Paul Smaldino @psmaldino@qoto.org

"Musk screamed about how this was horrible shadowbanning… but then proceeded to use those tools to suppress speech of people he disliked.", https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/10/after-matt-taibbi-leaves-twitter-elon-musk-shadow-bans-all-of-taibbis-tweets-including-the-twitter-files/

For me, the best part of Twitter was the “closeness” to journalists and media venues. It’s the reason I’m still spending time here.

NPR’s decision to leave is the right one, but probably heralds the final erasure of what made Twitter a magical (good and bad) forum.
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RT @gbrumfiel
NEW: NPR has decided it will no longer participate on Twitter due to inaccurate labelling of our main account.

Twitter doesn't make or break anything we …
https://twitter.com/gbrumfiel/status/1646142219202576384

Next was a fabulous podcast with @psmaldino and @add_hawk on the issues with value metrics and governance at the @sfiscience. There's deep conversation here of how KPIs can distort understanding, incentives, and who succeeds, and while I'd like to see more discussion of this in a non-scientific context (you need some coherent KPIs in companies) I still highly recommend it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD6hh3ZAxWE (3/12)

Looking much forward to start working with the new colleagues, and an arrivederci to all the great people at the Centre for Culture and Evolution at Brunel University London

Btw, they opened *my* position (deadline 8th March - feel free to get in touch if you have any question):

https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CXH095/lecturer-in-psychology-13272-1

I went to pub quiz and all I got was this obsession with the idea that "My Best Friend's Girl" is sung from the perspective of an older, sadder Jessie.

Here’s a new preprint w Zack Dunivin: Dynamics of covert signaling: Modeling the emergence and extinction of identity signals.

We use theoretical modeling to explore the dynamics of identity signals when their use is penalized by a hostile outgroup.

Depending on the benefits of coordination and expected costs of discovery by outgroups individuals, we should expect a wide range of dynamics for the emergence and persistence of identity signals.

Feedback much appreciated.

https://psyarxiv.com/3tz2r/

Our preprint "Shifting the level of selection in science" should be an interesting read for anyone interested in recognition and rewards in science. We discuss how moving from rewarding individuals to rewarding teams could have important benefits for science.

I thought I'd remind you - our revision is stuck in review limbo due to the recent drama at Perspectives on Psychological Science, but it's a paper that I think deserves to be read as is.

Oh boy. I already love #TheDecemberists, but Colin Meloy (of The Decemberists) just kicked it up a notch.
He asked #ChatGPT to write a song in his style and then he recorded it.
https://colinmeloy.substack.com/p/i-had-chatgpt-write-a-decemberists

He managed to make the chords work, but some of these lyrics are really hilarious (and bland?) 😂

#TodaysWork: mixing all day today on the small dinos record! 🎉

i'm starting to finish mixes. it's rewarding to have that starting to happen; we've been working on it for four months, not counting pre-production.

i had a minor triumph with one song; i ended up achieving a super distinct texture by way of two different tape emulations on the mix bus, one of them being a model of cheap cassette tape. i feel like people would pay me less if they knew i do shit like this 😂

#music #musicProduction

I was recently on the @sfiscience@mastodon.sdf.org #Complexity Podcast with C Thi Nguyen. We had a bonkers far-reaching conversation about selection, incentives, institutions and #CulturalEvolution. Good times. https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/101