Jeff Lees
@leesplez.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior @ University of Groningen | psychology of leadership, sustainability, ideology, and misperceptions | #rstats | #openscience | he/they | 🇺🇸→🇳🇱 | www.jeffreymlees.com
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Out today! An update to our award-winning Spot-The-Troll Quiz. New trolls, new real users, new tricks, new lessons! Check it out:
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Internet Troll and Disinformation Quiz
Learn the signs of online disinformation and internet trolls. The Spot the Troll quiz asks you to examine real social media profiles and posts and decide whether they are legitimate.
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September 2, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Out today! An update to our award-winning Spot-The-Troll Quiz. New trolls, new real users, new tricks, new lessons! Check it out:
spotthetroll.org
spotthetroll.org
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This was so fun!
When we first heard that Bari Weiss had been hired as the new editor-in-chief at CBS News, we knew we had to call in the Cancel Guncle himself, @michaelhobbes.bsky.social!
An interestingand hilarious conversation ensued... www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNlW...
An interestingand hilarious conversation ensued... www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNlW...
Why CBS News Hired Cancel Culture's Biggest Grifter (ft. Michael Hobbes)
YouTube video by Cancel Me, Daddy - Media & Politics Podcast
www.youtube.com
October 23, 2025 at 12:35 PM
This was so fun!
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Lost Science is a new NYT series of accounts from scientists who have lost their jobs or funding. You can send your story to the Times here www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...
October 10, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Lost Science is a new NYT series of accounts from scientists who have lost their jobs or funding. You can send your story to the Times here www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...
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Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
apnews.com
October 8, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...
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Finally officially published! "Race science in mainstream psychology, 1960–2010" with @rhacodactylus.bsky.social (who needs a job btw) direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... 🧵
#histsci #sts #philsci #metascience
#histsci #sts #philsci #metascience
Race science in mainstream psychology, 1960–2010
Abstract. Anthropologists and human geneticists have long rejected efforts to purportedly scientifically justify racial inequality and colonialism. But race science has persisted, at least on the marg...
direct.mit.edu
October 1, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Finally officially published! "Race science in mainstream psychology, 1960–2010" with @rhacodactylus.bsky.social (who needs a job btw) direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... 🧵
#histsci #sts #philsci #metascience
#histsci #sts #philsci #metascience
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“research suggests that this approach to vaccines is entirely logical in a culture that insists that health is the result of hard work and informed consumer decisions and too often sees illness as a personal failure.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...
Opinion | What 20 Years of Listening to Vaccine-Hesitant Parents Has Taught Me
www.nytimes.com
September 30, 2025 at 9:10 PM
“research suggests that this approach to vaccines is entirely logical in a culture that insists that health is the result of hard work and informed consumer decisions and too often sees illness as a personal failure.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...
I'm sure that if we scientists remain "apolitical" that this campaign of scientific censorship will stop, right...right?
EPA has ordered scientists in its Office of Water to immediately pause almost all research & stop publishing studies. Researchers were told that, unless scientific journals had already returned proofs, studies will be subject to an additional EPA review.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
EPA tells scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say
Staff from the EPA’s Office of Water were summoned to a town hall meeting this week and told to pause the publication of most research, pending a review.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 20, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I'm sure that if we scientists remain "apolitical" that this campaign of scientific censorship will stop, right...right?
I'm generally averse to left-wing hypocracy-porn
But in this instance, I don't think the takeaway is that radical centrists are hypocrites on free speech
The lesson is instead that the moral panic over "left-wing cancel culture" is and always was a reactionary propaganda campaign
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But in this instance, I don't think the takeaway is that radical centrists are hypocrites on free speech
The lesson is instead that the moral panic over "left-wing cancel culture" is and always was a reactionary propaganda campaign
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September 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I'm generally averse to left-wing hypocracy-porn
But in this instance, I don't think the takeaway is that radical centrists are hypocrites on free speech
The lesson is instead that the moral panic over "left-wing cancel culture" is and always was a reactionary propaganda campaign
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But in this instance, I don't think the takeaway is that radical centrists are hypocrites on free speech
The lesson is instead that the moral panic over "left-wing cancel culture" is and always was a reactionary propaganda campaign
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What is happening at public universities in Red states will not stop at public universities in Red states. The Authoritarians want speech codes, blacklists, and loyalty oaths for all in academia.
So, a university president fired a professor because they taught a course that discussed there being more than two genders, and now the university president is being fired for not having fired the professor quickly enough, is where we're at. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...
Texas A&M President to Step Down After Controversy Over ‘Gender Ideology’
www.nytimes.com
September 19, 2025 at 10:27 AM
What is happening at public universities in Red states will not stop at public universities in Red states. The Authoritarians want speech codes, blacklists, and loyalty oaths for all in academia.
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So, a university president fired a professor because they taught a course that discussed there being more than two genders, and now the university president is being fired for not having fired the professor quickly enough, is where we're at. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...
Texas A&M President to Step Down After Controversy Over ‘Gender Ideology’
www.nytimes.com
September 19, 2025 at 1:29 AM
So, a university president fired a professor because they taught a course that discussed there being more than two genders, and now the university president is being fired for not having fired the professor quickly enough, is where we're at. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...
Living in Europe, the one thing I find difficult to convey to Europeans is just how completely incompetent and feckless the Democratic Party Leadership is at doing politics.
Now there's a Charlie Kirk Day of Remembrance resolution in the House.
The question is whether House Dems will vote for it. Many are arguing they should all vote NO.
But @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social is reportedly voting YES, to honor Kirk.
Why?
@andrewsolender.bsky.social:
The question is whether House Dems will vote for it. Many are arguing they should all vote NO.
But @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social is reportedly voting YES, to honor Kirk.
Why?
@andrewsolender.bsky.social:
House Democrats fume about vote to honor Charlie Kirk: "We're being totally set up"
The vote has been the topic of frenzied discussions in Democrats' closed-door meeting this week.
www.axios.com
September 19, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Living in Europe, the one thing I find difficult to convey to Europeans is just how completely incompetent and feckless the Democratic Party Leadership is at doing politics.
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We are offering a 2-year postdoctoral position at CIMCyC (Granada, Spain) to work on the psychology of dis(mis)information.
Apply before 26th September. Nice city, great environment ☺️
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Apply before 26th September. Nice city, great environment ☺️
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Job Offer: Postdoctoral Researcher in Disinformation
As part of the strategic plan linked to the María de Maeztu Seal of Excellence award, the CIMCYC is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher with experience in the field of the psychology of disinformatio...
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September 16, 2025 at 6:02 PM
We are offering a 2-year postdoctoral position at CIMCyC (Granada, Spain) to work on the psychology of dis(mis)information.
Apply before 26th September. Nice city, great environment ☺️
Please share! 🔃
cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati...
#socialpsychology
#cogpsyc
#PsychSciSky
#PsychJob
#PhDJob
Apply before 26th September. Nice city, great environment ☺️
Please share! 🔃
cimcyc.ugr.es/en/informati...
#socialpsychology
#cogpsyc
#PsychSciSky
#PsychJob
#PhDJob
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*nodding and pointing upward sagely*
September 19, 2025 at 6:01 AM
*nodding and pointing upward sagely*
Maybe it's time the media put to rest the decade-long moral panic over "left-wing cancel culture" and start seeing f*cking reality for what it is?
JD Vance backs mass ‘doxing’ campaign to find and harass Charlie Kirk critics
The free speech advocates are going after free speech…
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The free speech advocates are going after free speech…
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
JD Vance backs mass ‘doxing’ campaign to find and harass Charlie Kirk critics
US vice-president encourages ‘calling out’ anyone who celebrates Kirk’s murder, including notifying employers
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Maybe it's time the media put to rest the decade-long moral panic over "left-wing cancel culture" and start seeing f*cking reality for what it is?
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September 15, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Is this the "left-wing cancel culture" we've heard so much about?
Student, to professor: "I'm not entirely sure this is legal to be teaching, because according to our president there's only two genders... and I don't want to promote something that is against our president's laws as well as against my religious beliefs" www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum
The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.
www.kbtx.com
September 10, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Is this the "left-wing cancel culture" we've heard so much about?
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The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.
Texas A&M University System orders audit of all courses after gender identity lesson goes viral
Details: bit.ly/42jauQZ
Details: bit.ly/42jauQZ
September 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.
It's *almost* as if Kennedy personally profits from people who don't trust real medicine and science and instead get sucked into the scam-filled world of "alternative" medicines
The man is a professional con-artists in an administration run by professional con-artists
The man is a professional con-artists in an administration run by professional con-artists
September 8, 2025 at 8:12 AM
It's *almost* as if Kennedy personally profits from people who don't trust real medicine and science and instead get sucked into the scam-filled world of "alternative" medicines
The man is a professional con-artists in an administration run by professional con-artists
The man is a professional con-artists in an administration run by professional con-artists
Looking for help from #psychology and #survey folks who study #politics and use Prolific to collect data
What is the maximum for # of GOP participants one can plausibly get? According to the prescreen there's 10-12k GOP/leaners, but of course what's realistic for uptake is much lower.
Thank you!
What is the maximum for # of GOP participants one can plausibly get? According to the prescreen there's 10-12k GOP/leaners, but of course what's realistic for uptake is much lower.
Thank you!
September 8, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Looking for help from #psychology and #survey folks who study #politics and use Prolific to collect data
What is the maximum for # of GOP participants one can plausibly get? According to the prescreen there's 10-12k GOP/leaners, but of course what's realistic for uptake is much lower.
Thank you!
What is the maximum for # of GOP participants one can plausibly get? According to the prescreen there's 10-12k GOP/leaners, but of course what's realistic for uptake is much lower.
Thank you!
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We are about a month away from releasing a complete refresh of the OSF user interface. The team has been working on this for a very long time, and we are very excited to be able to share it soon. A preview picture:
September 4, 2025 at 9:57 PM
We are about a month away from releasing a complete refresh of the OSF user interface. The team has been working on this for a very long time, and we are very excited to be able to share it soon. A preview picture:
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Radical right accommodation really does not work.
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
September 5, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Radical right accommodation really does not work.
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
More state-backed speech codes from the "DEI is destroying academic freedom" crowd 🖕
September 3, 2025 at 12:46 PM
More state-backed speech codes from the "DEI is destroying academic freedom" crowd 🖕
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Extremely proud of this very thorough and informative Handbook for conducting both Replications and Reproductions!
What an amazing team of experts and so much insight into one place!
Go @forrt.bsky.social , go 🚀
What an amazing team of experts and so much insight into one place!
Go @forrt.bsky.social , go 🚀
At the FORRT Replication Hub, our mission is to support researchers who want to replicate previous findings. We have now published a big new component with which we want to fulfill this mission: An open access handbook for reproduction and replication studies: forrt.org/replication_...
September 3, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Extremely proud of this very thorough and informative Handbook for conducting both Replications and Reproductions!
What an amazing team of experts and so much insight into one place!
Go @forrt.bsky.social , go 🚀
What an amazing team of experts and so much insight into one place!
Go @forrt.bsky.social , go 🚀
Umberto Eco's 8th property of fascism: the enemy is at the same time too strong and too weak.
The truly weird thing about MAGA propagandists is how they toggle between “Under Trump America is the strongest it’s ever been!!” and “If this one thing changes America is ruined!!” www.axios.com/2025/08/31/t...
Blocking tariffs would be "end of the United States," top Trump adviser says
The administration is trying to frame the coming Supreme Court case in existential terms for the country.
www.axios.com
August 31, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Umberto Eco's 8th property of fascism: the enemy is at the same time too strong and too weak.
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Paper on the problems of using LLMs as replacements for human participants
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Six Fallacies in Substituting Large Language Models for Human Participants - Zhicheng Lin, 2025
Can artificial-intelligence (AI) systems, such as large language models (LLMs), replace human participants in behavioral and psychological research? Here, I cri...
journals.sagepub.com
August 15, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Paper on the problems of using LLMs as replacements for human participants
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....