Sakshi Ghai
Assistant Professor at London School of Economics
Hoping to diversify behavioral science. Interested in sample diversity, young populations & digital technology
- Reposted by Sakshi GhaiWhat better way to end 2025 than getting our paper published in Global Environmental Change 🥳💚 We studied perceptions of the feasibility of climate-relevant behavior change and how these perceptions connect to income differences and climate policy support. Let me tell you all about it🧵👇
- Reposted by Sakshi GhaiI was thrilled to have been invited by @sakshighai.bsky.social to speak to folk at LSE on Wednesday about methodological and inferential issues that have cropped up in social science attempts to study large language models!
- Reposted by Sakshi GhaiAgainst Publishing: universonline.nl/nieuws/2025/... Preprints are read, shared, and cited, yet still dismissed as incomplete until blessed by a publisher. I argue that the true measure of scholarship lies in open exchange, not in the industry’s gatekeeping of what counts as published.
- Reposted by Sakshi Ghai📢 Call for big-team science! plz RT Our stage 1 RR at @pci-regreports.bsky.social, "Assessing diversity & representativeness of BTS in psychology" will start soon! We hope to include all available BTS in this list. 👇 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Adding BTS by commenting. ⌛DDL: 2025-7-20
- Reposted by Sakshi GhaiHad a great, thought-provoking time sitting on the panel about how feminist research and metascience are aligned. Our big argument = metascience IS feminist. It’s asking fundamental questions about knowledge, power, and credibility. We just have never framed it like this explicitly #Metascience2025
- Reposted by Sakshi Ghai🎉 After 2 years of work, our #OpenScience guide for researchers in developing countries is LIVE! Check out our new preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... We map the opportunities 🌟 + barriers 🧱 facing Global South researchers. *(1/4)*
- Reposted by Sakshi GhaiGrateful to Hannah Rubin for convening this interdisciplinary group of scholars to discuss #equity in scholarly communities! @sakshighai.bsky.social
- Reposted by Sakshi Ghai“Toward a feminist metascience: Perspectives and pain points” metascience.info/programme/#1... With @sakshighai.bsky.social, @maddipow.bsky.social, @annayahprosser.bsky.social, and @crsugimoto.bsky.social, Nicki Lisa Cole, & Gowri Gopalakrishna.
- Reposted by Sakshi GhaiMost weeks I recommend to our Leeds @ukrepro.bsky.social network an "Open Research Friday Reading". Why not share it here, too? Today I shared "A Manifesto for a Globally DEI Open Science" by @sakshighai.bsky.social et al. - important read for any social scientist ☝️ www.nature.com/articles/s44...
- Reposted by Sakshi Ghai🚨🚨 I’m looking for a postdoctoral fellow to join my lab at Harvard's Psychology Department starting Fall 2025 🚨📣 Please share widely and spread the word to interested candidates! 🧵 🗓 Application review begins April 30 Apply here: rb.gy/k7q9kf (1/2)
- Reposted by Sakshi GhaiGlad to see our research cited in this @theguardian.com article! 🌍 It's crucial to keep calling out the #climate destruction driven by the wealthiest. We should remember, though, that those of us with privilege—though less—also need to change. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- Reposted by Sakshi GhaiIn the March issue Personal View: From social media to #AI: improving research on digital harms in youth 🔗https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4642(24)00332-8/fulltext
- Reposted by Sakshi GhaiGrateful for the chance to share my thoughts on responsible use of LLMs in psychology research @spspnews.bsky.social #spsp2025. Here's a summary of my presentation for those who missed it. Thanks to @ashwinia.bsky.social for organizing this panel! How should LLMs be used in psychology research? 🧵
- Reposted by Sakshi GhaiA question for the #PsySciSky hive mind - with the exception of @sakshighai.bsky.social, who I interviewed last week, can you think of Psychologists doing research with / about rural populations?
- Reposted by Sakshi Ghai#LSE #OpenResearch Working Group's 1st 2025 event "Publishing Beyond Academia" with panel @cwaiting.bsky.social @uk.theconversation.com, @jonsutton.bsky.social @psychmag.bsky.social, @michaeltaster.bsky.social @lseimpactblog.bsky.social, & me (having published with all three) - 🎥 to follow #SciComm
- Reposted by Sakshi GhaiSo excited to teach @sakshighai.bsky.social et al's beautiful new paper in my Feminist Research Methods class today. and it was published less than a week ago! An instant classic www.nature.com/articles/s44...
- Reposted by Sakshi GhaiHappy to share the product of a very enjoyable collaboration, led by Sakshi Ghai, on bridging inclusivity and open science principles and practices: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
- Reposted by Sakshi GhaiThere are twin threats to psychology: the well-known HARKing (Hypothesising After the Results are Known) and the newly coined MASKing (Making Assumptions based on Skewed Knowledge). New paper led by @sakshighai.bsky.social in @commspsychol.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...
- Reposted by Sakshi Ghai"Psychology Takes a Global View" by @sipappas.bsky.social for APA Monitor www.apa.org/monitor/2025... Have a look if you are curious about what Big Team Science has to offer! "There are a lot of experts who are really motivated to be part of these collaborations despite the difficulties.” 🎤 Me :D
- So excited to see this in print! A manifesto paving the way for responsible generalisation and co-authorship practices in open science - with an incredible team of scholars! Very much inspired by the benchmark Munafò et al. manifesto for reproducible science www.nature.com/articles/s44...
- Our all-⭐ team: @remi-theriault.com @psforscher.bsky.social @syeducation.bsky.social @asifamajid.bsky.social @lehersingh.bsky.social @hcp4715.bsky.social @flavioazevedo.bsky.social @arathy.bsky.social Dana Basnight-Brown and Yuichi Shoda
- Reposted by Sakshi GhaiYou may have heard of Questionable Research Practices and "HARKing" as threats to replicability. In a new paper led by @sakshighai.bsky.social, we argue that a similar practices -- Questionable Generalizability Practices and "MASKing" -- undermine generalizability. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
- Reposted by Sakshi GhaiWell-being trajectories of older adults look different in absence of retirement, institutionalized income & social security. For source paper, see: tinyurl.com/3u5cc5nv
- Reposted by Sakshi GhaiThis from @karenlauram.bsky.social @sakshighai.bsky.social @nballou.bsky.social @matti.vuorre.com @shuhbillskee.bsky.social ++ really hits the nail on the head for me. 👇 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
- Do we have time for slow research? Led by Dr. Samia Akhter-Khan, our team delves into three crucial questions shaping the way we approach research in LMICs.
- Beginning to conduct psychological research in lower- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is daunting. In this reflexive commentary, we raise three critical questions that researchers should ask themselves before conducting research in LMICs. @sakshighai.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...
- Reposted by Sakshi GhaiExcellent article by Akhter-Khan, @sakshighai.bsky.social and Mayston on psychology research in LMICs, uncovering truths about foreign others is not the main purpose of equitable research, www.nature.com/articles/s44...
- Reposted by Sakshi GhaiPREPRINT 📰 Exploring cross-sectional associations between social connections/internet use during COVID-19 & mental health symptoms in 12 Global South countries - using UNICEF Innocenti data! osf.io/a3gfv with @sakshighai.bsky.social, @orbenamy.bsky.social and many more 🥳
- Reposted by Sakshi GhaiAlthough this was not conceived as a piece of “developmental meta-research”, it fits with this theme because its focus is on how current research practice could better contribute to meeting the needs and priorities of people in low and middle income countries bsky.app/profile/saks...
- Do big team science studies guarantee the global generalizability of findings? At the risk of not overgeneralizing ourselves, we reanalysed one big team science study on temporal discounting. Together with peerless @psforscher.bsky.social & @hcp4715.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Do big team science studies guarantee the global generalizability of findings? At the risk of not overgeneralizing ourselves, we reanalysed one big team science study on temporal discounting. Together with peerless @psforscher.bsky.social & @hcp4715.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- We looked at one of the best studies of temporal discounting so far with over 13k participants, 61 countries, and 171 authors that claimed that there is "nothing WEIRD about intertemporal choice anomalies". www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- We find that relying solely on the diversity of countries creates an "illusion of generalizability", leading authors to overestimate the extent to which research findings can be applied globally and highlight three ways in which this is amplified – sample, researcher & methodological diversity
- Reposted by Sakshi GhaiArtificial intelligence is fueling an unprecedented boom this year in fake pornographic images and videos. It’s enabled by a rise in cheap and easy-to-use AI tools that can “undress” people in photographs or seamlessly swap a face into a pornographic video. Victims have little recourse.
- Reposted by Sakshi GhaiVery happy and proud to have worked on this with such great colleagues @nballou.bsky.social @shuhbillskee.bsky.social Thomas Hakman and Kristoffer Magnusson ⭐ The main result of this piece is a robust uplift in player mood in the first half hour of video game play. github.com/digital-well...
- Reposted by Sakshi GhaiWe will present our collaborative project #BTSCON2023 as a panel discussion: Open Science in Developing Countries: A Collection of Practical Solutions in Psychological Science
- This was my favorite read of the week! Truly resonates with the field of global mental health research...
- New paper with @ianhussey.bsky.social @taymalsalti.bsky.social @rubenarslan.bsky.social. Most measures are only used once or twice, w/o agreement on gold standards - a serious barrier to cumulative science. that leads to lots of papers without meaningful progress. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
- Reposted by Sakshi GhaiLack of contextualization affects cognitive testing, but the problem is even broader. For example, one of the most common stress inductions prompted one of our puzzled Kenyan participants to remark: "Why are we being interviewed for a job by butchers?" www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/gs-...
- Reposted by Sakshi GhaiThanks to everyone for the support (amazing way to end a long plane journey!) and for all the effort & energy that helped us get here - it always was and will be a team effort! I’m really humbled and honored to get to take on this role.
- Reposted by Sakshi GhaiBorn in 1897, Janaki Ammal was a trailblazing botanist in plant breeding, genetics & cytogenetics. She overcame gender & caste discrimination & was the first Indian woman to obtain a PhD in botany in the U.S. Ammal promoted conservation & was a pioneer of indigenous environmental approaches.
- The future of psychological science is looking ☀️! Best news ever 🥳 Congratulations to @simine.com www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
- Reposted by Sakshi GhaiSuch great news that the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman! Here is a wonderful interview with Katalin Karikó; what a life she has had. www.youtube.com/watch?v=514n...
