Connor Leshner
@leshner.bsky.social
PhD candidate. #socialpsyc. Digital identity. Student at Trent University, and explicitly not endorsed by it. Pfp by Yan nucleose.bsky.social. he/him
Complete aside, but I want to hit the muse mascot with a crowbar
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21h ago“.. Each hour, Muse updates its dossiers on you and the people you’ve mentioned in chats, messages, and emails that Muse has read. .. Even people who don’t use Muse are subject to this mapping process by other people’s Muse agents.” @time.com $META time.com/article/2026...
"arXiv now limits submitters to up to 2 submissions per calendar month, with a limit of 3 total active submissions at any given time [...] to equitably distribute our volunteer moderators’ time across arXiv authors, and protect the arXiv corpus from a sharp increase in inappropriate submissions."
Fair Moderation, Equitable Access, and AI: arXiv’s Updated Rate Limit Policy
arXiv, and the scientific community at large, are facing a watershed moment. Scholarly publishing is currently changing at a rapid pace, and we are seeing a…
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Submitting to the journal that I got the waifu paper into has been a regular humiliation ritual because, with every submission, it has been bounced back by the editorial assistant for a requirement that did not exist for the previous submission.
Waifu paper 2 minor revisions!!! At a Q1 social psych journal no less.
I wonder if I could have actually gotten that cosplay speed-dating paper published if my masters degree wasn’t so traumatic.
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.
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”
I miss the girl who used to bring a barn owl service animal every week to campus.
It’s becoming upsetting how few young people know how to email things to themselves.
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.
Some academics really need to work on their paper titling
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.
Does anyone have a good primer on uses and gratification theory?
I think people should really embrace line-by-line animations in their slides. I get absolutely annihilated by walls of text in presentations.
🚨🚨 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...
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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Who is teaching predatory journal emailers English. “Heartily good day to you” bro do you want me to publish in the Canterbury Tales.
Getting real sick of AI music getting recommended to me.
wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖
Helen Branswell 🇨🇦@helenbranswell.bsky.social · 5mo agoI find this unsettling: A new study in #Lancet shows that the number of faux citations in scientific articles is on the rise, and #AI is likely to blame. @aniloza.bsky.social reports. www.statnews.com/2026/05/07/l...
This is unhealthy, irresponsible, and is going to get people stalked if not killed
New AI tool lets heartbroken users ‘recreate’ their exes and people are divided - Dexerto
An AI agent that can ‘recreate’ people’s exes by using their texts and social media is sparking a fierce debate in China.
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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.
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.
