Lukas Neville

@lukasneville

Assoc prof, organizational behaviour, Asper School, UManitoba. Personal butler to Kiwi and Waffles 🇨🇦

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Lukas Neville@lukasneville· 12d

svalbard for knowledge

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault's concrete entrance, with snow piled against the wall, with the fjord and sky in the distance

Lukas Neville@lukasneville· 13d

this storm in winnipeg has spooked one cat and deeply intrigued another

waffles the cat: THEY'RE TRYNA KILL WAFFLES

Lukas Neville@lukasneville· 13d

dominos-of-increasing-size meme: small domino is "shuttering google reader"; large domino is "proliferation of modern fascism"

Lukas Neville@lukasneville· 13d

Lukas Neville@lukasneville· 13d

Netflix's custom-tailored recommendation for me: Encino Man (1992)

Lukas Neville@lukasneville· 13d

i can tell you i was UNPREPARED for the reco

Netflix promo email: "Lukas, we just added a movie you might like". What highbrow documentary or Criterion Collection masterpiece will it be?

Lukas Neville@lukasneville· 16d

I think Paul van Lange's work on the SVO suggested that vanishingly few people would be sadomasochists, but it really does seem to be the official MAGA social value orientation

$A two-dimensional circumplex plot mapping eight Social Value Orientation (SVO) profiles on a unit circle. The horizontal x-axis represents the weight placed on one’s own objective payoff (\alpha_i), ranging from -1.0 to 1.0. The vertical y-axis represents the weight placed on the other’s objective payoff (\beta_i), ranging from -1.0 to 1.0. Eight labeled points are distributed around the perimeter: Individualistic at (1.0, 0.0) Prosocial at (0.71, 0.71) Altruistic at (0.0, 1.0) Martyr at (-0.71, 0.71) Masochistic at (-1.0, 0.0) Sadomasochistic at (-0.71, -0.71) Sadistic at (0.0, -1.0) Competitive at (0.71, -0.71)$

Lukas Neville@lukasneville· 16d

So many plays I wore the cassette down until it warbled

Lukas Neville@lukasneville· 20d

just got an emergency alert that 911 is down and we should use the full 10-digit emergency services numbers instead

(From The IT Crowd) Announcing the easy-to-remember replacement for 999: Just dial 0118 999 881 999 119 725.

Lukas Neville@lukasneville· 22d

this cover is proving to have a long shelf life

July 2025 New York Magazine cover with an illustration of an angry beaver holding a bald eagle by the throat: "You have no idea how furious the Canadians are"

Lukas Neville@lukasneville· 22d

Energy analysts/Homer Simpson, incredulously: "Hey, that's not the wallet inspector"

Lukas Neville@lukasneville· 22d

Am I the only one awake around here

Michael Bluth: "Is there a carbon monoxide leak in this house?"

Kiwi the cat sleeps on a rug with his legs pulled into his head

Waffles the cat sleeps in a hard to describe position that looks like his bones were somehow all removed

Lukas Neville@lukasneville· 23d

just going to settle in for a nice little read

Book cover: "The Book About Getting Older" by Dr. Lucy Pollock

Lukas Neville@lukasneville· 24d

The bait for these pig butchering scans are getting to be downright irresistible

Text message reading: "Dear Isabella, Maria here. Have we finalized the plan for Wednesday's riding lesson?"

Lukas Neville@lukasneville· 25d

I am not a pearl-clutching heritage preservationist except for giant roadside kitsch SAVE THEM ALL www.cbc.ca/radio/costof...

Lukas Neville@lukasneville· 29d

"the fans do not like this one bit... and here come the pretzels"

A still from The Simpsons,with baseball fans hurling their pretzels at Mr. Burns

Lukas Neville@lukasneville· Jul 9

Le monde is yours: What happens when you give high school kids free news access, integrated with curriculum? Good things, it seems papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Making Teenagers Read Newspapers. A Nationwide Experiment in French High Schools
159 Pages Posted: 7 Jul 2026
Simon Briole
University of Montpellier

Julia Cagé
SciencesPo - Department of Economics; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Andrea Prat
Columbia University in the City of New York; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Date Written: July 02, 2026

Abstract
Despite unprecedented access to information in the digital age, young citizens face growing challenges related to news consumption and misinformation. This large-scale randomized controlled trial examines the impact of two complementary interventions designed to foster media literacy and the consumption of high-quality news among high-school students, implemented in France over the 2024-25 academic year. The study involves 243 high schools (for a total number of 9, 628 students), randomly assigned to a control group or to receive one or both of the following interventions: (i) a one-year free digital subscription to the leading national newspaper, and (ii) media education modules implemented by teachers. Exploiting unique data on students' actual online news consumption, we document a very large uptake of the free subscription, which translates into persistent and large increases in news consumption (+0.49 to 0.60 sd) and demand for future news, including an 8pp increase in paid subscriptions nearly a year after the intervention. We also observe a 0.20 to 0.31 sd increase in news knowledge for students enrolled in deprived schools, reducing baseline information inequality by 45-70%. Finally, we show that both free news access and media education improve media literacy skills (+0.08 to 0.26 sd), with larger effects among students taught by teachers with prior experience in media education.

Lukas Neville@lukasneville· Jul 8

RETVRN

Show flyer from the late 90s (Braid and Adelaide)

Show flyer from the late 90s (Avail, 2 Line Filler, and 8 Lb Test)

Show flyer from the late 90s (Shoulder, Acceptance, Holocron, Slipshod)

Lukas Neville@lukasneville· Jul 8

Patsy and Burt from the Sopranos shaking down a victim. Caption: 'Remember that, Mark, next time you make your statements"

Lukas Neville@lukasneville· Jul 5

I'm snitching to coca-cola

Reddit post where a user describes having reported an issue and had an investigation started by coke

henry hill pointing at the accused in the courtroom

Lukas Neville@lukasneville· Jul 4

Happy fourth of July to our American friends and neighbours. May your current political moment be short-lived and anomalous.

an american flag hangs in the boston public library

Lukas Neville@lukasneville· Jul 3

percentage of worldwide ketchup dinosaurs found in Pittsburgh: 100%

Kristina Martinez (2003), 'Ketchupsaurus'

Lukas Neville@lukasneville· Jul 3

I've been getting interested recently in conflict anticipation and early resolution. This MOR paper (Zhang & Wei 2017) shows the dilemma I keep seeing: People who want harmony try to avoid conflict (and we know avoided conflict accumulates and escalates). www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Superficial Harmony and Conflict Avoidance
Resulting from Negative Anticipation in the
Workplace
Zhi-Xue Zhang1 and Xin Wei2
1
Peking University, China, and 2
University of International Business and Economics, China
ABSTRACT This research examines how people perceive and respond to potential conflict
in work settings. When individuals highly value their interpersonal relationships with
others, they may take the potential costs to relationships into consideration in deciding
how to handle conflict. We propose that individuals take an avoidance approach to
conflict to prevent disruption in relationships from confrontation. Specifically, the value
that individuals place on superficial harmony is positively related to their negative
anticipation of relationship costs, which in turn leads to conflict avoidance. Furthermore,
the direct relationship between superficial harmony and negative anticipation and the
indirect relationship between superficial harmony and conflict avoidance are negatively
moderated by the closeness of relations between the parties involved. The results of two
studies conducted in workplace settings supported our hypothesized moderated mediation
model. Highlighting the role of superficial harmony in conflict avoidance, this research
contributes to the existing literature on conflict management and has practical
implications for effectively managing conflict in the workplace.

Lukas Neville@lukasneville· Jul 1

Jonathan Frakes, host of Unsolved Mysteries, about to ask you some weird question

Lukas Neville@lukasneville· Jun 30

This match will determine once and for all which nation is the greatest on Earth: Canada or Morocco

Lukas Neville@lukasneville· Jun 27

bad news for people whose dream EV would look like a Volvo 740

the Volvo 740 wagon. all right angles, like a giant middle finger to aerodynamics

Lukas Neville@lukasneville· Jun 26

our old mayor kicked a kid in the face and won reelection months later

CANADA

Winnipeg mayor kicks child in the face
Winnipeg Mayor Sam Katz wanted to make an impression on inner-city kids. Well, more of a dent, actually.

Aug. 25, 2010 | 1 min read

By Cathal Kelly Sports Columnist

Winnipeg Mayor Sam Katz wanted to make an impression on inner-city kids. Well, more of a dent, actually.

Katz is being razzed in his hometown, and now globally, after being filmed kicking a youngster in the head during a charity soccer match.

Bad enough that he raised his boot dangerously in the direction of the boy. But after clobbering him, Katz turns and tries to play the ball as the kid collapses in segments.

Lukas Neville@lukasneville· Jun 26

Mr. Burns, telling Smithers to "hop in" to a tiny model-sized cardboard plane

Lukas Neville@lukasneville· Jun 26

good fences make good neighbours I guess?