Dr Effie Mitsopoulou 

Tutor in Psychology at Swansea University

[Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel]

Cornell just produced a massive new report on higher education noting that companies have a “jarring” skepticism of higher ed thanks to a new generation of degree holders who lack key skills like handling uncertainty, compromising, and absorbing feedback.

Faculty also report that incoming students, despite four years of undergraduate education, are “underdeveloped” in these relational or interpersonal skills.

This is a serious crises in higher education and the report calls for a greater need for conflict-resolution training. We need to do a better job training our students to deal with these issues.

These are traditionally the skills students developed in higher education. I loved college because it challenged me, sparked debate, and required me to grapple with complexity. This should be an essential part of college--inside and outside the classroom.

https://t.co/qvTg2hB7HO

[Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel]

People in romantic relationships report higher life satisfaction than singles.

But this life-satisfaction gap is larger in regions with higher relationship rates, according to a new study of 382,078 adults across 379 regions in Great Britain.

People in relationships may benefit from living in places where romantic relationships are more common.

https://t.co/1klJ1sc2J5

[Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel]

What increases your social status?

Being a trusted group member is #1. This is what people value in their community.

Other factors include intelligence, university prestige, leadership, knowledge, creativity, honesty, public speaking, income, humor and kindness.

Stealing, stupidity, STDs, and uncleanliness are the biggest ways to reduce your social status.

[Tanay Harinkhede @Tanaypawar27]

LIST OF 40 WEBSITES TO FIND REMOTE JOBS

1. Linkedin. com

2. Indeed. com

3. Glassdoor. com

4. FlexJobs. com

5. weworkremotely. com

6. Remote. com

7. Upwork. com

8. Freelancer. com

9. Fiverr. com

10. Guru. com

11. Toptal. com

12. AngelList. com

13. Hubstafftalent. com

14. Simplyhired. com

15. Remotive. com

16. Virtualvocations. com

17. workingnomads. com

18. Hired. com

19. cloudpeeps. com

20. taskrabbit. com

21. talent. com

22. Remote OK - remoteok. io

23. DRemote - dremote. io

24. Jooble - jooble. org

25. stackoverflow. com/jobs

26. jobspresso. com

27. onlinejobs. ph

28. simplyhired. com

29. themuse. com

30. skipthedrive. com

31. zirtual. com

32. justremote. com

33. hireable. com

34. remoteworkhub. com

35. jobbatical. com

36. freelancewritinggigs. com

37. contentwritingjobs. com

38. problogger. com/jobs

39. behance. net

40. designhill. com

Don't forget to follow @Tanaypawar27 to get more insightful Ai related tools and update.

[Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel]

The number of students admitted to top Ph.D. programs this fall dropped 15% from the previous year, after dropping 11% the previous year.

The nation’s top research universities are shrinking doctoral programs because of uncertain federal funding raising fears that the nation’s capacity to produce new science could be diminished.

“It’s a loss for the nation,” she said. “When you shrink the pipeline of basic discovery research, you choke off the flow of future solutions, innovations and cures — and you shrink the supply of future scientists.”

The current administration is creating complete chaos for grant funding that is damaging a generation of new scientific talent. https://t.co/3alhgqQ8Yf

Last year I wrote "Defunding the world’s leading scientific community is akin to performing a prefrontal lobotomy on the nation—you are effectively severing the connections between the most innovative ideas and its citizens." We are only starting to see the effects of that now. https://t.co/KRBcQaQIIJ

[Tanay Harinkhede @Tanaypawar27]

The biggest AI skill of 2026 isn't prompt engineering.

It's AI literacy.

Because the people getting ahead aren't the ones with better prompts.

They're the ones who understand what's happening under the hood.

Harvard just made 5 AI courses free:

→ Introduction to Generative AI
https://t.co/f0LeToinVM

→ Prompt Engineering
https://t.co/FTxjz89MgQ

→ System Prompts & RAG
https://t.co/0M0zVaGcPL

→ Basics of Generative AI
https://t.co/iQycekbh3K

→ CS50's AI with Python
https://t.co/EwO1FBUZX7

Most people won't take these.
That's exactly why they're valuable.

Bookmark it

[Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel]

Facing adversity at work, team members often turn to one another to make sense of a problem that feels uncomfortable and uncontrollable. When negative thoughts and emotions dominate this sensemaking process, it can prevent a team from identifying constructive solutions

Now there is a new measure of collective rumination in teams to asses dysfunctional team processes. Teams who score high on this measure score lower on team performance and teamwork engagement.

Collective rumination involves recursive discussions of the problem, speculation about causes, speculation about consequences, sharing negative thoughts and feelings, and mutual reinforcement of problem talk.

https://t.co/g2Amnbswqj

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

The books you love are a window into your personality.

•Mystery & self-improvement attract conscientious people
•Sci-fi, psychology, philosophy draw open-minded people
•Memoir & horror appeal to neurotic people

Reading doesn't just shape our views. It reveals what we're like.

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Being addicted to your phone is associated with decreased brain volume & activity.

[The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes]

From Leith to Leeds, these UK towns, cities and suburbs are vibrant, full of potential and relatively affordable

[Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel]

We should no longer trust data collected on MTurk
https://t.co/0TwmsjRD5z

My guess is that other online data is going to drop in quality due to LLMs. This is going to be an existential crisis for the behavioral sciences.

[Ai With Piyas @piyascode9]

12 AI Tools That’ll Make You UNSTOPPABLE in 2026 🚀

These aren’t just tools. They’re weapons for creators, coders, marketers & hustlers.

Save this. You’ll thank me later 🧵👇

1. Perplexity
→ Real-time answers with sources.
✅ Research faster, smarter.
💡 Ask anything & click the source.

2. Claude
→ Cleans up messy writing.
✅ Makes long content flow naturally.
💡 Paste notes → get a clean draft.

3. GitHub Copilot
→ Auto-completes code as you type.
✅ Saves hours on boring tasks.
💡 Write a comment → get code.

4. https://t.co/5M9PKnoW43
→ Transcribes meetings live.
✅ Captures key decisions.
💡 Invite to Zoom → get summary.

5. Zapier AI
→ Connects apps with smart triggers.
✅ Automate boring work.
💡 Summarize emails → send to CRM.

6. Notion AI
→ Summarizes & rewrites inside docs.
✅ Turns chaos into clarity.
💡 Highlight → click “Ask AI”.

7. Gamma
→ Turns outlines into slides.
✅ No design stress.
💡 Paste bullets → get a deck.

8. Runway
→ Turns ideas into video scenes.
✅ No camera needed.
💡 Describe → get a clip.

9. ElevenLabs
→ Text to human-like voice.
✅ Multilingual, realistic.
💡 Paste script → download voice.

10. Canva Magic Studio
→ AI-powered visuals & captions.
✅ Fast content creation.
💡 Type what you need → done.

11. OpusClip
→ Finds highlights in long videos.
✅ Makes short viral clips.
💡 Upload → get 10+ posts.

12. https://t.co/iaEotcPOKC
→ Build & sell digital products.
✅ Monetize your knowledge.
💡 Create → sell → earn.

—

💬 Which one blew your mind?

🔁 Retweet to help your fellow creators.

Follow @piyascode9 for more

[Faheem Ullah @Faheem_uh]

Which tool to use in each phase of your PhD?

1. Exploration and Idea Generation

𝐀𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 → https://t.co/MusSWtRRtJ
𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐤𝐚 → https://t.co/zBjjPzDMfJ

2. Literature Review

𝐓𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐚 → https://t.co/Ca4Ryz181K
𝐖𝐢𝐬𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫 → https://t.co/Je5YCA7Zl0

3. Data Collection

𝐍𝐞𝐱𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 → https://t.co/Be3yaKdeq6
𝐦𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐚 → https://t.co/modIBYOxLP

4. Data Analysis

𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞 → https://t.co/PofTP0mYkw
𝐆𝐚𝐭𝐬𝐛𝐢 → https://t.co/gyKStOIA12

5. Writing and Drafting

𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐚𝐥 → https://t.co/jLDR3VwrSL
𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰-𝐢𝐭 → https://t.co/PMrNAhnkJM

6. Review and Refinement

𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰𝐞𝐫𝟑 → https://t.co/PMrNAhnkJM
𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐟𝐲 → https://t.co/MzhV4GkcVT

[Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel]

“Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health” https://t.co/ZuaFDFQHWD

[Ai With Piyas @piyascode9]

🧵 ChatGPT vs Grok vs Gemini vs Claude vs Perplexity — 5 leading AI tools explained.

Best use cases, strengths & pro tips.
No hype, just practical insights to choose the right tool.

📌 Save this post & read the full thread 👇

[Dr Asma Jabeen @DrasmaJabeen1]

Artificial intelligence assisted academic writing Ethical Use

[Andrew Akbashev @Andrew_Akbashev]

Pressure to publish jumps. And researchers have no time to do science.
(New survey from Elsevier)

Survey of 3200 researchers:

1. Only 45% of scientists have sufficient time for actual research.

2. For 68%, the pressure to publish today is greater than 2-3 years ago.

3. 29% of researchers are considering relocating to another country (for better funding, work‐life balance, or greater research freedom).

4. 58% of researchers use AI tools in their work.

5. Reported benefits from AI: saving time (58%), helping with literature summaries (61%), literature reviews (51%), data analysis (38%), drafting proposals (41%), and drafting papers (38%).

Globally, life in academia is getting worse.

For students & postdocs - it’s especially hard to decide on an academic career.

❗️ A few days ago, I gave a lecture on this topic.

“PhD: Dreams, Reality and Consequences”

Watch it here: https://t.co/5IFhcVFwIL

(I’ll appreciate if you ‘like’ this video - you will GREATLY help it reach more students.)

[Faheem Ullah @Faheem_uh]

PhD Students - When to use which tool?

1. Writing research papers ➝ 𝐀𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬

Link: https://t.co/EagIhCGWn4

2. Grammar and typos checking ➝ 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐚𝐥

Link: https://t.co/jLDR3VwrSL

3. Data extraction for literature review ➝ 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞

Link: https://t.co/8Kg056Opce

4. Peer review of manuscript ➝ 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰-𝐢𝐭

Link: https://t.co/PMrNAhnkJM

5. Scholarships ➝ 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲 𝐑𝐨𝐚𝐝

Link: https://t.co/1nDbIUmRK1

6. Finding citations for your paper ➝ 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐫

Link: https://t.co/dkmQJWRdlC

7. Understand a complex topic ➝ 𝐏𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫

Link: https://t.co/YLihtlKXCD

8. Identify papers for literature review ➝ 𝐉𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐢 𝐀𝐈

Link: https://t.co/g09qtGBueH

9. Convert paper to a poster ➝ 𝐁𝐨𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐮𝐦

Link: https://t.co/rNB7rdA0RT

Any other tool you'd like to add?

[Association for Psychological Science @PsychScience]

Thank you for joining us for the 2025 APS Global Summit! More than 500 scientists from 35 countries gathered virtually to share emerging research, network with colleagues, and build collaborations for future projects. #APSGlobal
https://t.co/EB78GyY6fx

[Jure Leskovec @jure]

The Stanford Graph Learning Workshop 2025 videos are now live! 🎥
Watch all talks! links below 👇
This year’s themes:
🧠 Agents
🔗 Relational Foundation Models
⚡ Fast LLM Inference

Explore the frontiers of AI & data science with top researchers and innovators.

https://t.co/kjxINs4wtc