In unrelated news, I’m relocating to Portugal

The Journal of Consumer Research Journal of Consumer Research invites submissions to its Special Anniversary Issue to be published in June 2024, exactly fifty years after the Inaugural Issue of June 1974. consumerresearcher.com/anniversary-is…

#HereToBeHeard study by Mars, Incorporated, with analysis provided by FOMI Saïd Business School Dr Felipe Thomaz and Dr Natalia Efremova, is featured on Forbes #genderequity forbes.com/sites/marybeth…

New JM article available: "Blame the Bot: Anthropomorphism and Anger in Customer–Chatbot Interactions" Read it here: buff.ly/3GRKGiw

I don’t disagree with Niantic’s AR vision, but I’m curious about this round of funding. Just sounds like exactly what they have been trying to do (mostly unsuccessfully) for more than 10 years, but using Meta’s branding as a lift.

Congrats Melinda Mills and Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science !

Can machine learning really do maths? It looks like it has. @DeepMind & Oxford Mathematicians András Juhász & Marc Lackenby (below) have used machine learning to identify new connections in knot theory. Full video youtube.com/watch?v=hIUiPi… nature article nature.com/articles/s4158…

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Sometimes you get to watch a movie with the kids just to get hit by a megaton truth bomb 💣.. music by: Jessica Darrow - Surface Pressure (From "Encanto") youtu.be/tQwVKr8rCYw via YouTube

More dark web black markets getting taken down. Looks like seizures / not scam. So at least one operator missed their closing window, and got caught. But we'll get several replacements immediately. Criminal business continues to go well...

Thinking about the Nature piece on reframing teaching for researchers. It’s useful for Twitter posturing, but research is unsurprisingly by far the most important part of research faculty’s jobs. On an extreme, are you concerned about the Oxford Vaccine team’s teaching evals?

Did you know the KISS principle could be keeping things simple AND stupid? Sometimes you need the full complexity available to you. New pre-print research available, led by ⁦@DrGregClark⁩, along w myself and ⁦Professor Andrew Stephen⁩. More to come arxiv.org/abs/2201.12034

Want more evidence of the power of brands? Meta v Apple. Tell a good story and you'll have people lining up for your pre-announcements, ignore your on-device data processing, cheer your $3T valuation, and laugh as your advertising business triples in size. Nothing is questioned.

The white 'Z' symbol from russian invasion vehicles is starting to get picked up by pro-fascist groups, russian nationalists, and beyond as a symbol of support for the invasion + gaining religious overtones towards a new crusade. There's your first 'brand community' for WW3.

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Technology enables firms to collect, interpret, and act on consumer digital signals... How can firms best manage these signals to optimize the customer journey? link.springer.com/article/10.100…

I love the potential of digital humans and the infinite number of spaces we'll create for ourselves. If you love creative and 'the work,' this should really excite you. Here's a tech demo of real-time character rendering by Unity youtu.be/eXYUNrgqWUU