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Friendly reminder that submissions are due THIS COMING SUNDAY, February 15!!

09.02.2026 16:06 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
ST&D 2026 | The Society for Text and Discourse

Hello friends!

This is a friendly reminder that ST&D 2026 paper submissions are due SUNDAY, February 1!

Read more about ST&D 2026 here: www.societyfortextanddiscourse.org/wp-content/u...

Submit your work here: www.societyfortextanddiscourse.org/std-2026/

26.01.2026 23:00 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The Psychology of Misunderstandings Online Even when people see the same content—whether a video or a tweet—they often interpret it differently through the lens of their identities and beliefs.

Why do people watch the same video or read the same post and disagree on what they saw or read? We presume our own interpretation is the obvious and correct one. But undetected misinterpretations may be a factor online and could even warp perceived consensus. New research:
bit.ly/49jbyZa

14.01.2026 15:25 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Happy New Year everyone! We bring updates:

• Paper submissions for ST&D 2026 are due February 1.
• The deadline for symposiums was EXTENDED to January 14!
• ST&D 2026 will feature keynote addresses from Jeff Greene, Nia Nixon, and the recipient of our Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award!

02.01.2026 18:58 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Discourse Processes Volume 63, Issue 1 of Discourse Processes

Happy New Year! We are excited to kick off 2026 with Volume 63 of Discourse Processes! Read more here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/hdsp20/6...

02.01.2026 18:00 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Postdigital Peer Review: A Vulnerable Space Between Freedom and Responsibility - Postdigital Science and Education While academic peer review is the cornerstone of scholarly publishing, it presents significant challenges for early-career researchers. This collective paper describes an authentic peer review experie...

My first journal article has just been published on Postdigital Science and Education! This was born from a class assignment where we acted as peer reviewers, reflected on the process, and suggested feedback to the broader literature :) Read more below!

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

15.12.2025 15:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Reminder: ST&D 2026 is taking place from July 29-31, 2026 in Charlotte, NC!

Submissions due February 1!
Symposium submissions due January 2!

More details here: www.societyfortextanddiscourse.org/wp-content/u...

Submit your work here: www.societyfortextanddiscourse.org/std-2026/

01.12.2025 16:11 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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New study lead by @ameliamana.bsky.social "Enhancing digital reading comprehension through feedback messages: A large and long-term dynamic approach with secondary school students" Results from our project with @intralineas.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

27.10.2025 13:48 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 2
The Language Processing Lab at the University of Arkansas is recruiting a PhD student to start in the fall of 2026. Our lab examines the basic cognitive processes involved in understanding written text, mostly fiction while being read by skilled adult readers, with an emphasis on reference comprehension, inferences, and negation, among other topics. We use multiple behavioral methods, including priming tasks, reaction time, self-paced reading, and eye-tracking. The University of Arkansas PhD program has a growing group of cognitive psychologists, with several labs in the department investigating memory, creativity, and other aspects of cognition. Funding is through teaching and research assistantships. The university also has generous fellowships available for competitive applicants.

The Language Processing Lab at the University of Arkansas is recruiting a PhD student to start in the fall of 2026. Our lab examines the basic cognitive processes involved in understanding written text, mostly fiction while being read by skilled adult readers, with an emphasis on reference comprehension, inferences, and negation, among other topics. We use multiple behavioral methods, including priming tasks, reaction time, self-paced reading, and eye-tracking. The University of Arkansas PhD program has a growing group of cognitive psychologists, with several labs in the department investigating memory, creativity, and other aspects of cognition. Funding is through teaching and research assistantships. The university also has generous fellowships available for competitive applicants.

My lab is recruiting PhD students for fall 2026. Please reach out if interested!

19.11.2025 16:37 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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Our first call for submissions to ST&D 2026 - taking place from July 29-31, 2026 in Charlotte, NC - is live!

Submissions due February 1, 2026!

More details here: www.societyfortextanddiscourse.org/wp-content/u...

Submit your work here: www.societyfortextanddiscourse.org/std-2026/

04.11.2025 16:42 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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ST&D is only partially fueled by our fervor for research. We're at our best when we fuse scholarship with community and foster memories that last a lifetime.

Indeed, we are a bundle of smiling socialites :) Look no further than these shots from ST&D 2025 for proof! 🧵1/5

08.10.2025 16:49 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Discourse Processes Special Issue in Honor of Russell Tomlin (Guest Editors: Andriy Myachykov and Christoph Scheepers). Volume 62, Issue 8-9 of Discourse Processes

Our latest issue of DP is a special issue in honor of Russell Tomlin, a research pioneer who bridged a foundational gap between theoretical linguistics and cognitive psychology. This issue was guest edited by Andriy Myachykov and Christoph Scheepers.

02.10.2025 21:05 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

The deadline to submit to this special issue has been EXTENDED to September 30. If you attended ST&D 2025, consider submitting your work to this Special ST&D 2025 Issue of Discourse Processes!

14.09.2025 20:29 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Discourse Processes Discourse Processes provides a forum for ideas from diverse disciplines sharing an interest in discourse, such as prose comprehension and dialogue analysis.

‼️ST&D 2025 attendees‼️

Consider submitting your conference-related work to a special conference issue of @discourseprocesses.bsky.social by September 15!

Please submit manuscripts here: www.tandfonline.com/journals/hds...
Manuscripts should be prepared according to DP manuscript guidelines.

04.09.2025 21:44 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 2
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Here's another spotlight of a mere handful of the wonderful presentations we were privy to in Padua this year :) Major thanks to the University of Padua for providing the space and time for our meeting to carry out fruitfully! #textdiscourse2025

19.08.2025 21:55 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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A history of psychology as it happened to me Psychology has changed a great deal during the more than 50 years I have been actively involved with it. In this essay, I try to trace these changes as I experienced them - a minor footnote to the ...

Thanks to Taylor & Francis, we are pleased to provide Free Access (through October) to the recent article by Walter Kintsch, "A history of psychology as it happened to me", published posthumously in the recent 2024 ST&D Conference special issue of Discourse Processes.

18.08.2025 14:12 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Participants’ Reported Discomfort with Live Video as a Mode for Answering a Sensitive Survey Question Abstract. This study uses qualitative thematic analysis to explore a dataset of open-ended textual responses from 369 online panelists explaining why they

New in Public Opinion Quarterly: Live video can change how people feel about answering sensitive questions—but not in the same way for everyone. Example: For some, seeing and being seen can make them MORE at ease, for others LESS at ease.

14.08.2025 23:11 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain YouTube video by The Aspen Institute

For a terrific conversation on emotion, mind & brain, thank you to The Aspen Institute! www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM6f...

13.08.2025 19:21 👍 15 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0

New paper with @ivabra.bsky.social and Helge Strømsø, where we test a learning scenario in which an informative text is combined with an ambigous graph. A call to increase students' complex literacy skills!

bsky.app/profile/ivab...

14.08.2025 17:38 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

It's actually crazy that AI was just unleashed onto the world for (mostly) free and without any, like, training before using it. The amount of AI-induced psychosis reports I've been seeing lately are really disconcerting, and I was already wary of AIs impact on social psychology...

14.08.2025 05:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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We would like to recognize Kate Cain (member), Michael Wolfe (member), and Joe Magliano (chair) for their service on the Governing Board. They see to it that the Society for Text & Discourse runs effectively. We would also like to welcome Pani Kendeou as the incoming chair of the Governing Board!

06.08.2025 21:07 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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GenAI and misinformation in education: a systematic scoping review of opportunities and challenges - AI & SOCIETY Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) has emerged as a transformative and disruptive force in education and society, with the potential to both create and correct misinformation. In education, mi...

🎓 Excited to share our review paper on Generative AI and Misinformation in Education! 🤖📚

#GenerativeAI #EdTech #AIInEducation #Misinformation #DigitalLiteracy #EducationResearch #AIEthics

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

07.08.2025 19:49 👍 17 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

📗New paper in @discourseprocesses.bsky.social📗

Do readers of social media interpret posts the way authors intended?

We asked authors what stance they intended to convey in a post they tweeted about Roe v. Wade.

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29.07.2025 16:05 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Congratulations to these ST&D members who were awarded for their exceptional contributions to the world of text and discourse research! #textdiscourse2025 🧵

29.07.2025 20:01 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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We want to thank all of our attendees and presenters for making the 35th Annual Conference for the Society of Text & Discourse rich with research, collaboration, and community! Here are just a handful of the memories that we've created together :)

23.07.2025 17:33 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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Mañana 25 junio a las 15.00 (Chile) o 21.00 (España) hablaré sobre la efectividad de las prácticas para fomentar la lectura digital en los centros educativos, a partir de nuestra investigación con bases de datos internacionales. ¡Os esperamos!

www.instagram.com/p/DLQE5RYgwb...

24.06.2025 09:54 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
ST&D 2025 | The Society for Text and Discourse

We are just ONE WEEK AWAY from our 35th annual conference in Padua, Italy! If you haven’t already, there is still time to register. Join us in sharing and discussing research in the world of text discourse. We look forward to wonderful times!
www.societyfortextanddiscourse.org/std-2025/

02.07.2025 14:26 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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🎓 It's official - I've successfully defended my dissertation!

Thank you to everyone who supported me on this journey. Looking forward to my next chapter as a postdoc at the University of Miami!

06.06.2025 21:13 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 4 📌 0
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Exciting week in our Reading + Learning lab @University of Minnesota as we celebrate the achievements of Dr. Johnson and Dr. Kim. Grateful for the opportunity to mentor these scholars in educational psychology @vkjohnson.bsky.social

07.06.2025 00:22 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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We are just under a month away from our 35th annual conference in Padua, Italy! If you haven’t already, there is still time to register. Join us in sharing and discussing research in the world of text discourse. We look forward to wonderful times!
www.societyfortextanddiscourse.org/std-2025/

11.06.2025 15:42 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0