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Japan Railway goes hard in the fine print

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News avoidance may be a coping mechanism for perceived #news overload. A meta-analysis of 17 studies (N=13,143) by Xu, He & Ding confirms it: stronger correlation in developed vs. developing countries, with topics & platforms shaping the effect. #Journalism needs new strategies.

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an academic fellowship that is just a free month to get caught up on your emails

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“In the humanities meeting, the presentation’s slide on ‘mental health support’ prompted collective laughter (which was edited out of the official recording)” #AcademicSky

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closing the only library in Napier to reduce taxes by $5 per person for the next two years?!? #kikorangi

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the attention to detail you can hear on this instrumental version is such a feat of artisanship and engineering it could make a pop music cynic fall back in love

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It has been a privilege to get to think with the #DigitalValues crew since 2019. The theoretical framework we present here is a proper cumulation of our work, and relevant to anyone else interested in values, social media, and global communication. PS I am very proud of the figure’s aesthetics 👇

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"Because we’re from Chicago, we’re not coastal, we’re not locked into one sound... the different seasons give you a different perspective, creatively, that you can pull from. Even your style of dress changed with the season, so that translates into making music." #MediaEcology

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stickbugs would like to congratulate ngāokeoke on their big win this year #kikorangi

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NZ Right to Repair amendment passed its first reading last night en route to the Economic Development, Science and Innovation Select Committee #kikorangi #righttorepair

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Excited to start Bluesky with the special issue I edited with Cigdem Bozdag @cogitatiomac.bsky.social! From political unfriending and teen digital detox to migrant boundary-making and state-enforced disconnection, we explore disconnectivity across fields, contexts & disciplines: bit.ly/4aVvNep 🔓 🧵 👇

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remember when “social media is becoming infrastructure” was a kind of theoretical provocation

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IJoC published 54 papers in January, including the Special Section on Unpacking Property: Media, Ownership & Power in Transformation, guest edited by Sebastian Sevignani & @theine.bsky.social, and the Forum on Groundhog Day, a roundtable convened by Crystal Abidin. Read at ijoc.org.

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Google caved, but NOAA Weather Radio is still holding strong with Gulf of Mexico

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Just did this interview with American Institute of Physics about my new book, Shaping Science (Chicago, 2020), all about NASA teams and what makes them tick. www.aip.org/history-prog...

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Virtual Artist-in-Residence @claudiaeberger.bsky.social blogs "Designing a Data Physicalization: A love letter to dot grid paper". Insights re:how an embodied-data project gets started+designed; brainstorming sketches of data quilt (real fabric!) on Appalachian Trail history+justice they're crafting

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Zoom fatigue especially afflicts people who feel bad about their looks That conclusion isn't surprising in itself, but this paper analyzes the phenomenon through comm theories like social info processing, uses & gratifications, hyperpersonal model, technology acceptance, and impression management

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nail-biter

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Massive Waitangi Day drop from Mokotron and Te KuraHuia!! #kikorangi youtu.be/30rUWMngBr8?...

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apparently "chick'n"-style spellings have gone from signifying "this is not real X" to signifying "this is a more sustainable/eco-friendly version of X"

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committed to this pandan and hoary basil seed ice cream

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How do philosophers do it?

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We have an open panel !! at 2025 4S on Data Loss Reverberations: exploring disappearance, destruction and dispossession in digital societies 👀 data loss as fundamental rather than anomalous feature of digital infrastructures Abstracts due Jan 31 Read more at this link: tinyurl.com/DALOSSREVERB

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Me, editing my own work

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Editors of Journal of Human Evolution resign en masse to protest Elsevier changes. 🧪 retractionwatch.com/2024/12/27/e...

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Socrates himself famously said, "the uninteresting life is not worth living" shortly before he died. Okay, he actually said "the UNEXAMINED life is not worth living" but I punched it up for him for free qwantz.com/index.php?co...

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Google Calendar diligently sends me an alert every single morning letting me know I have no plans.

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This paper describes user research on speech recognition software, long before accurate recognition was technologically feasible. dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1... This was written over 40 years ago. Technological feasibility doesn't need to get in the way of figuring out if something can be useful!

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A lot of you are here because you have recently dumped Twitter. It's time to leave other systems too. Here's part 1 of my guide with sociotechnical tips and tricks. Not just how to delete or deactivate, but how to work proactively through the social and technical challenges of leaving for good.

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With apologies to Keiō Uni students, if this really gets added to unicode it’s gonna be appropriated by gaijin to mean “knockout” 🥊

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Origami Black Hole xkcd.com/3033

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this was a big debate ~15 yrs ago

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“Through solidarity practices, mainstream media has a chance to achieve what it has always claimed to contribute to society: truthful reporting based on what is happening on the ground, to real people, in real time – and with real impact.” theconversation.com/mainstream-m...

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It’s 2025 in New Zealand, just wanted to report the year is going great so far I have not read anything

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pretty sure a skeet isn’t funny if you have to explain it, but I do wish somebody would enjoy my implied pun on the word “leading”

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kerning man (ba dum tss)

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This is the most shocking data visualization I’ve ever seen. It makes me want to SCREAM

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When the Matthew Effect meets academic nepo babies ... "Academics from poorer backgrounds introduce more novel scientific concepts, but are less likely to receive recognition, as measured by citations, Nobel Prize nominations, and awards."

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Name a non-LOTR character who could resist the One Ring

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another fascinating entry to my chronicles of what even is internet culture #icsfeed www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/m...

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www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

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Cf. Heider, F., & Simmel, M. (1944). An experimental study of apparent behavior. The American Journal of Psychology, 57, 243–259. doi.org/10.2307/1416... #psych

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always so pleased when the littlest guy gets to take his shot

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