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ST&D is only partially fueled by our fervor for research. We're at our best when we fuse scholarship with community and foster memories that last a lifetime.

Indeed, we are a bundle of smiling socialites :) Look no further than these shots from ST&D 2025 for proof! 🧵1/5

Discourse Processes Special Issue in Honor of Russell Tomlin (Guest Editors: Andriy Myachykov and Christoph Scheepers). Volume 62, Issue 8-9 of Discourse Processes

Our latest issue of DP is a special issue in honor of Russell Tomlin, a research pioneer who bridged a foundational gap between theoretical linguistics and cognitive psychology. This issue was guest edited by Andriy Myachykov and Christoph Scheepers.

The deadline to submit to this special issue has been EXTENDED to September 30. If you attended ST&D 2025, consider submitting your work to this Special ST&D 2025 Issue of Discourse Processes!

Discourse Processes Discourse Processes provides a forum for ideas from diverse disciplines sharing an interest in discourse, such as prose comprehension and dialogue analysis.

‼️ST&D 2025 attendees‼️

Consider submitting your conference-related work to a special conference issue of @discourseprocesses.bsky.social by September 15!

Please submit manuscripts here: www.tandfonline.com/journals/hds...
Manuscripts should be prepared according to DP manuscript guidelines.

Here's another spotlight of a mere handful of the wonderful presentations we were privy to in Padua this year :) Major thanks to the University of Padua for providing the space and time for our meeting to carry out fruitfully! #textdiscourse2025

A history of psychology as it happened to me Psychology has changed a great deal during the more than 50 years I have been actively involved with it. In this essay, I try to trace these changes as I experienced them - a minor footnote to the ...

Thanks to Taylor & Francis, we are pleased to provide Free Access (through October) to the recent article by Walter Kintsch, "A history of psychology as it happened to me", published posthumously in the recent 2024 ST&D Conference special issue of Discourse Processes.

Participants’ Reported Discomfort with Live Video as a Mode for Answering a Sensitive Survey Question Abstract. This study uses qualitative thematic analysis to explore a dataset of open-ended textual responses from 369 online panelists explaining why they

New in Public Opinion Quarterly: Live video can change how people feel about answering sensitive questions—but not in the same way for everyone. Example: For some, seeing and being seen can make them MORE at ease, for others LESS at ease.

YouTube video by The Aspen Institute How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain

For a terrific conversation on emotion, mind & brain, thank you to The Aspen Institute! www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM6f...

New paper with @ivabra.bsky.social and Helge Strømsø, where we test a learning scenario in which an informative text is combined with an ambigous graph. A call to increase students' complex literacy skills!

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It's actually crazy that AI was just unleashed onto the world for (mostly) free and without any, like, training before using it. The amount of AI-induced psychosis reports I've been seeing lately are really disconcerting, and I was already wary of AIs impact on social psychology...

We would like to recognize Kate Cain (member), Michael Wolfe (member), and Joe Magliano (chair) for their service on the Governing Board. They see to it that the Society for Text & Discourse runs effectively. We would also like to welcome Pani Kendeou as the incoming chair of the Governing Board!

GenAI and misinformation in education: a systematic scoping review of opportunities and challenges - AI & SOCIETY Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) has emerged as a transformative and disruptive force in education and society, with the potential to both create and correct misinformation. In education, mi...

🎓 Excited to share our review paper on Generative AI and Misinformation in Education! 🤖📚

#GenerativeAI #EdTech #AIInEducation #Misinformation #DigitalLiteracy #EducationResearch #AIEthics

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📗New paper in @discourseprocesses.bsky.social📗

Do readers of social media interpret posts the way authors intended?

We asked authors what stance they intended to convey in a post they tweeted about Roe v. Wade.

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Congratulations to these ST&D members who were awarded for their exceptional contributions to the world of text and discourse research! #textdiscourse2025 🧵

We want to thank all of our attendees and presenters for making the 35th Annual Conference for the Society of Text & Discourse rich with research, collaboration, and community! Here are just a handful of the memories that we've created together :)

Mañana 25 junio a las 15.00 (Chile) o 21.00 (España) hablaré sobre la efectividad de las prácticas para fomentar la lectura digital en los centros educativos, a partir de nuestra investigación con bases de datos internacionales. ¡Os esperamos!

www.instagram.com/p/DLQE5RYgwb...

We are just ONE WEEK AWAY from our 35th annual conference in Padua, Italy! If you haven’t already, there is still time to register. Join us in sharing and discussing research in the world of text discourse. We look forward to wonderful times!
www.societyfortextanddiscourse.org/std-2025/

🎓 It's official - I've successfully defended my dissertation!

Thank you to everyone who supported me on this journey. Looking forward to my next chapter as a postdoc at the University of Miami!

Exciting week in our Reading + Learning lab @University of Minnesota as we celebrate the achievements of Dr. Johnson and Dr. Kim. Grateful for the opportunity to mentor these scholars in educational psychology @vkjohnson.bsky.social

We are just under a month away from our 35th annual conference in Padua, Italy! If you haven’t already, there is still time to register. Join us in sharing and discussing research in the world of text discourse. We look forward to wonderful times!
www.societyfortextanddiscourse.org/std-2025/

Being very honest, sometimes I feel like I ask people things like they're ChatGPT or respond to people's requests as if I'm ChatGPT 🥲

"I'm reading this part of the paper in two (reductive) ways, but please let me know which is more correct, and then I can edit on the next go-around." lol who am I

Thank you Greyhound!

YouTube video by Learning Informatics Lab Cognitive Assessment of LLMs

Check out our latest LIL colloquium from Karin de Langis, all about her work assessing the emergent cognitive abilities in large language models (LLMs): youtu.be/YGbRYEL7S40

#EduSky #LLM #AI

Researchers Secretly Ran a Massive, Unauthorized AI Persuasion Experiment on Reddit Users The researchers' bots generated identities as a sexual assault survivor, a trauma counselor, and a Black man opposed to Black Lives Matter.

If the universe is indifferent, cold, and uncaring, AI seems to be a bit worse. Shame on this research team at the University of Zurich. The fact that this project was somehow able to get past IRB is beyond me.

www.404media.co/researchers-...

SO COOL! Congratulations, Chris!!

Involuntary Thoughts in Older Versus Younger Adults: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Investigating Déjà Vu, Involuntary Autobiographical Memories, and Unexpected Thoughts Volume 6, Issue 2, https://doi.org/10.1037/tmb0000150

Excited to share that my first, first author publication is out in Technology, Mind, and Behavior! If you've ever had thoughts pop into your head (and who hasn't?), check it out here: doi.org/10.1037/tmb0...

Buscamos profesores de Educación Primaria, Secundaria y Universidad interesados en compartir su opinión sobre el uso de IA en la educación 👇

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@aera-motsig.bsky.social #MotSIG #AERA2025 If you're a grad student or ECR eager to connect with other researchers, sign up for the AERA 2025 Motivation SIG Mentor-Mentee Program by April 4th! forms.gle/hHE4h8CzErFT...

Based on the science, diversity matters www.nature.com/articles/s43...

"...science has established the importance of diversity time and time again."

I’m thrilled to share that my student is studying the strengths of dyslexia—exploring creativity and spatial abilities.

If you have a formal dyslexia diagnosis and 5-10 minutes, your input would be invaluable!

Link👇https://dcusurveys.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_79QgipQELIOSiPA

#DCU #Cllab