Jesper Aagaard
@aagaard.bsky.social
technopsychologist | associate professor | aarhus university |
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RIP Baudrillard you would have loved this shit
New uncanny valley unlocked: inflatable corn maze for urban fall fests.
November 9, 2025 at 4:25 AM
RIP Baudrillard you would have loved this shit
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New awareness campaign
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
New awareness campaign
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✨CFA✨
I’m hosting a workshop on Social AI at the Uni of Exeter, generously funded by the Society of Applied Philosophy (10&11 Feb). If you fancy joining us to present your work, please submit an abstract!
Confirmed speakers: Rob Clowes, Pii Telakivi, Joel Krueger, Tom Roberts, & me. #philsky
I’m hosting a workshop on Social AI at the Uni of Exeter, generously funded by the Society of Applied Philosophy (10&11 Feb). If you fancy joining us to present your work, please submit an abstract!
Confirmed speakers: Rob Clowes, Pii Telakivi, Joel Krueger, Tom Roberts, & me. #philsky
October 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
✨CFA✨
I’m hosting a workshop on Social AI at the Uni of Exeter, generously funded by the Society of Applied Philosophy (10&11 Feb). If you fancy joining us to present your work, please submit an abstract!
Confirmed speakers: Rob Clowes, Pii Telakivi, Joel Krueger, Tom Roberts, & me. #philsky
I’m hosting a workshop on Social AI at the Uni of Exeter, generously funded by the Society of Applied Philosophy (10&11 Feb). If you fancy joining us to present your work, please submit an abstract!
Confirmed speakers: Rob Clowes, Pii Telakivi, Joel Krueger, Tom Roberts, & me. #philsky
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'What's At Stake? Young People's Take on AI and Education' - brilliant looking zine produced by young people in the UK telling education leaders & teachers what they want 'responsible AI' to look like in their classrooms.
ai-and-education.shorthandstories.com/zine/index.h...
ai-and-education.shorthandstories.com/zine/index.h...
What's at stake? Young people's take on AI and education
This zine represents the messages young people wanted to share with decision-makers and educators, to help you make responsible AI a reality in education.
ai-and-education.shorthandstories.com
October 25, 2025 at 4:45 AM
'What's At Stake? Young People's Take on AI and Education' - brilliant looking zine produced by young people in the UK telling education leaders & teachers what they want 'responsible AI' to look like in their classrooms.
ai-and-education.shorthandstories.com/zine/index.h...
ai-and-education.shorthandstories.com/zine/index.h...
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I am hiring PhD candidates to study the psychology of attention & technology use at @tilburg-university.bsky.social.
We're looking for motivated & curious scholars with expertise in cognitive psychology and statistics, and offer a friendly work environment with great terms & benefits.
tiu.nu/22989
We're looking for motivated & curious scholars with expertise in cognitive psychology and statistics, and offer a friendly work environment with great terms & benefits.
tiu.nu/22989
October 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I am hiring PhD candidates to study the psychology of attention & technology use at @tilburg-university.bsky.social.
We're looking for motivated & curious scholars with expertise in cognitive psychology and statistics, and offer a friendly work environment with great terms & benefits.
tiu.nu/22989
We're looking for motivated & curious scholars with expertise in cognitive psychology and statistics, and offer a friendly work environment with great terms & benefits.
tiu.nu/22989
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I can't stop thinking about @bedoyausa.bsky.social's essay this week. It is a story-forward account of why the American people are struggling. (Hint: political economy.) It's the kind of account that makes an ethnographer swoon. I can't recommend this enough: newrepublic.com/article/2011...
How I Became a Populist
My time at the Federal Trade Commission—before Donald Trump fired me—totally changed the way I see our political divide.
newrepublic.com
October 18, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I can't stop thinking about @bedoyausa.bsky.social's essay this week. It is a story-forward account of why the American people are struggling. (Hint: political economy.) It's the kind of account that makes an ethnographer swoon. I can't recommend this enough: newrepublic.com/article/2011...
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You know how billionaires end up with severe cognitive deficits as a result of becoming surrounded by yes men who constantly tell them their every idea is genius? What if we made a bot that just does that to everyone. I think that would be a good idea.
October 17, 2025 at 5:00 AM
You know how billionaires end up with severe cognitive deficits as a result of becoming surrounded by yes men who constantly tell them their every idea is genius? What if we made a bot that just does that to everyone. I think that would be a good idea.
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Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com
October 15, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com
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Imagine in 2020 if someone had told you “We will soon release a new kind of AI. It will send psychologically vulnerable people right over the edge. Everyone else it will just randomly tell falsehoods. Also: our governments, employers and schools will force us all to use it every day.”
‘I Feel Like I’m Going Crazy’: ChatGPT Fuels Delusional Spirals
An online trove of archived conversations shows the artificial-intelligence model sending users down a rabbit hole of theories about physics, aliens and the apocalypse.
10point.cmail19.com
August 8, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Imagine in 2020 if someone had told you “We will soon release a new kind of AI. It will send psychologically vulnerable people right over the edge. Everyone else it will just randomly tell falsehoods. Also: our governments, employers and schools will force us all to use it every day.”
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I laughed so hard I thought I was going to cough up an organ. Every line is gold.
In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen
As a restaurant owner – I’m astounded at the rate of progress since microwaves were released a few short years ago. Today’s microwave can cook a frozen burrito. Tomorrow’s m…
www.colincornaby.me
August 4, 2025 at 11:06 PM
I laughed so hard I thought I was going to cough up an organ. Every line is gold.
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Every TERF is like 'birds and bees, it's easy, folks' and (almost) every scientist actually working on questions of sex is like 'oof guys, what can I tell you, I have been working on this question for 52 years, and frankly, I know less and less every year' theconversation.com/world-athlet...
World Athletics’ mandatory genetic test for women athletes is misguided. I should know – I discovered the relevant gene in 1990
World Athletics says its genetic test for women ensures ‘the integrity of women’s sport’ – but science does not support this overly simplistic idea.
theconversation.com
August 4, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Every TERF is like 'birds and bees, it's easy, folks' and (almost) every scientist actually working on questions of sex is like 'oof guys, what can I tell you, I have been working on this question for 52 years, and frankly, I know less and less every year' theconversation.com/world-athlet...
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🚨 NEW PAPER ALERT 🚨
How should psychology deal with 'things' and 'technology'? Jesper Aagaard (@aagaard.bsky.social) and I argue in this brand new paper that psychology is too uninterested in technology, leading us to call for "technopsychology"
How should psychology deal with 'things' and 'technology'? Jesper Aagaard (@aagaard.bsky.social) and I argue in this brand new paper that psychology is too uninterested in technology, leading us to call for "technopsychology"
Technopsychology: A new wave of psychological inquiry
Technology plays an important role in human existence, yet its theoretical significance has seldom been explored in psychology. This article introduce…
www.sciencedirect.com
June 12, 2025 at 5:26 PM
🚨 NEW PAPER ALERT 🚨
How should psychology deal with 'things' and 'technology'? Jesper Aagaard (@aagaard.bsky.social) and I argue in this brand new paper that psychology is too uninterested in technology, leading us to call for "technopsychology"
How should psychology deal with 'things' and 'technology'? Jesper Aagaard (@aagaard.bsky.social) and I argue in this brand new paper that psychology is too uninterested in technology, leading us to call for "technopsychology"
If, like us, you find psychology curiously devoid of what JL Austin called ‘middle-sized dry goods’, we’ve got an article for you: Drawing on STS, technopsychology is a way of doing psychology where technology isn’t background noise—it’s part of the conversation
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Technopsychology: A new wave of psychological inquiry
Technology plays an important role in human existence, yet its theoretical significance has seldom been explored in psychology. This article introduce…
www.sciencedirect.com
June 11, 2025 at 9:33 AM
If, like us, you find psychology curiously devoid of what JL Austin called ‘middle-sized dry goods’, we’ve got an article for you: Drawing on STS, technopsychology is a way of doing psychology where technology isn’t background noise—it’s part of the conversation
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
April 15, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
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Consider yourself warned
- hal.science/hal-01816707
- issues.org/how-academic...
- journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/article/...
- www.theguardian.com/science/2017...
- astro.theoj.org/post/168-
- royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Submit to real OA ("diamond") instead
- hal.science/hal-01816707
- issues.org/how-academic...
- journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/article/...
- www.theguardian.com/science/2017...
- astro.theoj.org/post/168-
- royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Submit to real OA ("diamond") instead
May 28, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Consider yourself warned
- hal.science/hal-01816707
- issues.org/how-academic...
- journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/article/...
- www.theguardian.com/science/2017...
- astro.theoj.org/post/168-
- royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Submit to real OA ("diamond") instead
- hal.science/hal-01816707
- issues.org/how-academic...
- journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/article/...
- www.theguardian.com/science/2017...
- astro.theoj.org/post/168-
- royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Submit to real OA ("diamond") instead
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I... oh my god.
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Diabolus Ex Machina
This Is Not An Essay
amandaguinzburg.substack.com
June 3, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I... oh my god.
amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
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It doesn't get reiterated enough that "human on a bicycle" is not only the most efficient way that a person can move, it's the most efficient form of motion ***ever observed in land animals***.
May 23, 2025 at 2:53 AM
It doesn't get reiterated enough that "human on a bicycle" is not only the most efficient way that a person can move, it's the most efficient form of motion ***ever observed in land animals***.
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It’s not just biased—generative AI is importing old stereotypes into new languages and cultures.
My latest for @wired.com:
www.wired.com/story/ai-bia...
My latest for @wired.com:
www.wired.com/story/ai-bia...
April 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
It’s not just biased—generative AI is importing old stereotypes into new languages and cultures.
My latest for @wired.com:
www.wired.com/story/ai-bia...
My latest for @wired.com:
www.wired.com/story/ai-bia...
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Yall wanna hear something extremely embarrassing? Before Trump’s election, a bunch of academics who lumbered rightward after being criticized by the left (Pinker, Dawkins, Krauss) wrote essays for a book that is coming out in July about the threats to academia from the left.
YALL, THE TITLE!!
YALL, THE TITLE!!
April 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Yall wanna hear something extremely embarrassing? Before Trump’s election, a bunch of academics who lumbered rightward after being criticized by the left (Pinker, Dawkins, Krauss) wrote essays for a book that is coming out in July about the threats to academia from the left.
YALL, THE TITLE!!
YALL, THE TITLE!!
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The harper's letter crowd is pretending the real threat to free speech is the same as the fake one they spent years panicking about.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
April 16, 2025 at 9:54 AM
The harper's letter crowd is pretending the real threat to free speech is the same as the fake one they spent years panicking about.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now
This is the text of the email just sent to hundreds of international students telling them that their visas have been revoked due to activism or social media posts.
March 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now
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Ever read a psychological study and thought, “Wait… isn’t this just proving what we already knew?” Yeah, me too. So I wrote a paper about it. Turns out, asking “Are bad things bad?” isn’t groundbreaking. Features phubbing, technoference, & other pseudoempirical stars. tmb.apaopen.org/pub/5zfg49sw...
“Are Bad Things Bad?”: Technopsychology and the Problem of Unacknowledged Normativity
Volume 6, Issue 1, https://doi.org/10.1037/tmb0000160
tmb.apaopen.org
March 13, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Ever read a psychological study and thought, “Wait… isn’t this just proving what we already knew?” Yeah, me too. So I wrote a paper about it. Turns out, asking “Are bad things bad?” isn’t groundbreaking. Features phubbing, technoference, & other pseudoempirical stars. tmb.apaopen.org/pub/5zfg49sw...
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one of the most celebrated artists of all time who painted dozens of self-portraits and the top image is AI-generated lol
March 20, 2025 at 8:41 AM
one of the most celebrated artists of all time who painted dozens of self-portraits and the top image is AI-generated lol
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Very happy to see more and more critical perspectives in my field. Just had a pleasure to read @aagaard.bsky.social's recent conceptual analysis of "value-laden technopsychological concepts" which is a valuable publication worth reading. Will share some quotes below.
tmb.apaopen.org/pub/5zfg49sw...
tmb.apaopen.org/pub/5zfg49sw...
“Are Bad Things Bad?”: Technopsychology and the Problem of Unacknowledged Normativity
Volume 6, Issue 1, https://doi.org/10.1037/tmb0000160
tmb.apaopen.org
March 17, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Very happy to see more and more critical perspectives in my field. Just had a pleasure to read @aagaard.bsky.social's recent conceptual analysis of "value-laden technopsychological concepts" which is a valuable publication worth reading. Will share some quotes below.
tmb.apaopen.org/pub/5zfg49sw...
tmb.apaopen.org/pub/5zfg49sw...