Roger Giner-Sorolla
@rogerthegs.bsky.social
Social psychology Professor at University of Kent in England. Moral emotions, collective apologies, scientific reporting reform, ironic enjoyment, and more. Opinions are my own and do not represent any employer.
I am a product of my tweenage environment, and so when the Italian news channel mentions "Papa Leone" I can't help singing "left a note on the door"
December 31, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I am a product of my tweenage environment, and so when the Italian news channel mentions "Papa Leone" I can't help singing "left a note on the door"
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Best branding since Trojan, named for a city that let a bunch of little men sneak out once they'd snuck past the gate.
December 29, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Best branding since Trojan, named for a city that let a bunch of little men sneak out once they'd snuck past the gate.
I've got our Christmas Eve film lined up - The Banshees of Inisherin, which we missed in the cinema.
"Look," I tell her, "a heartwarming story of the auld sod, it's got all your good lads in it. Why, there's Colin now, with a rainbow over his shoulder!"
One hour later, my wife has left the room.
"Look," I tell her, "a heartwarming story of the auld sod, it's got all your good lads in it. Why, there's Colin now, with a rainbow over his shoulder!"
One hour later, my wife has left the room.
December 25, 2025 at 9:18 AM
I've got our Christmas Eve film lined up - The Banshees of Inisherin, which we missed in the cinema.
"Look," I tell her, "a heartwarming story of the auld sod, it's got all your good lads in it. Why, there's Colin now, with a rainbow over his shoulder!"
One hour later, my wife has left the room.
"Look," I tell her, "a heartwarming story of the auld sod, it's got all your good lads in it. Why, there's Colin now, with a rainbow over his shoulder!"
One hour later, my wife has left the room.
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Since it's a tense time of year 🫠
December 24, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Since it's a tense time of year 🫠
H̵̩͈̒a̴̰͝p̸̪̣͓̩̼̏͝p̷͈̻̞͂̆͆́y̵̙̦̯̍͗̎ ̶̪͓͑͗͆̓h̷͎̲̠͇̍͌̆͛͜o̵̦̖̺̳̓͂͌͆̕l̸̠̦̞̕i̴̹̪̤͗͂̽̇d̶̰̗̖̄ả̴̰̗̰̖͓̉́͊͝ý̵̡̡̖̝̂̌̉́͜s̷̺̞̟̙͙̋̈́̔̚͠ ̵̲̣̗̎̂͜2̶̦̠̦̠̹̈́̇̚0̷̻͓̩̓̑2̶͍͐5̸̘̞̞̈
December 23, 2025 at 11:01 AM
H̵̩͈̒a̴̰͝p̸̪̣͓̩̼̏͝p̷͈̻̞͂̆͆́y̵̙̦̯̍͗̎ ̶̪͓͑͗͆̓h̷͎̲̠͇̍͌̆͛͜o̵̦̖̺̳̓͂͌͆̕l̸̠̦̞̕i̴̹̪̤͗͂̽̇d̶̰̗̖̄ả̴̰̗̰̖͓̉́͊͝ý̵̡̡̖̝̂̌̉́͜s̷̺̞̟̙͙̋̈́̔̚͠ ̵̲̣̗̎̂͜2̶̦̠̦̠̹̈́̇̚0̷̻͓̩̓̑2̶͍͐5̸̘̞̞̈
The "black highlight the pdf" technique strikes again!
So apparently there are many Epstein files on the DOJ website where you can highlight the redacted text, copy it, and paste it onto another document to read the redactions
December 23, 2025 at 10:08 AM
The "black highlight the pdf" technique strikes again!
Somehow, all this redacted material is only increasing suspicion. Kind of like...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=NGoJ...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=NGoJ...
John Denver CENSORED
YouTube video by steveythreedee
m.youtube.com
December 20, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Somehow, all this redacted material is only increasing suspicion. Kind of like...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=NGoJ...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=NGoJ...
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📣 One week left to apply to our Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences!
We have an exciting program for this year: www.tse-fr.eu/sites/defaul...
🗓️ May 26 to June 19, 2026
📍 Toulouse
Application deadline: December 15
Apply here: www.tse-fr.eu/toulouse-sum...
@tse-fr.eu @iast.fr
We have an exciting program for this year: www.tse-fr.eu/sites/defaul...
🗓️ May 26 to June 19, 2026
📍 Toulouse
Application deadline: December 15
Apply here: www.tse-fr.eu/toulouse-sum...
@tse-fr.eu @iast.fr
www.tse-fr.eu
December 8, 2025 at 9:46 AM
📣 One week left to apply to our Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences!
We have an exciting program for this year: www.tse-fr.eu/sites/defaul...
🗓️ May 26 to June 19, 2026
📍 Toulouse
Application deadline: December 15
Apply here: www.tse-fr.eu/toulouse-sum...
@tse-fr.eu @iast.fr
We have an exciting program for this year: www.tse-fr.eu/sites/defaul...
🗓️ May 26 to June 19, 2026
📍 Toulouse
Application deadline: December 15
Apply here: www.tse-fr.eu/toulouse-sum...
@tse-fr.eu @iast.fr
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🚨Two postdoc positions @tse-fr.eu @iast.fr 🚨
We are recruiting two postdocs as part of the ANR-funded project ENFORCE.
Join me, @giuliandr.bsky.social, & @zhgarfield.com, to study punitive systems across societies.
Full time, 2 years, no teaching.
Deadline: Jan 23
www.tse-fr.eu/groups/depar...
We are recruiting two postdocs as part of the ANR-funded project ENFORCE.
Join me, @giuliandr.bsky.social, & @zhgarfield.com, to study punitive systems across societies.
Full time, 2 years, no teaching.
Deadline: Jan 23
www.tse-fr.eu/groups/depar...
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
www.tse-fr.eu
December 1, 2025 at 12:37 PM
🚨Two postdoc positions @tse-fr.eu @iast.fr 🚨
We are recruiting two postdocs as part of the ANR-funded project ENFORCE.
Join me, @giuliandr.bsky.social, & @zhgarfield.com, to study punitive systems across societies.
Full time, 2 years, no teaching.
Deadline: Jan 23
www.tse-fr.eu/groups/depar...
We are recruiting two postdocs as part of the ANR-funded project ENFORCE.
Join me, @giuliandr.bsky.social, & @zhgarfield.com, to study punitive systems across societies.
Full time, 2 years, no teaching.
Deadline: Jan 23
www.tse-fr.eu/groups/depar...
Surely a highlight of Paul Rozin's online keynote at the Disgust Without Borders conference, after an excellent review and comment on the research, was his extended poetic riff on Hamlet's soliloquy - applied to food! @disgust-nerds.bsky.social @iast.fr
December 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Surely a highlight of Paul Rozin's online keynote at the Disgust Without Borders conference, after an excellent review and comment on the research, was his extended poetic riff on Hamlet's soliloquy - applied to food! @disgust-nerds.bsky.social @iast.fr
Attention, mediation users (and yes, like it or not, your arrows are causal)
Arrows are tricky. For us, as the designer of the visual, it will be super clear what it means. But for someone looking at our visual for the first time, it can be highly ambiguous. Depending on the reader, the same arrow can mean sequence, zoom, range, label, movement,...
1/2
1/2
December 4, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Attention, mediation users (and yes, like it or not, your arrows are causal)
Missing At Random and Missing Completely At Random, because they're going to confuse the hell out of you
I named my fists Kahneman and Tversky because I’m gonna make your losses loom larger than your gains
I named my fists Common and Sense because I'm about to bring the Paine
December 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Missing At Random and Missing Completely At Random, because they're going to confuse the hell out of you
The Ramone Catholic Church
November 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The Ramone Catholic Church
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Do I know anyone on here who went to a British boys boarding school -preferably the elite kind- within the last 20 years? If that doesn't describe you then retweet this until somebody it does describe sees this.
November 24, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Do I know anyone on here who went to a British boys boarding school -preferably the elite kind- within the last 20 years? If that doesn't describe you then retweet this until somebody it does describe sees this.
Horrific use of psychological testing, up there with the 20th century's worst practices: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Greenlandic families fight to get children back after parenting tests banned
The Danish government has banned the use of parental competency tests on Greenlandic families after decades of criticism.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Horrific use of psychological testing, up there with the 20th century's worst practices: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Brandy you're a fine girl
What a good wife you would be
But my life my love and my lady
Is the See
What a good wife you would be
But my life my love and my lady
Is the See
November 23, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Brandy you're a fine girl
What a good wife you would be
But my life my love and my lady
Is the See
What a good wife you would be
But my life my love and my lady
Is the See
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Anyone posted this one yet?
November 22, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Anyone posted this one yet?
Training initiative FORRT has released a platform for those who wish to discover and publicize computer and tabletop games about open research and publishing! Linked through this landing page:
forrt.org/games/
forrt.org/games/
Open Research Games Portal
Integrating open and reproducible science into higher education
forrt.org
November 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Training initiative FORRT has released a platform for those who wish to discover and publicize computer and tabletop games about open research and publishing! Linked through this landing page:
forrt.org/games/
forrt.org/games/
iSTock is an AI generator, if you couldn't tell from the abhuman forearm joints, dress-shirt-with-camo-blazer combo, peculiarly debranded ideological baseball cap, liberal cat decal, and novel approach to pouring champagne
November 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
iSTock is an AI generator, if you couldn't tell from the abhuman forearm joints, dress-shirt-with-camo-blazer combo, peculiarly debranded ideological baseball cap, liberal cat decal, and novel approach to pouring champagne
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You now need to opt-out of letting Google use your G-Mail to train its AI. Go to your general settings and scroll to Smart Features: Unclick it. Done.
November 20, 2025 at 10:34 PM
You now need to opt-out of letting Google use your G-Mail to train its AI. Go to your general settings and scroll to Smart Features: Unclick it. Done.
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There is already a party that is giving bigots everything they want; they've got it all locked up. Anyone so devoted to their bigotries that they hold their votes contingent over it is going to vote for that party.
Differentiate to win.
Don't differentiate to lose.
This is very simple marketing.
Differentiate to win.
Don't differentiate to lose.
This is very simple marketing.
November 20, 2025 at 11:00 AM
There is already a party that is giving bigots everything they want; they've got it all locked up. Anyone so devoted to their bigotries that they hold their votes contingent over it is going to vote for that party.
Differentiate to win.
Don't differentiate to lose.
This is very simple marketing.
Differentiate to win.
Don't differentiate to lose.
This is very simple marketing.
I imagine, if you were trying to detect manual fraud of scientific data, the grid would look the same but in reverse, with the fraudster trying unconsciously to avoid even-looking figures
One of my favourite charts (my only contribution was the annotation)
Now this is how you detect whether an election was stolen. Humans choose rounder numbers.
by @TheEconomist
by @TheEconomist
November 20, 2025 at 8:23 AM
I imagine, if you were trying to detect manual fraud of scientific data, the grid would look the same but in reverse, with the fraudster trying unconsciously to avoid even-looking figures
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One of my favourite charts (my only contribution was the annotation)
Now this is how you detect whether an election was stolen. Humans choose rounder numbers.
by @TheEconomist
by @TheEconomist
November 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
One of my favourite charts (my only contribution was the annotation)
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This—on my former university, department, and advisor—is harrowing but required reading for all social psychologists. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Oxford University Has Failed Women Over Harassment Concerns, Staff Say
The university has repeatedly been slow to act against male academics accused of sexual misconduct and inappropriate behavior, a Bloomberg investigation found.
www.bloomberg.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
This—on my former university, department, and advisor—is harrowing but required reading for all social psychologists. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...