My paper with Ted Avtgis on identifying school opinion leaders for peer-based interventions has just been published in Communication Research Reports. We offer a 3-item measure for identifying adolescent student leaders. Free copies: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/QEXBF...

Identifying school superdiffusers: preliminary evidence for the validity of the adolescent superdiffuser measures (ASM)

We propose that the superdiffuser model offers a good structure for identifying students who are connected, persuasive, and a maven on school topics to promote school-based interventions. We conduc...

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What, an Anthropic researcher states (without evidence) that there is a 10% chance that AI will cause human extinction? Incredible, we have never before heard such a claim!

Deeply disturbing. I generally support posting datasets but researchers need to do better about anonymity. Some of these cases would warrant an IRB investigation.

Institute for Replication@i4replication.bsky.social · last wk.

1/ What is the prevalence of personally identifiable information (PII) in author-collected data publicly shared in the social sciences? We audited 327 replication packages from 11 leading journals in economics, political science, and psychology Answer: surprisingly high 🧵

It’s really that simple

Jonathan Jarry@jonathanjarry.bsky.social · 2w ago

Do not fuck your students. There is a power imbalance. You have great influence on their future careers and they have little power over you, especially since universities fold themselves into pretzels defending their faculty. Do not fuck your students.

When I was volunteering at the COVID19 vaccine POD in 2021, people would say over and over again that they were getting vaccinated for the people they love. Last year, only 17.5% of American adults got the COVID19 vaccine. Please get one for the people you love. 💕

Amazon's own balance sheet presents the most compelling evidence that we are stuck in the Enshittocene, the era in which everything is turning into a pile of shit, because the worst ideas of the worst people now make the most money. 1/

If you ever needed the encouragement to keep weathering the shit storm, here it is www.jezebel.com/stay-alive-f...

Seriously y'all can we just quit with the robot-writing? As a journal editor, you're taking *so much of the joy* out of reading human science. You've smoothed it out into a series of banal and often inaccurate claims. So rarely do I read a paper with AI content that is very good, in any event. =/

This morning, the Coldstream Guards at Buckingham Palace performed a tribute to Dolly Parton. The last time I remember the guards at the palace honoring the memory of an American entertainer was when they paid tribute to Aretha Franklin after she passed away.

Analyzing 1.7 million social media posts, a series of controlled experiments, and a large global survey covering 40 countries (total N = 49,222), we find that extreme opinions are overrepresented on social media by 6-22% compared to their true prevalence in our samples. osf.io/preprints/ps...

BRILLIANT words

Natalie Bennett@nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 3w ago

Powerful and important letter about artificial so-called intelligence from Sheila Hayman from Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, in the FT today

Send this to a young adult who looks at their phone while walking on campus.

Increasingly convinced that the enduring popularity of books is that they're the one medium left that you buy and then own forever; can loan out, pass on, or sell; and which never become obsolete.

Reminder: U.S. public universities are absolute gems.

Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 4w ago

Requisite Tony Judt quote about the single greatest institutional achievement in 250 years of the Republic:

No need to keep exploring, I have found the floor of the uncanny valley

Cats popping up on camera core: 🔊#AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil...

there is no such thing as "age verification." All "age verification" is actually "identity verification." You can coat it in glitter and "privacy-preserving" wrapping paper. But in the end, mandating age verification means mandating surveillance be built into software and hardware. Period.

New Blog post: Which Data Repository Should you Use? In light of OSF closing down, I compare Zenodo, Dataverse, ResearchBox, PsychArchive, and local repositories on six important dimensions. If you want to know which to pick: It depends! daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/08/whic...

Which Data Repository Should You Use?

The Center for Open Science has announced that from November 16, 2026, no new projects can be created on the Open Science Framework. After F...

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For those looking for alternatives to OSF, I recommend two resources comparing features of other Generalist Repositories. Resources are from GREI, an NIH funded initiative. Comparison tool to help you pick which one you like best: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Decision tree:  doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Center for Open Science@cos.io · last mo.

OSF will continue to support study planning and preregistration, as well as community-run preprint services. Our overview explains what's changing, what will continue, key dates, & where to find detailed guidance. We've also shared why these changes are necessary. (🧵2/2)

"In the living room the voice-clock sang, Tick-tock, seven o’clock, time to get up, time to get up, seven o’clock! As if it were afraid that nobody would... ...Today is August 4, 2026, the city of Allendale, California.” Yeah, so happy "There Will Come Soft Rains" day?

Free prints of our new paper that offers a typology of media literacy interventions and shows evidence for it from a re-analysis of our previous meta-analysis. #medialiteracy #mediaeffects www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RCWRP...

A media effects typology of media literacy interventions

Central to media literacy education efforts is countering harmful media effects, and such media effects are of various types. We propose a typology of media literacy interventions based on which ki...

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Be careful with "Frankensteining" your arguments together. Citations aren't a practice in name-dropping but rather, they're a careful curation of literature that drives readers to a logically derived central thesis. If the paper cites without integrating across claims and findings, they're scary.

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Kristin Scott Thomas: Let's Not Worry About That

Alt: Kristin Scott Thomas: Let's Not Worry About That

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Ann Leckie@annleckie.com · 2mo ago

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

I'm absolutely thrilled to get back to my alma mater, Michigan State University (+ Communication Arts and Sciences, for the Communication Science Future. The draft schedule is out, and it's making me feel good about progress in our field. Read more: commscifutures.com/schedule/

Conference Schedule | Communication Science Futures

Schedule and agenda for Communication Science Futures

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Well here's a crisis we can almost all do something about, so that's a silver lining

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"On Monday, the Red Cross declared a national blood crisis for the second time ever in its history."

🚨 Make that the last WEEK to submit extended abstracts for our (w Mora Matassi + @trinesy.bsky.social) special issue on mobile disconnection in @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social (due 31 July). CfP below: journals.sagepub.com/page/mmc/mob...

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Morgan Quinn Ross@mqrmobile.bsky.social · 2mo ago

⚠️ It's the last month to submit extended abstracts for our (w Mora Matassi + @trinesy.bsky.social) special issue on mobile disconnection in @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social (due 31 July). CfP below: journals.sagepub.com/page/mmc/mob...

My lab @ UPenn is hiring a postdoc to start in early 2027. I'm looking for someone with expertise in social identities, computational methods, and political communication: www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...

Call for applications: Postdoctoral researcher in social identity, politics, and computational methods

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🚨NEW SUBMISSION TYPE! 🚨 Very recently, we've been asked by more and more authors about the types of articles we accept. We've mostly asked Authors to submit completed studies rooted in some finished product: some finalized analysis that contributes to the published scholarly record.