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Pieter Van den Heede @pietervdheede.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Question to the BlueSky game studies-crowd! What are some of the best studies you know about the psychological, emotional and cognitive engagement of players with game fictions? I'm thinking of books by @kcisbister.bsky.social , Aubrey Anable and some others, but any other key recommendations?

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 04/04/2025

So OpenAI is actively marketing ChatGPT to students during college finals season in the U.S. We've talked many (many) times before about the kinds of harm that can come from giving over too much epistemic and heuristic authority over to these systems, but additionally, there's been at least three…

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Swati Pandita @pandascholar.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Loved being in the VR space again and engaging with the audience! Another cool feature of BMS = the reacts and gestures. We hope more people check it out, altho fair warning: we totally had some cases of VR hair after wearing the headsets 😂. The consequence of too much fun, I suppose.

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Andrea L. Guzman, PhD @teachguz.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

🚨CFP Alert!🚨I'm one of the co-editors for the special issue "How Does Artificial Intelligence Change Communication?" for the Journal of Language & Social Psychology. Details in link. Please share. journals.sagepub.com/page/jls/cal... #academicsky #commsky

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Prejudice is common in modern societies. Reducing prejudice is difficult to do, particularly in a cost-effective & scalable manner. Can AI help reduce prejudice? My new working paper w @semrasevi.bsky.social, @mbosley.bsky.social & Crabtree examines this question! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Katy Coduto @katycoduto.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

✨New research: An exploratory analysis of how text network analysis can be used to analyze conversations between online-first chat partners. TLDR: Lots of positively valenced words in very little time! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/IS7YD...

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Getting to Know You: Using Text Network Analysis to Identify Key Topics and Word Choice in Initial Online Interactions

Many online spaces allow individuals to connect and get to know each other without ever meeting face-to-face. This research explored the contents of the conversations between individuals who met on...

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Jesse Fox @commfox.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

International Love Data Week is coming in February! Some of the free public events & workshops include: *Python *R *Github *Tableau (data visualization) *Free tools for qual data analysis *social media data ethics *data sovereignty #LoveData25 www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/about/cm...

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Swati Pandita @pandascholar.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I get to work with some of the coolest humans 🤓.

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Swati Pandita @pandascholar.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Finally made an account, only to have my computer roast me when trying to find a professional photo 🤭. (Where are my professional potatoes at?)

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