Tax the rich like we tax lottery winnings .

Algorithm setting vs. agenda setting. I hadn't seen the term before, I like it.

Is there a reference to D&D alignment in the Eurostat's LinkedIn page?!

LLMs might be destroying the world as we know it, but I can't imagine learning advance stats at this speed or at all without AI. I am complementing with "organic" sources (e.g. watching a youtube vid by the creator of brms) but the pedagogical value of a LLM for statistics is hard to overestimate.

Semester is over and I can finally spend several days in a row on research only, specifically trying to learn new analytical skills instead of just project driven analysis, and it is SO FUN. Currently playing with the brms package as an alternative to lme4. Reflection on the value of AI in next post

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Provocative idea, well argued. Regarding how we actually do trust the news when it comes to serious events...When we lost electricity for 12 h in Spain a few months ago, the most precious thing my neighbors and I were all excited for was not food but a car's radio. www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/jour...

Visa restrictions (H1B) for the US incoming if you worked on disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking or online safety 🤯 www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Rage bait Word of the Year. Rage bait is a feature of political communication. Some politicians are skilled at it. Given that Meta and Google/ YouTube have banned political ads online (in the EU), rage baiting is likely to 📈 Organic content needs to create attention. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action... (from my presentation at the IMF last week)

To make their quota, ICE is now arresting spouses of US citizens who are in the country legally and who have passed all background checks, have no criminal records and are just waiting for their green card to be issued. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

CogSci in Aarhus is hiring, open rank (assi, asso or full prof). We want somebody working on and teaching computational modelling of cognitive processes and/or social processes. Students are amazing, work/life balance very satisfactory, and colleagues are nice! international.au.dk/about/profil...

!!!! Chomsky was friends with Epstein. www.wbur.org/news/2025/11...

It is 5pm and I already submitted a tenure-track job application, an article to a prestigious journal with a painful submission process, and took care of a toddler with hand-foot-mouth for half the day. FEELING EMPOWERED 💪. [Where's my celebratory IPA?]

It is that time of the year when we should all complain about ICA's reviewer website (Abstract Central) and the fact that it was probably designed in 1997.

Question (especially for media psychologists): what measures are there for individual-level emotional traits that have been related to media use? I am aware of the MAM and the miniMAM, but these are picture based, and the BSSS, but this looks to me like tailored on teenagers specifically...

We've just published the most comprehensive study of news creators to date covering 24 countries. Authored by Nic Newman @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social @richardfletcher.bsky.social, it identifies the most mentioned in each country 📱Report buff.ly/bL6y8Hj 🧵6 findings in thread

Creators are helping to reach important audiences with journalism, often outstanding, innovative journalism. They are helping to inform people legacy media isn't reaching. We need to enable, fund, and include these people in the ecosystem of trustworthy sources.

Food for thought. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/people-centr...

‼️Tomorrow, Nikoleta Yordanova on "Just to be clear? Strategic Vagueness of the European Parliament in EU Policy Negotiations"‼️ Join us at 18.00 -- is open to everyone!! 🧐🤗

Si estás hoy en Málaga… Está tarde hablamos de información europea y más con @mavidonate.bsky.social y @agustinrivera.bsky.social en un congreso bien interesante

Sometimes misinformation is rather blunt and unsophisticated but still a genuine hoax. 100+ fake accounts pretending to be real news found on TikTok. Piece by @mantzarlis.com indicator.media/p/101-tiktok...

Schrodinger green checkmark! I think AI is not gonna take all our jobs just yet...

Our new paper is now out in SS&M! In a sample of US youth attempting weight loss, we found that those motivated to lose weight because of teasing engaged in riskier weight loss strategies and had higher BP and CRP compared to those citing other motivations authors.elsevier.com/a/1ltOu-CmV5...

So exciting to see RQ1 featured our work! Bottom line: humor in news is a powerful tool for conveying facts—especially at a time when satirical news, an alternative venue for those who don't trust mainstream media, is under unprecedented political attack

#PublicationAlert 🥰. This one has been long in the making: It started with a @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in 2023, lead to a working group at the SFI in 2024, multiple online-meetings (one from Costa Rica, Munich, Denmark, Mumbai, and the US), thought-provoking and truly interdisciplinary work.

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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!

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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

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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/)