Signal desk
A monitored field, not a trend board.
Signals are developments with plausible consequences for attention, memory, identity, attachment, judgement or human agency. They remain distinct from finished interpretation until the evidence earns promotion.
Live radar
Raw signals remain visually distinct from published interpretation.
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24 Oct
Video shows AI likenesses of people linked to Pedro Sánchez’s Socialist party appearing to admit to wrongdoing A political ad from Spain’s main opposition party that used a deepfake video of the prime minister’s wife has sparked outrage and set off a wider debate on AI, as the deeply polarised country gears up for general elections
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23 Oct
Researchers analyzing nearly 150,000 Reddit posts uncovered unexpected symptom reports linked by users to unapproved versions of retatrutide, including increased appetite, sleep disturbances, and elevated heart rates.
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22 Oct
A verified source reports on Closed-loop EEG feedback pacing alters task load during digital learning.
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16 Oct
A verified source reports on The role of sense of mission in rural physical education teachers’ turnover intention: a moderated mediation model.
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10 Oct
For decades, psychologists have debated whether the human mind can be explained by one unified theory or must be broken into separate parts like memory and attention.
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9 Oct
A verified source reports on Integrating artificial intelligence into higher education balances student learning benefits and cognitive overload.
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7 Oct
This White Paper gives robotics researchers and engineers an overview of a new large-scale motion capture dataset built to close the data gap limiting humanoid robot learning.
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6 Oct
Life often gets in the way of going to bed in sync with our circadian rhythm and getting enough sleep.
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6 Oct
A new documentary follows Kristin Bride as she takes on Congress after the death of her 16-year-old son who was cyberbullied At this point in time, going anywhere without your smartphone feels almost like leaving behind a limb.
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4 Oct
A verified source reports on Perceived algorithmic recommendation features and information fatigue among social media users.
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4 Oct
A verified source reports on Cross-cultural modeling of body satisfaction using social media selfies and self-descriptions.
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2 Oct
Even before France approved legislation banning social media for children under 15 last January, 13-year-old Benjamin was already wondering what life without social media would look like.
Published reading
A study of 225 university students in Lebanon tested whether machine-learning models could identify depression, anxiety and stress during the 2024 war — with promising internal performance and a clear need for independent validation.
Australia’s under-16 restrictions are reducing account ownership for some young users, but workarounds and privacy trade-offs show why prohibition alone cannot solve the design problem.
When software estimates how fast a brain is ageing, a private process becomes a score. Identity and threat follow the number — not, automatically, the tissue.
A wearable that shifts REM without a pill is a real, early result. What it is not, yet, is a new moral of the night.
Phone bans are not a morality play. They are a mixed empirical literature about attention, equity, and what a developing control system is asked to practise.
Public debate treats “screen time” as one exposure. The literature is more granular — evening light, interruption, and displaced opportunity — and still serious enough for design.