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NEWS: EA has successfully patented a tournament system specifically for Battle Royale games, called the "Dynamic gameplay session management system." This system is designed to "maintain excitement for the players and viewers for the duration of the entire tournament."

For distanced communication to live up to its full potential, “there will need to be an evolution, both on the technology and on the social norms.” — Jeremy Bailenson Stanford VR ✏️ Nicola Jones knowmag.org/3zeqVxY

One of the things that's affected many people's #wellbeing in the past year is constantly being online. Here is a popular sketchnote I drew which summarises research led by Professor Jeremy Bailenson Stanford University exploring the main causes of Zoom fatigue #zoommeeting

This thread is a serious indictment of a growing part of academic publishing. The economics of the academic publication system mean that some journals are incentivized to publish nonsense and scientists are incentivized to play along. It has metastasized into a pyramid scheme.

Will Social Media Companies Dominate #VR? The poss acquisition of @PicoInteractive by @ByteDance raises a host of issues for the future of #virtualreality - incl #SocialMedia influence and the role of China. #XR bit.ly/3gxCuID

Your yearly reminder that Roger Shepard's (1987) "Towards a universal law of generalization" is some seriously bad ass science. matt.colorado.edu/teaching/categ…

Some people are not nice. It's a fact of people. Social media's problem is that it rewards hostility and trolling in ways that real interactions don't. So social media may not make people more hostile, but it makes the rest of us perceive our social *environment* as hostile.

"Scientists Hope VR Can Change Human Behavior And Curb Climate Change" screenrant.com/virtual-realit… Honored to be featured with our research partners at Stanford VR. 🤿 Screen Rant Screen Rant Tech

ok - it's even worse than I thought - YouTube has rejected the appeal - AND applied a community guidelines strike to the channel. for running a piece evaluating and CRITICISING the anti-vaccine claims made on the Dark Horse. YT actively supporting vaccine misinformation...

Looking forward to working with @FBRealityLabs on an exciting project that aims to make Social Virtual Reality safer for children and adolescents! The project will be led by Mark McGill and I. Get in touch if you're interested in collaborating. tech.fb.com/announcing-the…

The entire catalogue of Letters to a Young Scientist is here: fcld.ly/4oagif6 Who would you most like to receive a letter from and what would you want them to write about? Let us know! #WorldLetterWritingDay

Here’s a (non-exhaustive) list of 10 (potentially compatible?) explanations for the replication crisis. THREAD >>>

Did you know PhD students often struggle with self-efficacy and accurately assessing their self-worth? I've been reading a lot in this area recently. 🧵

What advice would you give your younger (pre-grad school) self about doing a PhD?

You shouldn’t have to stay up all night to have a scholarly career. Here’s how to write more and faster, without sacrificing sleep: @openacademics @phd_genie #PhDLife

First paper from our lab on LLMs and emotional support (led by Joanna Z. Li): Skill but not effort drive GPT overperformance over humans in cognitive reframing of negative scenarios. Short thread of the results ⬇️ osf.io/preprints/psya…

Excited to share our latest collaborative paper, "Using Games to Understand the Mind," now published in Nature Human Behaviour!🎉 Congratulations to Jacob Friis Sherson , Janet Rafner , and the entire team! Dive into new insights on using games to study cognition and human behavior.

🚨 Preprint Alert 🚨osf.io/preprints/psya… How do we aggregate emotional information on social media feeds, and are we accurate in our estimation of what other people feel? Our new paper suggests that we tend to amplify aggregated emotional content. Check out our thread. 🧵