daniel messinger

Developmental (psych) scientist. Available for academic career advice.

[Chana @ChanaMessinger]

I'm looking for an enthusiastic generalist to take a senior position on the video team and have their fingers in *lots* of pies: production, Chinese social media, running hiring rounds, etc!

If you're willing to try things you haven't done before and you learn quickly, apply!

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Today marks the 111th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. As we honor the 1.5 million Armenians murdered by the Ottoman Empire across modern-day Turkey, Syria, and Armenia, we must refuse to let history repeat itself.

In 2020, the military forces of Azerbaijan and Turkey attacked the Armenian population in Nagorno-Karabakh. In 2023, Azerbaijan expelled over 100,000 Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh, continuing the genocidal campaign that had begun over 100 years prior.

On this day of remembrance, we reaffirm the right of the Armenian people — and all people — to freedom, safety, and self-determination.

[UMiami-Psychology @UMiamiPsych]

https://t.co/sISx5g2PiF

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

Destroying the @InternetArchive's @WayBackMachine would be the equivalent of the burning of the Library of Alexandria - one of the worst losses of knowledge in history.

Media giants are now threatening to do this.

We can't let this happen.

Pass it on.

[Athena Akrami @AthenaAkrami]

Academic friends,
A few of us drafted an open letter calling for protection of civilians & of educational, research, medical & cultural institutions; and for practical support for students and scholars.

Please read, share & sign if you agree:
https://t.co/XHvcOBu5i5

#IranWar‌

[Dina D. Pomeranz 🟣 @DinaPomeranz]

A call from faculty members of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to Jewish people around the world:

"Diaspora Jews, if You Care About Israel – Fight Jewish Terrorism"

[FIRE @TheFIREorg]

Boston University administrators are ordering faculty to remove flags from their office windows.

One professor came to campus to find a university employee had entered her office and taken down her LGBT Pride flags, with a note saying outward-facing displays aren’t allowed.

[daniel messinger @danielmessinger]

Alyssa Viggiano (top left) defends her thesis showing associations between child vocal characteristics and autism symptoms on the boscc in a collaboration with Shri Narayanan and Cathy Lord. Lynn Perry, @Michael Alessandri, Madison Drye also featured.

[daniel messinger @danielmessinger]

A law of human proxemics? Children align side to side at closer distances and face-to-face when distances are greater than .65 m. #PreschoolPhysics https://t.co/bdVCFho7Hf

[Dean W. Ball @deanwball]

I would not have predicted this and I think Microsoft deserves serious praise here. Bravo.

[Chana @ChanaMessinger]

https://t.co/ggUJADRGt5

[Chana @ChanaMessinger]

New AI in Context video, on the New York Times Bestseller If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, and imo it's a banger.

Featuring @deanwball , @RepBillFoster and @dwarkesh_sp

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

It appears that a Polymarket account called "Magamyman" made $515,000 in a single day betting on last night's U.S. strike on Iran, with the first trade placed 71 minutes before the news broke publicly.

When this person bought in, the market had this at a 17% probability. They turned roughly $87,000 into over half a million dollars overnight.

Reminder that Donald Trump Jr. sits on Polymarket's advisory board and his firm invested double-digit millions into the platform last year. The DOJ and CFTC both had active investigations into Polymarket that were dropped after Trump took office.

Prediction markets cannot be a vehicle for profiting off advance knowledge of military action.

We need answers, transparency, and oversight.

[thebes @voooooogel]

while looking through cognates for an unrelated project, i stumbled on *m{a,e}gh-, which interestingly reframes the famous clarke quote

[Susan Polgar @SusanPolgar]

This was a very dangerous photo!

I was 15 and just became the #1 woman player in the world, the youngest ever at that time. I was also the #1 15 year old in the world, boy or girl. I decided to make a public statement and started to wear the Star of David, and be photographed with it!

I was never a political person. I just wanted to honor more than 300 members of my extended family who were killed during the Holocaust. It was an extremely dangerous thing to do in Hungary back at that time. I wrote about it extensively in my memoir Rebel Queen.

#RebelQueen https://t.co/H9GmDZTWoO

[Walter Masterson @waltermasterson]

These 9 people were killed by ICE in the month of January:

Alex Pretti
Renee Good
Keith Porter
Parady La
Heber Sanchaz Domínguez
Victor Manuel Diaz
Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz
Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres
and Geraldo Lunas Campos.

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

Today, masked Israeli settlers armed with clubs attacked Palestinian farmers while they were working their land near the villages of Kafr Qaddum and Beit Lid in the West Bank.

Palestinians urgently need international protection.

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

@turbo_xo_ @paulg Immigrants commit crimes at lower rate than citizens.

Data (American Economic Association): https://t.co/ox1GYD1m7z

Data (House of Representatives): https://t.co/e9iGyE9Zgx

Study (PNAS): https://t.co/vGizTIsN33

[Nahed hajjaj @nahed_hajjaj99]

Today, Israel murdered three of my journalist colleagues in a single airstrike.

The world discusses the Gaza "Board Of Peace" while our children freeze to death and airstrikes wipe out families.

The ceasefire is a lie. Israel continues to ethnically cleanse us.

[Chana @ChanaMessinger]

You could probably literally double the amount of food a group goes through by cutting a piece of each pastry or doughnut or removing a slice from each pizza ahead of time