Deniz halil
deniz86.bsky.social
Deniz halil
@deniz86.bsky.social
First year psychology student at the University of East London. I am interested in so many different things in life. Would be hard to list them all
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Congress finds itself powerless to take its war powers back. This moment has been decades in the making.
Why Congress Can’t Claw Back War Powers From Trump
The changing nature of foreign conflict—and Trump’s grip on the GOP—has allowed him to pursue a nearly unchecked agenda overseas.
on.wsj.com
January 23, 2026 at 4:41 AM
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London buyers have gravitated away from apartments and toward single-family homes. The shift started during Covid, but changes to tax laws and a real-estate slump have exacerbated the market’s transformation.
A Major Tax Shake-Up Is Changing the Way Londoners Buy Homes
Punishing taxes and rising fees are pushing buyers to abandon flats for houses—and reshaping the city’s housing market.
on.wsj.com
January 23, 2026 at 9:33 AM
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#AcademicSky #PrejudiceResearch

New paper out by Paolini et al. on habit-ruptures in intergroup contact

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

(If you like that, our also team has a related paper in press at American Psychologist, led by Rose Meleady)
psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
Towards a habit-rupture model of intergroup contact in everyday settings - Nature Reviews Psychology
The literature assumes that intergroup contact is naturally occurring, positive and consistently associated with positive outcomes, but these premises are inconsistent with everyday intergroup contact...
www.nature.com
January 21, 2026 at 9:53 PM
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A country unmoored by military invasion. A young girl on the run with a talking goose. A myth-flavoured narrative with an underlay of current realities. A literary MacGuffin. Heather O’Neill’s The Capital of Dreams is immersive and elliptical and enchanting.
January 23, 2026 at 4:32 AM
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New @therestpolitics.bsky.social - on Rachel Reeves pitch rolling speech, Elon Musk latest lies and fantasies re UK, but above all COP/climate and war in Sudan and whether the world cares less than it did

alastaircampbell.org/2025/11/464-...
464. Labour’s Tax Timebomb, Climate Backsliding, and Sudan’s Forgotten War - Alastair Campbell
Is this the Budget that breaks Labour, or can Reeves walk the tightrope? Why does the general public increasingly think we’re overreacting to climate breakdown? Why aren’t Elon Musk’s provocations of ...
alastaircampbell.org
November 5, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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As usual, Leonid provides a wealth of relevant detail and context for the recent BMJ brouhaha.
One thing, though. I think it muddies the waters to call it a paper mill. I don't think anyone paid money to a third party for authorship on this one. And the study was registered in 2021.
November 5, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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For anyone interested in the world of 'Multiple Intelligences', this is a great piece of writing. It's very disturbing to hear the father of multiple intelligences say that he's right, even if the evidence contradicts him !!! carlhendrick.substack.com/p/comfortabl...
Comfortable Fictions: The Myth of Multiple Intelligences
Why moral certainty keeps bad ideas alive in our schools
carlhendrick.substack.com
October 9, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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The relationship between AI chatbots and mental health is surely something that Psychologists should be heavily focused on ???

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Can AI chatbots trigger psychosis? What the science says
Chatbots can reinforce delusional beliefs, and, in rare cases, users have experienced psychotic episodes.
www.nature.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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Yet more on ‘AI psychosis’ ! Seems that this ought, at the very least, to temper the head-long rush towards ‘AI with everything’ www.wired.com/story/ftc-co...
People Who Say They’re Experiencing AI Psychosis Beg the FTC for Help
The Federal Trade Commission received 200 complaints mentioning ChatGPT between November 2022 and August 2025. Several attributed delusions, paranoia, and spiritual crises to the chatbot.
www.wired.com
October 22, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Perfectly timed for this afternoon’s lecture !!!
October 31, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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So, Elon won’t want his Grok AI looking at X too much, but he’ll happily promote as much human use as possible ? www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Too much social media gives AI chatbots ‘brain rot’
Large language models fed low-quality data skip steps in their reasoning process.
www.nature.com
November 2, 2025 at 10:30 AM