Why does live music hit different? Our new paper has a neural answer: EEG in a concert hall showed stronger brain-rhythm phase locking during live vs. recorded Bach violin — and that predicts higher pleasure & engagement. 1/2

Check out our new tool where you can pick an issue and see where I stand, in my own words. Made by volunteers❤️ ➡️ tools4abdul.com ⬅️

Very much enjoying this talk -- it provides a very nice counter-narrative. Doomerism about the younger generations is so depressing and not really justified given many tangible positive developments.

Candice Odgers@candiceodgers.bsky.social · last mo.

Scary stories about teens sell. The data tells a different story. After decades studying adolescent mental health, here's what I found: This isn't an anxious generation. It's a resilient one. Let's start treating them that way. go.ted.com/candiceodgers

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 3 YEAR POSTDOC in #SciComm research at @zpid.bsky.social! @kaisassenberg.bsky.social and me are searching for a postdoc with background in psychology or communication science. Own research ideas are welcome! Focus should be on societies' preparation for future pandemics. Please share!

a bad thing is running a phd program with brilliant international students who must reckon with a volatile xenophobic saboteur government in fresh ways every day, no thank you, 0/10

New paper out now 🥳 When psychologists discuss generalisability, they often refer to vague notions of representativeness. We provide an accessible intro to the total survey error framework as a tool to reason about this more rigorously. w @taymalsalti.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci >

Catastrophic for science.

AILA@aila.org · 3w ago

DHS has published its Final Rule to eliminate "duration of status" for F, J & I nonimmigrants. One of the most significant changes to international student, exchange visitor & foreign media programs in decades, it will be costly, cause chaos, and cut legal immigration.

👇🎯 Once again, this is an existential crisis for American universities, & our presidents & chancellors are completely absent from the public square in speaking out against it & informing voters & students & parents of the magnitude of the threat. A total leadership failure. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Matthew Kirschenbaum@mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 3w ago

As with so many things, it is critical to realize this is not bumbling or ineptitude or not thinking through policy implications. On the contrary: making it impossible for foreign students to do the doctorate here is THE WHOLE POINT. It’s about starving higher ed under the guise of America first.

Good morning. Today is the LAST DAY to comment on the proposed OMB rule that will, honestly, destroy science in the US. And it will do FAR MORE THAN THAT. www.theverge.com/science/9576...

The war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it

‘Everyone will be affected, not just scientists. Every community in the country.’

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What have you read? What will you read next? Why? In a new paper in @pnasnexus.org, led by the brilliant @gongxuanjun.bsky.social, we show that people forage for books using the same mechanisms they forage for food. What will you read next? Start with this 🧵

Xuanjun (Jason) Gong@gongxuanjun.bsky.social · last mo.

📚 New paper out in PNAS Nexus! How do we choose what to read next? Turns out picking your next book works a lot like how humans forage for food. And it is driven by your curiosity. We analyzed ~2 million real reading choices to find out doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgag226

Russell Vought is the director of the Office of Management & Budget. He is promulgating a new rule to install political control over ALL federal grant-making. Forget the experts. Russ is the decider-in-chief now. Write your members of Congress today. And share this. actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...

Oppose OMB Proposal to Put ALL Federal Government Funding Decisions in the Hands of Political Appointees

On May 29, 2026, the Office of Management and Budget issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), OMB-2026-0034, Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance. The scope of this proposed regulation is...

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Hi #ica26, interested in computational approaches and media use & effects? This is for you: 📢 CfP CCR Special Issue: From normalization to next frontiers: Media use & effects in the computational era. 🗓Abstracts due: Oct 16 journal.computationalcommunication.org/announcement... @icacm.bsky.social

My team, Minsu Park and I just launched 12points.science. It’s a citizen science platform and app where you can rate, rank, and comment on Eurovision entries with your friends. There is a deeper research goal behind the glitter 🎤🧪 #Eurovision #OpenData

A fun challenge to lead this project throughout my PhD! So grateful to my colleagues for making this happen 🚀

Hugo Spiers@hugospiers.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New preprint! Prefrontal brain-to-brain synchrony during human group hunting: Evidence from fNIRS hyperscanning Heroic work from @emre-yavuz-21.bsky.social and team fNIRS & minecraft combined to reveal PFC synchrony during human group hunting www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

This is how many folks treat Disney Studies—the literal Mickey Mouse degrees—right now. Popular media is one of the most powerful and influential forces on the planet, yet it is so often viewed as unimportant. You can't understand how the world works unless you understand how Mickey Mouse works.

Justin Lewis@whenisbirths.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Thinking of that period as far back as the 1980s when media studies courses were routinely dismissed as ‘Mickey Mouse degrees’. Particularly and specifically by media outlets, curiously enough.

"the colleges that dominate the headlines are not the colleges that most Americans attend their core mission: to serve students from all backgrounds, at a price families can actually afford, prepare graduates for real careers and meaningful lives." www.geneseo.edu/enrollment-m...

The College Affordability Crisis is Real, but the Media is Looking at the Wrong Schools

Sturges Hall (Photo by Keith Walters ’11) Opinion By Costas Solomou, Vice President, Enrollment Management Published by the Office of Enrollment Management When Yale University released its Committee ...

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BREAKING: For the 11th time, Republicans have blocked Democrats from paying TSA. Republicans have been given ELEVEN chances to send TSA agents their paychecks, but they refuse.

Hey y'all! Very pleased to announce that we'll be hosting Communication Science Futures again in East Lansing later this year. The conference in 2024 was a blast, and we're looking forward to running it back! Keynote speaker: James Pennebaker Submission deadline: June 5th. → commscifutures.com

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Communication Science Futures is a conference aimed at addressing pressing issues and opportunities in the interdisciplinary, social...

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🚨 New Preprint Alert 🚨 Communication science has no shortage of data. But what do we do with all of it? Experience sampling, sensors, digital trace, location aware observations are growing in popularity and scale.

1/ 🧵PROCESS Model 4 is the wrong tool to test mediation in an experiment. The c’ path turns prediction into description and prevents falsification. New preprint with @chriscarpenter.bsky.social and @beccafraz.bsky.social at osf.io/preprints/ps... explains why.

Columbia student detained today is a day-in-the-life influencer with 100K followers. Her stories right now go from her studying for a Genetics exam in a nicely edited "ten hour study with me at Columbia" video, to a photo of her knees with the caption "dhs illegally arrested me please help"

New preprint with @psmaldino.bsky.social on the evolution of similarity-biased learning: osf.io/preprints/so... This mathematical treatment both simplifies and extends our previous simulation treatment of the subject: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Excited to share our latest work in Acta Psychologica (with @mattgrizz.bsky.social and Emily Moyer-Guse) on the influence of character depth on affective disposition processes (ADT) across five unfolding acts of a story (pre-registered). Results show... (1/2) authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

I'm a Nordic model social democrat because well it's proven to work in several countries with decades of evidence. Maybe we should tax the rich and provide services. Just an idea.

John Collins@logicallyjc.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This one hits hard.

Anyone currently involved in federal immigration enforcement, every officer, every bureaucrat, every lawyer, every judge, is a member of the most evil group of people this country has seen since Reconstruction. Darkness personified, every one. Doing this to children is beyond depraved.

Mike Hixenbaugh@mikehixenbaugh.com · 6mo ago

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

Depressed? Anxious? Lonely? What if mental health doesn’t just result from media use, but shapes how we choose media? In a new preprint, Valerie Klein, @gongxuanjun.bsky.social @aeden.bsky.social and I and I test this using a computational decision-making model: doi.org/10.21203/rs.... 🧵Thread

honestly respect for the ad that’s just like “pokemon are cool.” they are cool

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

The worse content makes us feel, the more likely we are to keep consuming it. Our brains prioritize negative and exciting content, especially when we’re in a bad mood. Curiosity offers a way out by nudging us toward new, more rewarding, choices. lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu/rage-bait-cu...

Why Rage Bait Works and How Curiosity Can Help Us Stop Doomscrolling

To provoke outrage is the point of rage bait. Research in communication is starting to explain how rage bait hacks the way our brains decide what we choose to read, watch and even click and swipe onli...

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