Aaron Graham of Loyola University of Chicago is seeking people of color who plays online video games for a survey on their experiences of gaming and gaming communities luc.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

The truth behind sexual harassment at Blizzard by @jasonschreier.bsky.social youtu.be/tzdkrgt6uiM?...

The Truth Behind Sexual Harassment At Blizzard

YouTube video by Jason Schreier

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#Intersectionality and the #Internet: #Race, #Class, #Gender, #Sexuality, and the Digital by @safiyanoble.bsky.social, André Brock, Kishonna Gray & @ubiquity75.xyz doi.org/10.1146/annu...

Our new website is now live at www.replicationresearch.org - See what is currently under review, learn more about who we are, customize article appearance, and view lay summaries, viewership stats, etc. for each article. Read more at www.replicationresearch.org/announcement....

`Feeling like I can make the real me: How #trans and gender diverse adults use gaming #avatar to explore gender in #videogames by Clancy, Thomas, Kelly, Hu & Klettke www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Also found this 2016 Time magazine ad well

Sorting through papers, I found this 2016 document about high impact questions for online harassment research with @natematias.bsky.social as lead author. I wonder how much progress has happened since...

Experts: stupid assholes posting idiotic shit on the Internet can be a huge fucking bummer.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · yesterday

If you want to tune out and relax after a long day, you might turn to social media, online shopping or playing games on your phone. But a new study suggests that these activities might actually stress you out more.

Pro-wrestling executive Linda McMahon issued a letter today (in her role as US Secretary of Education) demanding that universities justify their existence and explain policies to the Trump administration by the end of 2026. Not sure what the endgame is, but it sure feels like a trap.

U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon Issues National Call to Action to University Presidents and Governing Boards

Today, U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon issued a national call to action to university presidents and governing boards, urging them to reaffirm higher education’s foundational commitments to ...

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Hot off the press & open access! Our study about workloads of US women faculty: Participants noted a lack of tools to efficiently monitor, address & correct workload inequities. We propose our Awareness-Rewards-Equity framework for more equitable workloads. www.advancejournal.org/article/1599...

Great timing: “…[A]nalysis revealed that clickbait tactics like exaggeration and teasing were positive predictors of daily views, whereas higher information quality (GQS) was a negative predictor. These findings demonstrate a ‘credibility paradox…‘” where platforms value clickbait over accuracy.

Marc Veldhoen@marcveld.bsky.social · 2d ago

I'm a full Professor of Immunology and fully vaccinated. I didn't get vaccinated out of obedience, but after decades of studying the immune system and evaluating all evidence. Calling that "lack of critical thinking" is not an argument. It's ideology masked as pretend intellect.

There are 7 PR people for every journalist in the US. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

I’m really glad to see raising awareness about ethical design, both for users and workers. Now let’s do video games! 🤓 👉🏼 ethicalgames.org #ethics #gamedev #ux

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Code of Ethics for the Game Industry (Note: this code of ethics is still in development. Draft updated on March 10, 2026) Read the draft Join our newsletter Check out our 1st Ethical Games Conference!...

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2d ago

When Uber Eats and DoorDash hid the tip button, delivery workers paid the price. Tips fell by 79%. In January, we changed that. Since then, more than $104 million has gone back into the pockets of the delivery workers who keep New York City fed.

@ahbailey.bsky.social I heard you got something coming up in Journal of Experimental Psychology: General May I present you a relevant video material that had been living in my head www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iqp4...

Science Its a girl thing! -

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So any updates so far?

Retraction Watch@retractionwatch.com · 2mo ago

A paper about the effects of generative AI use on confidence in work tasks is under investigation after critics raised questions about the study design, data analysis and ethics approval for the research.

New Jingle assessment: we show that the "Perspective Taking Protocol" has very poor reliability and near-zero convergent validity with other nominal measures of emotional and spatial perspective taking, empathy, and theory of mind. w/ @malte.the100.ci

PsyArXivBot@psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 5d ago

The RFT Perspective Taking Protocol has very poor reliability and convergent validity with other measures of perspective taking, empathy, and theory of mind: A jingle assessment: https://osf.io/jb6c4

The first official data on the effectiveness of Australia's social media ban is out. Nothing unexpected, but it's worth reading. www.esafety.gov.au/research/soc...

GTFO: Get the F&#% Out A 2015 documentary about sexism in videogames www.youtube.com/watch?v=57iC...

GTFO: Get the F&#% Out - Trailer - Stockholm International Film Festival 2015

YouTube video by Stockholm International Film Festival

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My boiling hot take on this is that, if tech companies are going to fund this kind of research (looking at Schmidt too), then the money needs to be given *no strings* to an independent arm's length research body, pooled with other funding, and treated as a donation not as direct funding.

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 5d ago

Anthropic AI research fund offers $5m - $30m for social science research on themes of AI impact on workers; transition initiatives; income support; building worker stakes; and wider evidence on public investments. Total fund of $200m available www.anthropic.com/news/economi...

hello everyone, I made this helpful meme to explain how to read scientific papers

The Rise of Esportswashing: Soft Power at Play in the Digital Sports World by Egil Rogstad journals.humankinetics.com/view/journal...

At only 14, doctors diagnosed Anna Mockel with anorexia. She thought they were overreacting with the diagnosis because content on social media normalizing eating disorders flooded her feed. Have you experienced content like this on social media? Share your story with us.

When people seek guidance from science, they expect it to work more than once. I have TWO new articles on commercial forces & proprietary models that make science less reliable, with pointers to communities and ideas that might help. This post offers a summary: citizensandtech.org/2026/07/comm...

New Studies: How Commercial Forces Make Science Less Reliable

Computational social science has been distorted by commercial forces, and AI is making it worse.

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Silencing or strengthening? Ostracism & far-right radicalization of public figures. A mixed-method case study of a German civil rights activist by Katja Salomo cc @crimesnewroman.bsky.social also relates to...

Conceptualizing fun as motivation to play video games by Kai Tuuri & Jukka Vahlo www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Conceptualizing fun as motivation to play video games

Although the word ’fun’ is very prevalently used to express positive experiences, researchers have been cautious about applying fun as a research conc…

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New article ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Dietrich, F., Ernst, A., Rohr, B., Scharkow, M., & Reinecke, L. (2026). Music Was My First Love: Biographic Resonance Makes Everyday Music Listening Meaningful. Communication Research, 0(0). journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Music Was My First Love: Biographic Resonance Makes Everyday Music Listening Meaningful - Felix Dietrich, Alicia Ernst, Benedikt Rohr, Michael Scharkow, Leonard Reinecke, 2026

Despite much research on eudaimonic media experiences, little is known about how and why certain content is perceived as meaningful by certain users in certain ...

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The report menu is the most reaf governance document your studio owns. Let's talk about what the gap between a code of conduct says a studio cares about and what the report menu can actually express ... because that discrepancy comes at a cost. open.substack.com/pub/rachelko...

Why can nobody can agree on what "harm" in games is?

There is a gap between what studios say is harmful and what they actually let you report.

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Monitor refresh rate impacts FPS video gamers' perceptions of display ‘smoothness’ and target acquisition performance by Toth et al. doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

Psychological Need Experiences Inside and Outside Gaming as Predictors of Adolescent Problematic Gaming and Well-being: A Longitudinal Test of the Need Density Hypothesis co-authored by @biekezaman.bsky.social, @evagrosemans.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...

Coming after defunding agencies, cutting grants, and bullying universities, the new plan for science in the 🇺🇸 is ‘interesting’ … It will reduce the role of universities and center on AI, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in a new model for science. www.whitehouse.gov/science/

Science: A New Golden Age

President Trump seeks to lay the foundations for a new Golden Age of American Innovation. The Trump administration is working to revitalize the national science enterprise, to secure U.S. leadership i...

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