I’m delighted to be at the #machine +behavior conference organized by ⁦Iyad Rahwan | إياد رهوان⁩ ⁦Jean💜François Bonnefon⁩ ⁦Azim Shariff⁩ in Berlin representing@nature with my lovely colleague ⁦Samantha Antusch⁩ from ⁦⁦Nature Human Behaviour⁩

Congratulations on publishing this paper describing how working memories are held in working memory!

One of my favorite things about being an editor is helping such excellent research get published. Congratulations, all, on this important work explaining how the brain can keep information in working memory!

Editors have baking skills, especially Nature Methods, whose chief Allison Doerr and senior editor Arunima Singh who took the first and second place awards. Thanks to all who contributed and Kyle Frischkorn for being a great co-organizer (and baker :)

Is loneliness is bad for your health? a @nature news feature synthesizes the scientific literature and comes to the conclusion that yes, loneliness is bad for your health and explains why nature.com/articles/d4158…

My treat of the day: reading Flora Graham's summary of W. Quattrociocchi Andrea Baronchelli Matteo Cinelli et al's @nature paper showing that online discussions show similar patterns across platforms: longer ones tend to be more toxic, but this doesn't stop engagement nature.com/articles/s4158…

Things I learned today from @nature's table of contents: stars can eat planets (and at least 1/12 stars shows evidence of having eaten planets). Craziness! nature.com/articles/s4158…

A great paper out in Communications Psychology showing how e-contact facilitated by conversational AI reduced prejudice and anxiety between historically segregated groups

Did you know that online conversations show similar patterns across topics, platforms and time? W. Quattrociocchi Andrea Baronchelli Matteo Cinelli et al's @nature paper shows longer conversations are more toxic, but that this toxicity doesn't discourage participation nature.com/articles/s4158…