Our large-scale study of phone bans just came out in Science. We randomized phone-free classrooms for 16,000+ students across 10 institutions in Odisha, India. Students deposited phones in a box at the start of each class, for a full semester.

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👉 The Social Tinkering paper with Nick Chater is now out in an issue of BBS. We highlight the importance of bottom-up and socially-oriented factors in cultural evolution 1/4 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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📣 Delighted to share that I have joined WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business) as Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Behavioral Science. Announcements for at least one postdoc-level position will follow soon. Please reach out if you are interested.

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Had my first email arising from what seems to be an LLM-guided spite-check of my published code. Anyone else experienced this yet? I'm pulling the repo and verifying the possible error, will happily correct if need be but this seems like a great way to DDoS scientists. #metascience #AcademicSky

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For those of us trained to think about tech as nodes in broader sociotechnical systems, this was (as John says) obvious. But few people have intuitively think this way. I see tremendous opportunity to change the narrative about tech benefits to be about the collective, not the individual.

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