More of a Comment Than a Question Paul Connor

Super top secret bonus episode because Paul misses Rachel and because we can do what we want you're not the boss of us.

Rachel is leaving academia, and Paul is moving on to a new career stage, so we've decided to put the pod to rest. In this, our last pod, we make some final comments and send out some final thankyous as we cast MOACTAQ gently down the river. Be well, everyone.

If you'd like to keep in touch you can contact us at:
rachelxhartman@gmail.com, Twitter: @RachelXHartman
paulrobertconnor@gmail.com, Twitter: @paulrconnor

Like almost everyone else, we are impressed and a little freaked out by recent advances in AI, particularly in the context of large language models like ChatGPT, so we invited our most AI-obsessed friends and family members (Luke Hartman from Tumult Labs Alex Kogan of Scholar Exchange) on the pod to talk about it.

If you missed Alex's back story here's his wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Kogan_(scientist)

And here's a link to Luke's app top topic: https://www.toptopicapp.com/

We chatted with Professor Daniël Lakens from TU Eindhoven about his recent proposal for universities to require scientists to submit their proposed research to methodological review boards before data collection.

Read Daniël's proposal here

And check out the recent PNAS on the surprising generalizability of results from non-representative samples here

In this episode we were joined by Steve Rathje, a postdoc at NYU, to discuss his research on how intergroup animosity drives virality on social media.

Read Steve's work here, Facebook's response here, and Steve's response to the response here.

We were joined by Annalisa Myer, a grad student from CUNY graduate center, and Carlos Rebollar, lab manager of the Deepest Beliefs lab at UNC, to discuss mixing activism and science, and whether Carlos should go to grad school.

The 80,000 hours website Rachel mentioned is here

Jennifer Eberhart's book 'Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do' is here