manes
@michaelanes.bsky.social
Cognitive psychologist | Wittenberg University
Cog(neuro)(science), gender, race, music, 🇵🇱
Direct Wittenberg Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad & Witt in Poland with political theorist Heather Wright. He/him
Cog(neuro)(science), gender, race, music, 🇵🇱
Direct Wittenberg Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad & Witt in Poland with political theorist Heather Wright. He/him
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New paper accepted at JEP:G with @sakierahudson.bsky.social, Brandon Kinsler, & former students Ian Davis and Alissa Vandenbark!
Come for the opening Aladdin quote, stay for a developmental perspective on SDO!
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Come for the opening Aladdin quote, stay for a developmental perspective on SDO!
osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
August 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
New paper accepted at JEP:G with @sakierahudson.bsky.social, Brandon Kinsler, & former students Ian Davis and Alissa Vandenbark!
Come for the opening Aladdin quote, stay for a developmental perspective on SDO!
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Come for the opening Aladdin quote, stay for a developmental perspective on SDO!
osf.io/preprints/ps...
evergreen --->
First time I've been able to say it here on bluesky, but we need a better class of pundit
November 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
evergreen --->
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Noah Smith is paid in the high six-figures to write a blog read by Americans who believe themselves to be intelligent. Yet, he is both unable to read a sign and also for some reason chose to have a 90 minute layover for a flight that takes 90 minutes.
onemileatatime.com/news/economi...
onemileatatime.com/news/economi...
Economist Doesn't Follow Signs At Heathrow: Proof The UK Is Failing?
A economist had a bad experience connecting at Heathrow, suggesting it's reflective of bigger issues in the UK. There's only one issue...
onemileatatime.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Noah Smith is paid in the high six-figures to write a blog read by Americans who believe themselves to be intelligent. Yet, he is both unable to read a sign and also for some reason chose to have a 90 minute layover for a flight that takes 90 minutes.
onemileatatime.com/news/economi...
onemileatatime.com/news/economi...
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Leave it to the HHS boys to depathologized HRT in order to pathologize menopause. “HRT has saved marriages, rescued women from depression, prevented children from going without a mother,” Dr. Makary said.
No, menopause does not kill women or cause divorce.
The many problems with the FDA’s big menopause announcement
No, it doesn't kill women or cause divorce.
www.motherjones.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Leave it to the HHS boys to depathologized HRT in order to pathologize menopause. “HRT has saved marriages, rescued women from depression, prevented children from going without a mother,” Dr. Makary said.
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This story of how the Trump administration is dishonoring the sacrifices of American soldiers, who gave their lives in defense of freedom, fills me with a white hot rage
"The province of Limburg has asked the American ambassador to the Netherlands to [re-install] the information panels about Black soldiers in the visitors center of the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten."
Limburg demands answers over U.S. whitewashing of Black history at WWII cemetery
The province of Limburg has asked the American ambassador to the Netherlands to replace the information panels about Black soldiers in the visitors center of the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margr...
nltimes.nl
November 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
This story of how the Trump administration is dishonoring the sacrifices of American soldiers, who gave their lives in defense of freedom, fills me with a white hot rage
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I am simply unwilling to rely on these black boxes to generate anything on my behalf or for my use, nor am I willing to feed it my thinking or writing in service of unstated goals and potentially immoral uses. Some of the generative AI tools out there are potentially useful, sure, but at what cost?
“What ChatGPT says about politics — or anything — is ultimately what the people who created it say it should say, or allow it to say; more specifically, human beings at OpenAI are deciding what neutral answers to those 500 prompts might look like and instructing their model to follow their lead.”
Elon Musk’s Grokipedia Is a Warning
The centibillionaire’s Wikipedia clone is ridiculous. It’s also a glimpse of the future.
nymag.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I am simply unwilling to rely on these black boxes to generate anything on my behalf or for my use, nor am I willing to feed it my thinking or writing in service of unstated goals and potentially immoral uses. Some of the generative AI tools out there are potentially useful, sure, but at what cost?
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In our new paper (open access in PSPB), we asked where children’s greater moral concern for animals stems from. We find that children place less moral weight on species membership alone (i.e. are less speciesist) than adults. #socialpsyc #devpsy #philsky journals.sagepub.com/eprint/ZMRUM...
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
In our new paper (open access in PSPB), we asked where children’s greater moral concern for animals stems from. We find that children place less moral weight on species membership alone (i.e. are less speciesist) than adults. #socialpsyc #devpsy #philsky journals.sagepub.com/eprint/ZMRUM...
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I’m always struck by the number of teachers who *don’t* actively listen to their students and/or actively solicit feedback from them. Massive missed opportunity to not only improve practice, but also find the motivation to keep going when things get tough.
Want to know if you're making a difference?
Just listen to your Ss, says T Matt Johnson! #TeacherSky
Just listen to your Ss, says T Matt Johnson! #TeacherSky
November 11, 2025 at 2:16 AM
I’m always struck by the number of teachers who *don’t* actively listen to their students and/or actively solicit feedback from them. Massive missed opportunity to not only improve practice, but also find the motivation to keep going when things get tough.
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Your periodic reminder that people blithely saying things like 'Shop around!' to minimise price rises almost always relies on women spending large amounts of unpaid time having to go to 6 different places just for groceries. I could list others - so many money-savers are just 'women's free time'
November 11, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Your periodic reminder that people blithely saying things like 'Shop around!' to minimise price rises almost always relies on women spending large amounts of unpaid time having to go to 6 different places just for groceries. I could list others - so many money-savers are just 'women's free time'
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
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It’s wild to suggest this is a circular firing squad or something when it’s millions of citizen Democrats who hate it versus 47 elected Democrats who conspired to surrender for nothing.
We’re not fighting “each other,” we’re fighting you. There’s only a few dozen of you, but you hold all the power.
We’re not fighting “each other,” we’re fighting you. There’s only a few dozen of you, but you hold all the power.
But there are real dangers out there that must be fought; and energy spent fighting each other is energy lost to that bigger fight.
November 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
It’s wild to suggest this is a circular firing squad or something when it’s millions of citizen Democrats who hate it versus 47 elected Democrats who conspired to surrender for nothing.
We’re not fighting “each other,” we’re fighting you. There’s only a few dozen of you, but you hold all the power.
We’re not fighting “each other,” we’re fighting you. There’s only a few dozen of you, but you hold all the power.
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Forthcoming in the AER: "“Potential” and the Gender Promotion Gap" by Alan Benson, Danielle Li, and Kelly Shue. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
“Potential” and the Gender Promotion Gap
(Forthcoming Article) - We show that subjective assessments of employee “potential” contribute to gender gaps
in promotion and pay. Using data on 29,809 management-track employees from a
large retail ...
www.aeaweb.org
November 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Forthcoming in the AER: "“Potential” and the Gender Promotion Gap" by Alan Benson, Danielle Li, and Kelly Shue. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
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Jesus christ
Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now
November 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Jesus christ
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Really interesting new study out in SSM: "Precarious Manhood, Precarious Nations: The Contribution of Cultural Beliefs Comprising Masculinity to National Happiness”
More national precarious manhood beliefs = less national happiness, lower national GDP, shorter life expectancy, & less social support
More national precarious manhood beliefs = less national happiness, lower national GDP, shorter life expectancy, & less social support
Precarious Manhood, Precarious Nations: The Contribution of Cultural Beliefs Comprising Masculinity to National Happiness - ScienceDirect
www.sciencedirect.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Really interesting new study out in SSM: "Precarious Manhood, Precarious Nations: The Contribution of Cultural Beliefs Comprising Masculinity to National Happiness”
More national precarious manhood beliefs = less national happiness, lower national GDP, shorter life expectancy, & less social support
More national precarious manhood beliefs = less national happiness, lower national GDP, shorter life expectancy, & less social support
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"Masculinity at the cultural level has consistent negative associations with well-being."
#SocialPsyc #AcademicSky
#SocialPsyc #AcademicSky
Really interesting new study out in SSM: "Precarious Manhood, Precarious Nations: The Contribution of Cultural Beliefs Comprising Masculinity to National Happiness”
More national precarious manhood beliefs = less national happiness, lower national GDP, shorter life expectancy, & less social support
More national precarious manhood beliefs = less national happiness, lower national GDP, shorter life expectancy, & less social support
Precarious Manhood, Precarious Nations: The Contribution of Cultural Beliefs Comprising Masculinity to National Happiness - ScienceDirect
www.sciencedirect.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
"Masculinity at the cultural level has consistent negative associations with well-being."
#SocialPsyc #AcademicSky
#SocialPsyc #AcademicSky
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a bigger essay on this is coming soon but i do think that hallucinated nostalgia is probably the biggest explainer of the current populist surge, both left and right-wing
people genuinely think they are poorer than their parents despite it being false by every possible measure
people genuinely think they are poorer than their parents despite it being false by every possible measure
It is genuinely hard for most people to grasp how poor the past was.
November 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
a bigger essay on this is coming soon but i do think that hallucinated nostalgia is probably the biggest explainer of the current populist surge, both left and right-wing
people genuinely think they are poorer than their parents despite it being false by every possible measure
people genuinely think they are poorer than their parents despite it being false by every possible measure
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This is what kills me. If Esther Ghey wants to talk about the dangers of kids being online too much, she can talk about radicalization, about bigotry, about the dehumanizing ideas of trans people Brianna's killers were exposed to.
She doesn't, she talks exclusively about Brianna's social media use.
She doesn't, she talks exclusively about Brianna's social media use.
putting her phone in a pouch would have made her killers less transphobic and violent?
Phones did not murder Brianna Ghey in cold blood.
November 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
This is what kills me. If Esther Ghey wants to talk about the dangers of kids being online too much, she can talk about radicalization, about bigotry, about the dehumanizing ideas of trans people Brianna's killers were exposed to.
She doesn't, she talks exclusively about Brianna's social media use.
She doesn't, she talks exclusively about Brianna's social media use.
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PLEASE TELL ME @democrats.senate.gov how we can be nine years into this dumpster fire and you still have a less nuanced understanding of our plight than my children do?
You are elected and paid to know better.
DO. NOT. CAVE. FFS.
#GOPShutdown
You are elected and paid to know better.
DO. NOT. CAVE. FFS.
#GOPShutdown
November 9, 2025 at 8:37 PM
PLEASE TELL ME @democrats.senate.gov how we can be nine years into this dumpster fire and you still have a less nuanced understanding of our plight than my children do?
You are elected and paid to know better.
DO. NOT. CAVE. FFS.
#GOPShutdown
You are elected and paid to know better.
DO. NOT. CAVE. FFS.
#GOPShutdown
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What would happen if there were X and TikTok accounts dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of Abu Ghraib style torture?
This is terrorism. It's organized and institutionalized globally.
But because it's directed against women, it's trivialized, marginalized as sexual rather than political.
This is terrorism. It's organized and institutionalized globally.
But because it's directed against women, it's trivialized, marginalized as sexual rather than political.
X and TikTok accounts are dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being strangled.
OpenAI’s Sora 2 Floods Social Media With Videos of Women Being Strangled
X and TikTok accounts are dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being strangled.
www.404media.co
November 9, 2025 at 12:32 PM
What would happen if there were X and TikTok accounts dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of Abu Ghraib style torture?
This is terrorism. It's organized and institutionalized globally.
But because it's directed against women, it's trivialized, marginalized as sexual rather than political.
This is terrorism. It's organized and institutionalized globally.
But because it's directed against women, it's trivialized, marginalized as sexual rather than political.
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No. 12m from the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets. Another 45m or so from the East Antarctic Ice Sheet
November 7, 2025 at 10:22 PM
No. 12m from the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets. Another 45m or so from the East Antarctic Ice Sheet
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I know we've all got a lot on our minds and the gusher of news doesn't stop for anybody, but....
Did you see where the President of Iran announced that the drought there is so bad that if they don't get any rain in the next two months they'll run out of water and *evacuate Tehran*?
Did you see where the President of Iran announced that the drought there is so bad that if they don't get any rain in the next two months they'll run out of water and *evacuate Tehran*?
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
I know we've all got a lot on our minds and the gusher of news doesn't stop for anybody, but....
Did you see where the President of Iran announced that the drought there is so bad that if they don't get any rain in the next two months they'll run out of water and *evacuate Tehran*?
Did you see where the President of Iran announced that the drought there is so bad that if they don't get any rain in the next two months they'll run out of water and *evacuate Tehran*?
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!