Tyler Shores
tylershores.bsky.social
Tyler Shores
@tylershores.bsky.social
University of Cambridge, ThinkLab Director @thinklab.bsky.social. Research: digital distractions, social media, digital wellbeing, digital productivity, reading habits, future of work. Formerly Google, Oxford, Stanford, UCBerkeley
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Our newest University of Cambridge ThinkLab project! We will be working with Wikipedia on AI and the future of knowledge integrity. Please share with any Cambridge friends and colleagues and students who might be interested!

www.thinklab.strategic-partnerships.admin.cam.ac.uk/projects/pro...
Come join us next week for this great event with BBC and Durham University!

@davidtennent.bsky.social
Next week! Join our latest ThinkLab event with #BBC #UX & Inclusive Design, @durham.ac.uk Center for Inner Experience & “Build for Humans: Neural Commons” on emotional #accessibility.

2 Dec, 2–3:30pm GMT · Glasshouse, #Cambridge + online

Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/build-for-...
November 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Reposted by Tyler Shores
This was definitely an interesting episode, hosting with an AI co-host. Did they do a good job? Or did it devolve into chaos. Did I become unhinged? Listen and find out! Thanks to @tylershores.bsky.social for going along for the ride, mmm-hmm!
This week on The Other Kind of Doctor, @tealescope.bsky.social is joined by a rather unusual co-host: Microsoft Co-Pilot 🤖 Will AI make a decent stand-in for a human co-host? And what does our guest, @tylershores.bsky.social (researcher of digital wellbeing and productivity) think about all of this?
November 21, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Reposted by Tyler Shores
We're very excited about our next episode dedicated to digital wellbeing! @tealescope.bsky.social will be speaking with @tylershores.bsky.social, who is the Director of @thinklab.bsky.social, University of Cambridge. Out tomorrow at 8am wherever you get your podcasts from 💙
November 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Dear #Cambridge PhD and Research Students,

Come apply for our brand new @thinklab.bsky.social project with Wikipedia to investigate how AI meets standards of accuracy, attribution & transparency!

Help shape policy & the future of open knowledge. Apply by Oct 10 → bit.ly/applythinkla...
September 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Reposted by Tyler Shores
What if digital space responded to how we feel? Exploring what emotion based UX might look like: www.bbc.co.uk/neurodiversi...
See opportunities? Let's chat.
Neural Commons
What if digital space didn’t just respond to clicks, but responded to how we feel?
www.bbc.co.uk
September 6, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Reposted by Tyler Shores
Coming up on Monday, September 8th! Join our special event welcoming @chademeng.bsky.social to Cambridge to discuss mindfulness, tech, Buddhism and more.

Register for free in-person or online at this updated link: www.tickettailor.com/events/intel...

#cambridge
#mindfulness
September 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Our newest University of Cambridge ThinkLab project! We will be working with Wikipedia on AI and the future of knowledge integrity. Please share with any Cambridge friends and colleagues and students who might be interested!

www.thinklab.strategic-partnerships.admin.cam.ac.uk/projects/pro...
September 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Reposted by Tyler Shores
Come by! Why waste your time doomscrolling on social media when you can waste your time listening to me?
New @thinklab.bsky.social event coming up soon! Join us Sept 8 for a talk with @chademeng.bsky.social —Google’s one and only “Jolly Good Fellow,” mindfulness pioneer & peace advocate.

Everyone is welcome, sign up for free online or in-person:
🔗 www.tickettailor.com/.../intellec...

#cambridge
September 1, 2025 at 9:01 AM
New @thinklab.bsky.social event coming up soon! Join us Sept 8 for a talk with @chademeng.bsky.social —Google’s one and only “Jolly Good Fellow,” mindfulness pioneer & peace advocate.

Everyone is welcome, sign up for free online or in-person:
🔗 www.tickettailor.com/.../intellec...

#cambridge
September 1, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Cambridge University Press visit! 💡

#cambridge #education #research
August 21, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Coming up on August 26! Our next ThinkLab online event will be "Neurodiversity at Work: Inclusion Beyond Buzzwords" with Aurelia Deflandre.

Everyone is welcome to join, please share with your friends and colleagues!

www.linkedin.com/events/neuro...

#neurodiversity #inclusion #cambridge
August 13, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Generative AI for Academics by Mark Carrigan is one of the best books I've read this year. A very thoughtful and critical exploration about the technology that is changing how we work and think. Recommended reading for anyone interested in #GenAI in #academia:

uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/ge...
August 12, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Kind of a shame, now we'll have to go back to the old-fashioned way of getting bad relationship advice 🤔

#chatgpt #AI
OpenAI stops ChatGPT from telling people to break up with partners
Instead of giving definitive answers to personal challenges the chatbot will help people reflect on a problem
www.theguardian.com
August 6, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Here's a picture of a cool dog that I met. His name is Mochi and I love him.
July 29, 2025 at 9:48 AM
"Why did our friends stop posting on social media?"

TL;DR: Because social media feels less social. But, why?

www.bbc.co.uk/worklife/art...

#bbc #socialmedia
Why did our friends stop posting on social media?
BBC Special Correspondent Katty Kay and writer Kyle Chayka discuss the ways that social media is changing – and what that means for how we live our lives online.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 27, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Baseball with @webhooligan.bsky.social ⚾ 😀
June 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
This week's random discovery in the office! I seriously doubt there is a DVD player lying around, but now I want to watch Cool Runnings.

Also we should probably tidy up around here more often.

#cambridge #work #nostaliga
May 22, 2025 at 11:56 AM
LEGO Shakespeare! 🤩

Spotted at the LEGO Store, London
May 8, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The real-life Ghostbusters firehouse! Did you know it's an actual, active New York City fire station?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firehou...
May 5, 2025 at 10:11 AM
New York Public Library 😍📚

#books #libraries #newyork
April 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Interesting idea and I see appeal of the curation angle but I think I'm probably too picky to do a book subscription box. Sounds kind of fun though --

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

#books
#publishing
#reading
A new chapter for publishing? Book subscription services launch their own titles
The book-posting operations have had a huge market impact, but will publishing their own titles cost them their serendipitous magic?
www.theguardian.com
April 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
So, good news — I saw a dog today.
April 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Spotted in L.A. -- I love this license plate 📚

(hard to see in the picture but the plate frame also says: "I'd rather be reading")

#books #reading
April 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Nature break and bliss at the Cambridge Botanic Garden amidst a long and busy week 🌸😵‍💫

#cambridge #nature
April 11, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Reposted by Tyler Shores
For the record... I did not write that article in the Canberra Times. But I have a few things to say about Academic Mean Girls. thesiswhisperer.com/2025/04/06/a...
Academic Mean Girls
There’s been a lot of … stuff going on at my university lately (just Google “Australian National University” on the news setting and you’ll see what I mean). People ar…
thesiswhisperer.com
April 6, 2025 at 9:20 AM