Thomas Schubert
@schubert.bsky.social
Social psychologist studying emotions: https://www.kamamutalab.org. Teaching at University of Oslo & European Master Global-MINDS. Dad to a rocket scientist. Born at 323 p.p.m.
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Thomas Schubert
@schubert.bsky.social
· Sep 10
EASP members open letter to EU
If you wish to sign this letter, please visit https://forms.gle/cKjBERDPJDGtxxau7 (If access to the Google Form is denied, kindly try again in an incognito window or another browser). Open letter to t...
docs.google.com
If you care about Palestine and are a social psychologist, and especially if you are or were a member of EASP, please consider signing this open letter that I wrote together with other EASP members. We will send it to the leaders of the EU
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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If you care about Palestine and are a social psychologist, and especially if you are or were a member of EASP, please consider signing this open letter that I wrote together with other EASP members. We will send it to the leaders of the EU
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
EASP members open letter to EU
If you wish to sign this letter, please visit https://forms.gle/cKjBERDPJDGtxxau7 (If access to the Google Form is denied, kindly try again in an incognito window or another browser). Open letter to t...
docs.google.com
September 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
If you care about Palestine and are a social psychologist, and especially if you are or were a member of EASP, please consider signing this open letter that I wrote together with other EASP members. We will send it to the leaders of the EU
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
If you care about Palestine and are a social psychologist, and especially if you are or were a member of EASP, please consider signing this open letter that I wrote together with other EASP members. We will send it to the leaders of the EU
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
EASP members open letter to EU
If you wish to sign this letter, please visit https://forms.gle/cKjBERDPJDGtxxau7 (If access to the Google Form is denied, kindly try again in an incognito window or another browser). Open letter to t...
docs.google.com
September 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
If you care about Palestine and are a social psychologist, and especially if you are or were a member of EASP, please consider signing this open letter that I wrote together with other EASP members. We will send it to the leaders of the EU
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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July 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM
slowly compiling this list. I don't believe in linkedin. message me to be added.
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We’re wasting the remaining carbon budget on war and AI.
Only two years left of world’s carbon budget to meet 1.5C target, scientists warn
Breaching threshold would ramp up catastrophic weather events, further increasing human suffering
www.theguardian.com
June 19, 2025 at 9:44 PM
We’re wasting the remaining carbon budget on war and AI.
Very surprising that a machine that cannot distinguish between reality and fiction gets its users to hallucinate (too). Sidney lives.
Chilling story by nyt @kashhill.bsky.social
Chilling story by nyt @kashhill.bsky.social
People are having very strange conversations with ChatGPT, in which they discover secret cabals or conspiracies or that we are all in fact living in The Matrix.
It sends these people into delusional spirals.
Then ChatGPT tells them to email me about it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...
It sends these people into delusional spirals.
Then ChatGPT tells them to email me about it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...
They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.
www.nytimes.com
June 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Very surprising that a machine that cannot distinguish between reality and fiction gets its users to hallucinate (too). Sidney lives.
Chilling story by nyt @kashhill.bsky.social
Chilling story by nyt @kashhill.bsky.social
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They used to say war is how Americans learn geography. This civil war as Team Trump lays waste to most federal institutions is how Americans are going to learn what their federal government did.....
Wreckage, Rapists, and Resistance: Week Six of the Coup
The Wreckage
They used to say war is how Americans learn geography. This civil war as Team Trump lays waste to most federal institutions is how Americans are going to learn what their federal governm...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
March 1, 2025 at 7:48 PM
They used to say war is how Americans learn geography. This civil war as Team Trump lays waste to most federal institutions is how Americans are going to learn what their federal government did.....
IFLScience on kama muta: www.iflscience.com/kama-muta-th...
Kama Muta: The Powerful Emotion Everyone Has But No One Has Heard Of
It's a universal feeling so now you can put a name to it.
www.iflscience.com
February 17, 2025 at 2:14 PM
IFLScience on kama muta: www.iflscience.com/kama-muta-th...
Make 🥄 not 🍴
During a org-wide meeting with technology focused employees at GSA today, some workers expressed their displeasure with the "Fork in the road" deferred resignation offer by spamming a chat with spoon emojis as a Trump appointee spoke to them.
Welcome to the spoon resistance.
Welcome to the spoon resistance.
February 5, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Make 🥄 not 🍴
This is what the rest of our lives will look like:
We will look around and try to guess whether it is safe where we are, or whether we should leave, and where to.
Climate change is here, but it's not static. Our world will keep changing until we stop producing climate gases.
We will look around and try to guess whether it is safe where we are, or whether we should leave, and where to.
Climate change is here, but it's not static. Our world will keep changing until we stop producing climate gases.
Opinion | As a Climate Scientist, I Knew It Was Time to Leave Los Angeles
After the Bobcat Fire, L.A. no longer felt safe.
www.nytimes.com
January 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This is what the rest of our lives will look like:
We will look around and try to guess whether it is safe where we are, or whether we should leave, and where to.
Climate change is here, but it's not static. Our world will keep changing until we stop producing climate gases.
We will look around and try to guess whether it is safe where we are, or whether we should leave, and where to.
Climate change is here, but it's not static. Our world will keep changing until we stop producing climate gases.
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Big news from Finnish publication forum. Almost all MDPI and Frontiers journals will be downgraded to level 0 and thus are not considered as properly peer reviewed trustworthy scientific journals.
julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/news/chan...
julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/news/chan...
Changes to the classification
julkaisufoorumi.fi
December 16, 2024 at 10:12 AM
Big news from Finnish publication forum. Almost all MDPI and Frontiers journals will be downgraded to level 0 and thus are not considered as properly peer reviewed trustworthy scientific journals.
julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/news/chan...
julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/news/chan...
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December 17, 2024 at 7:12 AM
If you'd like living in the Middle East and looking at the world from a different angle, check out and share these ads for Postdoctoral Fellow (2-yr renewable: apply.interfolio.com/160826) and Lab Manager (1-yr renewable: apply.interfolio.com/160827) and help me build up the Societal Psychology Lab!
excellent write-up of our work on being moved to tears, for which we created the kama muta concept: www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
Kama muta: the powerful emotion you didn’t know you had
Goosebumps, tears, a sense of solidarity… There’s a name for that feeling, and its manifestations – from Swifties handing out friendship bracelets to strong responses to political messaging – can brin...
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2024 at 10:54 AM
excellent write-up of our work on being moved to tears, for which we created the kama muta concept: www.theguardian.com/science/2024...