 7:54 AM
WE ARE HIRING!
Come work with us (me + @malte.the100.ci) on developing and validating RegCheck. PhD or postdoc applications welcome. Folk with backgrounds in meta-science, psychology, (pre)clinical trials, and/or economics are especially invited to apply.
jobs.unibe.ch/job-vacancie...
Come work with us (me + @malte.the100.ci) on developing and validating RegCheck. PhD or postdoc applications welcome. Folk with backgrounds in meta-science, psychology, (pre)clinical trials, and/or economics are especially invited to apply.
jobs.unibe.ch/job-vacancie...
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We’re recruiting a postdoctoral researcher / Senior Research Officer to join our new project on antibiotic decision-making.
Job details and application link:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSE155/s...
The project is funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk
Please share.
Job details and application link:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSE155/s...
The project is funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk
Please share.
www.jobs.ac.uk
July 7, 2026 at 3:24 PM
We’re recruiting a postdoctoral researcher / Senior Research Officer to join our new project on antibiotic decision-making.
Job details and application link:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSE155/s...
The project is funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk
Please share.
Job details and application link:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSE155/s...
The project is funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk
Please share.