P. Kanngiesser/P. K. Hoffmann
Assoc. Prof, University of Plymouth, researching cooperation, norms, ethical behaviour, and cultural learning across the world. Sci-fi & fantasy. Board games. Martial arts. Pen name: P. K. Hoffmann.
- Reposted by P. Kanngiesser/P. K. HoffmannIn the UK academic recession, you will be at one of these stages since many unis buy the same cuts model from the same consultancies. It is always the same process: *Talk of belt-tightening *Incidental savings (e.g. printing, refreshments) *Travel budgets cut *Promotion freeze (1/4)
- Reposted by P. Kanngiesser/P. K. HoffmannOur new paper on overcoming the ‘dyadic default’ is out now in Child Development Perspectives! @patkanngiesser.bsky.social academic.oup.com/cdpers/advan...
- Reposted by P. Kanngiesser/P. K. HoffmannExcited to share this work done with @alex-primate.bsky.social and Daniel Haun @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social (the first publication from my PhD!), where we found that chimpanzees sustained a collective resource for longer in groups of four compared to dyads rdcu.be/e0qPR
- Reposted by P. Kanngiesser/P. K. HoffmannARTE
- Reposted by P. Kanngiesser/P. K. HoffmannWhen I wrote this a year ago I had no idea how bad things would get. Today, eight years after she left us, I'm trying to follow Ursula's advice: write and worry. Write and act. Worry and keep writing. lithub.com/the-way-of-w...
- Reposted by P. Kanngiesser/P. K. HoffmannThis is a gorgeous essay. “So much of politics is taking action but not getting what you want.”
- When I wrote this a year ago I had no idea how bad things would get. Today, eight years after she left us, I'm trying to follow Ursula's advice: write and worry. Write and act. Worry and keep writing. lithub.com/the-way-of-w...
- Reposted by P. Kanngiesser/P. K. HoffmannQuality performance art. Easy to parse, thematically relevant, kinda gross. Love it.
- This interview is very funny. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
- Reposted by P. Kanngiesser/P. K. HoffmannThese are the icy mountains of Pluto. It took 9 years to get these magnificent images… and 4.8 billion kilometers.
- Reposted by P. Kanngiesser/P. K. Hoffmann✨Asunder is out in the UK today!✨ Shortlisted for the Nebula and Locus Awards, it’s a fantasy about a woman hellbent on survival…and the talkative man she accidentally binds to her shadow.* *She was trying to extort him, one thing led to another.
- Reposted by P. Kanngiesser/P. K. Hoffmann(3/3) @jamesbowes01.bsky.social analysis, on which the Times article is based, explains the numbers and why the government's "earned settlement" proposals are a disaster economically as well as morally. [end] ukandeu.ac.uk/the-coming-c...
- Reposted by P. Kanngiesser/P. K. HoffmannGreta Thunberg came to stay – and my kid may have inadvertently helped her get arrested | Arwa Mahdawi
- Reposted by P. Kanngiesser/P. K. HoffmannAnd we're live, Lecture A1 is online. Introduction to Bayesian workflow, generative models, estimands, estimators, estimates, error checking, beginnings of probability theory and Bayesian updating. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztbY...
- I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students. I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
- Reposted by P. Kanngiesser/P. K. HoffmannSo I'm gonna ask something from my USian folks here to consider because yes, we know the US empire is the worst in history. But also; everything in that Wikipedia header is on point. Maduro is all of that *and* a US coup is the worst fucking thing that could happen to Venezuelan people. 1/2
- Reposted by P. Kanngiesser/P. K. HoffmannThis report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
- Reposted by P. Kanngiesser/P. K. HoffmannChanced across Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny. Just in case anyone needs a refresher course on his guide to resistance.
- Reposted by P. Kanngiesser/P. K. HoffmannMy university, Kyiv School of Economics, is hiring postdocs & professors of all levels! Join the best economics department in Ukraine, with excellent colleagues, modern campus and make an impact teaching the new generation of Ukrainians! Link: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.... #EconSky #econjobmarket
- Reposted by P. Kanngiesser/P. K. HoffmannNow published… We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research - Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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- Reposted by P. Kanngiesser/P. K. HoffmannIn a world where people can offload their cognitive labor to AI systems on a large scale, critical reading, writing and thinking skills are more important, not less.
- Reposted by P. Kanngiesser/P. K. HoffmannWhen we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
- Reposted by P. Kanngiesser/P. K. HoffmannThe motivation to establish universals of cognition - the foundation of cognitive psychology- may have resulted from a desire to remove racist & sexist assumptions from previous approaches. The development of theories & methods in pursuit of cognitive universals continues to uphold scientific racism
- Reposted by P. Kanngiesser/P. K. HoffmannClosing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
- Reposted by P. Kanngiesser/P. K. HoffmannA story I found about Haiti: In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."
- Reposted by P. Kanngiesser/P. K. HoffmannSee @jamiecummins.bsky.social 's work
- Reposted by P. Kanngiesser/P. K. HoffmannDid you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)? Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
- Reposted by P. Kanngiesser/P. K. HoffmannRidiculous idea that will lead to an appalling narrowing of the kind of research that is recognised and rewarded in the UK 🤦
- Reposted by P. Kanngiesser/P. K. HoffmannThe dismantling of NCAR should be the trending story on Bluesky, not the fucking Oscars leaving ABC for YouTube.
- Reposted by P. Kanngiesser/P. K. HoffmannI wrote this, a long analysis of a single line of Shakespeare and what it’s doing. How good writing is an ethical practice. And my continuing attempts to work out what it is that I’m spotting when I look at a piece of text and go “oh that was written by AI.” open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
- Reposted by P. Kanngiesser/P. K. Hoffmann“The work was emotionally exhausting, with chat users confiding intimate details about their real-life relationships, as well as their own emotional trauma, falsely believing they were talking to an unfeeling AI chatbot.”
- Reposted by P. Kanngiesser/P. K. HoffmannOkay, as promised, here are my 25 boardgames that would make good presents for historians or the historically-inclined. - I've played them and enjoyed them - They have to have a historical theme or be related to the practice of history - They were within the first 25 I thought of...
- Reposted by P. Kanngiesser/P. K. HoffmannStealworkers
- Reposted by P. Kanngiesser/P. K. HoffmannThis new issue of #PhilTransB expands the field of cultural #evolution and shows why it matters for today’s biggest challenges. It highlights research funded by the @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social's Transformation Fund, which focused on #DEI: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...
- Reposted by P. Kanngiesser/P. K. HoffmannMy impression is that the most rapid and really brutal university cuts are now revving up. Each of the threefold tumblers of White Paper, Budget and strike ballot failure have turned and made the situation much worse. In some places the cynicism and speed is frightening. (1/2)
- So happy to see the paper out in the world! This is the first article to come out of this amazing collaborative project and gargantuan interview database on children's and adults views on animals across the world.
- What do children and adults in 33 communities think about animal minds? New collaborative research from our team of >50 collaborators show universal beliefs that while animals feel like us, our (human) thoughts are different/unique! Check it out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #mindperception
- Open access and free to read :-).
- Reposted by P. Kanngiesser/P. K. HoffmannWhat do children and adults in 33 communities think about animal minds? New collaborative research from our team of >50 collaborators show universal beliefs that while animals feel like us, our (human) thoughts are different/unique! Check it out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #mindperception
- Reposted by P. Kanngiesser/P. K. HoffmannCarpool Karaoke has gotten weird
- Reposted by P. Kanngiesser/P. K. HoffmannTwo independent studies found that AI chatbots were better at persuading voters than political ads. The most persuasive bots also lied the most. This is something that humans working in psyops have known for decades. AI is psyops at scale. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...
- Reposted by P. Kanngiesser/P. K. HoffmannWe can't really say this enough... > Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate. www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
- Reposted by P. Kanngiesser/P. K. HoffmannToday sees the publication of the Theme Issue featuring the CES Transformation Fund grant scheme. Enjoy! royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3... @durhamdcerc.bsky.social @durhamanthropology.bsky.social @cultevolfunding.bsky.social @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social
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- Reposted by P. Kanngiesser/P. K. HoffmannOn the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a partridge in a pear tree. Ate it.
- Reposted by P. Kanngiesser/P. K. HoffmannCome and do a PhD on the development of social cognition across diverse cultures! The successful candidate would be fully funded and have the opportunity to travel to Kenya for data collection. Please contact me if interested. eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
- Reposted by P. Kanngiesser/P. K. HoffmannCambridge University cosies up to Reform www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
- Reposted by P. Kanngiesser/P. K. HoffmannConvincing you to read my ~preceding~ novel, because I need the sales in order to get this one contracted. 😬 Share yours if you want!
- Convincing you to read my short story with the first sentence. Share yours if you want. (This is WATERBIRDS, which I'm still fond of.) @lightspeedmagazine.com www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/wate...
- Reposted by P. Kanngiesser/P. K. HoffmannYou ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
- Reposted by P. Kanngiesser/P. K. HoffmannFinally out into the world, the labour of many months. My long essay in the inaugural edition of the Alter Magazine on the pasts, presents, and futures of Indian science fiction. “The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction” — altermag.com/articles/the...
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- Reposted by P. Kanngiesser/P. K. HoffmannI will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
- Reposted by P. Kanngiesser/P. K. HoffmannNew post up! This one on why publication days are both lovely and strange. Please share, I'm still struggling to find my readers after shifting platforms 😬 www.patreon.com/posts/143052...
- Reposted by P. Kanngiesser/P. K. Hoffmann"Thank Heavens Reeves froze the thresholds," says the median voter in 2029 as they walk past the derelict sports centre and down the empty high street to cast their vote.
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