Anna Szala

Evolutionary psychologist, PhD candidate, Oakland University.
Loves forests and winter. Retired computer gamer.
🐘 @[email protected]
#gnuterrypratchett

[Anna Szala @AnnaDoesScience]

Due to technical reasons, I am a bit late to the mass migration but I finally made it to #Mastodon! @[email protected] https://t.co/Xdr119rsGj Expect a gradual transition as I embrace the fediverse. Looking forward to meeting all of you in this new online home. 🐘

[Anna Szala @AnnaDoesScience]

@GJasienska @anneapplebaum Absolutely amazing, isn't she? I loved all of her books as well.

[Anna Szala @AnnaDoesScience]

@Michal_Bilewicz @pobvidubuw By chance, is it going to be available online?

[Rafał Halik😷 @HalikRafa]

@Michal_Bilewicz Generowanie cytowan przez AI oraz tworzenie gazet naukowych, w których mozna publikowac za ciezka forse i ktore kazdego dnia publikuja potok artykulow. Potem w bazach bibliograficznych kupa gruzu w stylu artykulow „samoswiadomosc swierzbu wsrod murarzy w powiecie przasnyskim”

[Dean Burnett (@drdeanburnett everywhere) @drdeanburnett]

Why you’re hardwired to trust confident voices. Even when they’re wrong

https://t.co/WLGLSEWRCK

Me, for @sciencefocus

Our reflexive tendency to trust confidence helps explain Johnson, Trump, Putin, Musk, and so much more that is otherwise baffling about the modern world

[Euromaidan Press @EuromaidanPress]

An appropriate illustration of Ukraine being forced into "Peace negotiations" with Russia

[Igor Sushko @igorsushko]

🧵Having spent dozens of hours analyzing every word spoken by Prigozhin during his hour-long interview to develop a precise translation (9,117 words!), here are my key takeaways.⤵️
Thanks to everyone who donated to https://t.co/MJ1KfkDEF1 to make this project possible!

[Anna Szala @AnnaDoesScience]

If you want to decrease the mortality of owls caused by forcing us to chug hectoliters of coffee, stop organizing classes and meetings before 12:00. The oppressive morning bird cultural dominance must collapse! #saveowls #larkstoxicsupremacy #riot

[University of Helsinki @helsinkiuni]

Staying up late at night has little impact on how long ‘night owls’ live. Compared to morning persons the increased risk of mortality appears to be mainly accounted for by a larger consumption of tobacco and alcohol.@tyoterveys @HelsinkiUniMed https://t.co/O7Zrot8ffx

[Oleksandra Povoroznyk 🇺🇦 @rynkrynk]

Russian soldiers are shelling the evacuation site in Kherson, trying to kill both the evacuees and the (Ukrainian, obviously, since not a single international organisation has shown up to help) volunteers helping them.

[Jakub Krupa @JakubKrupa]

Thousands attending a major opposition rally in Warsaw right now on the 34th anniversary of Poland's first partially free & democratic election of 1989 as the electoral campaign gains pace before Poles go to the polls this autumn. #Marsz4czerwca

[Anna Szala @AnnaDoesScience]

@Michal_Bilewicz Niestety, mam podobne doświadczenia z uczestnictwa w międzynarodowych konferencjach. Inne konferencje, inne osoby, a pytania bardzo podobne. Strasznie mi przykro, że właśnie taki PR zgotowała nam władza.

[Dr. Jessica Taylor @DrJessTaylor]

A reminder that Elsevier made $10.5 BILLION in 2022 from selling your academic journals and articles behind paywalls, and make more profit than Amazon, Google, and Apple every year…

And paid the academics who wrote the articles $0
And paid the reviewers of the articles $0

[Sacha Altay @Sacha_Altay]

We told participants that sharing false news will hurt their reputation & that they are biased in sharing political news they agree with

The main effect of this intervention was to reduce the sharing of non-political true news 🤣🤦

Well-intentioned interventions can backfire😭

[Anna Szala @AnnaDoesScience]

The first day of the Directions in Language Evolution workshop 🗣️ at @UMK_Torun, yay! @cles_ncu @ptnce

[Bad Baltic Takes @BadBalticTakes]

Someone asked why Andrew Tate's sauna was called a bad sauna if it's the sauna *usage* that was bad.

That's actually a good question. Let's unpack it. 🧵

(TL;DR: To us, sauna is a tradition, not a room)

Oh, & this is also an excuse to recommend a great new movie to you all.

[Anna Szala @AnnaDoesScience]

New paper alert! 🥳 We found that ocular morphology (sclera size index, width-to-height ratio, relative iris luminance) of White Europeans is not linked to opposite-sex ratings of facial attractiveness. 👀 It suggests a limited role of ocular morphology in human mate preferences.

[Dariusz Danel @Zanvanim]

Proudly to announce that our new paper is out! The results yet again suggest that sexual selection did not affect the evolution of sexually dimorphic ocular features. #HumanSclera #OcularMorphology @IITDPAN @cles_ncu @plos @plosone https://t.co/4uIX5Su4Lv

[Anna Szala @AnnaDoesScience]

Digging through a shabby thrift store in gods-forgotten Aleksandrów Kujawski I came across this cursed dosette box.
It describes the #Polish political situation with ironic accuracy.

[Guillem Riambau-Armet @griambau]

(1/2)

I asked students which society they'd prefer to live in

A: Their wage=60K; Average wage=75K

B: Their wage=55K; Average wage=45K

(same prices, inflation, etc.)

they overwhelmingly preferred B. Income is definitely a positional good (to some extent)

[Bad Baltic Takes @BadBalticTakes]

My favourite thing on Twitter (genuinely) is people discovering the Baltic Way.

No mobiles, no social media, limited freedoms. Yet, on 23 August 1989, 2 million formed a nearly 700km chain across 3 countries demanding freedom.

However, the key context is often missed… 🧵

[Yoghurt @Yoghurt_Sothoth]

Ta cudowna inba o "kulturę napiwków" w USA przypomniała mi pewien epizod z mojego życia. 19 lat temu pracowałem w amerykańskiej knajpie (lokal już nie istnieje, Monroe Street NE w Waszyngtonie DC, dziś stoi tam dom kultury Edgewood Arts Center). Mały wątek 🧵