A halloween cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com

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How do subjective perceptions and objective structures of the postdoc stage compare? In our new paper we combine employment biographies of 5.927 PhD holders with 60 interviews with postdocs in physics and history to investigate careers within and beyond academia. doi.org/10.1093/scip...

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Just received my first 100% AI-written peer review (according to Pangram, but also obvious when reading it). Folks, let's try to write our reviews ourselves. If I wanted feedback from Claude, I'd just ask Claude.

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Social desirability bias is smaller than most people assume. In Blair, Coppock and Moor's (2020) metanalysis found clear effects only for (1) Support for auth regimes (in autocracies) and (2) vote buying. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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"Contrary to views of authoritarian parenting as a stable, exogenous disposition, such attitudes can also evolve during campaigns, as voters take cues from elites." Evidence from a five-­wave panel study during Brazil's 2018 presidential campaign. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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