Chris Carpenter

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

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For the start of the year, we thought we'd do a quick update on the journal from launch to date, rather than just the last two months. How are we looking 8 months in? Let's check it out!

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And that's not left or right or centrist; it's just entitled laziness of the "I would like people have to consider my opinion without considering their or anyone's facts. My opinion has value independent of the facts in the matter" variety.

I think part of the plot is that they were a poorly matched couple inevitably heading to divorce. Perhaps she hated his characters and bits because he used them to deflect so she didn’t pay attention to them.

The Routledge Handbook of Communication and Social Cognition This handbook provides a comprehensive understanding of theory, research, and applications of research in communication and social cognition. Written by leading figures across an array of disciplines,...

in every area of communication research. Take a look at the table of contents and perhaps suggest to your local academic library that they pick up a copy

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The Routledge Handbook of Communication and Social Cognition is coming out this month. I was happy to co-author a chapter in it with @hcshulman.bsky.social on the role of cognition and metacognition in persuasion. We join a list of incredible scholars discussing the importance of social cognition 1/

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 49m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

But they are now using .075 instead of .05 total

I think p-values are next to useless either way. But consider this: have you ever seen a one-tailed test where p < .025? Or alternatively, consider someone who had a directional hypothesis and found it was statistically significant in the wrong direction, would they not report it as stat sig?

Tell me five classes you took in college:

Queer Theory
The Literature of Suffering
Rhetoric
Philosophy of Law
Film as Literature

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Attention graduate students! The 15th annual Communication & Technology / Mobile Doctoral Consortium is now accepting student proposals to participate at #ICA26 in Cape Town. Proposals are due 2 Feb. Please read the requirements closely. sites.google.com/view/2026ica...

Attention graduate students! The 15th annual Communication & Technology / Mobile Doctoral Consortium is now accepting student proposals to participate at #ICA26 in Cape Town. Proposals are due 2 Feb. Please read the requirements closely. sites.google.com/view/2026ica...

Reviewing transparency for 2025:
I reviewed 40 journal articles last year (including some that were the 2nd round for papers I had reviewed previously).

Hey if you are in Minnesota and you start noticing yourself hyper focusing, hearing whistles everywhere etc, that can be a sign of ptsd. PTSD is not just nightmares. I don’t know if the advice of playing Tetris or other repetitive games has held up but the VA does have good resources.

offered new measures of positive and negative politeness for pilot testing campaign messages.

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free copies here:

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New Pub with Adam Richards and Zie Zhuang:

Ever wonder why reactance would work via a mass media message when there's no way to enforce the loss of freedom? We argue it makes more sense to model resistance in a politeness theory framework. We did 2 studies consistent with that claim and 1/2

Attention graduate students! The 15th annual Communication & Technology / Mobile Doctoral Consortium is now accepting student proposals to participate at #ICA26 in Cape Town. Proposals are due 2 Feb. Please read the requirements closely. sites.google.com/view/2026ica...

Researchers turning continuous variables into dichotomies is always frustrating when coding a meta-analysis. People really want to think in categories but the world is mostly continuous.

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Resonates w/ Machiavelli who (thinking of early Rome & Milan’s short-lived Ambrosian republic) reminds us that removing the tyrant usually leads to bloodshed & a string of new tyrants, unless enormous groundwork happens to change institutions & mobilize all social levels to implement & defend them.

I love the Art Deco countdown clock on #cnnnye

I just finished “On the Origins of Totalitarianism.” Umm… I don’t want any of those jobs…

Yikes.

So apparently it was during the Civil War that Baseball overtook Cricket as the most popular ball and bat sport in the United States…

Climate Scientists: we really need to focus on using less electricity from fossil fuels.

Tech Industry: Sure, but hear me out… what if instead we used much, much more electricity?

Do cats count?

So… is that like all child-free women in their 40s? Because I don’t know anything about Civil War era baseball 🤷‍♂️

Are any generative AI companies even trying, like at all, to stop students from using their products to cheat?

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