Navya Sharan, PhD ✨

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Watching Hank peer pressure us into retweeting this on the stream 😂

YouTube video by vlogbrothers Project for Awesome 2026 part 5!

It's The End Of The Project For Awesome!! YOu HaVE To JoIN US!!!
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The final two episodes of our #popculture #podcast are out now! In ep 4, we dive into the #manosphere & its impact on #onlineculture esp for adolescent boys. Ep 5 explores how famous figures normalize problematic behaviour. Listen to the timely topics! #mentalhealth open.spotify.com/episode/4spL...

Love this concept!

The times on the event icon and description are different, 2PM PT & 4PM PT. Could the actual event time be clarified?

Academic publications, like @nature.com, put out so many articles, many of which are lost in the volume BUT this one is worth reading & amplifying. In general, #AI makes me queasy but this one leaves me gravely worried about the future of #academia.

#academicsky #hci #chatbots #highereducation

Millennials are cringe and proud Why not celebrate earnest, nostalgic joy in this increasingly lonely and divided world?

Millennials are cringe and proud ft.trib.al/fOFPHOb | opinion

If all or any of this is of interest, listen to Nuts & Bolts of Wellbeing: Offscript now!! New episodes come out every Wednesday 📣

#podcast #psychsky #mediasky #academicsky #popculture #momtok #legaldrama #MeghanTrainor #SabrinaCarpenter #BlakeLively #TaylorSwift #JustinBaldoni #popsky

If you've been following the #BlakeLively v. #JustinBaldoni legal drama, you know that the texts with #TaylorSwift recently came out. Our third ep goes into this courtroom drama & explaining why #believability may be linked to #likeability.

#podcast #psychsky #mediascience #popculture

This is a five-part #limitedseries exploring the intersection of #mentalhealth, #popculture, & #society. First ep focuses on #authenticity, #relevance, & #conformity, exploring this from the lens of #popmusic & artists like #MeghanTrainor & #SabrinaCarpenter.

#psychsky #academicsky #popsky

Plugged this everywhere else anyway: if you are chronically online like me & heavily invested in #popculture #onlineculture, I've got just the #podcast for you! Check out Nuts & Bolts of Wellbeing: Offscript creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

If you're still not convinced, here are some #excerpts from both blogs!

#blog #oped #psychsky #startupsky #academicsky #postdoc

The Predatory Pixels in Cuddly Clothing Earlier this month, Cambridge Dictionary released their Word of the Year 2025: parasocial. And if you are still wondering why they chose this word, here is an excerpt from their announcement: With the...

My December blog also discusses some hot #tech, #AI & #ethical topics - specifically, children & AI, so go check that out too!

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#psychsky #hci #techsky #socialmedia #trending #chatbots #doomscrolling #academicsky #postdoc #startupsky #entrepreneur #academia

Back to the Imagined Future Hello 2026. And a very happy new year to you, my dear readers - I know, I hate hearing the words “happy new year” after the 10th of the month, but seeing as I only get to interact with you once a mont...

#Bluesky is starting to feel a bit like old-school #socialinternet for me! So, it's only fitting that I share my latest blog here, in which I explore the #2016trend, why are we so captivated by this & how #frictionmaxxing (s/o @kjezermorton.bsky.social) could help.

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Alright, who had "scientific evidence for misogyny" on their bingo card? @researchdigest.bsky.social coming in hot with their publication alerts in the new year 🔥 @rachelesh.bsky.social @marjorierhodes.bsky.social

#academicsky #psychsky #psychology #research #postdoc #academia

It's 2026, so it may be high time I learnt how to find people & communities here! 📣 Calling for advice - other than feeds, how do people find each other on #bluesky?

Any suggestions would be appreciated!

#feed #academicsky #psychsky #findingcommunities

Robots as Social Companions? Investigating Longitudinal Companionship and Social Presence in Child-Robot Interaction In research on human-robot interaction (HRI), the Media are Social Actors (MASA) paradigm has received increasing attention. However, MASA is less explicit about longitudinal developments in social...

Are our existing theories of #hci accounting for longterm development in our relationships with digital agents? With children and robots, we find some evidence of longterm relationships and even changes *within* individuals!

doi.org/10.1080/1044...

#childrobotinteraction #hri #academicsky #psych

“Helping Faces”: The Effect of a Robot’s Face on People’s Reciprocal Helping Behavior A recent extension of the Computers-Are-Social-Actors (CASA) paradigm, known as the Media-Are-Social-Actors (MASA) paradigm, suggests that social cues displayed by media agents may elicit social re...

Do physical social cues, like faces, affect social behaviour? With robots, perhaps not, but stacking different cues together may make a difference.

Learn more in paper 2: doi.org/10.1080/1044...

#humanrobotinteraction #hri #hci #psychology #academicsky #publication #socialrobots #phdlife #postdoc

“Superhuman” Robots in Teams: The Effect of Augmented Cognitive Capabilities on Human-Robot Communication - International Journal of Social Robotics As social robots become increasingly advanced, the rules of human-robot interaction (HRI) may diverge from those of interpersonal communication. In this light, scholars have proposed that the Computer...

Are we intimidated by digital agents with superhuman cognitive abilities? Turns out, we may not like them as much but we definitely think that they have the "right" answer. 🧵/2

Read paper 1 now! doi.org/10.1007/s123...

#humanrobotinteraction #hri #socialrobots #psychology #academicsky #hci

Now that all my PhD papers are out (right in time for the end-of-year cheer 🥂🥳), I figured that it's time to do a thread here with all my papers 🧵/1

ICYMI my dissertation explored how we develop social relationships with digital agents. Here's the breakdown ⬇️

#academicsky #phd #psychology #robots

It was supposed to be my first ever convention 💔 Here's to hoping they make it right.

@researchdigest.bsky.social bringing that "make lemonade out of lemons" energy today. In all seriousness, go read the article by Emily Reynolds & paper by @dannyblanchy.bsky.social, @alexbryson.bsky.social (alma mater s/o!) & Xu: a stark look into #youth & #wellbeing.

#academiasky #psychology #econ

What is wrong with this picture? Earlier this week, the following headline caught my eye, “Jaipur school suicide: 9-year-old's family alleges bullying, inaction by teachers”. Stemming from my personal experiences, I have spent years ...

📢 Annndddd it's out! Read my take on mental health safeguards in schools and why we may be reluctant to implement policy reform (at least in India): www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-w...

#mentalhealth #psychsky #academiasky #academia #research #newsletter #education #educationsky #edtech #india #edpsych

Stayed up till 4 writing the very first edition of my newsletter, Research & Realities. I loved picking a story close to my heart & startup work! Here's a little excerpt ⬇️ full version out tomorrow 🧠

#mentalhealth #wellbeing #education #edsky #academiasky #edpsych #startup #indianeducation #psych

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Missed the topic down below that said "sports" and was disappointed to learn that the Rockets had nothing to do with space exploration 😶‍🌫️

#rockets #sports #space #spacesky #trending #hot #academiasky #academic #academia

P.S. if you're curious, check out [@]thesarginitiative and [@]anywherebutherefangirl on Instagram!

#instagram #education #fandiary #content

Between making videos for my #mentalhealth startup page and my #supernatural page, my family & friends are constantly seeing me all the time on their second screen, way more than they did when I was on break at home. I should tell them I moved away, right?

#contentcreation #spnfandom #entrepreneur

When you're on an @icahdq.bsky.social deadline and are thrown off guard by the most interesting sentence in the paper:

They had no business being as nonchalant as they were about this.

Go read the paper by Beautemps & Bresges (2022) on parasocial interactions!

#hci #conference #academicsky #ai

Absolutely!! I just LOVE when worlds collide 💜