Gordon Ingram
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Gordon Ingram
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology at RMIT Vietnam. Research effects of new technology on young people's social interactions, among other things.
"Spiritually a reply guy" -- random anon on X
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=mqdjhBEAAAAJ&hl=e
As a lifelong sufferer from asthma and other allergic conditions, I just wrote a brief media article on a subject close to my heart (and lungs!): the links between air pollution and mental health.

www.rmit.edu.vn/news/all-new...

Also available in Vietnamese!

www.rmit.edu.vn/vi/tin-tuc/t...
www.rmit.edu.vn
February 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Sometimes, "Move fast, break things," just results in a lot of broken things.
February 19, 2025 at 4:29 AM
One thing critiques of the populist right often miss is that its anti-globalist message is deeply elitist. Vance can prance around the world giving speeches at Munich security conferences, preaching that the same mobility he so blithely enjoys be denied to the huddled masses.
February 16, 2025 at 11:20 AM
This is an important point. When you hear a Boomer saying something like, "Back in the day, people just got on with it without moaning about their problems," remember they coped with mental health problems using nasty defence mechanisms that f**ked up other people's lives
twitter.com/DiabolicalSp...
microplastics envelope filter on X: "Every time I see pictures like this I think about the fact that my grandfather in the 1950's had terrible anxiety and depression, but you couldn't just "have a mental illness" then, so he traumatized an entire side of my family with his alcoholism instead." / X
Every time I see pictures like this I think about the fact that my grandfather in the 1950's had terrible anxiety and depression, but you couldn't just "have a mental illness" then, so he traumatized an entire side of my family with his alcoholism instead.
twitter.com
February 15, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Feel like this finding should be better known

doi.org/10.1080/1357...
February 6, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Reposted by Gordon Ingram
Another new result of studying Alaska's UBI. More babies survived gestation. Remember that an existing finding is improved birth weights due to better maternal nutrition, which leads to healthier adults that earn more lifetime income.
Cash saves lives:

Alaskan universal #cashtransfers (mildly) increase the odds that male twins survive gestation due to reduced mothers' economic insecurity.

Singh et al
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
February 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Oh, look. Poor quality study gets written up in Quillette. Could not have predicted that
February 5, 2025 at 8:30 AM
If we are to realize the full benefits of AI, we have to move away from a vision of business as all about profit maximization -- because that's inevitably gonna lead to giving AI as much of the work as possible and thus reducing headcount.
February 5, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Please tell me there's an "import people I follow on Twitter" button somewhere on this app? My feed feels very empty and I don't know where to start...
November 17, 2024 at 5:09 AM
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I start a couple of my classes with readings about infrastructure like undersea cables that make the internet possible and so far every single one of my students has reacted like this 🤯 (many have used that emoji in their reading responses lol)
Undersea cable breaks “happen every other day, about 200 times a year. The reason websites continue to load...is because of the thousand or so people living aboard 20-some ships stationed around the world, who race to fix each cable as soon as it breaks.” www.theverge.com/c/24070570/i...
The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat
How one crew risked radiation, storms, and currents to save Japan from digital isolation.
www.theverge.com
April 17, 2024 at 3:53 PM
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Not today. I’ve got the morbs.
January 28, 2024 at 4:44 PM