Prof Laura G. E. Smith
@lauragesmith
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Social psychologist at the University of Bath. Researcher of online radicalisation, collective action, online behaviour, cyber security.
Joined September 2011
🚨‼️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: @joinson
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RT @liv_brown20: "Online Signals of Extremist Mobilization" .New open access paper with @lauragesmith @BritDavidson @Da_Racek @joinson fun….
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Psychological theories of mobilization tend to focus on explaining people’s motivations for action, rather than mobilization (“activation”) processes. To invest...
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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.
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Come and work with me!.
Two postdoc positions at the University of Bath
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Check out the project website, including all the members of our consortium and partners, here: @UKRI_News @EPSRC.
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🚨 #JobOpportunity !! 🚨 I am recruiting a #postdoc to work with me and an incredible interdisciplinary team on the very exciting @UKRI_News AI for Collective Intelligence Hub. Pls share! See below👇.@ai4cihub @BathPsychology @socialpsychUK @UniofBathJobs.
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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 .
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RT @REPHRAIN1: Fresh off the press - we've just published our synthesis report on online safety, harms and wellbeing in social media!. Read….
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🚨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!👇.
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RT @CyberSecCDT: Do you have expertise related to online activism, cyber threat actors, or digital behaviours? Please take this quick 5 min….
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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!.
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"Experiments replicate at a significantly lower rate than do non-experimental studies". Are the days of the pre-eminence of experiments over?
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Conjecture about the weak replicability in social sciences has made scholars eager to quantify the scale and scope of replication failure for a dis...
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RT @Andrew_Akbashev: Nature and Science add new policies regarding ChatGPT. Which prompt the discussion of how well we follow research eth….
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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 .
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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.
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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
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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 @APA_Journals.
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