Prof Laura G. E. Smith
@lauragesmith
Social psychologist at the University of Bath. Researcher of online radicalisation, collective action, online behaviour, cyber security.
🚨‼️Another very exciting #postdoc #jobopportunity @UniofBath @BathPsychology ‼️👇🚨 Come and work with us at the Bath Institute for Digital Security & Behaviour. Pls share! More details here: bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy.a… @joinson
Come and work with me!
Two postdoc positions at the University of Bath easp.eu/news/itm/?id=1…
Come work with me!
Two postdoc positions at the University of Bath easp.eu/news/itm/?id=1…
"Online Signals of Extremist Mobilization" New open access paper with @lauragesmith @BritDavidson @Da_Racek @joinson funded by @crest_research journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… (1/6)
How can psychological research protect against potential harms from gen-AI? We make a few suggestions ⬇️
🚨New paper - How and why psychologists should respond to the harms associated with generative AI? Our comment led by @lauragesmith, outlines how psychologists might mobilise to anticipate and mitigate harm from gen-AI. With @AliciaGCork + Richard Owen nature.com/articles/s4427…
In this paper, we argue that it's time to take another look at polarization, and its role in mobilizing action. It's open access, so free to read. Check it out below 👇 @BathPsychology
While intergroup conflict and hostility are possible outcomes of group polarization, polarization as a mobilizing force for collective action can benefit marginalized groups. @bathpsychology @lauragesmith @Flinders_SISC @FlindersEPSW @FIMHWell nature.com/articles/s4427…
Fresh off the press - we've just published our synthesis report on online safety, harms and wellbeing in social media! Read our "Making sense of the Twitter Takeover" report on our website at rephrain.ac.uk/policy-regulat…. #REPHRAIN
🚨Job opportunity!!🚨 We have a *very* exciting opportunity for a Director of Operations at our newly launching Bath Institute for Digital Security & Behaviour @UniofBath @BathPsychology @BathSofM. This is a senior, full-time, permanent post. Pls RT!👇 bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy.a…
Do you have expertise related to online activism, cyber threat actors, or digital behaviours? Please take this quick 5 minute survey for a PhD project. bathpsychology.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0x… Responses from PhD students, academics and industry welcome!
This is a very important and provocative special issue in BJSP - highly recommend giving it a read. BIG implications for social psychology @WileyPsychology @socialpsychUK @BPSOfficial
Check out this amazing new special issue in BJSP. Outstanding contributions across the board, what a team!
"Experiments replicate at a significantly lower rate than do non-experimental studies". Are the days of the pre-eminence of experiments over? pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…
Nature and Science add new policies regarding ChatGPT. Which prompt the discussion of how well we follow research ethics in general. Nature has added two points to its policies: #AcademicTwitter @AcademicChatter @research
Looking forward to reading this - and you can too, it's an open access book! 🙌
The "Handbook of Computational Social Science for Policy" has been coordinated by this great team of editors: @ele_bertoni, @DrMatteoFontana, @lor_gabrielli, @sere_signorelli from the #CSS4P project at the @EU_ScienceHub link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…
OK, we're finally living in the future and fighting against robots taking over our work.
I've probably been the only person who's not shared views on ChatGPT in research writing on this platform; so here are some ground rules for their use from us at @nature - key message: no LLM tool will be accepted as a credited author on a research paper nature.com/articles/d4158…
A great opportunity to make a difference 👇
Come and join the growing team of science leaders across policing - this role in Counter Terrorism Policing is a superb opportunity - CTP Chief Scientific Officer buff.ly/3HvZje1
Depressingly unsurprising...
📢NEW PAPER! We found that over 5 years, women scholars were underrepresented as authors of invited submissions in 5 elite psych journals relative to the proportion of women full & associate professors in psychology at R1 institutions. 🧵1/3 psycnet.apa.org/record/2023-30… @APA_Journals