David Lydon-Staley

Depressed? Anxious? Lonely?

What if mental health doesn’t just result from media use, but shapes how we choose media?

In a new preprint, Valerie Klein, @gongxuanjun.bsky.social @aeden.bsky.social and I and I test this using a computational decision-making model: doi.org/10.21203/rs....

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Two copies of a black, white and red book cover. The cover reads UNCORRECTED PROOF NOT For SALE SECOND SIGHT: HOW THE WONDER AND VISION OF BLACK MEDIAMAKERS PUSH AMERICA TOWARD FREEDOM SARAH J. JACKSON My light brownish hand with chipped purple glitter nail polish holds the books

Thrilled to have galleys of my book in hand! Final corrections & index pending. Please consider preordering, gifting, & teaching. Via the archive, interviews & more I show how the crisis we face now reflects failure to listen & act on the democracy Black folks have envisioned, but we still can.

A portrait of John W Tukey. He is posing in front of a chalk board making it look like sampled data is going in one ear and out the other, regularized.

In a John W. Tukey rabbit hole & absolutely lost it at this YouTube video description: “The final project … was intended to be a biography ... of the work of the great 20th century statistician John W. Tukey. Instead, we took events in his life, fictionalized them, and made them, well, gay.”

The book cover for I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid

This was really scary you guys

Gurl, I’m with them. If I’m submitting to an APA journal, I’m not doing anything special for the preprint formatting

Expansive Thought Dynamics Support Emotional Recovery osf.io/preprints/ps... Clever use of semantic thought networks

The Motherfoclóir podcast episode with @finnlongman.com is really good. Queer readings of The Táin that made me want to revisit it

An Exploration of Basic Human Values in 38 Million Obituaries Over 30 Years: https://osf.io/dh8tc

'Every Immigrant's Dream' by Polina Cosgrave

From My Name Is (Dedalus Press, 2020)
via @poetryireland.bsky.social Pocket Poems

10 queer novels, poems and plays as Gaeilge Irish is no longer just the language of saints and scholars, but of queer poets and writers who are sharing their stories

10 queer novels, poems and plays as Gaeilge www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

David Lydon-Staley, wearing round glasses and a light blue button-up shirt, smiling in front of a wooden bookshelf filled with books

Congrats to @David Lydon-Staley on his promotion to Associate Professor with tenure!

He spoke about what this milestone means and what’s next in his research and teaching journey.

Read more: www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...

Are you willfully ignorant or evil? Right now, those are your choices babes xoxo

I was just at the dentist and had a copay so I handed over my card which has a picture of a pug on it and she said, do you have a pug at home. And I said yeah. And she said, just cause of the card, and you have a pug on your hat, and your earrings are pugs. Maybe I’m doing too much?

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I need to talk to you about the Irish dancing when I see you next 🤣

So what? The literary world is always in the first detonation blast zone. Run towards the searing light. You don't want to live in the world without the arts. Become a writer.

I need to talk to the Irish dance community after watching Sinners yesterday

Breathe Again The air is thin at Machu Picchu

New book recs from @itsonlyzach.bsky.social dropped today, just in time to dream about summer reading. If you like 🏳️‍🌈books and people who look handsome and sad, according to David Sedaris, you will like this newsletter: open.substack.com/pub/itsonlyz...

Black and white photo of Jorge Luis Borges, an elderly, blind man with a stick, linking to the supporting arm of a remarkably hirsute - head AND chin - young Colm Tóibín, whose deep set eyes are almost entirely in shadow. In the photo, Borges would be around 83 and Tóibín around 27.

Jorge Luis Borges and Colm Tóibín in 1982.

a grey and black great dane takes up most of the space on a black sofa. his size makes him appear to be very regal, but his droopy ears and soft eyes tell us he's a gentle giant. standing next to him on the sofa is a tiny white chihuahua, who barely comes up to the great dane's shoulder - and he's sitting down!

This is Reggie and Pearl. Reggie holds the @guinnessworldrecords.com title for tallest dog living at 3 feet 3 inches. Pearl holds the title for shortest dog living at 3.59 inches. They just met for the first time for a playdate. 14/10 for both

Xinyi Wang

A photo collage with two photos: at the top, Xinyi Wang defends her dissertation, at bottom, Xinyi Wang poses with Prof. David Lydon Staley, her dissertation chair

🎉 🎉 Congratulations to our newest Ph.D., Dr. Xinyi Wang, who successfully defended her dissertation, “Investigating Environmental and Biological Factors that Shape our Curiosity for New Information” yesterday!

Well? Are you going to just leave me floating?

Mom just suggested that I march right up to the Vatican, introduce myself to the guy in charge, hand him a printed copy of my resume and tell him confidently and forcefully that I’m the right person for the job.

Me standing beside Xinyi in the lobby of the Annenberg School for Communication building at Penn. Xinyi is holding a bouquet of flowers

Congrats to @xinyiwang.bsky.social on defending her dissertation, "Investigating Environmental and Biological Factors that Shape our Curiosity for New Information", today! 🎉

Gretchen Whitmer hiding her face at the White House

when i see the store person about to ask if they can help me find anything

a raccoon is sitting on the ground with its paws folded and smiling . Alt: a raccoon is sitting on the ground with its hands together in way that makes it feel like it would be saying “excellent” if it could speak

Delighted to announce that I bought some bread and cheese for my Friday evening

Media Neuroscience on a Shoestring 2.0: Using AR and Mobile EEG Hyperscanning to Study Cooperation: Journal of Media Psychology: Vol 37, No 2

After nearly 6 years, I'm delighted to share a new paper in Journal of Media Psychology:

"Media Neuroscience on a Shoestring 2.0". We studied cooperation using AR & low-cost EEG hyperscanning (doi.org/10.1027/1864...).

🧵Here’s how it started, what we found, & why it matters

The photo shows the cover of the book Release, a novel by Patrick Ness

“Everything was always so clear in books and movies. Everyone always knew their reasons. But real life was such a mess.” #booksky 📚💙