My 38th @pintofscience session 🙌💛🧠🍺 #pint26 #drinkupthinkup

I don’t mind my data being used my for research to help the NHS etc, however, because the government have now allowed Palantir access, I have withdrawn my consent using this link: your-data-matters.service.nh…

The media has us believing that Reform took over the country. But the reality is this. How embarrassing

An IBM training manual from 1979.

Imagine a 19-year-old scrolling TikTok. She watches a creator list five "signs you have undiagnosed anxiety." She recognizes three in herself. By the end of the week, she's describing herself as anxious to her friends. A month later, she's avoiding situations she used to handle fine. What went wrong? In a new paper by my PhD student Dasha Sandra, titled "Why mental health awareness can harm: Converging explanations for a societal problem", we argue that well-meaning mental health awareness can backfire, and we identify how. Four separate literatures (concept creep, nocebo effects, prevalence inflation, and illness self-labeling) have been circling the same problem from different angles. We show they converge on three mechanisms: 1.Awareness lowers the threshold for what counts as a disorder. 2. It trains people to scan their inner lives for symptoms and reinterpret normal distress as pathology. 3. Once someone adopts an illness identity, they behave in ways that confirm and deepen it. The evidence is wide. Learning that loneliness is harmful makes solitude feel worse. Learning that stress is harmful worsens well-being and performance. Awareness videos about fake conditions like "wind turbine syndrome" produce real headaches. Trigger warnings raise anticipatory anxiety without reducing distress. This does not mean awareness should stop. It means awareness can have unintended consequences, including manufacturing the suffering it tries to prevent. Inoculating people against these mechanisms works, and we already have evidence it does. Link to paper: michael-inzlicht.squarespace…

How are all the European languages connected? This visual answers your question! Interactive version here: public.tableau.com/app/profi…

The planet can spell your name – literally. 🔤🌍 This Earth Day, see your name written in landscapes captured by Landsat: go.nasa.gov/4ak4Cdu

How Covid impacted a healthy teenage boy, from Chelsea Barton-Ellab (chelseaschaos) on TikTok: “For those who didn’t believe COVID was real..here is my very healthy and active 15 year old...”.

I was at a bar alone yesterday when the bartender said, “Hey, check this message from my sister.” He showed me his phone and it read, “Under no circumstances should you get into a conversation with the guy sitting on your right.” Men, if you’re ever in a position to do something like this,please do it.

Today I learned that Australia is home to the 4th largest Mongolian diaspora.

Disappointed to see @roamsmarttag marketed for sale despite not filling many of their Kickstarter pledges (see their last campaign update for comments). #scam #roamtracker #roamsmarttag #buyerbeware #roam #roamtag

I think society has decided that it would rather watch people slowly become more ill, face disability, die younger than change anything about the way they live. Even if that includes them and their children and grandchildren. It's really weird.

Genuinely horrific tweet. If this doesn't terrify you then you are lost.

People had several extra kids and then watched them die.

I want the one at the top please😂 x.com/xWibes/status/18780945…

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When people talk about the devastation from COVID, they usually cite the number of people who died (7 million, 20 million, 30 million) or the economic cost ($14 trillion, $35 trillion, etc) but this pales in comparison to the true cost, something most people do not understand or talk about: