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Chris Carpenter @chriscarpenter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I got caught with an unauthorized toaster oven in my undergrad dorm. The punishment was writing an essay about fire safety.

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Each Russian aggression is horrifying. Each casualty one too many. As a scholar, this cowardly act against the Academy of Science is impactful. 🇺🇦 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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Russian strike on Kyiv’s science academy kills at least one in latest daytime attack

Three others wounded as jet-powered drones increasingly target Ukraine’s capital, with medical centre also hit

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear:

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

One of the things that shocked me most in my study of campus sexual violence is that so many of the cases were just like this. The evidence was full of confessions. The perpetrators didn’t deny their violence. They just argued they should be allowed to do it and the school agreed.

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Chris Carpenter @chriscarpenter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Can we collectively agree not to contribute to or edit volumes for publishers who outsource their copyediting? Especially if an AI is involved?

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Richard Huskey @richardhuskey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

One of our current solutions (and we’re not the only lab to be doing this) is to run a parallel in-person data collection with the ambition of having human ground-truth data against which we can train a classifier. With rapid advances in LLMs, I’m unsure how successful we’ll be in this arms race

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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 19/09/2026

Of all the ways I imagined Google Scholar going up in flames, being made inaccessible from university IP addresses due to AI-driven scraping wasn't at the top of my list.

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Listen I'm Scary OK @katiemcvay.cryptoanarchy.network · 18/09/2026

shoutout to my husband who still chose to be in love with me even after he watched me yell at an entire CVS, "Don't use self-checkout! It's trying to steal your job!"

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Richard Huskey @richardhuskey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Latest university guidance on phishing emails

A fictitious page from the real book Catch-22. Test says:

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that an email from a suspicious account was not to be opened because it might be a phishing attack. But phishing attacks were often sent from legitimate accounts that had been compromised, so an email from a legitimate account could not be opened either, because it might be a phishing attack. Faculty would be crazy to open emails from suspicious accounts and sane if they didn’t, but if they were sane, they would have to avoid suspicious emails. If they avoided them, they might miss a legitimate message; but if they opened them, they might be phished. And if they received an email from someone they knew, they couldn’t safely open that either, because their account might have been compromised.

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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I do not want a Briefing or a summary Please just go away - a Haiku about AI

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Chris Carpenter @chriscarpenter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My paper with Ted Avtgis on identifying school opinion leaders for peer-based interventions has just been published in Communication Research Reports. We offer a 3-item measure for identifying adolescent student leaders. Free copies: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/QEXBF...

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Identifying school superdiffusers: preliminary evidence for the validity of the adolescent superdiffuser measures (ASM)

We propose that the superdiffuser model offers a good structure for identifying students who are connected, persuasive, and a maven on school topics to promote school-based interventions. We conduc...

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

What, an Anthropic researcher states (without evidence) that there is a 10% chance that AI will cause human extinction? Incredible, we have never before heard such a claim!

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Chris Carpenter @chriscarpenter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Deeply disturbing. I generally support posting datasets but researchers need to do better about anonymity. Some of these cases would warrant an IRB investigation.

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Shannon McGregor, PhD @shannimcg.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It’s really that simple

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

When I was volunteering at the COVID19 vaccine POD in 2021, people would say over and over again that they were getting vaccinated for the people they love. Last year, only 17.5% of American adults got the COVID19 vaccine. Please get one for the people you love. 💕

Photo of a brunette with a braid in her hair, standing in front of a sign that says Vaccinated with a count of 30,000.

She is wearing glasses, a Sun Studio t-shirt, and an orange high vis vest.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026

Amazon's own balance sheet presents the most compelling evidence that we are stuck in the Enshittocene, the era in which everything is turning into a pile of shit, because the worst ideas of the worst people now make the most money. 1/

Hieronymus Bosch's 'The Conjuror,' a painting depicting a medieval con artist playing a shell game for an audience of astonished peasant rubes. The image has been altered: the conman now has Jeff Bezos's grinning head, and the mouths of all the peasants have been replaced with inverted Amazon 'Smile' logos, so they are now frowning.

Image:
Steve Jurvestson (modified)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jeff_Bezos%27_iconic_laugh_crop.jpg

CC BY 2.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

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Jezebel @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

If you ever needed the encouragement to keep weathering the shit storm, here it is www.jezebel.com/stay-alive-f...

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Nick Bowman (包尼克) he/him/his @bowmanspartan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Seriously y'all can we just quit with the robot-writing? As a journal editor, you're taking *so much of the joy* out of reading human science. You've smoothed it out into a series of banal and often inaccurate claims. So rarely do I read a paper with AI content that is very good, in any event. =/

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This morning, the Coldstream Guards at Buckingham Palace performed a tribute to Dolly Parton. The last time I remember the guards at the palace honoring the memory of an American entertainer was when they paid tribute to Aretha Franklin after she passed away.

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Analyzing 1.7 million social media posts, a series of controlled experiments, and a large global survey covering 40 countries (total N = 49,222), we find that extreme opinions are overrepresented on social media by 6-22% compared to their true prevalence in our samples. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Alec MacKinnon @alecmackinnon.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

BRILLIANT words

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 19/08/2026

Send this to a young adult who looks at their phone while walking on campus.

A girl reading texts on her phone while walking through her college campus. All around her people are running because they are being attacked by squirrels. She doesn’t notice. Her friend is saying, reunion tonight! Bring snacks! O.m.g. Tiffany is freaking out for some reason. A squirrel shouts, “Fly, my brothers! To the dining hall!” The text reads: Oh no! You were on your phone and unprepared for the squirrel uprising! Put your phone away! Distracted walking sends people to the ER every year.

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Increasingly convinced that the enduring popularity of books is that they're the one medium left that you buy and then own forever; can loan out, pass on, or sell; and which never become obsolete.

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Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Reminder: U.S. public universities are absolute gems.

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Chris Carpenter @chriscarpenter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

No need to keep exploring, I have found the floor of the uncanny valley

Screenshot from an AIrbnb ad featuring humans with strange cartoon faces posed together on a front step of a house

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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Cats popping up on camera core: 🔊#AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil...

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

there is no such thing as "age verification." All "age verification" is actually "identity verification." You can coat it in glitter and "privacy-preserving" wrapping paper. But in the end, mandating age verification means mandating surveillance be built into software and hardware. Period.

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

New Blog post: Which Data Repository Should you Use? In light of OSF closing down, I compare Zenodo, Dataverse, ResearchBox, PsychArchive, and local repositories on six important dimensions. If you want to know which to pick: It depends! daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/08/whic...

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Which Data Repository Should You Use?

The Center for Open Science has announced that from November 16, 2026, no new projects can be created on the Open Science Framework. After F...

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Katie Corker @katiecorker.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

For those looking for alternatives to OSF, I recommend two resources comparing features of other Generalist Repositories. Resources are from GREI, an NIH funded initiative. Comparison tool to help you pick which one you like best: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Decision tree: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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Generalist Repository Comparison Chart

The Generalist Repository Comparison Chart and FAIRsharing Collection (https://fairsharing.org/collection/GeneralRepositoryComparison) was originally an outcome of the NIH Workshop on the Role of Gene...

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Sarah Pinsker @sarahpinsker.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"In the living room the voice-clock sang, Tick-tock, seven o’clock, time to get up, time to get up, seven o’clock! As if it were afraid that nobody would... ...Today is August 4, 2026, the city of Allendale, California.” Yeah, so happy "There Will Come Soft Rains" day?

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Global Perspectives in Communication (GPC) @gpccomm.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Be careful with "Frankensteining" your arguments together. Citations aren't a practice in name-dropping but rather, they're a careful curation of literature that drives readers to a logically derived central thesis. If the paper cites without integrating across claims and findings, they're scary.

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Chris Carpenter @chriscarpenter.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

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Kristin Scott Thomas: Let's Not Worry About That

Alt: Kristin Scott Thomas: Let's Not Worry About That

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Nick Bowman (包尼克) he/him/his @bowmanspartan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I'm absolutely thrilled to get back to my alma mater, Michigan State University (+ Communication Arts and Sciences, for the Communication Science Future. The draft schedule is out, and it's making me feel good about progress in our field. Read more: commscifutures.com/schedule/

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Conference Schedule | Communication Science Futures

Schedule and agenda for Communication Science Futures

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Well here's a crisis we can almost all do something about, so that's a silver lining

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Morgan Quinn Ross @mqrmobile.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

🚨 Make that the last WEEK to submit extended abstracts for our (w Mora Matassi + @trinesy.bsky.social) special issue on mobile disconnection in @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social (due 31 July). CfP below: journals.sagepub.com/page/mmc/mob...

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Deen Freelon @dfreelon.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

My lab @ UPenn is hiring a postdoc to start in early 2027. I'm looking for someone with expertise in social identities, computational methods, and political communication: www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...

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Call for applications: Postdoctoral researcher in social identity, politics, and computational methods

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Global Perspectives in Communication (GPC) @gpccomm.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

🚨NEW SUBMISSION TYPE! 🚨 Very recently, we've been asked by more and more authors about the types of articles we accept. We've mostly asked Authors to submit completed studies rooted in some finished product: some finalized analysis that contributes to the published scholarly record.

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Journal of Media Psychology @jmp-hogrefe.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Let's talk about Vol 38 Issue 2 of JMP! Topics in this issue range from abusive and sexually explicit materials in online interactions, seeking social support, and an interesting replication about what it means to be human. econtent.hogrefe.com/toc/zmp/38/2

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Journal of Media Psychology: Vol 38, No 2

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Morgan Quinn Ross @mqrmobile.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

⚠️ It's the last month to submit extended abstracts for our (w Mora Matassi + @trinesy.bsky.social) special issue on mobile disconnection in @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social (due 31 July). CfP below: journals.sagepub.com/page/mmc/mob...

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

“Because the view of man as a species of the more general genus “information processing system" does concentrate our attention on one aspect of man, it invites us to cast all his other aspects into the darkness beyond what that view itself illuminates.” ...

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Journal of Media Psychology @jmp-hogrefe.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

"Mood Enhancement, Self-Transcendence, and Prosociality," by Danyang Zhao and Arthur A. Raney, explores media selection after inducement of elevation (vs. nontranscendent) positive affect. Findings provide insights into media preferences and helping processes. econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/10.1027/...

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J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Woah. Springer Nature retracted two 1940s papers by Max Planck for alleged copyright violation (lol), and then nixed an editorial about the retractions. www.science.org/content/arti...

science.org

Why have papers by one of history’s most famous physicists been retracted?

Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck. A bot may be to blame

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

This quote feels like a metaphor for so much.

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Chris Carpenter @chriscarpenter.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

This painting in the Wroclaw Museum reminded me of @dutch-angler.bsky.social ‘s fascinating presentation at Re_Mind Congress on exterior lighting in cities.

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Chris Carpenter @chriscarpenter.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

“We have a right to be a rough draft of ourselves.” -Olga Tokarczuk, speaking at Re_Mind Psychology Congress and Festival, Wroclaw, Poland

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I'm launching a new history deep dive podcast BEFORECAST! Starting with a series on Machiavelli. Hopefully launching in July; you can subscribe here! www.patreon.com/adapalmer/po...

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New "BEFORECAST" Launching | Ada Palmer

New "BEFORECAST" Launching by Ada Palmer on Patreon. Join Ada Palmer's community for exclusive content and updates.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

A Second Sight is officially out today! Please consider buying and sharing with your friends, students, colleagues, neighbors. Publisher’s Weekly said it will help you understand America at 250!

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A Second Sight: How the Wonder and Vision of Black Mediamakers Push America Toward Freedom

How the Wonder and Vision of Black Mediamakers Push America Toward Freedom

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