Really enjoyed attending the first EPSS conference in Belfast! Many thanks to the organizers for putting together such a great event 🙏🏻 @epssnet.bsky.social See you next year in København! 🇩🇰 #EPSS2026 -> #EPSS2027
Few technologies have remained as futuristic and frankly magical to me as noise cancelling headphones.
So I assume we all have that one scholar who has already published in whatever shiny new research area we're starting to get interested in? Major tortoise and the hare vibes...
I find it so silly seeing so many articles that claim X percent of ChatGPT answers are wrong. I can create a test where it gets 100 percent of the questions wrong. To me, that's an irrelevant metric. It's on users to understand what good questions are to ask of AI, what good use cases are.
Reading term papers, it occurs to me that there is a massive disconnect between everyone being worried that all student submissions are written by AI and the quality of the papers that I get to read... If students are using AI, I wish they would use it better...
So we're all in agreement that copy-editing is dead, right?
It’s a profound tragedy of our time how many people are apparently angry all the time.
I just learned that pigeons can be trained to discriminate between good and bad children's paintings by pecking at the good ones. Brutal.
I keep hearings that there is a lack of blood donors. Would it be unethical for blood donation organizations to advertise by saying that donating blood reduces PFAS levels in the blood? Seems more effective than advertising by appealing to citizenship.
It occurs to me that an e-scooter is the vehicle equivalent of a vape in terms of sex appeal.
Is there any other service like academic publishing where the brand name is all that matters and the quality of the service is absolutely irrelevant?
How is it possible that despite having ungodly amounts of money, no major journal publisher has been able to develop a decent eproofing platform?
I have a really interesting political science puzzle, to which I don't have a good answer at all. Can somebody please set up the Journal "Political Science Puzzles", so I can get that published?
We gotta stop saying "this lack of political professionalism shouldn't happen in times of the AfD". It's setting an impossible standard for the messiness of real world politics and it strengthens the bizarre reading that somehow anything less than perfect is a validation of the AfD
Arrows are the most self-explanatory symbols that have no basis in the physical world
The contemporary political right makes a much greater effort to develop a coherent theory for their project, something that was historically true for the left.
Do we have a sense that popular TV shows have become more conservative in the last couple of years? No, right? Isn't there a surprising disconnect between culture and society/politics at the present moment? And should we expect TV to become more conservative now?
Why aren’t there any successful parties of (new) ethnic minorities in Europe? Shouldn’t there be a market?
Never stops being a joy to see your delivery truck on a map in real time. What a delightful and pointless feature.
Companies printing their Facebook/Instagram/etc. links (along with the logos) on their products is such a huge marketing success for social media companies. I get my bread in a bag with a Facebook logo on it. Everybody sees the logo, even though nobody needs it or wants it.
I don't understand why so many parties go for a dual leadership. Doesn't that create a whole lot of unnecessary problems?
The notion that science is populated by big egos is probably never more evident than when a reviewer says, you forgot to cite X, Y, Z papers (all by the same author)
The other day I've heard e-mail being compared to a slot machine. I don't know whether that's a common metaphor but man does it ring true. Both the unpredictability of when something might come in and whether it's a winner or not. I suppose people would say the same about social media.
Hypothesis. Rearranging your furniture will generate a boost in creativity. Seeing things from a different perspective.
As long as we are a digital society (not a given), emojis will continue to grow in meaning (good pun but not intended). Super easy language learning for young people. The technical limitation right now is finding the correct one on the keyboard.
Does ChatGPT try to automatically identify which of their users provide the most lucrative input? Should be possible to quantify.
So, help me out here. Quantum physics, you’re just telling me that reality has pixels, right?