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Lucía Cores-Sarría @luciacores.bsky.social · 18h

hehe thank you and thanks for sharing! :)

Lucía Cores-Sarría @luciacores.bsky.social · 19h

So exciting to see RQ1 featured our work!
Bottom line: humor in news is a powerful tool for conveying facts—especially at a time when satirical news, an alternative venue for those who don't trust mainstream media, is under unprecedented political attack

Alexios Mantzarlis @mantzarlis.com · 19h

Fascinating study on Last Week Tonight and whether jokes help "embed" facts, as seen on the always interesting RQ1 newsletter rq1.substack.com/p/why-right-...

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Lena Frischlich @lenafrescamente.bsky.social · 7d

#PublicationAlert 🥰. This one has been long in the making: It started with a @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in 2023, lead to a working group at the SFI in 2024, multiple online-meetings (one from Costa Rica, Munich, Denmark, Mumbai, and the US), thought-provoking and truly interdisciplinary work.

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Lucía Cores-Sarría @luciacores.bsky.social · 8d

The other side of the coin is when a BA thesis uses big public survey data and it's just about running a regression on two variables that were chosen out of convenience more than anything else... not sure how much that adds to science either (or how much that teaches them)

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Instituto Carlos III-Juan March/ Carlos III-Juan March Institute @ic3jm.bsky.social · 8d

2025/2026 here we go... 🚀

Check out our Permanent Seminar Series line-up for the fall! 🍂✨
This year is going to be full of exciting news—stay tuned!

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Lucía Cores-Sarría @luciacores.bsky.social · 15d

We know that learning is an emotional process. This slide was a real hit in my methods class (26 students enrolled, 22 of them women). It sparked a bit of an upheaval, to the extent that it took me a while to calm them down.
I’d bet good money they’ll remember what moderation is for years to come😀

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Lucía Cores-Sarría @luciacores.bsky.social · 16d

Also, Nature could have done a better job titling this article. It shouldn't have a question mark, it should be a: There is not credible evidence for a link

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Lucía Cores-Sarría @luciacores.bsky.social · 16d

I had excruciating pain during my pregnancy and all I could take was paracetamol. Trump's words are going to cause so much suffering on so many women.
“Pain relief for pregnant women is woefully lacking, [it] is a a much safer pain relief option during pregnancy than basically any other alternative”

Nature @nature.com · 16d

The US president repeatedly advised people, “Don't take Tylenol,” but scientists say that strong evidence between the medication and autism is lacking

go.nature.com/4nl0KhM

Trump links autism and Tylenol: is there any truth to it?

The US president repeatedly advised people, “Don't take Tylenol,” but scientists say that strong evidence between the medication and autism is lacking.

go.nature.com

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 16d

Oops. Bowing to bullies is not a good idea after all.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/b...

Jimmy Kimmel’s Show to Return to ABC on Tuesday Night

www.nytimes.com

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Lucía Cores-Sarría @luciacores.bsky.social · 16d

wow!!

Lucía Cores-Sarría @luciacores.bsky.social · 20d

A day may come when I will get a manuscript back from a coauthor without them having had to correct my "in" that should be an "on"... but it is not this day 😅.

I could be wrong but I think this is a very specific Spanish-native speaker problem?

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Lucía Cores-Sarría @luciacores.bsky.social · 21d

assuming you get to teach the same course again, but yes, that is definitely a plus

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Lucía Cores-Sarría @luciacores.bsky.social · 27d

hahah... not sure procrastination is the solution here

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Lucía Cores-Sarría @luciacores.bsky.social · 28d

If experienced professors have some advice, I'd love to learn a trick or two to avoid preparation for teaching a new course eating up all your time (and your soul 😅).

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Lucía Cores-Sarría @luciacores.bsky.social · 29d

good idea tagging them! thank you

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Tanay Katiyar @adigitaltanay.bsky.social · Aug 29

On Prolific, "we estimate that about 34% of online study participants use LLMs to answer open-ended questions atleast some of the time..."

Seems like a very timely paper for behavioural scientists using online samples: osf.io/preprints/so... ;

We really need more papers on this issue

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Lucía Cores-Sarría @luciacores.bsky.social · Sep 8

The bad part: I massively sprayed my (white) shirt with olive oil on the first day of class, two hours before teaching. The good part: it's sunny so I am sunbathing on a bench, hoping my soaked, hand-washed shirt dries on time for my class 😬

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Lucía Cores-Sarría @luciacores.bsky.social · Sep 5

Pub alert ! 🚨
In times of crisis for journalism, satirical news offer an alternative way for people to stay informed. But how effective are they? Does humor enhance or hinder information processing? We tested it in the lab, and got good news for satirical news :)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Fun Facts: The Impact of Joke Proximity on Encoding Facts from the Main Stories on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Drawing from Dynamic Human Centered Communication Systems Theory (DHCCST), this study examines how humor influences the acquisition of factual information from comedic news, using an experimental d...

www.tandfonline.com

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Lucía Cores-Sarría @luciacores.bsky.social · Sep 3

My first visit at ZeMKI is coming to an end. What an awesome couple of weeks, meeting new colleagues, presenting my research and establishing some collaborations I am really looking forward to. Special thanks to @cbpuschmann.bsky.social and to his team at DCID lab for their warm welcome.

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Lucía Cores-Sarría @luciacores.bsky.social · Sep 3

I just checked my class list for the first time: out of 26 students, only 4 are men 😯. This is a 5th-year course in the Political Science and International Relations BA.
The gender gap at the university is real!

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Lucía Cores-Sarría @luciacores.bsky.social · Aug 20

They attribute it to the arrival of AI.
Uh-oh.

Press Gazette @pressgazette.co.uk · Aug 20

Traffic for the world’s top-50 news websites swung sharply into the red in July, according to Press Gazette’s exclusive traffic ranking pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...

Top 50 English-language news sites in the world: All but four report traffic declines in July

Press Gazette lists the top 50 most popular news websites in the world. Monthly updated top 50 listing based on data provided by SimilarWeb.

pressgazette.co.uk

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Albert Vilella, PhD. @albertvilella.bsky.social · Aug 11

Seen on another social media platform

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Lucía Cores-Sarría @luciacores.bsky.social · Aug 11

I try not to drink IPAs too often because I fear losing that awesome, powerful moment when the bitterness of the first sip brings me back to grad school, to summer, to the American Midwest.
I wish memories were not so easy to overwrite.

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Lucía Cores-Sarría @luciacores.bsky.social · Jun 25

Hahahah. Love this.

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Lucía Cores-Sarría @luciacores.bsky.social · Jun 25

Currently recovering from abdominal surgery and GIRL, do I have respect for all those moms who have to do this while also having to keep a newborn alive. I barely can take care of myself!

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