Major changes to Twitter’s free speech and content moderation rules have presented new challenges for universities and academics. Last week, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk secured ownership of the world's largest social media platform, firing roughly half of Twitter's workforce and ...

People who use social media are being trained to express moral outrage with the reward of likes and shares, according to new research from Yale University.  Researchers from the Yale Department of Psychology measured the expression of moral outrage on ...

Opposition leader Bill Shorten is seeing a slightly higher volume of election-related tweets than the Prime Minister. Engagement with Independent candidates this election is almost double what it was throughout all of the 2016 campaign. And #Watergate and questions around Murray-Darling ...

Is there a funnier university-related Twitter account than 'Shit Academics Say'? Sarcasm even seeps into its bio disclaimer: Retweets are not endorsements. They are performative engagement markers that intentionally confound direct alignment with ironic promotion, ambivalent reflection, or personal brand ...

"Your mental and physical health are by far the most important consideration in all that you do while in our lab. Moreover, success should not come at the cost of maintaining your interests/hobbies or healthy relationships in your life." This ...

A doctor of history has sparked the latest academic Twitter spat. Dr Fern Riddell, a Research Associate at English university Royal Holloway, changed her Twitter name, adding the 'Dr' prefix, with the following explanation: My title is Dr Fern Riddell, not ...

Nothing currently drives the international news and the US policy agenda more than Donald Trump's prolific, often controversial tweets. So, it makes sense that a team of international researchers, led by QUT, would examine them to determine his personality. By analysing his ...