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Thomas Schubert

@schubert.bsky.social

Social psychologist studying emotions: https://www.kamamutalab.org. Teaching at University of Oslo & European Master Global-MINDS. Dad to a rocket scientist. Born at 323 p.p.m.

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oh I have been giving such a lecture also for the last two years. I would love to compare notes and slides!

15.09.2025 10:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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EASP members open letter to EU If you wish to sign this letter, please visit https://forms.gle/cKjBERDPJDGtxxau7 (If access to the Google Form is denied, kindly try again in an incognito window or another browser). Open letter to t...

If you care about Palestine and are a social psychologist, and especially if you are or were a member of EASP, please consider signing this open letter that I wrote together with other EASP members. We will send it to the leaders of the EU
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

10.09.2025 14:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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EASP members open letter to EU If you wish to sign this letter, please visit https://forms.gle/cKjBERDPJDGtxxau7 (If access to the Google Form is denied, kindly try again in an incognito window or another browser). Open letter to t...

If you care about Palestine and are a social psychologist, and especially if you are or were a member of EASP, please consider signing this open letter that I wrote together with other EASP members. We will send it to the leaders of the EU
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

10.09.2025 14:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

slowly compiling this list. I don't believe in linkedin. message me to be added.

30.07.2025 18:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Only two years left of worldโ€™s carbon budget to meet 1.5C target, scientists warn Breaching threshold would ramp up catastrophic weather events, further increasing human suffering

Weโ€™re wasting the remaining carbon budget on war and AI.

19.06.2025 21:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1587    ๐Ÿ” 763    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 49    ๐Ÿ“Œ 91

Very surprising that a machine that cannot distinguish between reality and fiction gets its users to hallucinate (too). Sidney lives.

Chilling story by nyt @kashhill.bsky.social

13.06.2025 15:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

is there something wrong with her fingertips?

28.04.2025 08:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Wreckage, Rapists, and Resistance: Week Six of the Coup The Wreckage They used to say war is how Americans learn geography. This civil war as Team Trump lays waste to most federal institutions is how Americans are going to learn what their federal governm...

They used to say war is how Americans learn geography. This civil war as Team Trump lays waste to most federal institutions is how Americans are going to learn what their federal government did.....

01.03.2025 19:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1130    ๐Ÿ” 294    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 20    ๐Ÿ“Œ 25
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Kama Muta: The Powerful Emotion Everyone Has But No One Has Heard Of It's a universal feeling so now you can put a name to it.

IFLScience on kama muta: www.iflscience.com/kama-muta-th...

17.02.2025 14:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Make ๐Ÿฅ„ not ๐Ÿด

05.02.2025 22:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sad to hear. We used the textbook he co-authored for several years. I really liked that book.

31.01.2025 22:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

@climatehuman.bsky.social text is right throughout except in the last paragraph. Anger is not the only emotional force driving us out of complacency and inaction. This movement also grows with compassion and togetherness.

10.01.2025 16:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Opinion | As a Climate Scientist, I Knew It Was Time to Leave Los Angeles After the Bobcat Fire, L.A. no longer felt safe.

This is what the rest of our lives will look like:

We will look around and try to guess whether it is safe where we are, or whether we should leave, and where to.

Climate change is here, but it's not static. Our world will keep changing until we stop producing climate gases.

10.01.2025 16:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A Paradise Built in Hell - Wikipedia

It is totally common! See @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social's book en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Parad...

04.01.2025 20:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

John, this "being proud of the community" sounds very much like the communal emotion that we have called "kama muta" in recent work. Have you come across more reports of emotional reactions like this?

04.01.2025 20:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I wish you a good new year Mo!

01.01.2025 19:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Changes to the classification

Big news from Finnish publication forum. Almost all MDPI and Frontiers journals will be downgraded to level 0 and thus are not considered as properly peer reviewed trustworthy scientific journals.
julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/news/chan...

16.12.2024 10:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 405    ๐Ÿ” 279    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 18    ๐Ÿ“Œ 45

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17.12.2024 07:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

oh wow interesting, thanks.

16.12.2024 23:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

great article. But please correct the sentence "Today, all humans around the world carry at least a trace of Neanderthal DNA.". Your own article that you link in that sentence does not support this. Instead, it says that Neanderthal DNA shows traces from two earlier waves coming out of Africa.

16.12.2024 19:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Giving - Inspiring Power Of Giving (and veggie soup)
YouTube video by Get Your Health Up Giving - Inspiring Power Of Giving (and veggie soup)

did not know that, very nice! At an abstract level, the plot sounds to another kama muta classic, below. The similarity is that an initial communal relation is threatened to be replaced by a market relation, but then bounces back www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL9K...

12.12.2024 07:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I use this video in my lectures to evoke and exemplify kama muta!

12.12.2024 07:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Kama muta: the powerful emotion you didnโ€™t know you had Goosebumps, tears, a sense of solidarityโ€ฆ Thereโ€™s a name for that feeling, and its manifestations โ€“ from Swifties handing out friendship bracelets to strong responses to political messaging โ€“ can brin...

excellent write-up of our work on being moved to tears, for which we created the kama muta concept: www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

23.11.2024 10:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

@ruben.the100.ci can you please point me to a source on this development in Germany? Is this written up anywhere? We have the same problem in Norway

10.12.2023 16:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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