Sanjay Srivastava
Personality, reputation, lifespan development, research methods, open science. Blog: thehardestscience.com. Podcast: @blackgoatpod. He/him
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Why Fourteen Critics of "Social Justice" Think You Shouldn't Vote for Trump - Areo
People will always disagree on who to vote for. People may have all kinds of reasons for choosing a particular candidate—but they almost never deliberately choose badly because they are…View Post
Runeson, the Ames Room and the Irrelevance of Equivalent Configurations
Recently we’ve been discussing several topics with Ken Aizawa at his blog, The Bounds of Cognition; there are several posts brewing from th...
How to Use Signal Encrypted Messaging
The best end-to-end encrypted messaging app has a host of security features. Here are the ones you should care about.
Sanjay Srivastava
How to use Signal for encrypted messaging
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Tor Is For Everyone: Why You Should Use Tor
EFF recently kicked off our second Tor Challenge, an initiative to strengthen the Tor network for online anonymity and improve one of the best free privacy tools in existence. The campaign—which we've launched with partners at the Freedom of the...
Choosing the VPN That's Right for You
What’s a VPN? VPN stands for “Virtual Private Network.” It enables a computer to send and receive data across shared or public networks as if it is directly connected to the private network—benefiting from the functionality, security, and management...
An ed-tech specialist spoke out about remote testing software — and now he’s being sued
"They sued me to silence me."
The first flying dinosaurs were a failed evolutionary experiment
Yi qi and Ambopteryx longibrachium, the first dinosaurs to take to the air, had wings made of membranes like bats, but they could barely glide and were soon outcompeted by birds
What It Looks Like to Care for Separated Migrant Children
Caitlin Dickerson, a reporter for The Times, reflects on the experience of a 24-year-old woman caring for children separated from their parents along the southwestern border.
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Sanjay Srivastava
Read Bradley's thread, and then read the paper for even more (trait-behavior validity correlations! behavioral reciprocity! replication!). And if this is your jam, you can nerd out on open materials, code, and data to see what's going on or follow up 5/5
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Graduate student ex officio nominations
We are currently soliciting nominations for two ex officio (non-voting) positions on the Executive Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science. Any graduate student member may be nominated, and self-nominations are welcome....
Nature journals announce first open-access agreement
The arrangement will allow some researchers in Germany to publish openly — but critics say it comes with a high price.
Neil deGrasse Tyson warns asteroid could hit Earth the day before the election
Don’t panic, you can still vote.
The Ultimate Halloween Candy Power Ranking
Video by Christine Laskowski, Tony Chow and Emily Scherer The social contract of Halloween is simple: Provide adequate treats to costumed masses, or be prepared…
Opinion| Right-Wing Trolls Attacked Me. My Administration Buckled.
On the cravenness and cowardice of the corporate university.
Perdue cut work in India from bio
The Georgia GOP Senate nominee has come under fire for his business background.
BYU-Idaho issues stern warning about intentionally contracting COVID-19 - East Idaho News
REXBURG — Brigham Young University-Idaho has a strong message for students: do not intentionally expose yourself or others to COVID-19 in hopes of getting paid more for your plasma. In an official notice emailed Monday, the university said it...
Sanjay Srivastava
A university has had to warn its students not to intentionally get COVID just to raise the market value of their plasma. (Plasma centers pay you more if you have coronavirus antibodies) h/t @uomatters
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Sanjay Srivastava
Dear websites that tell me to turn off my ad blocker: I do not have an ad blocker. I have an extension that blocks privacy-invading trackers (Privacy Badger by @EFF). Every time you serve me one of those notices, you are telling on yourself
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