"A vast confusion of vows, wishes, actions, edicts, petitions, lawsuits, pleas, laws, proclamations, complaints, grievances, are daily brought to our ears. "
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PAPER: Susceptibility of large language models to hidden nudge injection during simulated medical peer review: a quasi-experimental study
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41073-026-00225-y
Whitetext inserted into manuscript top matter produced dramatic effects on the peer review […]
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The lost social infrastructure of work
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aeh9559
"The authors found that workers in jobs amenable to remote work (“remotable” occupations) experienced substantially larger postpandemic increases in time spent alone and in psychological distress […]
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Lesson learned - next time, secure the wildlife camera to something solid
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"The results suggest that remote work is not simply a labor market innovation. It is a large-scale removal of an unpriced social good."
Coffee mornings! After work pints! That 1 minute hallway chat which lasts 45 minutes!
TODAY: Talking at UCL's Behavioural Data Science Seminar series, title: "Quantifying the benefits of using decision models with response time and accuracy data".
Reproducibility, statistical power, decision models!
Slides and joining instructions here: https://tomstafford.github.io/talks.html
Jointly modelling the evolution of social structure and language in online communities
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.19243
#ICWSM2026 Christine de Kock (2026)
#London! Where do you go for #Theatre recommendations? Alternatively, is there anything currently showing that you loved?
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