Leslie

@irishgoodbyephd

Researching power dynamics, resistance, adaptation, identity, communication in digital age 🏳️‍🌈 auDHD 🎓PhD Applied Psych 🍉 Psyber.Space for the pod🎙️ She/Her/Dr.

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Leslie@irishgoodbyephd· 4d

Seeking participants for our study on identity! Participation will be an interview conducted by video or phone, but it is ANONYMIZED and identifying info is not retained. Share this if you know someone that has a story to tell about this. #AcademicSky #Identity #Psychology bit.ly/4fCx52d

Red square graphic with a link button talking about an IRB approved study on identity and TikTok. Under a post that says "Seeking participants for our study on identity!

This is qualitative research, so participation will be an interview conducted by video or phone, but it is ANONYMIZED and identifying info is not retained.

Do share this if you know someone that has a story to tell about this.

Link is: https://bit.ly/4fCx52d "

Leslie@irishgoodbyephd· 16d

Research shows that commenting on someone's body in the name of health concern produces the exact physiological stress responses that contribute to poor health outcomes. The "concern" doesn't help, and can make things measurably worse. psyber.space/episodes/spe...

Screen grab of Jenna Ortega's Esquire video interview, which is currently receiving massive amount of body policing, the inspiration for today's episode of PsyberSpace

Leslie@irishgoodbyephd· 20d

Digital surveillance doen't protect kids but it does put everyone at risk

Leslie@irishgoodbyephd· Jul 23

Screenshot says "aaliamauro
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Unfortunately, the House voted to merge the most secretive & sensitive elements of the US defense & intelligence apparatus with a foreign government.
This bill still has to clear the Senate.
Call your senators & representatives and tell them to not support the NDAA until the merger w/ Israhe!l (Section 219) is removed.
Senate switchboard: (202) 224-3121
aaliamauro
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The Save Act was also reattached. 🤦🏽‍♀️ And of course the
@housedemocrats
managed to have just enough votes to help pass the Save Act.
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Leslie@irishgoodbyephd· Jun 26

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screenshot of Threads user tee_bb saying "Fuck a blue wave. I want a Mamdani tsunami"

Leslie@irishgoodbyephd· Jun 1

All of this: www.theringer.com/2026/05/28/t...

Screenshot of article paragraph that says "Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.

There are things in the world that are more important than money. The fact that you seem not to believe this, that you seem to think any motive beyond ruthless acquisitiveness is fake, dishonest, or childish, is the heart of your problem. Your attitude is not by any means unique to tech, but the scale of capital concentrated in the tech industry makes the attitude—this confusion of an adolescent will to power for mature, undeluded realism—uniquely treacherous. You can’t build products that serve humanity while viewing every human good other than your own aggrandizement as bullshit. Thus, tech’s internal problems can’t be fixed unless the people running the industry change their outlook on a deep level (unlikely) or are somehow outmaneuvered as wiser heads reform the market to deprioritize perpetual growth (maybe Paul Konerko is working on this?). "

Leslie@irishgoodbyephd· May 29

Thinking about propaganda a lot lately. I've talked about it a few times on the pod: psyber.space/search?query...

signs your friend is falling for propaganda and amplifying it

Leslie@irishgoodbyephd· Apr 30

AI checkers are hit or miss but both Claude and this one say similar results for image and for writing tells. Bot image likely

Leslie@irishgoodbyephd· Mar 31

Did a Bluesky thread inspire this purchase? Yes. I consider these ~$70 ish well spent 🤣 #PsychologyHumor Good mail day today.

Two out of print books side-by-side. One red covered, pop-up book of nightmares one black covered, pop-up book of phobias.

Leslie@irishgoodbyephd· Mar 30

@maxqda.bsky.social doesn't seem to be active on social, which is a bummer as their support process seems to be outsourced? Bluesky character limits have contained my ranty pants to an image today.

rant about software - not relevant to anyone but the software maker

Leslie@irishgoodbyephd· Mar 29

No.

Block AI every where. Stop the enshittification of tech.

Leslie@irishgoodbyephd· Mar 9

joke about young jeff bezos, pictured here leaning on some metal shelving with the crazy eyes

Leslie@irishgoodbyephd· Mar 8

Commentary that CEOs should reduce their inflated salaries instead of doing burger stunts

Leslie@irishgoodbyephd· Feb 28

From one of my offline groups 😂

humorous "garbage in, garbage out" data image for AI

Leslie@irishgoodbyephd· Feb 27

100%

graphic about the long term rightward slide caused by "lesser evil" voting habits

Leslie@irishgoodbyephd· Feb 27

SK is always worth reading. Her Q&A newsletter today is worth a look. Apologies for the substack link. sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/epstein-an...

Leslie@irishgoodbyephd· Feb 9

medium.com/fourth-wave/... "Hell is empty, and all the devils are here" indeed.

chart of SA victims by age distribution, source US DOJ

Leslie@irishgoodbyephd· Jan 27

i know, i know. the bad place. I stay everywhere so I don't miss anything. Anyway, this screenshot says "I swear I need my fellow pale people to be less comfort seeking and gullible to propaganda. Bovino being removed is three card monty, ice edition. This means be MORE vigilant, not less."

Leslie@irishgoodbyephd· Jan 23

Didn't feel like making a thread, but before you blindly "agree" to the new surveillance-focused TT TOS:

Leslie@irishgoodbyephd· Jan 7

Stop anthropomorphizing technology. It doesn't have agency. Humans do. I agree with this person:

Leslie@irishgoodbyephd· Jan 6

2024: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 2023: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... 2022: www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/23... 2021: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 2025: images (there are so many more studies showing SARS-CoV-2 makes you more susceptible to more infections, these are a small sample) 😷

Data from UK in 2025 showing increase in secondary infections after COVID impacts your immune system is MUCH MORE LIKELY than secondary infections following a bout of flu.

Data from UK in 2025 showing increase in 4 specific secondary infections after COVID impacts your immune system

Leslie@irishgoodbyephd· Dec 21

Researchers! Please stop putting white letters on black background, or worse, whatever THIS is, holy hell my eyes are bleeding. The entire page is this dark red with tiny (TINY) white print. Ouch. #AcademicSky #PhdSky

Leslie@irishgoodbyephd· Dec 15

Why is chatGPT terrible as an agentic shopping tool? Here is one of thousands of examples from this week alone:

Leslie@irishgoodbyephd· Dec 14

Love. This. Much more effective than bringing back in person classes or blue books, etc. in my opinion.

Screen grab of a commenter who mentioned a teacher defeating AI hallucinations in papers by having the students USE AI TO WRITE A PAPER, then do the research on all the ways it was wrong, hallucinated, etc.

Leslie@irishgoodbyephd· Dec 14

I've been talking about the dangers of KOSA **and bills like it** for the ENTIRE WORLD since early 2024. I'm glad people are waking up but is 30 seconds to the end vote too late? I hope not. CALL YOUR REPS, get in their faces about this.

screen shot of people advocating to call your reps to vote no on KOSA and bills like it, and elaborating how many people around the world it would harm

Leslie@irishgoodbyephd· Nov 30

Seeing the phrase "immortality influencer" has me like

Leslie@irishgoodbyephd· Nov 23

This week I tried something a little different: a five part series on the psychology of living in the entropy age. Here are all of the episodes: psyber.space/search?query...

so tired from living through history a woman puts her head face down on a table and missed her coffee cup pouring coffee

Leslie@irishgoodbyephd· Nov 14

I'd forgotten I enjoyed this book, despite how weird it felt in 2000. Kendzior captures the feeling well here: open.substack.com/pub/sarahken...

"The attention economy is so black market, you can't even manufacture consent." - Sarah Kendzior. Quote on brown background in review of Carr's book Killing Time.

Leslie@irishgoodbyephd· Nov 8

Going through old TikToks to make sure I didn't miss any in my content analysis. Found this video (on a diff. topic than my research) from June 2022. Look at her last point and think of what D H S is doing right now in 2025. When we say listen to Black women, we really mean it.

Leslie@irishgoodbyephd· Nov 7

This week's podcast was fun to record. It was all about the way our brains process reality. If you sometimes feel you are in one reality and other people are living in another, there is a reason for that! Listen now if you missed it Monday: share.transistor.fm/s/0f5286c6