We know that learning is an emotional process. This slide was a real hit in my methods class (26 students enrolled, 22 of them women). It sparked a bit of an upheaval, to the extent that it took me a while to calm them down. I’d bet good money they’ll remember what moderation is for years to come😀

I had excruciating pain during my pregnancy and all I could take was paracetamol. Trump's words are going to cause so much suffering on so many women. “Pain relief for pregnant women is woefully lacking, [it] is a a much safer pain relief option during pregnancy than basically any other alternative”

Oops. Bowing to bullies is not a good idea after all. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/b...

A day may come when I will get a manuscript back from a coauthor without them having had to correct my "in" that should be an "on"... but it is not this day 😅. I could be wrong but I think this is a very specific Spanish-native speaker problem?

If experienced professors have some advice, I'd love to learn a trick or two to avoid preparation for teaching a new course eating up all your time (and your soul 😅).

On Prolific, "we estimate that about 34% of online study participants use LLMs to answer open-ended questions atleast some of the time..." Seems like a very timely paper for behavioural scientists using online samples: osf.io/preprints/so... ; We really need more papers on this issue

The bad part: I massively sprayed my (white) shirt with olive oil on the first day of class, two hours before teaching. The good part: it's sunny so I am sunbathing on a bench, hoping my soaked, hand-washed shirt dries on time for my class 😬

Pub alert ! 🚨 In times of crisis for journalism, satirical news offer an alternative way for people to stay informed. But how effective are they? Does humor enhance or hinder information processing? We tested it in the lab, and got good news for satirical news :) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

My first visit at ZeMKI is coming to an end. What an awesome couple of weeks, meeting new colleagues, presenting my research and establishing some collaborations I am really looking forward to. Special thanks to @cbpuschmann.bsky.social and to his team at DCID lab for their warm welcome.

I just checked my class list for the first time: out of 26 students, only 4 are men 😯. This is a 5th-year course in the Political Science and International Relations BA. The gender gap at the university is real!

They attribute it to the arrival of AI. Uh-oh.

Seen on another social media platform

I try not to drink IPAs too often because I fear losing that awesome, powerful moment when the bitterness of the first sip brings me back to grad school, to summer, to the American Midwest. I wish memories were not so easy to overwrite.

Currently recovering from abdominal surgery and GIRL, do I have respect for all those moms who have to do this while also having to keep a newborn alive. I barely can take care of myself!

Scholar, journalist, policy maker, NGO working on digital technologies and democracy topics? Check out this exciting Fellowship program at the @ddc-sdu.bsky.social. Flexible conditions, inspiring environment, great colleagues. 🗓️ DL: September 15 (check instructions ⬇️) www.sdu.dk/en/forskning...

The beautifulest feeling: hypotheses (in plural!) confirmed. So, so excited by the current project, can't wait to share the preprint when it's ready. This might be my favorite project yet.

Hear my out: what if Musk was all this time a hero in disguise who pretended to be the biggest piece of shit in the universe just to be able to get close to Trump, and is now planning on saving American democracy by destroying him? Wouldn't that be nice.

if the wheels had come off this thing any faster it'd be a Cybertruck

!!!

Climate reporters can experience moral injury when the government and news outlets don't take the issue seriously. This is according to psychiatry professor Dr Anthony Feinstein who shared initial findings at our event on climate reporting and mental health. Event and summary: buff.ly/YvyeDht

The last few days I have been finding myself increasingly annoyed with Bluesky's feed. Might be a function of who I follow, but it feels like academic bsky is 90% the US. And, admittedly, there are many reasons right now to be posting about all the awful stuff that is going on there, but (1/)

It pains me to say this, but if you are not a US citizen, you should not attend scientific conferences in the US, visit US institutions, or otherwise travel to our country. Right now it's not worth the risk. Hopefully that will change. If it doesn't, science in the US is sunk anyway.

OMG who invented daycare and how does one survive the first weeks of it. (writing this from bed and with a fever)

“I think we desperately need to take some of the heat out of this debate,” @peteetchells.bsky.social says. “And this paper, for me, doesn’t do that. It has the potential to go the other way.” www.science.org/content/arti...

As a student, a recurrent d nightmare I used to have was forgetting about an exam I had to take. As an instructor, last night I dreamt that I forgot about an exam I had to give. 🫠

Why can't I treat "news" as a plural noun instead of a singular one? Why?

I congratulate @icahdq.bsky.social on this decision. I count myself among the scholars who would think twice about traveling to the U.S. under the current administration.

Proof this guy is full of SITH.

If the Biden economy was so strong, then how come it only took Trump a couple months to wreck it?

🚨Pub alert! Coauthored with @dieheiselberg.bsky.social, M. Skovsgaard and @bnbakker.bsky.social. We ran an experiment to test a novel affective storytelling technique, the BAS (🦇) theoretically derived for news in streaming environments. (see thread for more) www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The AI support for chatgpt is hilariously bad. How is it possible that the chatbot of the most successful commercial LLM not be able to tell you how to add VAT information to your invoice.

One is made a national story every single week and the other is shhhhh.....

A story with no words. Signed: my one year old.

If you didn't vote Democrat because of their (admittedly horrible) policies towards Israel/Palestine... Hope you are banging your head against a wall a couple times a day. Btw I only dare post this because I don't live in the US anymore. WILD.

'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'

In previous economic crises of my lifetime, the responsibility was so broad (e.g. the subprime and subsequent sovereign debt crises) that no one was held clearly responsible. I do wonder what will happen politically, in the US and across the world, if a new global recession has such a clear cause

Narrator: "It did not make them rich."

Until now I thought it was a hoax, but caffeine withdrawal headaches are real.

Trump is having the same effect on scientists than WWII did... but in the opposite direction.

Every actor, director, and member of the Academy be like

And this, amigos, is why the stock market is a pyramid scheme.

If the White House is insisting that there was no classified or secret information in the Signal chat, does that mean Jeffrey Goldberg can publish it all?

my god

My baby just took his first steps and I am feeling many things. This is so magical.

Israel just violated the ceasefire and massacred 400+ people in a single day, in the middle of Ramadan. Their impunity and evil has no limits. It's despicable. It's horrible beyond words.

No, the ceasefire did not collapse. Israel collapsed it, as they always planned. After two weeks of no supplies to 2 million Palestinians in Gaza, once hunger had returned, Israel unleashed its bombs once again. And so the genocide continues.

2 new #PhD positions (4 years) at @unigroningen.bsky.social in the project *The Normativity of Multimodal Arguments*, funded by NWO. #1: The Analysis of Multimodal Argumentation: www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor... #2: The Evaluation of Multimodal Arguments: www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor... Deadline: 30 April.

Amazing time at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social at the Power of Stories symposium by Katalin Bálint's StoryLab and her team (kudos to @cynthiacabanas.bsky.social). @dieheiselberg.bsky.social presented our BAS research and I got to present my diss to a film studies audience for the first time, which felt🤩.

The Trump regime will arrest you in the middle of the night because you spoke your mind. And federal agents in plain clothes who refuse to identify themselves will be the ones to do it. If you think I'm being hyperbolic, watch this clip.