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Researcher + writer, helping you be smarter and more social

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Reuben Runacres
Reuben Runacres@ReubenRunacres·
Loneliness spreads like a virus. In this network map of an entire town, each dot represents someone who is either socially connected (yellow) or lonely (green/blue). Researchers found that loneliness isn’t just personal, but spreads like a disease. If one person became lonely, their friends were 52% more likely to feel lonely too. Your emotions don’t exist in isolation. They’re part of a social ecosystem.
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Reuben Runacres@ReubenRunacres·
The phenomena is called "revenge bedtime procrastination" People who feel they have wasted their day will often stay up late to maintain a sense of control over their lives.
ADHD Memes@ADHDForReal

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Chris Carey
Chris Carey@chriscareymsp·
One in fifty. Then one in five. And almost nobody noticed. In 1990, 2% of women without a college degree said they had no close friends. Today that number is 19%. We've spent years framing loneliness as a men's crisis. And the data @RichardVReeves has been sharing shows men are struggling. But women without degrees are right behind them, and their trajectory has been steepening for three decades. The bigger surprise? The gap between college-educated and non-college-educated adults is roughly double the gap between men and women. Which makes me wonder if this was ever really a gender story, or a story about the places that used to bring people together slowly disappearing.
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Reuben Runacres@ReubenRunacres·
@signulll Your partner being interesting to talk to is the most important factor in who you marry
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signüll
signüll@signulll·
it’s fascinating that today modern humans are still running a credential matching algorithm disguised as attraction. e.g. 6ft, symmetrical face, status markers… these are visible proxies that compress well into a profile or a first impression yet will never tell you whether or not someone will abandon you in times of high variance entropy like if you get sick or something. the latter gets systematically underweighted because it doesn’t resolve until the option period has long expired. only when you’re older you realize that the only thing that survives the death of eros is logos.
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𑣲@holylipss

imagine connecting so deeply with someone that your dates revolve around walking and talking for hours

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Reuben Runacres
Reuben Runacres@ReubenRunacres·
@jonatanpallesen Birth rates cause a lot of problems we haven't thought about. The most educated people living in Western and Eastern countries aren't having more children. We are very rapidly going to see a IQ regression to the mean
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Jonatan Pallesen
Jonatan Pallesen@jonatanpallesen·
The total number of smart people in the world has just peaked. And now it's about to crash.
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Reuben Runacres@ReubenRunacres·
Does anyone else think this is kinda surprising? Maybe the world isn't as bad as we thought, I thought life satisfcation would be a lot lower.
Our World in Data@OurWorldInData

📊 Explore updated data on self-reported life satisfaction around the world from the 2026 World Happiness Report (@HappinessRpt)— How satisfied are people with their lives? Are they getting more satisfied over time, or less? How does this vary across cultures and life circumstances? The World Happiness Report (WHR) is one of the key sources we have for answering these questions. Based on the Gallup World Poll, the WHR has published data on life satisfaction since 2012 and covers more than 140 countries worldwide. Our colleague Tuna Acisu just updated our charts with the latest data (through 2025) from the 2026 edition of the report, released today. The WHR is a partnership of Gallup, the Oxford Wellbeing Research Centre, the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, and the WHR’s Editorial Board.

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Kekius Maximus
Kekius Maximus@Kekius_Sage·
🚨 Psychologists say leaving a toxic job can repair your nervous system faster than a year of therapy
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Reuben Runacres@ReubenRunacres·
@RichardHanania It's not really surprising: suicide is the #1 cause of death for men 18-45, so that's going to tank your happiness levels. It's usually the #1 or #2 cause of death in other Western countries of the same demographic
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Richard Hanania
Richard Hanania@RichardHanania·
English speaking countries are experiencing lower levels of happiness, driven primarily by what's happening to young people. The British rank as the saddest of the bunch.
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Reuben Runacres@ReubenRunacres·
This is the downside of the health and wellness industry nobody talks about. All these influencers talking about how to be healthy and reduce stress can often make the problem worse by constantly reminding you how unhealthy or stressed you are.
Siim Land@siimland

Stress may be more harmful if you believe it’s harming your health. People with high stress who also believed stress affected their health negatively saw a 43% higher risk of premature death. High-stress people who didn’t think stress was harming their health did not show a statistically significant increase in mortality; the other groups were not statistically significant either. Study: PMID: 22201278 Graph adapted from the data

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Reuben Runacres@ReubenRunacres·
"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger." Research disagrees. The most consistent personality change after a hardship is not strength. It is higher neuroticism. Trauma does not make you more resilient. It makes you more traumatized. Which, when you think about it, is exactly what it should do.
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Physics In History
Physics In History@PhysInHistory·
Sir Isaac Newton was chronically lonely for most of his life. He never married, had few intimate friendships, and often withdrew from society for long periods. His contemporaries described him as reserved and solitary.
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Reuben Runacres@ReubenRunacres·
@Rightanglenews At least they weren't biased and didn't try to hide results to support their claims
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Right Angle News Network@Rightanglenews·
BREAKING - An Africa-based research team aiming to disprove Western claims about low IQ in African countries is going viral after conducting mass IQ tests in Lagos, Nigeria, only for over 50% of participants to score below 70, with a median score of 69.7.
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Reuben Runacres@ReubenRunacres·
I used to have the problem of saying I would do things and then never doing them. Simple solution to this: never say what you are going to do. Guilt comes from breaking promises you made with yourself. Don't ever tell yourself you're going to do things you aren't going to do. If you want to do something, sit down and do it right then and there. If it's something you can't finish in one sitting, tell yourself how long you're going to work on it and immediately do it. If you can't work on it immediately, don't say you're going to do it. I used to not trust myself when I said I would do things because I had broken so many promises to myself that I would "do that thing later". It's better to say you're going to do nothing than to make you distrust yourself because you won't actually do what you promised.
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Reuben Runacres@ReubenRunacres·
Reminds me of the (slightly unethical) Forced Swim Test on drowning mice. Researchers put a mouse in a pool and leave it there until its legs give out (usually about 10-15 minutes). 24 hours later, they did the same thing again, except the rats gave up in 1-3 minutes since they assumed escape was impossible.
zhil@zhil_arf

>From these experiments, it was thought that there was to be only one cure for helplessness. In Seligman's hypothesis, the dogs do not try to escape because they expect that nothing they do will stop the shock. To change this expectation, experimenters physically picked up the dogs and moved their legs, replicating the actions the dogs would need to take in order to escape from the electrified grid. This had to be done at least twice before the dogs would start willfully jumping over the barrier on their own. In contrast, threats, rewards, and observed demonstrations had no effect on the "helpless" Group 3 dogs.

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Reuben Runacres@ReubenRunacres·
@DrAndyGalpin Poor sleep is also strongly linked to higher suicide rates and reported suicidal ideation
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Andy Galpin, PhD
Andy Galpin, PhD@DrAndyGalpin·
"Poor Sleepers were significantly more likely to report sports injuries than Steady Sleepers, with 68% injury probability." Study utilized 425 recreational (novice & experienced) runners; 57% male/43% female mdpi.com/2076-3417/15/1…
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Reuben Runacres@ReubenRunacres·
This is a culture issue: Western youth spends equal time on social media as those in Central Europe, yet have lower well being. All around the world, the younger people are happier than the older ones. Except for the Western world.
Oliver Scott Curry@Oliver_S_Curry

World Happiness Report finds "a significant *positive* cross-country relationship between communication hours and life satisfaction (r = 0.46, p = .001)…*no* significant relationship between social media use and the relative happiness of the young" #smma #internet-use-social-media-and-teenage-life-satisfaction-in-47-countries" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">worldhappiness.report/ed/2026/intern…

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