Liam Wignall
liamwignall.bsky.social
Liam Wignall
@liamwignall.bsky.social
In no particular order: Academic, Psychologist, Kink/BDSM/Sex Researcher, Gay, ADHD, Weightlifter, Reader.
Co-Editor: Psychology & Sexuality
www.thekinkscale.com
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Very excited for this news - looking forward taking over as Editor in Chief of Sexuality & Culture. Lots of developments to come, and prep work between now and March.

link.springer.com/journal/1211...
Sexuality & Culture
Sexuality & Culture offers an international forum for analysis of ethical, cultural, psychological, social, and political issues related to sexual ...
link.springer.com
January 29, 2026 at 4:51 PM
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"New research published in the International Journal of Sexual Health suggests that the reasons why individuals watch pornography are more predictive of their sexual health than how often they watch it." via @psypost.bsky.social www.realclearscience.com/2026/01/20/w...
January 20, 2026 at 1:06 PM
I'm enjoying seeing the influx of new people to bluesky - I'm just going to have to post more now...
January 21, 2026 at 12:08 PM
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oh it's going to be a Recession recession
January 18, 2026 at 10:56 PM
Registering for something online - part of the sign up process was asking my 'Skype Username' - that was a throwback
January 19, 2026 at 11:08 AM
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Weed companies are using Dry January to market their gummies and drinks, Yasmin Tayag reports—but does taking the edge off sobriety with THC really count as “dry”?
Weed Companies Are Cashing In on Dry January
High January, here we come.
bit.ly
January 18, 2026 at 12:15 PM
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#72: Shag a massive apple
January 16, 2026 at 2:52 PM
It seems everybody and their friends/family decided to do legs today at the gym. While I'm also trying to do legs. It's very inconvenient.
January 16, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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#TheTraitors cast members as UK railway liveries.

Stephen as an Avanti West Coast Class 805
January 15, 2026 at 9:28 PM
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We've got ISSUES. Literally.

We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?

arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563

A 🧵 1/n
January 13, 2026 at 8:27 AM
I'm using January to finally sort out things. Ive got over 1000 files in my downloads and my folders have too many things in different places. This is the year of keeping on top of things (and not saving files as FINAL MANUSCRIPT VERSION 3.5...)
January 5, 2026 at 10:07 AM
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Are the arts and humanities still needed as universities retrench staff and cut costs? Patty Raun explains why curtailing or eliminating these disciplines is an egregious mistake: https://ow.ly/BGJ350XR8Oz #HigherEd #AcademicSky #EduSky
How universities can cultivate arts and humanities in practical, affordable ways
Are the arts and humanities still needed as universities retrench staff and cut costs? Patty Raun explains why curtailing or eliminating these disciplines is an egregious mistake
ow.ly
January 3, 2026 at 11:45 AM
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Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)?

Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
December 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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AI research itself is facing a slop problem with some authors claiming to produce over 100 papers a year
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem, academics say: ‘It’s a mess’
AI research in question as author claims to have written over 100 papers on AI that one expert calls a ‘disaster’
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Pantone colour of the year being white is just tone deaf.
December 6, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I did an interview with Mashable about #Pillion, discussing how kink is often represented in popular media. It's a great short contextual insight that you can watch here: mashable.com/video/romcom...
Are mainstream films finally getting BDSM right?
Pillion and Babygirl are some of the most recent examples of kink representation in mainstream cinema. But how did BDSM become romcom material?
mashable.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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It's time to remove laptops from classrooms.

24 experiments: Students learn more and get better grades after taking notes by hand than typing. It's not just because they're less distracted—writing enables deeper processing and more images.

The pen is mightier than the keyboard.
November 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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This is one of the worst, most horrifying exposures we have ever seen. It is hard to overstate how bad the things that people are using tools like for are, and it's insane to pretend like these tools are anything other than nonconsensual porn machines

www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn
Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social me...
www.404media.co
November 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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While “No Nut November” is a relatively recent phenomenon, it has deep roots and reflects humans’ longstanding and very complicated relationship with self-pleasure. Dr. Eric Sprankle https://www.sexandpsychology.com/blog/podcast/episode-450-the-weird-history-of-masturbation/
Episode 450: The Weird History Of Masturbation - Sex and Psychology
In today's show, we're talking about the history of masturbation and why our relationship with self-pleasure is so complicated.
www.sexandpsychology.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Far too little attention's given to this in research methods training. And since online surveys are now the default method - wrongly assumed to be quick, easy and cheap - we're in a big mess of our own making.

Even if 'real people' respond, surveys are often so badly designed data is meaningless.
November 18, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Just made this. I’m a widely respected intellectual, you know
November 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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a mental health crisis among British students whilst universities are pushing faculty to accept or even encourage students using generative AI is a catastrophe waiting to happen
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 9:19 PM