Chris Carpenter

I hate that BlueSky is following the Twitter model and labeling harmful content.

Posts that violate the community standards need to be removed. Users who violate them repeatedly need to be deplatformed.

A label does absolutely nothing except inform everyone that BlueSky will do absolutely nothing.

Academic whiplash:
I received an email with a desk reject from one journal and an email with an R&R from another journal. The emails arrived one minute apart.

This week, the board met in person for the first time since the email vote. At the meeting, Dean gave an informational presentation about tenure at the university, including how the process typically works. The board wasn't entirely receptive. Trustees Marty Kotis and Jim Blaine both reiterated their opposition to tenure, while Perrin Jones and Rob Bryan raised skeptical questions. Much of the discussion centered around the net present cost of tenured faculty-the metric Clemens argued against using—and how the board can provide strategic and financial oversight of those decisions given the commitment of long-term resources. Preyer said he supported tenure in general but felt it had been given out "willy-nilly" in the past. He also inquired about ways to oust tenured faculty who "retire on the job." No one discussed the other side of the accounting ledger, as Clemens had. Roberts did not weigh in on the discussion.

Pretty grim kicker on an overall bleak outlook on the future of UNC

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At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery | Quanta Magazine After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ended up disproving a 40-year-old conjecture.

What a fantastic accomplishment -- and what a fantastic story! www.quantamagazine.org/at-17-hannah...

Since No One Else Seems to Care, Let’s Remember Epstein’s Survivors They've already told us everything we need to know...

They've already told us everything we need to know...
www.jezebel.com/since-no-one...

Of course they are.

Thanks again to Erin Spottswood for collaborating on this paper, the original model, and the various tests of the model we published previously. This paper tests one of the last major untested predictions of the model and was one of the ones Erin came up with for the original model. 3/3

people see their friends engaging in more friendship maintenance behaviors with each other than with themselves, they report more loneliness. This effect was stronger for those with higher network awareness (S1) and among those perceiving higher levels of the affordance of accessibility (S2). 2/3

Predicting when social media use is associated with loneliness using the hyperperception model The hyperperception model (Carpenter & Spottswood, 2021a) makes predictions about when an observer of others’ social media interactions may be misperceived. We used this model to make predictions a...

New Pub:
"Predicting when social media use is associated with loneliness using the hyperperception model" in Comm Quarterly

We used our hyperperception model to predict what kind of social media experiences are associated with loneliness. We found that when 1/

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Coding for a systematic review: 5% of the studies included suck up about 75% of the time it takes to finish, and most of that time could be saved if people reported results in a way that was straightforward.

She’s an author on a paper in the first issue of JPSP!

Psychologists Have Been Wrong About Death For 40 Years Smart people are sometimes the last to realize that the cognitive ship they are captaining is about to sink.

Is research into ego depletion and terror management progressing or degenerating? Smart people will disagree because:

“The smarter you are, the better you are at constructing a narrative that supports your beliefs, rationalizing and framing the data to fit your argument or point of view.”

#MetaSci

A walrus is very difficult to get to my door but does not require any new laws of physics, unlike faeries. If faeries exist, they have agency and could easily roll up to my door. This seems to be the gist of the thread Dr. Palmer referred to.

It seems like an indirect way to ask if someone believes in faeries.

In light of the Epstein discourse, I want to remind everyone that the person most likely to sexually abuse a child is a man in that child’s family.

Always some rich asshole who acts like their Vaclav Havel because they're getting yelled at by trans people on the internet

"So, how Global does my paper need to be?

We get this a lot, and the short answer is that "if it's from the Globe we call home, it's interesting to GPC."

Our focus on Global is less about a narrow view on work from specific regions but more a recognition that journals need truly Global engagement!

In addition to validating the scale, we found something interesting with the Persuader scale from the Superdiffuser scales. Highly persuasive people are more likely to lie if they have high efficacy of lying.

Validation of an efficacy of lying scale Efficacy of lying is the belief that lying is an effective and efficient communication strategy. A new measure of efficacy of lying is presented to assess the belief that lying is an effective way ...

New Article
"Validation of an Efficacy of Lying Scale"

Need a measure of the extent to which your participants think that lying is effective? We've got your covered. A well-validated, four-item measure is now available.

Free copies here:

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/EGJWP...

#CommSky

Volume 51 Issue 3 | Human Communication Research | Oxford Academic A journal of the International Communication Association, Human Communication Research concentrates on presenting the best empirical work in the area of human communication.

Special Issue Alert from HCR – Now Available!

Theme: Communication and the Self: Past, Present, and Future
Guest Editors: Dr. Markus Appel and Dr. Amanda Holmstrom

Read here: academic.oup.com/hcr/issue/51/3

#HumanCommunicationResearch #HCRSpecialIssue

At the same time, word count limits are the savior for reviewers.

Though much remains uncertain (e.g. outcomes of lawsuits re: canceled grants), it is clear that U.S. gov funding for science — especially science that intersects w/ concerns about human flourishing — is going to be significantly diminished in coming years. Here are a few things we can do to help:

I love this so hard

Stripping immigration status from thousands of people who’ve lived here for years is a really gross way to keep manufacturing a crisis and justify even more harm

When I tell you this upcoming season is good.

It’s good. #foundation

Thrilled to say ~3 weeks after #ICA25, we've received more than 10 submissions to @gpccomm.bsky.social and we've got more than 100 followers on Bluesky alone. Y'all are making this work!

We're accepting papers (4000 & 8000 words) covering all of @icahdq.bsky.social: mc.manuscriptcentral.com/gpcomm

What a gutting reminder that #MeToo didn’t produce any structural change to our criminal justice system. Convictions are still rare, even in cases where the evidence is overwhelming.

These are the same old failures hurting new victims. My heart aches for the survivors.

Tumblr post from homunculus-argument that says A good rule of thumb for AI is "would you trust a trained pigeon to do this?" "We trained a pigeon to recognise cancerous cell clusters and somehow they're really good at it" okay great, that's something that could plausibly be a thing. "We trained a pigeon to recognise good CV:s and left it in charge of sorting through all our job applications" uh perhaps consider not doing that.

This is not a bad rule of thumb:

Feeling very seen 😒

Brother Day does not skip abb day