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Connor Leshner @leshner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Waifu paper 2 minor revisions!!! At a Q1 social psych journal no less.

Connor Leshner @leshner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I wonder if I could have actually gotten that cosplay speed-dating paper published if my masters degree wasn’t so traumatic.

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Connor Leshner @leshner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yay I got a talk accepted at SPSP. More details soon.

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Connor Leshner @leshner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

For the first time in I don’t know how long I batched lunches for this week, and yesterday a water main on my campus exploded so campus is closed for the week.

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Connor Leshner @leshner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Everyone should cite my waifu paper because it’s really funny to have the word waifu appear in the scientific literature. It’s also genuinely important to the future of relationships, but funny too. My supervisor today: “put me on one of those papers so I can also be one of the weird kids”

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Connor Leshner @leshner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I miss the girl who used to bring a barn owl service animal every week to campus.

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Connor Leshner @leshner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It’s becoming upsetting how few young people know how to email things to themselves.

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Connor Leshner @leshner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

What good movies came out this year

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Connor Leshner @leshner.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It’s starting to be genuinely concerning to me the number of high schoolers and undergrads who believe they are doing publishable solo research because they are using AI to write the paper.

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Connor Leshner @leshner.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Some academics really need to work on their paper titling

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Isaiah D. Colbert @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Long overdue retro review.

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Connor Leshner @leshner.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

What do you do when you know a statistic is bullshit but you can’t find a better one? I know for a fact 1/7 people on this earth aren’t using AI, but all the sources I find keep citing each other.

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Connor Leshner @leshner.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Does anyone have a good primer on uses and gratification theory?

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Connor Leshner @leshner.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I think people should really embrace line-by-line animations in their slides. I get absolutely annihilated by walls of text in presentations.

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Connor Leshner @leshner.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

🚨🚨 New Publication Alert🚨🚨 We applied the psychosocial process of self-concept theory to the creation and performance of avatars. We start from a foundation of the theory, and create a narrative that takes you through the full process. Read it free here: maestro.acm.org/trk/clickp?r...

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Creating Your Self: Understanding Avatars Through Self-Concept Theory | Interactions

This forum features game-practitioner perspectives on the interaction design process, techniques, and evaluation involved in creating playful experiences. We focus on how technology advancement, infra...

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Connor Leshner @leshner.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Don’t you hate upstairs neighbors?

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Connor Leshner @leshner.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Who is teaching predatory journal emailers English. “Heartily good day to you” bro do you want me to publish in the Canterbury Tales.

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Connor Leshner @leshner.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Getting real sick of AI music getting recommended to me.

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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

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If generative AI tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content, biased content, errors, mistakes, incorrect references, or misleading content, and that output is included in scientific works, it is the responsibility of the author(s). 2/
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We have recently clarified our penalties for this. If a submission contains incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation, this means we can't trust anything in the paper. 3/
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The penalty is a 1-year ban from arXiv followed by the requirement that subsequent arXiv submissions must first be accepted at a reputable peer-reviewed venue. 4/
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Examples of incontrovertible evidence: hallucinated references, meta-comments from the LLM ("here is a 200 word summary; would you like me to make any changes?"; "the data in this table is illustrative, fill it in with the real numbers from your experiments") end/"

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Connor Leshner @leshner.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Imagine group therapy but HARDCORE and CANCELLED

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Connor Leshner @leshner.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Is there any research on whether AI is used more for platonic or intimate relationships? My mind says intimate are more common but I literally don’t know.

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Connor Leshner @leshner.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

A student asked me today if I’m ever upset when I’m grading homework and frankly it’s rare I’m ever not upset when I’m dealing with the vast majority of this work.

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Connor Leshner @leshner.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

So much science is moving forward because grad students are taking on peer review that senior faculty are not interested in. And a nonzero amount of this is probably scientific malpractice since grad students don’t have as much experience finding paper red flags. We live in a society.

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Myelin Achemon (Psychology VTuber) @myelinachemon.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

This Friday (3/27) at 3pm Eastern, I'm going to have @leshner.bsky.social on the channel! Connor is a SUPER cool psychologist who'll be sharing some of his work on parasocial relationships with fictional characters, and doing a Q&A with chat! Hope to see you there! www.youtube.com/live/nKPERrl...

A Youtube thumbnail for the stream. On the left is a stylized drawing of a cat in sunglasses labeled "Connor Leshner."
On the right, Myelin is pointed excitedly at the cat image. Text above their heads reads "Talk + Q&A!"

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Connor Leshner @leshner.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

My favorite part of this music video is when the backup singers sound like the screech of a banshee

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

It fascinates me that humans want this connection so much. It's SETI on planet Earth. And that there's an openness to consciousness in machines, but less so* to identifying it in most sentient, intelligent, socially complex non-human animals. *I'm talking public, not researchers in either case

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Connor Leshner @leshner.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Coming to terms with the possibility that referring to myself as a “dogshit writer” is no longer a statement of fact and instead an unfounded (mostly) expression of imposter syndrome. Signed, expected 2027 Dr. Leshner

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Connor Leshner @leshner.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Are you going to #SPSP2026? Do you like talking about #AI and the future of relationships? Do you want to have something in common with my #wife? You should come to my symposium on Thursday the 26th! Join 57 of your closest (proximally) colleagues at a series of talks that will be funducational!

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paolo @paolopalma.bsky.social · 14/04/2024

Friend has done research on this and found that hostile sexism predicted interest in sexual relationships, but disinterest in friendships with AI doi.org/10.1177/0265... #PsycSciSky #SocialPsych

Screenshot of publication title: “Technically in love: Individual differences relating to sexual and platonic relationships with robots” by Connor Leshner and Jessica Johnson

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Connor Leshner @leshner.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

As a bald man, I refuse to listen to new age sociotechnological posturing from someone who is maintaining that hairline.

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Connor Leshner @leshner.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Oh no I accidentally gave myself existentialism by playing and reading the wrong combination of video game and book, respectively.

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Connor Leshner @leshner.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12... Is it me or does this all just read like bad time travel fiction

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Live Updates: Suspect in Brown University Shooting Is Found Dead in New Hampshire

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Connor Leshner @leshner.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

I just received a review that was really really mean but had a great info in it about how to improve my paper. It’s really hard to keep going back to that review to pull the important insights when I have to read between the lines. It’s an interesting dichotomy that academia can be so (un)helpful.

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Connor Leshner @leshner.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Got a paper reject where reviewer 1 said I overlooked a chapter in a handbook I should’ve included, and when I went to get the book from my uni library, the librarian told me not a single library in the entirety of Canada has this ($200) book. Kinda betrays anonymity/definition of expertise.

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Jacek Olender @jacekolender.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Every academic conference in the US is now fucked-fucked, lol.

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Connor Leshner @leshner.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

I follow some conservatives who do polling and data analysis because I’m fascinated with how they interpret their numbers and the only thing more fascinating than their policy positions is how all the data interpretations they use to justify their positions are wrong.

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Connor Leshner @leshner.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Financial decision of “video game where the main selling point is ‘player makes decisions’ is now immutable tv show” shows how amazing the media market is at this time.

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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I spoke extensively with the Crimson reporter. She understood the strength of the evidence, and it shows. Odds ratios can be eye-glazing, but let's just say that when 2.5 million kids are studied, and it's still not possible to detect added risk from taking acetaminophen...there's no added risk.

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Criag @craigpsutton.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

The eye exam is the perfect game design. That big E is a great tutorial that teaches you the basic mechanic. But it doesn't baby you and quickly gets hard as they introduce the small and blurry enemies.

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Connor Leshner @leshner.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Why, because it’s lame and overwritten?

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

When the dust settles, and if universities have meaningfully survived, it will be worth asking how institutions usually so resistant to thoroughgoing change chose to leap with both feet into an untested technology they didn't understand and didn't know how to use.

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Connor Leshner @leshner.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Does anyone know how to use index match in excel

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